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[[File:InheritanceHB1.jpg|thumb|500px|The back and front covers for of the UK hardcover edition of "The Inheritance " by [[Jackie Morris]].]][[Image:9780061561641.jpg|thumb|The US trade paperback cover of "The Inheritance and Other Stories"]][[Image:Anz paperback inheritance.jpg|thumb|The Australia/New Zealand trade paperback cover of "The Inheritance"]]
'''The Inheritance''' is an upcoming Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm anthology. It contains both previously published and completely new stories, and stories written under both of the author's pen names, [[Robin Hobb]] and [[Megan Lindholm]]. The US title for the book is '''The Inheritance And Other Stories'''.
==Table of Contents==
===Megan Lindholm stories===
* [[Finis]] (previously unpublished)
* [[Drum Machine]] (previously unpublished)
===Robin Hobb stories===
===Notes about the contents=Blurbs and reviews==
* The HarperCollins online blurb for the book says "''Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection with vampires and alien musicians, tramps and feral cats.''"
* [[Jackie Morris]] who has done the UK cover art and has read some or all of the manuscript mentioned it has "''wonderful Rainwilds stories in and quite a few cats''".
* Another HarperColllins blurb states "''Travel from the Six Duchies, to Bingtown and on to undiscovered worlds in this anthology of novellas and stories woven from the imagination of internationally best-selling fantasy author, Robin Hobb.''"
* The HarperCollins page for the book contains the following description about one the new [[Realm of the new storiesElderlings]] story [[Cat's Meat]]: ''"Pell is lazy, good for nothing, a bully. Her best friend Hilia knew it and so did her tom cat, Marmalade. But love is blind: Rosemary had Pell’s baby, renovated the cottage his grandfather left in his will, turned its land to good use; and then he left her for another woman. Now he’s back, and something must be done…"''
==Editions==
* UK hardcover edition by HarperVoyager 31st of March 2011 with ISBN 9780007273775 (confirmed by Voyager) Cover art by Jackie Morris.* UK Australia/New Zealand trade paperback edition by HarperVoyager 31st of March 2011 with ISBN 9780007273799 (Not confirmed but listed at many retailer sites. Weird because paperbacks are usually published a year after the hardcoverby Voyager) Cover art by Jackie Morris.)* US trade paperback edition by Eos HarperVoyager 3rd of May 2011 with ISBN 9780061561641 (number of pages 400) The title of this US edition is slightly different: ''The Inheritance: And Other Stories''* A possible An unabridged audio book edition - the Book Depository lists "downloadable audiofiles" for the read by [[Saskia Butler]] from HarperCollins Publishers 31st of March 2011. Some online bookshops list this title already with the following detailsISBNs: ISBN 9780007421350, ISBN 9780007421336 and ISBN 9780007421343 - all to be published the 31st of March 2011.
The book is already available for preorders at
* amazon.co.uk http://amzn.to/adU3MG (UK hardback)
* the Book Depository http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780007273775/?a_aid=theplentynet (UK hardback) and http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780007273799/The-Inheritance (ANZ trade paperback)
* amazon.com http://amzn.to/clzVxK (US trade paperback)
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