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, February 21st, 2010
Winter is almost here. George R.R. Martin announced that he’s 1,261 pages into A Dance with Dragons, supporting my prediction the novel would be released in 2010, and in general giving me a good feeling all over. Jim Cameron plans to release an Avatar prequel novel in 2010, which he has not begun writing yet. Ambitious, but what do you expect from one of the most ambitious filmmakers in history. Perhaps the the interview of the decade, with R.A. Salvatore interviewing Margaret Weis on her new novel with Tracy Hickman and writing in a world based on role-playing games in general. We cap this week where I turn back my clock an hour here in Brazil by turning back the clock and remembering countless hours spent with the red box, the first in the old Dungeons & Dragons boxed set.
Tags: A Dance with Dragons, Avatar, Best Served Cold, Brent Weeks, Dungeons & Dragons, George R.R. Martin, James Cameron, Joe Abercrombie, Margaret Weis, R.A. Salvatore, Terry Pratchett, The Way of Shadows
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
We’ve got a boatload of reviews this week, covering everything from more recent titles like The Gathering Storm and Dragon Keeper to young classics such as A Storm of Swords, The Hero of Ages and The Lies of Locke Lamora. The Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd also looks promising, having potentially been looked over in a year when other authors like Scott Lynch were making their big debuts. The Dragon Page recently intervieweed Gail Z. Martin, and Ursula K. Le Guin continues to fight for her rights against Google. We cap off a stellar week with news of an inmate in Wisconsin being prohibited from playing D&D in prison. What will inmates want next, a renaissance festival on prison grounds?
Tags: A Storm of Swords, Arms-Commander, Brandon Sanderson, Bruce R. Cordell, City of Torment, Daniel Abraham, Dragon Keeper, Dungeons & Dragons, Gail Z. Martin, George R.R. Martin, James Barclay, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Nightchild, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, The Gathering Storm, The Hero of Ages, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Price of Spring, The Stormcaller, Tom Lloyd, Ursula K. Le Guin
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