Urkia Project

by Joe Marcus

The Urkia Quadrilogy (er’KĪ) has been postponed for a year now. Indeed we ask ourselves if we will ever see this story. The answer to that question is: yes. Yes we will see this series of four books. It just has taken RB a while to get his thoughts together. As soon as the Empire Project concludes (at the latest June of 2008) RB will start working again on the Urkia Quadrilogy.

He said that he has not forgotten the fans who have waited since the announcement last year that he would be writing it to see it. He just found something that was a little closer to his heart. RB is prized by his fans (those we talked to anyway) for his ability to build a world. He does not let a single detail pass him by. He makes the peoples the languages and the history in such a way that you feel as if you could add this as a second address on a legal form. He says that he is through chapter 3 and that he has the entire story outlined. Though this does not make it any easier to wait for the books he is keeping our hopes high as he always does.

He placed emphasis on the fact that he was not abandoning this project that it needed time to grow and stew and cook until it was ready to come out. RB thinks that it will soon be ready to come out and that he will be able to write it. Though he is not sure if it will be put up for printing it may just come out as a PDF on the RB’s Universe site, though he may put that up to a vote for us to decide.

The main gist of what he says he is trying to relate to us is that we need not worry about if the project is going to continue because he would never let something so dear to him as Urkia drop.