Goliath Is Totally in Stores!

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If I haven’t messed up my auto-scheduler, then today is the day that the final book in the Leviathan trilogy comes out! So, like, go purchase it, if you want.

It looks like this:

Note that the comment thread of this post is NOT for spoilers! That thread will post tomorrow, after you’ve had a genteel sufficiency of time to read the book. (You lot with the ARCs, just hold your horses one more day!) This thread is to blather about whatever, to brag about how you scammed a copy early, and to make your final predictions of who will kiss/kill what and when!

Hey, look! It’s me hanging out with Alan Cumming:
 

Want to buy the audiobook? Check your local bookstore, or order from one of these fine online stores:

Audible
iTunes
Amazon

Tonight I will be in Missouri showing images from the book and explaining how Keith and I worked together. Here are those data. (Note that the address is not the one I posted a month ago, but it is correct!)

Tuesday, September 20
7:00PM
ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY HEADQUARTERS
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
St.Louis, MO 63131
(314) 994-3300
(with Pudd’nhead Bookstore)

Click here for a lovely event poster, and here to pre-order a signed book.

And here’s my Appearances page, in case you want to check where I’ll be the rest of the tour.

Oh, and here’s the end-papers!

Click here for zoomable bigness. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

104 thoughts on “Goliath Is Totally in Stores!”

  1. Got my copy of Goliath today!

    I almost cried when the first bookstore I went to told me that they were out of copies of Goliath (already!). Thank heavens the second one I went to still had copies. I think I would’ve had an emotional breakdown had I not been able to get one. Haha. :))

  2. THAT IS THE BEST END PAPER I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!

    I really hope it won’t be sold out… I can’t go get the book until this evening. 🙁

  3. I want to run to the book store now But I have class and after that I have to clean the house before my sister comes home… I wonder if it’s possible to read and clean at the same time. Today is the day to find out. XD

  4. in one side im sad there are no bookstore who knows the book in mexico… but i can get one signed yay, just have to wait a bit more…(sad noises)

  5. So I read it about a month ago because I got an ARC, but I’m still excited for the release today because I had to send the ARC to someone else. I do plan on re-reading it. Gotta teach kids first today then will be heading to the bookstore to get my copy!

    But I would really like an explaination of what is going on with the end pages. All the symbolism and what have you.

  6. Somehow, i started four books last night. But since I ordered Goliath, it won’t arrive for a little bit… so I’ll be able to finish them and devote my WORLD to it!

  8. I WANT TO GET THAT BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOk.

  9. I ordered it on Sunday to arrive today. I am obsessively checking the tracker on Amazon. Like, every-10-minutes-even-though-I-know-there won’t-be-any-change obsessively. It is now in a town 30 minutes away and “out for delivery” whatever that means. I am so excited I don’t know what to do with myself.

  10. OMG cant wait to get a copy.Its also picture day and cause i hate gittin pictures done my mom said she’d take me to the book store if i didnt freak. LOLZ i freaked already

  12. GAh! I went to BAM Sunday thinking it was out then! I shall get it today!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 omg! My favorite author and favorite band in one week?! this is way too good to be true!!! 😀

  17. OH MY EFFING GEE. I can’t’ get the book till the end of the month!!! *sobs* which means I will have to last until the end of next week to resist spoilers….SPOILERS! I….enjoy spoilers :'( waaaahhhhh!!!!

  18. Got my signed copy yesterday. Thank you, Amazon preorders!! Agh, my heart’s pumping just thinking about it. No, Anna, you may NOT squee in the middle of study hall. That would just be bad conduct.

  20. I’m definitely heading to the bookstore RIGHT AWAY after work to pick up a copy. I am SO excited to read GOLIATH!

  22. I don’t think I can get the book until the weekend. I don’t think that it will be sold out, though. I probably won’t have a chance to read it until all of my work is done and after I have finished the book I’ve already started. I’ll probably end up avoiding this website like the plague so I won’t come across any spoilers. (What’s the point of reading when you know what will happen. The suspence is all the fun of it!)

