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By masterofmystery At Friday's press conference for New Moon, actor Jamie Campbell Bower compared the Twilight series to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in which he plays a young Gellert Grindelwald. Jamie also noted that he had filmed for a week earlier this year and still has further scenes to shoot b...

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By Jackie Yesterday, ABCNews posted an interview with Charlaine Harris and she talks about two vampires that generally top a lot of lists.  Since the topic was one that has come up in a lot of forums that I belong to lately, I figured people would want to see the part where she talks about Bill and Eric.

By Jason But he wasn’t pleased for himself. He was happy for Harriet, who called a few minutes later, just before our delicious Thai appetizers arrived. He was happy for the legion of fans that have followed The Wheel of Time for years (in my case, 18 years). And he was happy for the legacy of Robert Jorda...

By John Scalzi Directors like Spike Jonze and Quentin Tarantino may have come close to directing scifi, but they rank among people like Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann who should be working in the genre. Last week I was noting the uphill climb scifi will have in winning the "Best Picture" Academy Award,...

By Jason The Gathering Storm, the twelfth book in the Wheel of Time series, debuted at the number one spot on the prestigious New York Times bestseller list. This is the fifth WoT novel to hold the spot, and the first time that author Brandon Sanderson has been there. Gathering Storm’s appearance on t...

By frmarkdwhite Down on the Mall, they keep putting up sculptures that make you think of The Lord of the Rings. Now they have accidentally installed a sculpture of the White Tree of Gondor. But before we get carried away, we have to pause. To whom did the Lord make His sweet promises?

By grammaboodawg November 3, 2009; ] The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on November 3: Thorin learns news of Smaug’s death from the ravens (1341) Bard oversees the needs of the survivors (1341) Battle of Bywater, and Passing of Saruman. End of the War of the Ring (1419) November 3, 2941 (S.R. 1...

By mrmcblonde All in all it was good to start with but I got bored with it.  The graphics are good but in my opinion not really very “Lord of the ringsy”.  Having read the first book and been read all three as a child plus the hobbit I felt it didn’t have the right “feel” to it.  I know this might not be a glowing revie...

After the fight in the Burning Plains, there were greater problems waiting for Eragon to deal with. Every decision he made would lead him to a road totally different from others. But how was he able to decide his own fate, and more, the destiny of all he loved? With mist covering his path ahead,...

By Patrick Ness Iain Banks has made a prolific career out of dividing himself in two, publishing novels such as his classic debut The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road as "Iain Banks" and adding a middle initial as "Iain M Banks" for a separate and very successful strand of hard science fiction. What, then, to m...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is still months away from DVD and the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows won't be here until November ... Harry Potter and the Son of Poseidon- Percy Jackson and the ...SnitchSeeker.com

By Shannon Related articles by Zemanta Beyond the Aryth Ocean: Part 1: A review of selected maps in fantasy novels (tor.com)A new island of stability: Ursula Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore (tor.com) Posted in Books, Reviews Tagged: Bildungsroman, Earthsea, Fantasy, Series, Ursula K Le Guin...

By WSB It’s one of the few things we have now covered four consecutive years since starting WSB in late 2005 - West Seattle-headquartered mega-best-selling fantasy-fiction author Terry Brooks made his annual late-summer appearance today at Westwood Village’s Barnes and Noble. His newest b...

By zabez Mercedes Lackey – Bardic Voices, The Robin and the Kestrel, The Eagle and the Nightingales, A Cast of Corbies, Four and Twenty Blackbirds (own, reread) — I didn’t really realize how much of these were descriptions and internal monologues instead of action (especially Four and Twenty Bl...

Trent Zelazny is the author of the novel Destination Unknown, to be released by Brick Tower Press in December of 2009. He is also the author of the collection of thriller/horror short stories entitled The Day the Leash Gave Way and Other Stories to be released by Wilder Publications in late...

