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''The Saga of Shadows'' is a planned trilogy of space opera novels written by Kevin J. Anderson. First announced in 2011, it is a sequel to Anderson's seven-book series, ''The Saga of Seven Suns'' (2002–2008). The first novel, ''The Dark Between the Stars'', was released by Tor Books on June 3, 2014. The second book in the series, ''Blood of the Cosmos'', was published on June 2, 2015. The third novel, due in 2016, will be called ''Eternity's Mind''. In the story, the human and alien Ildiran civilizations have barely recovered from the universe-spanning elemental war chronicled in ''The Saga of Seven Suns'', and now a new threat to their existence appears. In 2015, ''The Dark Between the Stars'' received a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. ==Origins== Anderson published the seven-volume ''The Saga of Seven Suns'' series from 2002 to 2008. Discussing the forthcoming sequel trilogy, he said in January 2013 that despite the series' length and complexity he "had some major plotlines that just couldn’t fit within the 7-volume series ... I kept files and files of even bigger ideas that deserved full treatment, but I had to wait for the right time." After the ''Seven Suns'' series was completed, Anderson published the ''Terra Incognita'' fantasy trilogy, the ''Hellhole'' trilogy and began the ''Dune'' prequel trilogy ''Great Schools of Dune'' with Brian Herbert. He later said of this period, "After living for eight years in the ''Seven Suns'' universe, I needed to explore some other literary landscapes," noting that "all the while, a 'next generation' trilogy for ''Seven Suns'' was taking shape in my mind—''The Saga of Shadows''."〔 Anderson announced the new trilogy on his blog in December 2011. Citing National Novel Writing Month, an annual internet-based creative writing project that challenges participants to write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November, Anderson said in 2013, "once I started ''The Dark Between the Stars'', I plunged in headfirst, and wrote 120,000 words of draft in October and 120,000 words of draft in November." He called the book "my longest novel so far", and noted that the sequel series "has been building inside my imagination for many years, and it was like a hunting dog straining at the leash, ready to be released." He added, "I love having a story this big to play with, and all those characters to turn loose in the story."〔 Anderson has compared the ''Seven Suns'' and ''Shadows'' series to "really big" works like ''Star Wars'', the ''Dune'' saga, Vernor Vinge’s ''A Fire Upon the Deep'', Peter F. Hamilton’s ''The Night's Dawn Trilogy'', Joan D. Vinge’s ''The Snow Queen'' and ''The Summer Queen'', and has even called it "a science fiction version of George R. R. Martin’s ''Song of Ice and Fire''".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Saga of Shadows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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