  24. Oh man… I’m bad with predictions until I start reading… Okay. Alek and Deryn will kiss (just guessing), but I have no clue when… Maybe in the middle/towards the end? Kinda in between the middle and end? Does that even make sense? Probably not.. XD WhoDUNZEKILLING??? Ummm…. My guess is Volger would die to protect Alek and something may happen to him if Alek is in danger… Deryn and Alek won’t die. I’ll burst into tears if one of them do. XD That’s all for my predictions. 🙂

    GOLIATH IS HERE!!!! FINALLY!!! I’m so happy!!! When my family wakes up, I’m SO running to the store to get it!!!

  26. I’m reading it now, Scott! It’s amazing! Been reading it in class – shame on me! – and I’m to page 166. I can’t put it down!

  27. well, here is my prediction:

    Alek will find out “Dylan” is a girl but not by Deryn. He will then kiss her sometime near the middle end place of the book. Then i think… I don’t Know who will die,
    maby Alek?

    But if it is Alek, I will cry, and then get angry, an then cry again.
    Then i will go on my porch and scream “WHY???” so loud the other side of the world will here me..I’m Just kidding (LOL) Its your book,

    I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!! also when the rest of me and Myst47’s (hannah) family awakes we are BUYING IT!!! We are sisters.

    CANT WAIT

  28. My Daddy is picking me up a copy of Goliath after work (or he will have one angry daughter) so…my predictions: THERE WILL BE A KISS!!!!!!! and the collective Leviathan fandom will go nine kinds of fangirl all over the place; Lilit, Jaspert, of Newkirk will die; Deryn will get injured and be discovered or Bovril will spill the beans; Volger may die; some other guy-in-red-shirt types will bite the bullet; the Germans will attack something and there will be and EPIC battle.

    And who else is going to stay up until four in the morning reading?
    I’m so excited it’s not even funny……..I NEED THE BOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!

  29. Being a penniless grad student, I’ll be carefully avoiding spoilers until the lucky person who managed to reserve “Goliath” ahead of me at the library is done with the book. I do intend to buy a copy eventually, of course. But in the meantime…

    ? Congratulations, Scott, for completing another trilogy! ?

    And I think it’s pleasantly appropriate that “Goliath” is being released on the same day that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is officially over. Whatever happens to Deryn and Lilit (and I hope, of course, that their endings are just as happy), the soldiers of modern America can now serve their country without hiding who they are. Hip-hip-hurrah!

  30. So, I got my email from Amazon saying my estimated delivery date is Friday… this killed me inside.

    Which is why I went to Hastings (the only freaking bookstore in my town) and read the first seven chapters. After which, I then flipped through the pages a bit. I probably shouldn’t have done that, because now I am even more impatient to have Goliath in my hands!

    Friday, why are you so far away!! :c

  32. Thank you all for your kind words and vast enthusiasims! You are all so sweet and wise.

    And sorry to those of you suffering through missed orders or poverty or empty bookstore shelves. These are daggers in my heart as well!

    I feel all your pains and joys, for that’s what book birthdays are all about. Like the end of Highlander, when he beheads that scary dude and gets lightninged into omniscience. But with less lightning.

    I may or may not be quietly going mad in my hotel room, waiting for my thing in St. Louis tonight. See you there, St. Louisians

  34. I had twenty extra minutes this morning before my bus came, I sat down and bought Goliath on my nook, I cant stop reading it 🙂

  35. WHAT DUH POOP KINDA FLAG IS ON THAT END PAGES, GIRL. >:|

  36. I got it from the library on Friday! (the plus of volunteering: the librarians told me it was on the shelf!) I have to say, it is AWESOME!

  37. AHH! I ORDERED IT AT A LOCAL BOOKSTORE! You should totally come visit MA one day!! and, I’m getting it tonight! after reading so many reviews from people that have an advanced copy, i just can’t wait to get my hands on one tonight! BARKING SPIDERS! ONLY 1 HOUR AWAY!!

  38. GOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!! That looks so cool, the end papers i mean……… i shouldn’t have gone shopping this weekend…….. i don’t have any cash to buy goliath!!!!!!! So angry w/ myself.