Piers Anthony: "Incarnations of Immortality" series, "Xanth" series For more mature readers (15 and up), Piers Anthony takes mythology to a whole new level in the "Incarnations of Immortality" series. The series answers such immortal questions (pardon ...

By Borys Kit Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins will star in "John Carter of Mars," the adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series that Andrew Stanton is directing for Disney. The story centers on a civil war who veteran finds himself mysteriously ...

The Sookie Stackhouse books are one of the most popular of the current flood of vampire-themed fiction, perhaps second only to the Twilight series. True Blood, developed by Alan Ball (best known for his previous HBO series Six Feet Under), ...

The news on “The Hobbit” isn't particularly surprising to anyone who's been paying attention, but it ought to at least set “Lord of the Rings” fans' minds at ease. Del Toro revealed that Ian McKellan, Andy Serkis and Hugo Weaving are all confirmed to ...

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A trio of actors are about to venture back to Middle Earth for a new pair of films. theonering.net got a hold of a BBC radio interview with director Guillermo del Toro who confirmed that Ian mckellen, Andy Serkis and Hugo Weaving will appear in The ...

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 Malaysia Sci Fi Wire reports that Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) has been hired by Columbia Pictures to write a new version of of the 1990 sci-fi action movie Total Recall which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. Total Recall, based on the Philip K. Dick story "We Can ...

I've been reading 5 different authors. Kim Harrison, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sara Douglass, and P.C. and... Cast. They are all fantasy writers. Harrison, Hamilton, and the Cast write about vampires, ... two cause nothing ever really caught my attention. Then I started reading Laurell K. Hamilton when I...

Neil Gaiman creates new worlds for a living. The London born, Minneapolis-based author opens doors that no one else can see, and leads his readers through to worlds that have existed there for ages, waiting to be discovered. ...

 UK The answer is an ambitious attempt to create a logical universe in which all those fictional heroes could have lived and interacted by the late author Philip José Farmer which has proved to be Nerdvana for that particular sort of reader who simply ...

WA today  CA A hotel in the Waitomo region invokes the spirit of 'The Lord of the Rings' author, JRR Tolkien. By Kelsey Ramos Who knows how JRR Tolkien would have designed a motel, but the Hobbit Motel in New Zealand seems to have real fantasy appeal. ... Hobbit: One tale in two parts Stuff.co.nz

 UK Novelist Philip Pullman made a surprise acting debut in the play based on his own work, His Dark Materials. Pullman had "enormous fun" in the role of an academic as the play opened in his home town of Oxford. The author said "When they asked me to take ...

By ibdragon(noreply@blogger.com) Maybe I have overworked this author. I just didn’t find this book interesting even knowing some of the characters. The plot didn’t just plod, it made watching ice melt interesting. If his name wasn’t on the book, I wouldn’t believe the same guy wrote the Vlad Taltos series. This is a follow up to...

By kmont The last remnants of an ancient advanced race, the Clan of the Seven Stars, are returning at long last to their lost homeworld, Midkemia—not as friends, but as would-be conquerors. Led by the conjurer Laromendis, they are fleeing the relentless demon hordes that are sweeping through the...

 CA Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won the 2001 Hugo award for best novel…beating out George RR Martin’s A Storm of Swords no less. David Eddings didn’t publish his first novel until he was 51 years old but what a splash it made! ...

 CA He's also no stranger to literary time-travel, having collaborated with sci-fi writers David Brin and Gregory Benford on a prequel to Issac Asimov's Foundation series. So what do hardcore Halo fans think of the news that Brin is working on an ...

 NC By November he published the 212-page collection with selections by writers Gardner Dozois, Joe Haldeman, Tony Ruggiero, Brian W. Aldiss, Larry Niven and other established science-fiction, fantasy and horror authors. "I got quite a few big names for ...

  Canada The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay. Skillfully blending the mythology of the British Isles and Scandinavia, Kay creates an engrossing historical fantasy set during the reign of Alfred the Great. The lives of Alun ab Owyn, a Welsh prince, ...

