Chronology for the Novels, Dinocalypse Dicebag, and Hu Excerpt
Hail, Dinocofans! ... Dinocalypsos! ... Dinolypticans!
Man, still need to work on that.
I wanted to give you guys a quick look under the hood as we continue to work on the rest of our fiction line. As said during the project's drive, a number of these books won't see the beginning of writing until later this year or early next, but that doesn't mean there's no activity.
Dinocalypse Dice Bag
Over on the Race to Adventure boardgame kickstarter, we just released an update and added three new tiers to the project. Drop on by and have a look at the MASTER OF DINOSAURS tier -- and more!
Recent Events
I just recently had a chance to review and comment on Harry Connolly's supremely zany synopsis for KING KHAN, and I think you'll all be in for a treat with that one as our favorite ape delves into the all-too-strange world of 1930's Hollywood.
Brian Clevinger has also been working on the manuscript for THE PHARAOH OF HONG KONG, his Benjamin Hu prequel novel ... but more on that in a few. (We have a short excerpt for you!)
I've also had the chance to talk with Chuck about plans for BEYOND DINOCALYPSE and DINOCALYPSE FOREVER when I visited him to get the hardcovers signed. This trilogy's going to be one of the greats, folks.
Chronology Established
In and among all of this conversation has been an opportunity to nail down much of the chronology of the novels. While our books won't (really, can't) have a publication order matching their chronological order, we thought it'd be fun to share the order in which their stories occur.
C. E. Murphy's presently untitled Amelia Stone novel is the only question mark in here -- it's going to be part prequel or fully prequel, so at least part of its story will live back around the time of THE PHARAOH OF HONG KONG.
And from a strictly calendar-driven perspective, BEYOND DINOCALYPSE and DINOCALYPSE FOREVER occur well beyond the bounds of the chronological order we're looking at here, thanks to time-travel, so this chronology is more about "timeline as experienced directly by the Centurions" than it is about dates. Anyway, in order:
- Brian Clevinger's THE PHARAOH OF HONG KONG
- C.E. Murphy's Amelia Stone novel (but see the above note)
- Chuck Wendig's DINOCALYPSE NOW
- Chuck Wendig's BEYOND DINOCALYPSE
- Chuck Wendig's DINOCALYPSE FOREVER
- Stephen Blackmoore's KHAN OF MARS
- Harry Connolly's KING KHAN
Reading these novels out of chronological order (aside from the trilogy, which should be read in order relative to one another) won't hurt a thing -- spoilers will be avoided, though the occasional oblique reference to events in one another may crop up -- but we know how important context can be to an avid reader and fan.
Benjamin Hu in THE PHARAOH OF HONG KONG
But before we go!
Here's a little taste from the adventures of Benjamin Hu, told at an early point in his career from the perspective of Dr. Fang Mei, Special Computation Agent for the British government's ultra-secret Ministry of Para-Historical Defense...
Trapped in a car, a convertible I might add, we did the only thing we could think to do: drive! To which the cultists did the only thing they could think to do: hang on.
If you think this was an awkward affair, perhaps with the three of us screaming at each other and at our attackers while Clayton blindly drove around the disused industrial park, you'd be wrong. Well, you'd be right at first, but part of the problem with driving blindly is that you end up in the strangest places. I hadn't given our course much thought, occupied as I was with heaving Benjamin back into the car while two of the cultists tried to drag him out of it, but then we smashed through a fence. And while that had the beneficial effect of knocking several cultists right off, there was also the unfortunate matter that it was a fence separating the industrial park from the road.
Which we were now on.
The wrong side of.
We continued in this manner for some time. It may seem grossly irresponsible for an agent of the MPHD to engage in such hazardous activity, but I assure you that is exactly the point I raised to Clayton. Loudly.
He, however, was yelling at Benjamin while wrestling with cultist on the hood, who was yanking the steering wheel this way and that. Benjamin was yelling at Clayton while trying to keep from being dragged out of the car.
I say "yelling at" rather than "arguing with" because they were having two distinct conversations round about the same topic. Benjamin insisted Clayton should shoot the cultists. Clayton insisted Benjamin needed to load the gun. Both were too busy fighting for their lives to bend their related but divergent yelling into a single conversation.
It was a moot point anyway, as I was by then using the gun to club at the cultist who had a hold of Benjamin. He was down to just the one, having lost the other to the intersection with the fence.
"Argh, stop!" Benjamin said because, while I was clubbing at the cultist, that didn't mean every blow struck home.
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Creator Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions on October 2, 2012
Kristine, if you haven't gotten this solved yet, please drop me a line at evilhat on gmail.
Creator KRISTINE KEARNEY on September 23, 2012
Heyla - I never used my original download link, and just tried to, but it has expired. (I know, stupid - I was going through my email and realized I never downloaded it.)
Any way to get the downloads now? Thanks!