Mike Resnick delivered the manuscript for Starship: Rebel to Lou Anders at Pyr. Apparently, the timing of the delivery threw off Anders’s scheule for producing his monthly Pyr Books newsletter, as he writes “[Resnick] lured me in with the first big spaceship battle scene he’s ever written (or, as he puts it ‘First protracted battle I’ve done in 40 years, and the last one was with swords.’) And well, it lives up. (And reminds me in a way of the big Cardassian assault on DS9, not that Mike would know what I was talking about.)”
The book is scheuled to be published at the end of the year. To sign up for the Pyr newsletter, see the link on the left-hand side of pyrsf.com (and as a special bonus, the newsletter includes a click-through link to get a special Pyr backlist title for half off. This month, it’s Galileo’s Children edited by Gardner Dozois).