The David Gemmell Legend Award will be presented for the very first time in 2009 for the best Fantasy novel of 2008. The award will be given to a work written in the ’spirit’ of the late, great David Gemmell, a true Master of Heroic Fantasy. Voting opens at midnight on 26th December – but you have until 31st March 2009 toregister your vote. Vote here! The Margarets Sheri S Tepper Red Wolf Conspiracy Robert V.S. Reddick The Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie The Burning ... read more
Posted: January 1st, 2009 by Lee | No Comments Filed under Andrzej Sapkowski, David Gemmell, James Barclay, Joe Abercrombie, RA Salvatore, Raymond E Feist, Steven Erikson
Atari has announced that it will release The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf in the autumn of 2009. Coming to both 360 and PS3, the game will be developed by CD Projekt RED and will be based on the PC role-playing game, The Witcher. The game will be an RPG and promises to bring an unrivaled next generation RPG experience with a new combat system and a new engine which promises to deliver unrivaled visuals. Based on the Polish author’s, Andrzej Sapkowski, universe players will take the role ... read more
Posted: December 6th, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under Andrzej Sapkowski
For over four years, Andrzej Sapkowski has been one of those authors that has been dangled in front of me, mentioned in passing by Polish readers here and elsewhere, along with an occasional mention on a couple of non-English-language sites that I frequent on occasion. Maciek (Vanin) in particular has been one who has been singing his praises to me, even going so far as to post a link to a fan-translated story (one that was done with Sapkowski’s blessing, I later learned). What I read ... read more
Posted: November 12th, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under Andrzej Sapkowski
The Locus Magazine covers the Science Fiction & Fantasy genres and the October 2008 issue is now available. This issue will feature: Interviews with Ursula Le Guin and Tobias S. Buckell Reports from Denvention 3, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention A new review column by Gardner Dozois, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, and others, of two dozen two books by Paul McAuley, Nick Harkaway, Jo Walton, Judith Moffett, Neal Asher, Ann & Jeff ... read more
Posted: October 25th, 2008 by Lee | No Comments Filed under Andrzej Sapkowski, George RR Martin, Ursula Le Guin
