I don't know what the next one will be called but he's working on it. There's also a sequel to Great Sky Woman on the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion's_Blood --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Addams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Third Lion's Blood book? > > --- On Fri, 8/1/08, B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Steve Barnes on Hancock > To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com > Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 9:03 PM > > > > > > > Lots of authors have trafficked in "low rent" fiction in order to make > ends meet. Barnes had written detective fiction but with a fantastic > bent so this wasn't a terrible stretch. I'd put Casanegra in the realm > of work from Valerie Wilson-Wesley, Gary Phillips and Gary Hardwick. > Is it Walter Mosley or George Pelecanos? Nope but it's an enjoyable > mystery that is set in and around Hollywood. > > We'll have to agree to disagree. Casanegra and the sequel allowed > Barnes the latitude to write the third in the Lion's Blood series so > all is forgiven. > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@ yahoogroups. com, "ravenadal" <ravenadal@ ..> wrote: > > > > It wasn't well written. Somehow Barnes and Due trafficing in low > > rent fiction is perceived as laudable. Frank Lucas might have been > > more noble than Nicky Barnes...but they were both still selling crack. > > > > ~(no)rave! > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@ yahoogroups. com, "B. Smith" <daikaiju66@ > > > wrote: > > > > > > I didn't think it was badly written. It wasn't the usual stuff from > > > them but it wasn't bad. There might have been some hiccups but it > > was > > > the first time they wrote together and they were hammering out the > > > rough spots. I imagine the second book will be a bit more polished. > > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@ yahoogroups. com, "ravenadal" <ravenadal@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Ah, hecky naw, man! Sex doesn't bother me (the only thing I want > > in > > > > this life is my life and more sex). Bad writing does. > > > > > > > > ~rave! > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@ yahoogroups. com, "B. Smith" <daikaiju66@ > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've read it and I have to ask what bothered you about the > > book? > > > Just > > > > > the selling out in general or the sexcapades? > > > > > > > > > > Knowing Steven Barnes views on black men not getting to have > > sex > > > in > > > > > movies, I expected that there would be even more sex in the > > book. > > > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@ yahoogroups. com, "ravenadal" <ravenadal@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Doesn't make YOU want to punch them out. Have you read that > > > trash? > > > > > > > > > > > > ~(no)rave! > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@ yahoogroups. com, "Chris Hayden" > > > > > > <belsidus2000@ > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (Now Rave. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You know that he is denouncing them for the WAY they took > > the > > > > > money > > > > > > and > > > > > > > ran, not for the mere taking and running. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At least they way he, Due and Blair do it don't make you > > want > > > to > > > > > > punch > > > > > > > them out.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@ yahoogroups. com, "ravenadal" > > > <ravenadal@> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am somewhat amused by Steven Barnes' position. On one > > > hand he > > > > > > > > denounces Will Smith, Denzel Washington and Sam L. > > Jackson > > > > > > for "taking > > > > > > > > the money and running" while on the other hand he and his > > > > > lovely > > > > > > wife, > > > > > > > > Tananarive Due, make a naked money grab by collaborating > > > with > > > > > > Blair > > > > > > > > Underwood on the blatantly commercial and barely literate > > > > > Tennyson > > > > > > > > Hardwick novels "Casanegra" and "In the Night of the > > Heat." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~(no)rave! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@ yahoogroups. com, "Chris Hayden" > > > > > > <belsidus2000@ > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://darkush. blogspot. com/2008/ 07/hancock- 2008.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
