Outlander author author Diana Gabaldon has revealed the title of the tenth and final book in her long-running series: A Blessing for a Warrior Going Out.
Some fans might read that and start getting afraid for Jamie Fraser, the dashing Highlander at the center of the series, along with his wife Claire. In her Facebook post announcing the title, Gabaldon made sure to quell their fears. "NO, that doesn’t mean Jamie’s going to die." she wrote. "It’s not a death blessing, it’s the Blessing of St. Michael, said for a warrior about to go and do something important and possibly dangerous. There are quite a few people in this book who qualify for that blessing, believe me…"
Gabaldon also qualified that she's still writing the book, you can't pre-order it yet, there is no release date, and that she knows how the series ends but won't tell us. That about covers things.
A Blessing for a Warrior Going Out is the latest in a long string of interesting titles in this series. They seem to have gotten longer and more experimental as they've gone on, which I'm in favor of:
- Outlander (1991)
- Dragonfly in Amber (1992)
- Voyager (1993)
- Drums of Autumn (1996)
- The Fiery Cross (2001)
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005)
- An Echo in the Bone (2009)
- Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014)
- Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (2021)
- A Blessing for a Warrior Going Out (?)
I don't know if A Blessing for a Warrior Going Out beats Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone for sheer head-scratching strangeness, but I appreciate that it tries. Anyway, Gabaldon also included a short excerpt from the final book in her Facebook post, so feel free to check that out.
On the TV side of things, Starz is preparing to air the eighth and final season of its Outlander show, although we don't have an official release date yet. However, a new prequel series called Outlander: Blood of My Blood will premiere on August 8.
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