  39. *MEEP* I totally forgot that was today!!! HOW COULD I FORGET THAT THAT WAS TODAY??? Imma go shopping tomorrow and get Goliath!

  41. I got up to ch 9 at B&N while waiting for my brother to get out of school. I think I will DIE if I have to wait any longer to finish!! :O

  42. OHMYGOSH I AM SOOOOO HAPPY! XD This just made my day =) I was practically tearing apart the entire book store searching for this book on the weekend because I knew it was coming out in September. I just forgot the date. Yeah. I’m weird that way.

    OHMYGAWD ‘TIS GONNA BE SO EPIC!! xd

  43. I could barely wait till class got out so I could go down the street, turn right at the post office, walk down to the cafe, cross the street, go left, and go inside the bookstore to get Goliath, read it, and put it next to Leviathan and Behemoth on my bookshelf.

  44. Well, I read Goliath back in June when I got my ARC, and it was flipping amazing. Your best book ever. However, ARCs don’t come with end papers, so when I saw the picture you posted I could hardly breath. Phenomenal job.

  45. Just finished Goliath. It was epic. I couldn’t stop smiling through that part when…. Well all u people who have read it know. Don’t want to spoil it for others! BUT IT WAS SO CUTE!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhh. Thank you scott

  46. Wait. Wait a second. I don’t remember seeing that one picture revealed on April first.

  47. AHAHAHAHAHAHA i have a kindle. woke up at 1:30 this morning to read. won’t spoil, but scoot, I LOVE YOU. AND YOU ARE AMAZING. AND THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING AND PERFECT. the big thing, yk, the ambiguous-cant-spoil thing where a certain person gets some help from a certain loris after reading a certain article, that one…. yeah, it wasn’t exactly how i imagined it because it was BETTER. It was PERFECT.
    IT WAS SPECTACULAR. I AM ON CLOUD NINE. YOU JUST MADE MY WEEK. I LOVE YOU.

  48. Funds do not allow me to purchase this book at the moment, but I do believe that I shall have acquired sufficient monies by sometime in October. Until then I will leave this website alone so as to avoid spoilers, which might be somewhat difficult.

  49. @scott
    ALAN CUMMING NEEDS TO BE VOLGER IN THE MOVIE TOATALY!!!!!!
    also- there is a police siren in the back ground of your vidio! WEEEEOOOOOWWWEEIOOOOOOOOWEEEEEOOOOO!
    hahhah!

    *spaz*
    *spaz*
    *spaz*
    *spaz*
    getting my copy on THURSDAY!!

  51. Hehe, I got my copy yesterday 😛

    I don’t know how it happened, but Amazon shipped it out a day early. And I finished it in like four hours…..

    SO MUCH FLUFF *twitches*

  53. Last Predictions before I go get the book.
    I predict alek is going to get Austria.
    that alek and Deryn are somehow going to end the war.

    Optimistically for all AxD fans, I think they are going to get together…actually it’s more of a hope.
    Not so optimistically for all fans, i think someone that is loved is going to die.

    Very low probability of coming true: Dr. Barlow and Volger getting married.

    NOW I NEED THE BOOK TO CHECK THESE PREDICTIONS!!! Wait is there a 3 book set yet?

  54. I just ordered my copy from the local book store. A friend of mine was in the city and picked up a copy today, and she’s determined not to spoil it for me, but every time something epic happens she’ll message me with something like “AAAAHHHHASKDJKDSJGSASDFDHJKL OH EM GEE!!”

  55. Seriously!!!! Like did anyone see the pic of Lillie and deryn getting married? I’m only half way through but I like to look at pictures before and I didn’t see it!!!!!!

  57. it waaas??? i was on keith’s webby-site and i seed it, and i was all like OMFG!! why scott whyyyyyy!!! *sigh of relif*

  59. Happy birthday to me (and Goliath), happy birthday to me (and Goliath) Happy birthday dear meee (and Goliath), happy birthday to me!!!! (and Goliath) I truly loved receiving this book as a present. It was amazing that it came out on my birthday. I feel so special!