 United Kingdom The novelist made the comments after he was knighted by the Queen for his Discworld series of comic fantasy books which have sold in their millions. Sir Terry, 60, also described the "furore" that greeted the announcement that he was suffering from ...

By elmundotech MALIBU, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Eagle Games today announced they have signed a strategic distribution agreement with Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) for games based on Robert Jordan’s beloved fantasy series, The Wheel of Time.

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 United States - LONDON (Reuters) - Rock singer Robert Plant, fantasy author Terry Pratchett and Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton were all honored by Britain's ...

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By rss@youtube.com (retrogamerclay) Part 5 of our wonderful tour of the world of Xanth! Will we ever make it through the Void? And what about the Realm of Earth? Author: retrogamerclay Keywords: xanth "companions of xanth" "pc game review" review retro "the retro gamer" Added: December 30, 2008

Sad news: pivotal science fiction figure Forrest J Ackerman has passed away. Ackerman was a true renaissance man; he founded the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, discovered Ray Bradbury, and is...

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By Fitz A while back, Orson Scott Card was kind enough to leave a comment on one of my posts about his story "Stonefather" (released recently in novella form). We had a short e-mail conversation after that and he graciously agreed to let me interview him.Orson Scott Card is the author of such importa...

By Jennifer Jackson Happy Official Release Day to Jim Butcher for Princeps' Fury (Codex Alera, Book 5) The rousing fifth installment of Butcher’s military fantasy cycle (after 2007’s CAPTAIN’S FURY) finds the land of Alera recovering from Lord Kalarus’s ...

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Arm yourselves when the frog god smiles." Frank Herbert The Dosadi Experiment. Monday, November 24, 2008. The Origin of Species Online Version. How cool is this? HT: Greg Laden. at 2:28 PM. Labels: Books, science. 0 comments: ...

 - Nov 24, 2008 In some ways, it's almost like something out of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" made real: we can now generate answers to questions that ...

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Every since William Gibson described a computer that folded out like a butterfly in Count Zero I’ve wanted something like this. A paper thin polycarbon screen unfurled silently from the top of the unit and immediately grew rigid. ...

By Crimson Starfire Betrayal at Krondor: RPG by Sierra based on the world of Midkemia created by Raymond E Feist, one of the greatest fantasy writers ever in my book. One of the best RPG's I've ever played, second only to the Baldur's Gate series, ...

Coming out early next month is the latest book from J. K. Rowling. The concept is that The Tales of Beedle The Bard is reproduction of a collection of Wizard fairy tales that was part of the collection of books that Professor Dumbledore ...

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By Tan In any case the grand scale of the continuing story is bigger than ever. There is a lot more character depth in this one and the story is filled with an urgent sense of despair and desperation. I do find it somewhat ironic that between the two “forces” if you will, only one uses magic extensively...

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By Cordilow Also, there's Legacy of the Darksword, afterward, and Darksword Adventures, but I'm not reviewing them here (Darksword Adventures is more for a role-playing game, and Legacy of the Darksword is about the not-so-distant future of the world in the Darksword Trilogy, among other things...

By Cordilow Also, there's Legacy of the Darksword, afterward, and Darksword Adventures, but I'm not reviewing them here (Darksword Adventures is more for a role-playing game, and Legacy of the Darksword is about the not-so-distant future of the world in the Darksword Trilogy, among other things...

By Pat Ferrara The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Fatal Revenant, Stephen R. Donaldson (Ace). The instant New York Times bestseller, and the return of the Thomas Covenant series— "a landmark fantasy saga."(Entertainment Weekly) In the most ...

Talented author spoke to me at Icon convention about his career and works. We cover his start and his writing of novel adaptation novels for Alien, Star Wars A New Hope plus the Star Wars sequel, Splinter Of The Mind's Eye. We also cover his treatment for Star Trek: Motion Picture. Some great in...