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By masterofmystery In a new interview to promote his UK programme Gavin and Stacey, actor Steffan Rhodhi spoke about his upcoming role as Reg Cattermole in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Also noted in the article is that his sequences in the Ministry of Magic will be shot next month.

Sorry about the length but it's a good read if you've not read it before. Christians, feel free to give me your well-informed views without reading it: Where does the idea of God come from? Well, I think we have a very skewed point of view on an awful lot of things, but let's try and see where our p...

By Lauren Davis Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov: John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Neuromancer by William Gibson: The Space Merchants by by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth:

By Bibliophile(noreply@blogger.com) Author:Terry Pratchett Published: 2004 Genre: Fantasy, children's This is the sequel to The Wee Free Men and is the third Discworld book for children. Rating: Excellent book, recommended to anyone who likes fantasy, fairy tales and/or is a fan of Granny Weatherwax. 5 stars.

Syfy wants to make you laugh.The cable network will premiere its five-episode comedy series "Outer Space Astronauts" on Tuesday, Dec. 8, before the "Scare Tactics" season finale, according to The Hollywood Reporter."Astronauts," which combines live action and animation, centers on t...

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...

UPDATE: Andrew, Eric and myself discuss all the Wizarding World developments on Episode 180 of MuggleCast. We recommend subscribing to the show through iTunes. If you're already subscribed, just simply update your feed. Other options include listening to the show in your browser live on...

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 ...

 TX He said he won't be directing any sort of “bridge film” between the happenings in the Hobbit and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Instead, the plan is to chop the book in half for the two scheduled movies in December 2011 and December 2012. ...

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Wimmer to write 'Total Recall' remake  CA Total Recall" was resurrected for remake earlier this year by the studio and producer Neal Moritz and his Original Films banner. Pic will be a contemporized adaptation of the science fiction saga based on the Philip K. Dick story "We Can Remember It ...

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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 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 ...

Series: Vorkosigan Saga Genre: Romance Notes/Warnings: Done for 'red and white' for older_not_dead. Beta-read by beatrice_otter. Aral/Coredlia Disclaimer: The Vorkosigan Saga and characters within belong to Lois McMaster Bujold.

Great Britain's golden year of sporting triumph has been celebrated in the New Year Honours List. Olympic cycling champion Chris Hoy (pictured), racing driver Lewis Hamilton and 14-year-old Paralympian Eleanor Simmonds are among the superstars receiving awards. Honours also go to co...

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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 Fyrefly Genre: Short Stories; Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Part 9: The Heart in Conflict – Read by George R. R. Martin – Talks about how his work usually crosses genre lines, and how stories are just stories, whether they’re dressed up as fantasy, science fiction, horror, westerns, etc.

 CA - Ender in Exile," by Orson Scott Card. The missing years of military genius Andrew Wiggin - Ender - are told in this sequel set between Ender's Game and ...

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 AZ - an 82-inch flying saucer from Forbidden Planet or an original Lord of the Rings trilogy set, signed by Tolkien and including a fold-out map of Middle Earth.

Marvin (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy): Misery loves company, even when he says he doesn't. The paranoid android was my favorite character from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" of books, and this didn't ...

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: ...

Paranormal Mystery: An Ice Cold Grave, by Charlaine Harris (just finished it, review coming soon). Thriller/Mystery: Raven Black, by Ann Cleeves. Children’s Fantasy: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, ...

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, ...

Isaac Asimov says: "So robots: Start rock bands. Set down the Guitar Hero, learn how to play an actual guitar and start a band, because it's hard to find more bands to put a robotic rock-and-roll package together, to get out there. ...

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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 Germany - Nov 20, 2008 Some see science fiction author Neal Stephenson as a prophet. But the writer of New York Times bestselling novel "Anathem" says that even though many of his ...

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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Simon sez, "John Scalzi and editors for two leading SF pulp magazines were interviewed recently for PBS about the dying medium and how it could possibly survive in a digital age. For the past two decades the pulp magazines have been ...

By Jason Dobson Red Eagle Games' stake in the series doesn't end there, however, with studio execs Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon pulling double duty as producers on an upcoming Wheel of Time feature film. Of course, history has taught us that games based on properties, no matter how popular they are, s...

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...