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Illustration by Idiots’BooksHe wasn’t ready to leave the hospital. For starters, he couldn’t walk yet, and there were still times when he could barely remember where he was, and there was the problem of the catheter. But the insurance company and the hospital had concurred that he’d had all the t...
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There are two types of anachronisms in fantasy: intentional and accidental. The former -- when a modern item is introduced for comic effect, as when the audience sings "We Will Rock You" at a joust in A Knight's Tale -- often amuse me. The latter type amuse me in a much different way, because man...
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What’s a big new book without an audio version?Hard to read in the car, that’s what.Thank goodness for Kate Reading and Michael Kramer, the dynamic duo behind all of the Wheel of Time audiobooks; Michael also did Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy (sadly without Kate). Here’s an interview with ...
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Last week I was noting the uphill climb scifi will have in winning the "Best Picture" Academy Award, but it's worth also noting that while it's hard for scifi to nab that prize, Oscar-winning directors don't have any problems directing science fiction. Last year's Best Director, Danny Boyle, made...
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If you've read The Sword-Edged Blonde, you know about Angelina's Tavern. Eddie LaCrosse has his office above the kitchen, and spends a lot of his off-time sitting at the bar. It plays an even bigger role in BURN ME DEADLY.Now we all know about mead, and ale, and rum, and all the standard tavern...
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Hello again! After a hiatus well spent reading, we're back today with our first post-release content.We're already at work updating articles, preparing new ones, and researching and studying the book for our full The Gathering Storm Read-through to begin later this fall. ...
The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson is a #1 New York Times bestseller!Publisher Tom Doherty began working with Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan’s widow and editor, more than forty years ago. Many people at Tor have worked with the series for more than twenty years. S...
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Here is a round-up of reviews and interviews for The Gathering Storm. If you have a review you’d like to add to our list, please add it to the comments or contact us on Twitter.REVIEWS (warning — some of these reviews may contain spoilers)Tor.com (Heavy spoiler alert — read at ...
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I’m a big fan of David B. Coe’s The LonTobyn Chronicle. I read them years ago, and haven’t really kept up with Coe’s work since, but I look back on them fondly, particularily the blend of Hard Science Fiction and High Fantasy found in The Outlanders. I always tell myself I’ll get around to readin...
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The premiere of last night’s V was a big hit for ABC, winning its time-slot by a substantial margin in the 18-49 year-old viewership. 13.9 million viewers tuned in (giving it a 5.0 rating and a 13 share) making it the fall season’s highest-rated series debut.The show’s primary competition, the hi...
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This is the sixth of our Storm Leader reports we’ll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for THE GATHERING STORM. At each tour location, Dragonmount and Tor Books recruited a select group of volunteer fans to help run the event, hand out promotional materials, and represent us to the fans. In...
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Imager’s Challenge takes up immediately after the conclusion of Imager. Still recovering from injuries received in foiling the plots of the Ferran envoy, Rhenn is preparing to take up his new duties as imager liaison to the Civic Patrol of L’Excelsis. No sooner has he assumed his new position tha...
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Alex Bledsoe’s first novel,The Sword-Edged Blonde, drew rave reviews for its ingenious blend of fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. Now Bledsoe returns with an all-new tale of mean streets and medieval intrigue.Above Angelina’s Tavern in down-and-dirty Neceda you’ll find the office of Eddi...
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Occasionally, I ask some of the best book bloggers in sf/f/h a question about their reading choices, favorites, desires, or any old thing about the genre. I
Illustration by Idiots’BooksSammy was at his desk looking over the production prototype for the Disney-in-a-Box (R) units that Imagineering had dropped off that morning when his phone rang. Not his desk phone—his cellular phone, with the call-return number blocked.“Hello?” he said. Not many peopl...
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I hated being force-fed books in school because they rarely suited my tastes in speculative fiction reading. Today's generation, however, has a much better chance of being assigned genre books in school. The following question was asked of this week's panelists:Q: If you were teaching a high sc...
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Not all science fiction involves aliens. When a story, TV show, or movie does, however, one of the most devastating criticisms is that its aliens are “humans in rubber suits.”Exception: fictional aliens who are intentionally humans thinly disguised. In Pierre Boulle’s novel Planet of the Apes (th...
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Cherie Priest is a rising star of smart, textured cross-genre fantasy whose latest novel, Boneshaker may be her best yet. She'll be appearing with Cat Rambo and me at the University Bookstore in Seattle tomorrow night at 7pm., as I...
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This is the fifth of our Storm Leader reports we’ll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for THE GATHERING STORM. At each tour location, Dragonmount and Tor Books recruited a select group of volunteer fans to help run the event, hand out promotional materials, and represent us to the fans. In...
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CRIMSON is finally here. Yep, today is release day. Much celebrating has commenced. Pick up your copy now. If you can’t find it in your local store, it’s available here, here, here, and here. Happy Reading! Copyright © 2009 Jordan Summers. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If yo...
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Crystal Rain by Tobias BuckellMass Market Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: Tor Science Fiction (May 29, 2007)ISBN-13: 978-0765350909
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Tobias Buckell is the author of many short stories, three speculative fiction novels, plus a novel set in the Halo universe. He’s also an avid gamer, and a brand new dad to twin girls. Born in the Caribbean, he strives to include that flavor in his novels.
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John Brown is the author of Servant of a Dark God. He has won the Writers of the Future contest, and has been published in Orson Scott Card's Intergalatic Medicine Show and Lady Churchhill's Rosebud Wristlet.
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There have been a number of well-written reviews for The Gathering Storm. So rather then belaboring many of the points covered elsewhere or echoing the slightly off-putting voice Sanderson employed for ...
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and Brandon SandersonTor: 2009Let’s just get one thing cleared up before we start here. If it wasn’t obvious by the last eleven posts of the series re-read, I’m a bit of a Wheel of Time fanboy. ...
The Breath of God by Harry TurtledoveChance Fortune in the Shadow Zone by Shane BerryhillCrimson by Jordan SummersThe Gun Fight by Richard MathesonHalo: The Cole Protocol by Tobias S. BuckellJesus by Andrew GreeleyKeyholders #3: Inside the Magic by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton JonesKeyholders...
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Tor Books bought US rights to The Rise of the Iron Moon and Secrets of the Fire Sea, sequels to The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves...
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