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Speculation: Title of the next book after HFQ

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Re: Speculation: Title of the next book after HFQ
Post by runsforcelery   » Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:05 pm

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DrakBibliophile wrote:I suspect that David Weber had a different title than "Off Armageddon Reef" in mind but TOR Books didn't like it.

After OAR sold so well, the MWW got his way on the titles of the sequels. :twisted: :twisted:

isaac_newton wrote:something that is slightly off-topic, but that I've often wondered about, is the change in title style from book 1 'Off Armageddon Reef' to the subsequent titles.

I must say that OAR is a brilliant title; and something I noticed recently was how it parallels the first of the Honor series:

Off Armageddon Reef
On Basilisk Station

that urgent first word, a sense of threat in the second word, and the sense of location in the third :-)


back to main subject... 'not against flesh and blood' might be quite apt


Wrong. My title from the beginning. In fact, all of them have been. :)


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Re: Speculation: Title of the next book after HFQ
Post by DrakBibliophile   » Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:08 pm

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Oh well. Not the first time I've been wrong. :twisted:


runsforcelery wrote:
DrakBibliophile wrote:I suspect that David Weber had a different title than "Off Armageddon Reef" in mind but TOR Books didn't like it.

After OAR sold so well, the MWW got his way on the titles of the sequels. :twisted: :twisted:


Wrong. My title from the beginning. In fact, all of them have been. :)
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Re: Speculation: Title of the next book after HFQ
Post by Michael Everett   » Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:21 am

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DrakBibliophile wrote:Oh well. Not the first time I've been wrong. :twisted:

You learn more from being wrong once than being right a hundred times.
Of course, that doesn't mean you have to like it...
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Re: Speculation: Title of the next book after HFQ
Post by Randomiser   » Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:09 am

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How about 'The Vision Glorious', for a suitably ambiguous and thought provoking title?
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Re: Speculation: Title of the next book after HFQ
Post by Philip Stanley   » Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:48 am

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I should think RFC might consider using a phrase from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". There's some wonderful material there. Think about it:

"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
"The Grapes of Wrath"
"The Fateful Lightning"
"Fought to Make Men Free"
. . .etc.

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Re: Speculation: Title of the next book after HFQ
Post by jgnfld   » Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:05 am

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Philip Stanley wrote:I should think RFC might consider using a phrase from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". There's some wonderful material there. Think about it:

"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
"The Grapes of Wrath"
"The Fateful Lightning"
"Fought to Make Men Free"
. . .etc.

Philip Stanley

Yeah...

A Hundred Circling Camps
With You My Grace Shall Deal
He Has Sounded Forth the Trumpet

And for the book if Nimue must sacrifice herself/selves or maybe even Charis...

As He Died to Make Men Holy, or
Let Us Die to Make Men Free
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Speculation: Title of the next book after HFQ
Post by Annachie   » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:36 am

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By thy strength.

Though I do like When the Saints. :)

Or my personal favorite when growing up (Which is saying something for an athiest) Strong and Constant.
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