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Living with George
I wanted to share with you a curious state of affairs, almost a malady if you will, that has plagued me for the last six months. Back in 2011 when Game of Thrones was coming out on telly, I immediately got excited and resolved to read the first book in the A Song of Fire [...]
Lavie Tidhar’s Osama wins World Fantasy Award
Lavie Tidhar’s Osama has beaten competition from Stephen King and George RR Martin to scoop the World Fantasy Award for best novel. Tidhar accepted the prestigious award at the World Fantasy Convention in Toronto yesterday. The judges of the award acknowledged that Israeli-born Tidhar has produced a work of extraordinary power and imagination, which has [...]
Fantasy news round-up: September 10, 2012
A round up of fantasy and bookish news from around the world… Neil Gaiman to write another Doctor Who episode While accepting his Hugo Award for The Doctor’s Wife this weekend Neil Gaiman informally announced that he was writing another episode of Doctor Who. The Doctor’s Wife gave the TARDIS a chance to chat with [...]
Excerpt from The Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin
We’ve only just gotten our hands on ‘A Dance with Dragons’ by George R. R. Martin, the long awaited next chapter in his epic Song of Ice and Fire series, and he’s already throwing us an excerpt from the next book, ‘The Winds of Winter’. Due to some pretty clear copyright boilerplate, I’m not going [...]
Fantasy news round-up, October 26, 2011
George RR Martin reveals his favourite ‘Game of Thrones’ actors New York Magazine’s Vulture asked Game of Thrones author George RR Martin to mention who were his favourite actors in the HBO series. “Certainly Peter Dinklage did an amazing job with Tyrion, who is one of my favorite characters in the books. We always wanted [...]
Fantasy news round-up: September 14, 2011
Game of Thrones set damaged Monday’s extreme weather conditions has damaged the Games of Thrones film set in Northern Ireland. One person was injured after a marquee collapsed under the strong winds. The epic fantasy adventure, is a dramatisation of the second book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels by [...]
Putting the Epic into Epic Fantasy SDCC Panel Review and Video
The long tail of news from San Diego Comic Con is always a lengthy process, and it’ll continue for awhile as people find their videos, upload them, etc. On Thursday of the con, the Putting the ‘Epic’ into Epic Fantasy panel had maybe a thousand people packed into Ballroom 6A, where authors George R. R. [...]
SDCC Game of Thrones panel
Unsurprisingly, San Diego Comic Con had a Game of Thrones panel, featuring the cast from the HBO series as well as the author himself, George R. R. Martin. It’s below in its entirety. I haven’t had a chance to watch through it yet, so I’m not sure of the quality, but I can’t imagine that [...]
Fantasy news round-up, June 19, 2011
Apple iBooks trademark under fire from independent book publisher A small book publisher from New York is suing Apple over its use of the term “iBooks” for its e-book store and e-reader app for iOS. John T. Colby, Jr., owner of several small independent publishing imprints, filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of [...]
A Game of Thrones in US Top 20 fifteen years after publication
The bestselling books in the US this week show that HBO’s adaptation of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has led to heightened interest in the books themselves. A Game of Thrones, first published in 1996 and the recipient of the Locus Fantasy Award, has always been popular but to re-enter [...]
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