Posts Tagged ‘Adrian Tchaikovsky’
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Batten down the hatches because we’ve got a boatload of fantasy blogosphere news this week. Kick off the weekend with a slew of great reviews, spanning great fantasy novels like Imager’s Intrigue by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., a review of Joe Abercrombie’s entire trilogy, The First Law, to a review of a compilation edited by Neil Gaiman. Interviews aplenty this week as well, with some great names like David Drake, Naomi Novik, and others. Wrapping it all up is an update from George R.R. Martin on the casting, production team and film locations for the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Al Sarrantonio, Blood of the Mantis, Dan Abnett, David Drake, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Imager's Intrigue, Joe Abercrombie, Jon Sprunk, Karen Miller, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Lord of the Changing Winds, Naomi Novik, Neil Gaiman, Paul Kearney, Rachel Newmeier, Shadow's Son, Stories, The First Law, The Lost
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
The cover for Gail Z. Martin’s The Sworn was released this week, and we’ve got a great mix of reviews, from Terry Brooks’ latest to a pair of Adrian Tchaikovsky novels, to the Swords and Dark Magic compilation. We’ve also located an interview with George R.R. Martin’s editor who discusses her work on A Clash of Kings. Topping off this week is our first mention of eReaders in the fantasy blogosphere, and it comes in the form of Ray Kurzweil offering a solution to books that get mangled by current eReader software.
Tags: A Clash of Kings, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Anne Groell, Bearers of the Black Staff, Black Magic Sanction, Dragonfly Falling, Empire in Black and Gold, eReaders, Gail Z. Martin, Karen Miller, Kevin J. Anderson, Kim Harrison, Mark Charan Newton, Nights of Villjamur, Ray Kurzweil, Swords and Dark Magic, Terry Brooks, The Map of All Things, The Sworn, The Wind in the Willows, Weta Workshop
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
We’ve found so many reviews this week you won’t know where to begin. From Warriors to Furies to Empires you can check out reviews of some of fantasy’s hottest authors and recent works here.
Last on our list this week is an interview at The Dragon Page with Charlaine Harris, and I have to say I was disappointed. Not in the interview, the interview is in fact great, but I was really hoping to find a mastermind behind the wild success of Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels. Rather than sounding like the Sookie novels were planned, well organized and well thought out prior to being written, Harris comes off as aloof, making it sound like all the novels in the series were just written on a whim, and that the success really has nothing to do with any semblance of a structured plan. To me, this lends even more credibility to the notion that the whole vampire romance/urban fantasy genre is a fluke, a fad that will pass as quickly as pogo balls and hot pink Hammer pants. The guys at The Dragon Page seem to hint that they feel the same way, but they dance around it a bit, as is only natural when you’re interviewing one of the genre’s heavyweights. They even go so far as to mention an impending collapse, stating that Harris, Jim Butcher and Laurell K. Hamilton would be the only authors in the genre able to survive such an implosion. I’ve been covering the Amazon top 5 fantasy bestsellers for over a year now, and I won’t say I’d welcome such an implosion, but it would freshen up the list a bit. Just sayin’.
Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family, Empire in Black and Gold, First Lord's Fury, Furies of Calderon, George R.R. Martin, Jim Butcher, Jo Graham, Peter V. Brett, Stealing Fire, The Desert Spear, Warriors
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Pairs galore this week, as we feature two interviews with Jim Butcher, and a review and interview with Tad Williams. Check out the reviews of Guy Gavriel Kay and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s most recent works, and don’t miss the US dates for Robin Hobb’s Dragon Haven tour.
Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dragon Haven, Dragonfly Falling, George R.R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jim Butcher, Joe Abercrombie, Robin Hobb, Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair, Under Heaven
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
A relatively quiet week in the fantasy blogosphere, but we’ve still found a few quality reviews, and some great interviews around the web. Not to mention that I keep getting signals that playing Dungeons & Dragons as a kid probably helped me develop a lot of the skills I use in my professional life today. Check out the post on how playing D&D can help prep you for med school. Great stuff.
Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dungeons & Dragons, Empire, James Cameron, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Mark Chadbourn, Ursula K. Le Guin, World's End
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
From Sanderson to Jordan to Hobb, we’ve got a few interesting reviews this week. The review of The Dragon Keeper over at Elitist is particularly harsh. I’m going to have to read this book to form my own opinion, because after just reading Ship of Magic, its hard to believe that Hobb could swing so far from one extreme to the other.
Tags: A Game of Thrones, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Blood of the Mantis, Brandon Sanderson, Elantris, George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, The Dragon Keeper, The Path of Daggers
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