I hate waiting 17 years for a sequel

Back in 1990 I picked up a good short story collection called Barrow by John Deakins. While it was the work of a single author, in style it was similar to the "Shared Universe Anthologies" of the time. The stories were set in and around the city of Barrow with interweaving of characters.

Unfortunatly the book came out just as the trend of short story collections was ending (Santuary, Liavek, & Merovingen Nights all wraped up in 1990 or 1991) and the trend of Epic Novels was begining (Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World, The Wheel of Time, Book 1 came out 1990)

So even though the end of Barrow was written pointing to a sequel, there wasn't any. Today I discovered that a publisher has reprinted Barrow, and that #2 & #3 came out in 2007, and #4 came out at the end of 2008.

Horay!