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Online StoreNominations for the 2008 Hugo Awards will be closing at midnight on the 1st March (2008). If you are eligible to vote for then time is running out but you can vote online by following this link - http://www.denvention3.org/hugos/index.php
In an interesting post on his blog Joe Abercrombie explains in details the five different editions that are available for his book Before They Are Hanged. The editions described include trade paperback, mass-market paperback and hardcover.
http://www.joeabercrombie.com/2008/02/big-fish-little-fish.html
Terry Brooks was interviewed by Wired News Radio and he spoke at length about the fantasy genre and how he believes that it should be taken more seriously. He added that JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings should be recognized as a literary classic.
Terry Brooks is a long time friend of George Lucas and was responsible for him writing the very first Star Wars novel.
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“There are some wonderful new characters and equally some wonderful old ones that each play their part in this multifaceted tale of death.”
Lirael is the sequel to Garth Nix’s Sabriel and improves upon it’s predecessor with a rating of 8.5 out of 10 that currently places the fantasy novel at #37 in the list of the top 100 fantasy books of all time.
Read the full review of Lirael by following the link below
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay was listed aongst the best books of 2007 according to Canada’s national newspaper, Globe and Mail. Globe and Mail say of Guy Gavriel Kay and Ysabel - “There are many writers who have shown us the gods walking among us, the age-old stories alive in the modern world. Rare are those able to demonstrate that those gods, those stories, live within us and are as essential to our existence as oxygen. Guy Gavriel Kay is one of those rare few, and Ysabel is a splendid addition to his body of work.”
As the review summary states, The Mad Ship is a ”spell-binding story full of wonderful characters and intrigue”. This is Robin Hobb, once again, at her very best. She takes the excellent Ship of Magic and improves upon it and this is not something that is easily done.
With a rating of 8.9 out of 10 this places The Mad Ship at #15 in our list of the best one hundred fantasy books of all time.
The full review can be read by following this link - The Mad Ship book review
The Tolkien Trust, representing the estate of the late JRR Tolkien, is preparing to sue New Line Cinema, the makers of the three films based on the author’s Lord of The Rings trilogy.
The Tolkien Trust claims that New Line Cinema agreed to pay 7% of the films’ gross receipts to the Trust and have threatened to block any proposed prequels to the films.
To read the full story please click on the following link which will take you to the Telegraph website.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/12/wring112.xml
From the union of Gaia and Uranus came the 12 Titans, the prior gods. First born was Cronus but the three sons that followed were malformed monsters, each with but a single round eye in the middle of their foreheads, the Cyclopes. The next children produced by Uranus and Gaia were uglier still with fifty heads and a hundred arms, Hecatoncheires.
Uranus was so appalled by the sons born of this union that, one by one, he took them and hid them from the light of day.
I have recently re-read Duncton Wood by William Horwood and felt that it deserved a better review than it initially had. The new review can be found by following the link below. It really is a enchanting and spellbinding novel and if you liked Watership Down then you will love it. The rating has recently increased from 8.7 to 8.9 and this currently places Duncton Wood as the 12th best fantasy book of all time.