Genre web site BSC has a fascinating interview with our man John Meaney, in which he discusses at length his two most recent novels,  Bone Song and Dark Blood conducted by one ‘Professor Crazy’! Under the circumstances, JM talks a lot of sense!He also gives us some hints about his forthcoming works…

“No definite plans for another TristopolisWhite Bones. So it’ll happen at some point, I hope. book, though I’ve created an outline for one, called

Well, I thought I’d been ambitious with some of my previous books, but I’m really going for it this time. The book in progress is called Absorption, being book 1 of the Ragnarok trilogy. The trilogy ends a million years after the earliest storyline begins.

All right, for most of the story, the different timelines only span a couple of dozen centuries…

It’s set in the Pilots future history, but totally subsumes the previous four books in that setting, and you can read Absorption with or without knowledge of the other books.“