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Visions of Paradise (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
This is the fifth time I’ve picked my favorite books of the preceding decade, and I cannot help but wonder how many more chances I will have to do so in the future? Twice more? Three times perhaps? Scary thoughts. Before I begin, here is a brief review of my selections from past decades: The 1960s: Best Novel : Lord of Light / Roger Zelazny Best Short Fiction : The Star Pit / Samuel R. Delany...
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Technically Overboard (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/game-of-thrones.php Well, we don't have the next book - but the first book or first part os the first book is finished - Filming on the pilot for Game of Thrones, adapted from the fantasy novel by George R.R. Martin, has wrapped, according to Visual Effects producer Julia Frey. The three weeks of shooting took place in three different countries and involved a cast of two...
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The Wertzone (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Filming of HBO's Game of Thrones concluded on Thursday with a big wrap party. Not that the hard work is over, with weeks of work still ahead involving editing, post-production and the addition of special effects and music, and that's before HBO executives see the final result and can begin pondering the decision on whether to give a full-season order to the producers. Courtesy of a Russian site which...
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Workbench (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
For the last two years I've voted in the Hugo Awards , yearly literary honors for science fiction and fantasy (but mostly science fiction). I skipped the best novel category because I hadn't read most of the works, which is no fun at all since that's the biggest award. So when the 2010 Hugos are decided next spring, I'd like to have completed enough of the nominated novels to make an informed vote....
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Grasping For The Wind (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Jim C. Hines is collecting the titles and authors of works of speculative humor published in 2009 at his website. I see two purposes for this list. The first is for award nominations. Humor tends not to be taken seriously**, and rarely makes the award ballots. It’s a shame, because humor can be [...] Related posts: TOC: Warriors edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois Book Review: And Another...
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The Dubious Monk (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I quite enjoy George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. I don’t read a tonne of fantasy naymore, but this stuff is good. Brutal, political, with characters you quite enjoy every time you see them, especially since you know they could die at basically any moment. A Feast For Crows is interesting in [...]
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The Danny Trail Killings (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
As much of a nerd as I am I somehow managed to never get caught in the iron claw of Fantasy Fiction. I played Dungeons & Dragons, Magic Cards, nagged my parents about going to the Renaissance Fairs and Medieval Times but when it came down to books full of knights, wizards and dragons I couldn't do it. Those sort of things were things better kept in my head where my imagination can play. I remember...
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Gadget Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Game of Thrones is a planned medieval fantasy television series based on author George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. David Benioff and Dan Weiss are writing and executive producing the television adaptation. A pilot is currently being produced for HBO. Variety reported on January 17, 2007 that the rights for A [...] Gadget Blog | Cordless Phones | PSP Go | PS3 Slim Console | PS4...
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Pyr-o-mania (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
"...quite engrossing... this heroic fantasy should please fans of, say, George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire novels." Booklist "Shepherd has created a court fantasy similar to George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire ....a good epic fantasy that focuses more on the epic than the fantasy. Sasha is excellent reading for fans of character driven stories. I recommend...
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Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
1. Scalzi is really a clockwork automaton who has been programmed to slowly spread angst wherever he goes. 2. As we all know Wheaton is the Bizarro Scalzi. If Scalzi ever shook hands with Wil Wheaton the world would end. It would be like matter and antimatter smashing together. 3. Scalzi has written 5 of the biggest blockbuster movies of the last decade. He chooses to do it under a pen name to avoid...
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FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
At a signing at Eason’s in Belfast city yesterday fans of A Song of Ice and Fire were able to meet its American author, George RR Martin, on whose novels the series is based. Game Of Thrones, the HBO adaptation, is being filmed at locations across Northern Ireland including the Paint Hall in the Titanic [...]
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Pyr-o-mania (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
I've written a post on my blog about the world building that went into the land of Lenayin, from my novel 'Sasha'. Rather than posting the whole thing here, I've put in a link, and an excerpt. 'I can’t think of many fantasy novels where the people live beneath the rule of a king, but are ambivalent toward him and his authority. Because fantasy novels tend to be in love with the power of kings,...
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Nancy's Blog (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Yesterday was the first day of MileHiCon in Denver. After registering, I had drinks in the bar with Cynthia Felice, Jack Skillingstead, Connie and Courtney Willis. The big news here is that Connie has -- at long last -- turned in the final revisions to the WWII novel she has been working on for eight years. The book will be published in two volumes, BLACKOUT and ALL CLEAR, the first to be released...
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Risky Regencies (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
So, what hooks you? Is it a dynamic family? A writing style? A multi-book mystery? What makes you stick with an author for the duration of a series? I'm thinking about it for a couple of reasons; first is that I gave my friend Kwana my copy of Tessa Dare 's Goddess Of The Hunt , she read it, and twittered that she is hooked, and is going to have to get the second and third books of the series. Me,...
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