Behemoth is out NOW in the US, Canada, and in the UK! (Sorry, Australia, you have to wait till October 12.) The audio book, read by the awesome Alan Cumming, is also out now.
For a bit more about the book, click here for an interview with me on Tor.com about researching Behemoth, writing process, and FOOD.
I’m on tour right now and will attempt to blog from the road, but it may be patchy.
Am I coming to your town? Well, do you live in . . .
New York
Houston, Allen (near Dallas), or Austin, TX
New Orleans, LA
Alpharetta or Decatur, GA
Raleigh, NC
Cincinnati, OH
Ft. Thomas, KY
Naperville, IL
Novi or Ann Arbor, MI
Provo, UT
Nantes or Paris, France
Miami, FL
or Vancouver, Canada?
Then please check out my Appearances page for when I’ll be near you.
And finally: THE COMMENTS ON THIS THREAD ARE SPOILERS!
ABANDON NARRATIVE TENSION, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE . . .
🙂 We all need to meet here in 221 days
@clareh
Yes!
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GOOOLLLIIIIIIAAAAAATTTTTHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(mentally screaming)
omigosh!! it’s earlier!! so psyched!
I completely spazzed out when I heard……then had a mental breakdown and began laughing really loudly…….I am so happy!
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I did it! I got a fanfiction.net account! I haven’t written any fics yet but I will soon. It is awesome!
Still bouncing around like I’m cracked in the attic! And maybe I am!
Yaaaaaahhhh!!!!!
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btw, to all you Team Varlow people, DOCTOR BARLOW IS MARRIED!!!! Barlow isn’t her maiden name, Darwin is! What the heck?!?!?! oh, and scott, SOO EXCITED!!!! 219 Days left!
219 days left!!!!! 2 LONG!
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Alek’s mother’s family is in Goliath?! Is it just me or did someone elso notice that mention? It’s like a hint to what may happen in the book or something.
@gerbilove
It’s true, Dr.Barlow is married. Mr.Westerfeld said that Varlow would be a major scandal and thus will not happen unless she happens to be in the middle of a divorce. Which she is probably not.
@Ridley
Yes I did notice the *ahem* sly hint, and could just as well be another pointer to Goliath.
I also want to know more about Deryn’s family even thought we have learned a little about her father & brother.
@amo
Yes, it would be nice to know a little more about their families. I’m mostly curious about Deryn’s mother. I’m thinking about doing some fanfics about her. I think that she’s just worried that she’ll lose her whole family to the sky. First of all, her husband died, and then her son joined the Air Service, which isn’t the worst since he’s a boy and all, but now her DAUGHTER has joined the Air Service too! I think she might just be afraid of her dying like her da. I like Jaspert. I think he could be funny and a really great character. It’s just to bad that there won’t be more time in the series to get to know him and some of the other characters better.
Third page news now! The Behemoth Spoiler Thread is now even older news!
@gerbilove
Hang on, did you write the fanfic ‘Goliath’? Because if not then there is someone who did write that fanfic who has the exact same username as you…that sounds really stupid. If it is you, then good job! You should continue it if you can. It could definitely go somewhere.
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@Ridley
Yes…. I believe that her mother would be worried….
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The message lizard needs to be updated! It says Goliath comes out on October 4th!
They also need to make a new commercial…..at least for Behemoth!!
Yes!
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Why couldn’t they have stuck with the original Behemoth poster? It’s MUCH more awesome……in my opinion.
@amo
agreed
@amo
Yes, but they changed it so that it would go along with the style with the face that the paperback Leviathan has. I do like that better though. Maybe they could use it for the paperback? It would make more sense to have hardcover match hardcover and paperback match paperback, but too late now I guess.
213 days left – aka exactly seven months until the release of Goliath!
7 months!! awsum!!
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Random fact: The least likely cause of death is death by earthquake (1 in 153,597 chance)
Dear Scott,
Please give us hardcore undying-love fans a hint of Goliath or a sneak peek of the art. Please………it’s Valentine’s day. Or else I just might die (not literally)….
Your fan 4eva,
amo
@amo
I second this notion.
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Whoa!!!!! The thread is a LOT longer…..how did that happen?
@amo
I have no idea.
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209 days?! TOO LONG!!!
I haven’t been on here for an outrageously long time…and what do I find? Only a MONTH’S LESS WAIT! That is is best welcome-back-ish present EVVVVER!!!!! Thanks soooo much, Scott!!
Surprisingly enough, I didn’t hyperventilate, because I had been reading the posts backwards and he had mentioned September 13th a lot of times and so I forgot about the former October release…until he declared it and left me jumping wildly around (:
I’ve never actually imagined her eyes as green…always blue or gray…interesting…
The best news is that there’s still hope for Lilspert (; [I will never give up hope!!] I can’t wait for the whole Jaspert/Newkirk/random other male darwinist “YOU LOVE A CLANKER?!” thing, that’s gotta be a little funny (;
209 days?! *sigh*
Has anyone else noticed? The message lizard still says October 4th 2011 xD
207 days…….*sigh*
207 days left (sorry, but I missed yesterday)
@Cassidy
Heh heh, I’ve been imagining the whole ‘You love a clanker!?’ thing. Hilarious! Really really really looking forward to Goliath! Welcome back by the way!
Hopefully Goliath will have a better cover……will it be Darwinist or Clanker themed? OR maybe a little of both like America? hmmmmm….
@amo
I’ve been wondering about the cover too. If he continues the face theme then who will be on the cover? ‘Alek’ was on the cover of Leviathan and ‘Deryn’ on the cover of Behemoth, so who would be on the cover of Goliath? I think that if he continues this theme then they should both share the cover. I think that the cover will probably have some relation to the book. I hope we get a sneak peak of it as soon as it’s decided.
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Okay. I was just on Alison Goodman’s website and she has the first chapter of Eona available to read. Eona is coming out in April but wouldn’t it be just perfect if Mr.Westerfeld could do something like that for Goliath! Talk about a sneak peak! That would be awesome! Course, it probably wouldn’t happen anytime soon, but still.
I just found a mistake in Behemoth! On page 330 when Deryn just found Alek and Lilit and they’re in Alek’s hotel room, it says ‘Lilit asked’ before Alek ever mentioned Lilit’s name! Deryn wouldn’t have known what her name was! I was just randomly flipping open pages and re-reading some random paragraphs when I noticed this. Totally random and just a small little error.
What I found isn’t nearly as good as one of the Alek chapters saying Deryn! Does anyone know which chapter that is?
@Ridley
I have no idea what chapter that is, but I’ll keep my out for it. By the way, wouldn’t it be awsome if BOVRIL was on the cover of Behemoth?
* I meant Goliath (arggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh)
*AND i meant I’d keep my EYE out for it (why is by typing so weird?)
@amo
That would be really cool, but it would be kind of hard to get a real-life looking photo of him.
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@Ridley
I know, but still, maybe they could take a picture of a ferret and mess around with it on photoshop. I’ve always imagined him as a ferret, though I’m not sure why.
I can’t wait for Goliath woooo
By the way, though, what hapened to Fitzroy(the other middy in Leviathan)?
@olivia
I’m not sure. I think he was just a supporting character to heighten Deryn’s characteristics and give her a motive to work harder
@olivia
He got kicked off because they had to much weight and he didn’t do his job well enough.
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Does anyone know when Alek’s or Deryn’s birthday is? And how old are they? I know they are either 15 or 16, but I’m not sure.