Thanks to Calibandar, who sometimes pops by this blog, for making me aware that Gollancz had put up the cover art for “Blood of Elves” by Andrzej Sapkowski. This is the second book in the series about “Geralt the Witcher”, and it’s due out in September. It’s been one of my most anticipated reads ever [...]
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The Hugo Award Nominees
The Hugo Awards are alongside the World Fantasy Award, Nebula and a couple of others, the most prestigious awards for a genre work. Now, I don’t actually give much of a damn who wins - I think I’d have to be involved in ‘em for that to happen - but I like to see my [...]
Doomsday Weather Forecast
Easter is, for obvious reasons, an especially nice time of year to have a rockin’ Ragnarok, so I thought it prudent to prowl teh intarwebs for some signs of the oncoming End. This is what I came up with:
…Terry Goodkind’s epic fantasy series, ‘Wizard’s First Rule’ gets the greenlight for a 22 episodes long season. [...]
The ‘Toll the Hounds’ Prologue
Is now up on malazanempire.
I never get much out of these prologues, but a mere glimmer of Steven Erikson’s world is better than no glimmer at all. And it provides endless amounts of fodder for discussion.
The best thing about this prologue comes at the very end:
“Join us, friend,” said Kruppe. “Sit here by this fire: [...]
(Take) COVER (!) (It’s the) ART (!)
I love reading books. I love it above nearly any other form of past time activity. I try to read as often and as much as I can, yet I never seem to get do enough. There’s always another book to read, another story to hear. Yet there are some books that you simply can’t [...]
My Blog Has Expressed Its Dismay…
… at not being congratulated on it’s one-year anniversary.
Thus we must all suffer the consequences. The picture above was just one of the scenarios my blog has described to me in a threating e-mail that contained a lot of sinister looking pictures and all the words were copy/pasted from different sites on the Interweb. The [...]
A Great Day at School and Other Oxymorons
Being a student at a relatively small, even by Norwegian standards, high school, you normally don’t get too much excitement. You go to school every day, at the same time and come home, every day, more or less mentally exhausted from doing things that you, more or less, had no interest in doing in the [...]
Oooh… Interesting!
Steve Brust, acclaimed sci-fi author, has written a Firefly novel. And that’s not all; it’s published under a Creative Commons license, thus making it legal and free to download and enjoy for every merry Browncoat in the ‘verse.
Shiny!
Dreamsongs by George R. R. Martin, Part 1/4
This book was re-released by Gollancz last year in both hardcover and tradeback editions, and I thought I should pick it up, despite the fact that it’s a monster of a short-story collection. All in all it weighs in at 1185 pages, which would explain why Martin’s American published decided to chop it up into [...]
Sundry Items, 19/1-08
* I just discovered that Warren Ellis (the author of the appallingly brilliant novel, “Crooked Little Vein”) will be publishing a novel in the beginning of August. It’s called “Listener” and it’s supposedly a 304 pages long post-apocalyptic SF novel. Keyword: Warren Ellis is teh hawsome, and so should “Listener” be.
* The [...]
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