  61. Wir wünschen Ihnen alles Gute zum Geburtstag, wir wünschen Ihnen alles Gute zum Geburtstag, wir wünschen Ihnen alles Gute zum Geburtstag und ein glückliches neues Jahr!

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    above is happy birthday translated into german, i think

  62. I’m pretty upset that this is the end. This is such a phenomenal series. But like all good things, this too must come to an end.

    I’m a bit nervous, to be honest, but I’m ready. There’s not been a single day in the past two years that I have not thought about Alek and Deryn’s adventure. I’ve read both Leviathan and Goliath three times each since then.

    I thank you for the amazing adventure that you’ve provided me– nay, all of us with, Mister Westerfeld. Alek and Deryn will always be in my heart

    I purchased the book about twenty minutes ago, approx 8PM EST, when I submit this comment, I’m going to start reading, and probably won’t stop until I’m done.

    Here’s to you, Scott Westerfeld.
    You’re a barking gentleman and a scholar.

    -Azemus

  63. I got this book after school today, and I have now finished it. I have to say, it was AMAZINGLY AWESOME. I loved Leviathan, and I thought Behemoth was even better, but this one beats them both. I wasn’t dissapointed by anything in the book, and I loved how Alek found out how Dylyn was actually Deryn. I could not stop reading!!! This trilogy is one of my absolute favorites!

  67. YAY!!
    I finished about 2 minutes ago!
    WORK. OF. GENIUS.
    I won’t be all spoilery, but for the record, this girl was rather perspicacious when it came to figuring out how characters would figure some things out…

  69. Ugh I had it pre-ordered and unfortunately it hasnt arrived (are pre-ordered nooks supposed to arrive on release date?) so I’ll go run off to the bookstore tomorrow to grab a copy, CANNOT WAIT!

  70. I read Goliath almost a month ago, but it was an eGalley, so I was happy to run to the store this morning and hold a solid copy in my hands.

    Just for the record:
    It. Was. Extraordinary.

    Henceforward, I don’t think anyone will be disappointed. Unless you’re a fan of a certain someone.

  71. Just finished it. That was absolutely amazing and I kind of want to read it again. Just thinking that it’s over makes me slightly depressed. Want to write a World War II version?! Haha.

  73. O.O
    Today i used my free class to go to my local book store and flick through the book, and sadly i had no money on me so i couldn’t buy it BUT!!!!! I brought myself a hot chocolate and bit of cake and read JUST ENOUGH to know what happens!! AND I WISH I HADN’T!!!! I ordered my book from Amazon and its not coming till next week so i will slowly drive myself mad while waiting to read it in full…. what a dumb ass

  75. OMGOMG supperrrr excited but I cant buy it and I have to wait till it comes out in the libraries -_-
    DERYN YOU MUST TELL ALEK YOU ARE A GIRL YOULL BE AN AWESOME COUPLE COME ON COME ON SUPEERRRRRR EXCITED 😀

  76. Dear Amazon.com…HURRY IT UP ALREADY!!!!!!!! I PRE-ORDERED HALF A YEAR AGO!!!! (or close to that amount of time)
    Plus all the bookstores within a 30 minute radius of my house (not including Half-Price Books) have closed, so Amazon is my last spot for books nowadays T^T

    THANKS SCOTT FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!! I CAN’T WAIT FOR IT TO COME TO MY HOUSE SO THAT I CAN TEAR THE BOX APART AND THEN DEVOUR THE BOOK *maniacal gleam in eye*

  77. I’m so excited!! Today I totally forced myself not to run in when I entered the bookstore and now I FINALLY have a copy of Goliath!!!!!! I can’t wait to read it!
    And the DEDICATION!
    “To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.”
    I squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed (and i usually never do that)

    On another note, I’m so glad I get to see Mr. Westerfeld on tour as well! This is so superfantabufluffylicious! (my friend’s word :DDD)

  84. I’m twitching and spazzing right now… Just finished reading. I was home sick from school… And I actually wasn’t playing hookey as an excuse to read, by the way, I really was (am) sick. But reading Goliath made me feel so much better! Oh my GOD, so cute. And I really, really love Bovril.

