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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 minerva66 In celebration of the release of The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson/Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, I read the 6th book of the series, Lord of Chaos. Yes, I am only halfway through the series. Since it is maybe a little silly to review all of the books in a huge series (you are either...

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...

By allucha It's time for another exclusive SnitchSeeker contest! At the end of our SnapeSeeking Event we promised more great prizes were coming soon. This time we have copies of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince official video game courtesy of EA Games.

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...

By Jackie There’s a new anthology that was recently released and you really should get your hands on it. Must Love Hellhounds includes stories from Charlaine Harris, Meljean Brook, Ilona Andrews and Nalini Singh, four of my all-time favorite authors. The Britlingens Go to Hell by Charlaine Harris...

By Fyrefly Shards of Honor is sci-fi, but it’s character-driven sci-fi. The technology is not the point of the story; you could replace all of the ray guns with swords and the spaceships with boats, and the novel would work just as well as a medieval fantasy. That’s because it’s not about the spaceships...

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 Maischeph Despite these minor flaws, Firethorn is truly a unique and edifying read, and I recommend it if you’re looking for something a little different from the rest. Though I compare it to Guy Gavriel Kay (and I was reminded of his style when I read this book), Firethorn is unlike any fantasy that I’...

DEEP THOUGHT, the supercomputer created by novelist Douglas Adams, got there first, but now the astronomer royal has caught up. Professor Sir Martin Rees is to suggest that "life, the universe and everything" may be no more than a giant computer simulation with humans reduced to bits of s...

In other Terry Pratchett related News: Going Postal Casting Announced Filming is underway on the next Discworld miniseries being produced by The Mob for airing next Easter on Sky One in the UK. And now, a special bonus missive from The Cunning Artificer himself, Mr. Bernard Pearson:

By Scott Mendelson Tune in next weekend when the Katherine Heigl/Gerard Butler romantic comedy The Ugly Truth squares off against Walt Disney's G-Force (an action film with gerbils... why didn't someone do that sooner?). In other words, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will once again sit atop the box o...

By Scott Mendelson By any normal standard, this is a wonderfully involving and entertaining tent pole popcorn entertainment. But this is still the weakest Harry Potter film of the series. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 153 minutes Rated PG

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. ...

By Annalee Newitz Written by the scientist who runs the AI Lab at MIT, this non-fiction book is both smart and complicated, offering us an intriguing view of the future of robotics. Brooks' basic supposition is that what robotics teach us is that humans are themselves robots, made up of molecular machines,...

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By Julia Author: John Scalzi Book: Old Man’s War Genre: Sci Fi Julia Rating: 10 Comments: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi is a well written Sci Fi adventure that made me look at old people from a new angle. The idea behind it is, if you are old (75 years to be exact), what would you do to be young [...]

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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...

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This is a video review of Mid-Flinx by Alan Dean Foster. i think this is the best book in this series of novels, I realy enjoyed reading it www.expotv.com

By wedgedoc Star Wars Battlefront 2 in Middle Earth with more Hack n Slash. The game sees the player battle through various set-pieces from the world of Peter Jackson’s vision of Lord of the Rings, fighting for either the cause of good or evil. Review it: Game Engine Gameplay

White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis 1950) 3. The Grand High Witch (The Witches by Roald Dahl 1983) 5. Cruella de Vil (The Hundred and One ... The Witch report pinpoints worst baddie Scotsman Nonfiction review: "The Magician's Book" The Oregonian - OregonLive.com

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

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.

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, ...

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, ...

Just read Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince by J. K. Rowling one way or another. P.s.- this book is a 5 star and a “must read” for all! (editor’s note: This is the first of a series of book reviews and other articles by young ...

Before I go any further with this review, let me just state that I consider Frank Herbert's novel Dune to be the flat out best science fiction novel that I have ever read. But Dune Messiah? That was a reading experience so bitter that ...

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 noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Crossroads of Twilight (*½) is by quite some margin the weakest book in the series and one of the most disappointing fantasy novels ever published, considering how good some of the earlier books were. The few decent moments are drowned amidst literally hundreds of pages of empty, pointle...

By Scott Even when its written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of pulp’s grand masters (see many of his wonderful Tarzan and John Carter stories). I’m sorry to say that Burroughs’ The Land that Time Forgot is not very good. It’s not as bad as, say, ...

By Evenspor I recently finished the first three books in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, of which Eragon is the first book. One of my initial thoughts in the beginning of my reading was, this author must be a big Tolkien fan, ...

By Paul Jones of The SF Site reviews Marsbound (August 2008), a new novel by author Joe Haldeman. In a balanced analysis, Jones concludes: “Despite my moments of disappointment, I found Marsbound to be quite enjoyable, and I'd even be willing ...

By geekylibrarian Nation is Terry Pratchett’s first non-Discworld book in ages, it’s also clearly one of the books he has been most passionate about. Essentially this is a desert island story. A tidal wave decimates an island tribe and one European boat, ...

Review: Victory of Eagles, Naomi Novik. . My Random Thoughts · Prayer the easiest and yet the hardest thing I do. . Televisionary · Channel Surfing: Less "Heroes" Staff, More "Kath & Kim" for NBC, Jennie Garth Says ...

I make no effort to hide that Robert Heinlein is one of my favorite authors, and I have read the vast majority of his work. While both share some typical cliches of the Military Science Fiction genre, I do not want to compare them. ...

msaari's review: "An excellent book, just as good as Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle (or actually even slightly better than Baroque Cycle, which kind of lagged at some points). The world is just fabulous, and I would've loved getting ...

By Kelly Melcher In high school at one point I was given an option of several books on which to do a book report, and being the science fiction fan that I was even then, I of course picked Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. ...

Wendelin Van Draanen has had numerous awards: State Award Master, Christopher Medal, Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children’s Mystery four times in the past six years, and California Young Reader Medal. This author is highly skilled ...

Like Blade Runner and Minority Report, Total Recall was based on a science fiction by the paranoid pillhead Philip K. Dick—in this case, his short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Dick, for whom Carlos Castaneda, ...

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 noreply@blogger.com (Piaw Na) md said... There's nothing as fulfilling as reading old Roger Zelazny, and Lord of Light is still one of the best science fiction novels written out there. I'm in total agreement! My favorite by Zelazny is Doorways in the Sand. ...

By Coralius The first Terry Brooks novel I ever read was The Elfstones of Shannara. It was one of the first fantasy novels I'd ever read, and I fell instantly in love with it. I know, I know. His critics claim that his work, especially the early ...

By N. L. D. In this book, the first part of his Riverworld series, Farmer introduces what is one of the most ambitious concepts in Science fiction. All of mankind who live to adulthood find themselves . . .

By epicfantasy Wizards First Rule is the first Terry Goodkind book in the Sword of Truth series which is also the basis for the ABC television series Legend of the Seeker. This is a review of this remarkable book. Avoiding some of the Pitfalls of typical epic fantasy

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By Asgard The Children of Hurin is an assemblage of Tolkien's assorted writings, put together in novel format by son Christopher. The story was begun by JRR Tolkien in 1918, but never assembled as a complete novel. Christopher Tolkien has organized the work into novel format without altering his fa...

By Joseph Arthur Clay The Miracle Worker closes on April 15th. The Hudson Theatre Ensemble presents The Miracle Worker by William Gibson: Please visit The Hudson Theatre Ensemble for more information.Joseph Arthur Clay is a 3rd grade schoolteacher and full-time lover of music, movies, theatre and art.