he Shadow of Things to Come is the working title of a forthcoming novel, written by Tad Williams, and set in the Osten Ard universe (previous novels in the same universe include the now-classic "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" series composed of The Dragonbone Chair, Stone of Farewell, and To Green Angel Tower, as well as the forthcoming novels The Heart of What Was Lost and The Witchwood Crown, both published in 2017).
In August 2016, several Treacherous Paths contributors from across the globe met with Tad Williams at his strange and wonderful home near Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the bestselling author of more than twenty science fiction and fantasy novels revealed some tantalizing new details regarding what will likely be his 23rd full-length novel, The Shadow of Things to Come.
Shadow will tell of the end of the Sithi empire in Osten Ard, as the Peaceful Ones are routed from the great city of Asu'a and the Erl King's lands by the cold iron of the mortal Rimmersmen.
Williams' announcement regarding the details of The Shadow of Things to Come came just five months before the release of The Heart of What Was Lost, the first full-length Osten Ard novel since the publication of To Green Angel Tower in Spring 1993.