4th of The Series

7/4/2025

Happy 4th of July and 4th book in The Last Horizon series! We have a lot to celebrate this week at the Wight House, but mostly the release of our new book!

The Pilot is the 26th novel I've released, which means the book I'm writing now (What is it? It's a mystery...) will be my 27th. And when I realized that, I recalled a memory I hadn't thought of in probably ten years.

When I first started writing novels, we would sometimes talk about a future when I'd written a bunch of books. We picked a random, super-high number out of thin air to mean "an arbitrarily high but insane number," and the number we used was 27.

"Oh, sure, maybe when you've written twenty-seven books we can talk about it."
"Yeah, I feel that way now, but I might feel differently when I've written twenty-seven books."
"I've written three novels, not twenty-seven."

...and so on. To us at the time, 27 = an impossibly high far-off dream.

At some point along the way, we stopped saying that, because when you get to novels 13, 14, 15, etc. then 27 starts to feel achievable. I honestly forgot about this until I realized that I had started work on the infamous #27.

Thanks for sticking with me for 26 books, everybody! And thanks to the thousands of you who have already checked out The Pilot!

-Will

23 Comments

Chris Yingling

7/4/2025 10:28:25 am

Thank you for this book as well as the other 25. I have read every book you have written so far, except the pilot, and will read every book you write. I haven’t read the pilot yet as I want to save it for vacation, which starts Sunday. It is really testing my willpower not to start it, but as soon as I do I’ll be like a crack addict and won’t be able to put it down. My wife is helping me not tear into it by threatening me regularly as I asked her to do. She is doing exceedingly well at it, almost too well. Frankly she terrifies me and I shouldn’t have set her on this task.

Jeremiah

7/4/2025 10:41:28 am

That is not a small number... That is a big number! And to think I've read all of those and many more

The OPG

7/4/2025 11:04:04 am

It's funny that the 26th is the best so far, so I'll absolutely drink to #27. Cheers!

Ozriel

7/4/2025 11:48:39 am

Congratulations on 27 books! I'm still waiting on my prequel...

April

7/4/2025 11:53:32 am

Starts counting on fingers.
It's a good thing I'm wearing sandals.
Pulls an Omega and pops out a couple of extra hands.

Congrats!!!

Is it TG Chronicles we are not counting? Because the stories were published in separate collections first?

Sam

7/5/2025 06:35:43 am

Only counting the novel releases! Can’t let him get off easy.

Kurt Ambrose link

7/4/2025 03:41:11 pm

Will, having read The Pilot, can I just say that I hate you and wish the next book was already out?

Kurt Ambrose

7/4/2025 03:46:33 pm

Also, did I count wrong?
3 Travelers Gate
6 Elder Empire
13 Cradle
4 The Last Horizon
1 Travelers gate short story collection
1 Cradle story collection(Threshold)
This is already 28.

7/4/2025 04:32:55 pm

That was my comment above. Although you are counting Threshold twice. (Once in 13 Cradle books, then again by itself.)

I'm guessing since TG Chronicles was 3 mini collections, then the mailing list stories, all published separately, that is what is not being counted. Maybe? Or maybe it's just Will's well documented math skills at work?

David Katz

7/6/2025 06:06:45 pm

Its only counting full novel releases Threshold is less a novel and more a collection of short stories along with the travelers gate one so they are like several blog post/ booklets tied together to make a single book so I believe that's why they don't count.

Helazoid

8/21/2025 08:17:44 am

When will we find out the results of the battle between Ozriel and Urg’naut? The answer is rumored to be hidden in the darkest corners of the Consultant's archives on Gray Island; however, the Abidan archives has no mention of a Gray Island on Asylum.

YOU SPOKE MY NAME. You shouldn't have done that.

Wait, what?!? Aieyahhh!!!!!!

8/11/2025 01:03:12 pm

You did count wrong. You counted Threshold twice - Cradle only has 13 books if you include Threshold in it.

Paul

7/5/2025 10:23:48 am

Gratitude Will. Loved the Pilot.

Jack

7/5/2025 03:53:27 pm

Hey Will thanks for the books and hopefully you can keep going to the next arbitrarily large number. I recommend rying for 52, a bald mage told me it is an important number.

While I'm here, I don't know if you answer questions here, but I don't do reddit, so might as well try.

I am planning an RPG adventure based on the Fathom universe, using a superhero system, and I have questions about Aether Affinites. How good are they? Would someone with an affinity for computers be a much better hacker than someone without or is the improvement smaller?

Is an Aether Affinity a Technician Gift, except the person never became an engineer? If Sola decide to improve her weapon engineering abilities would she become an Aether Technician with a weapon skill, since she has an Affinity for weapons?
If not, can someone have both an Affinity and a Technician Gift? Would they be for the same thing, or can they be for different but related things?

How do people find out they have affinities or gifts? Is it possible for someone to have a Technician gift and not know? Like a lawyer that could have been an engine Technician but he chose to study law instead?

Vapro

7/7/2025 12:16:43 am

So is anyone else wanting a prequel series on the original Abidon and Elidari pact? Or a sequel to the House of Blades series? (Sorry if spelling is wrong, primarily going off of audiobooks...all hail Travis Baldree)

Steve

7/14/2025 09:39:30 pm

Yes and yes.

Marsi link

7/26/2025 04:18:56 pm

Yes, I want a prequel of the Abidon. Yes, I want a sequel to the house of blades. Yes, I want an sequel to the elder empire where the fiends break loose. Heck yeah I want to go back to Harness because I need more pokemon spin offs. Yes, I want to see all these characters and whatever other stories Will cooks up to all come together to battle the fiends across the Way.

Jennifer A Baird

7/9/2025 10:57:48 am

Loved the Pilot! Looking forward to more! Including #27, #28, #29... ;-)

Rezkin

7/9/2025 07:42:49 pm

Is the iteration Fathom and Fathom from The Pilot the same?

Zack

7/19/2025 01:42:21 pm

It would appear to be the case, as Fathom (the iteration) is also stated to have an extremely high population, anchoring the rest of the sector. Which makes sense if it’s a fully populated galaxy.
Fathom (the planet) is ‘probably’ humanity’s original world in that galaxy, which would also line up.
Book 4 was wild I can’t wait for the next one!!

Jesse Mercer

9/18/2025 07:07:07 pm

Mr Wight. I read the Travellers gate trilogy many years ago when I was around 13. I don’t remember exactly but I believe the end of the third book was inconclusive. I think you should write however many books it takes before you decide to write more content in the Traveller's Gate universe.

Mike

10/31/2025 03:55:58 am

I absolutely LOVED The Pilot! In my opinion, it was the best book of the series and one of your best ever, and that's saying something because I am a HUGE Cradle fan- I have listened to the whole series (Threshold included) multiple times and am now reading the hardcover books. The Pilot kept me on the edge of my seat, wondering what was going to next! Thank you for your amazing stories. Keep up the great work!! Looking forward to the next book in the series... and just maybe another Cradle related story??? **wink wink nudge nudge**

11/4/2025 11:59:08 am

So with you saying something about 13,14, and 15…. Will is this a secret message about more cradle books in the works???

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