    Off to reread until the fanfic authors and Deviantartists finish their new Goliath fanwork, at which time I will attack the interwebs to ravenously search for the awesomeness.

    (And also I just noticed the tiny smiley-face at the bottom of the page, and it’s very awesome. But not as awesome as Goliath.)

  85. So…Borders closed down. Like out-of-business closed down. *sad face* BUT! I think I may be able to stalk Goliath at Target or BJs. I hope they have it! I NEED it! I’ve been waiting, like, a year for this (i know you lovely people here on the westerblog know exactly what I’m talking about) and can’t wait to open the book and find out what Scott’s been tormenting us about with too subtle hints and amazing art reveals (though the art reveals just helped sate my need to have the book because I had SOMETHING from the book…like when I didn’t own leviathan but had smaple chapters in Extras and Bogus to Bubbly). This is long, but I hope I can go get the book later! Wish me luck that it’s stocked!

  87. *sigh*

    I pre-ordered the book from my library and it is *still* in transit…..

    -_-

    oh well, at least I’m the first person to order it in my library out of about 6 others :p They’ve got a much longer wait than me. Well, thats what happen’s when a fangril like me doesn’t have enough moolah to buy the book — we just improvise and make sure we’re the first person to rent it out XD.

    I hope everyone enjoys it as much as i know i will XD

  88. SSSSH! DON’T SPOIL ME!

    ….Okay, truth is I was so extremely busy Tuesday night that my mom couldn’t drive me to Barnes and Noble to pick up Goliath. Actually, I’m not allowed to read ANYTHING until I finish annotating a book for class…all 550 pages of it (Max and Leisel,rah rah rah). Seeing that I JUST FINISHED that, I probably will be able to pick up the book by tomorrow….ugh. I fail as a Leviathan fan. Might as well hand in my goggles and bowler hat and go back to worshiping those darn cat books I idolized as a child.

    -_-

  89. Even though I’d been dropping obvious hints all month, my parents forgot and I didn’t want to be like ‘Everybody drop what you’re doing and get in the car to drive to Barnes and Noble.’ So I waited until the next day….. I got in the car after school and was thinking ‘Did they remember???’ when my mom asks if I saw my present. When I looked next to me I almost had a fangirl heart attack, because there was Goliath.

  90. @Hannah- Lucky. My conversations went something like this:

    (1 month ago)
    Me: Goliath’s coming out!
    Mom: Cool.

    (3 weeks ago)
    Me: Oooh….it’s getting closer…
    Mom: Mm-hm

    (15 days ago)
    Me: I can’t wait to get it!
    Mom: What day does it come out?
    Me: Tuesday!
    Mom: Oh, cool.

    (5 Days ago)
    Me: GOLIATHGOLIATHGOLIATHGOLIATHGOLIATHGOLI-
    Mom: OKAY OKAY CALM DOWN ALREADY!

    (Tuesday.)
    Me: YAY! Let’s go pick up Goliath!
    Mom: No.
    Me: What? Why not?!
    Mom: I have to work the Book Fair! (at her school)
    Me: :O

  97. @TheWordMaster is it a good book “the book thief” i mean cause my friends said it was really good but nothings living up to the Leviathan standards at the moment

  99. eek!

    just got it from the library! 2 Straight days of reading this masterpiece, here i come!

    btw, doesn’t the cover look GREAT?!? =D

  100. eek!

    just got it from the library! 2 Straight days of reading this masterpiece, here i come!

    btw, doesn’t the cover look GREAT?!? =D Definitely a good model for Alek xD

  102. According to this months Dymocks catalog Goliath doesn’t come out till the bloody 15th. I found this out the same bloody day I came back from Japan. My mind is exploding! And then I just had to watch the add for Avatar the legend of Korea! I am a fool, full of frustration! >.<

  103. PLEAZ tell us all that like Uglies, with Leviathan the phrase ‘trilogy’ really means 3 books plus a spontaneous companion novel!!! I’m sure all westerfans would love that 🙂

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