BBC One has released a short trailer for part one of the miniseries adaptation of Susanna Clarke's epic novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and it is every bit as magical as we hoped! Set at the beginning of the 19th-century, England no longer [...]
Read moreRetro Book Review: The Name of the Wind
Paperback: 672 pages Publisher: DAW ISBN-10: 0756405890 ISBN-13: 978-0756405892 Synopsis: I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled [...]
Read moreBook Review: Antiquitas Lost: The Last of the Shamalans
Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: Medlock Publishing Language: English ISBN-10: 061546047X ISBN-13: 978-0615460475 Synopsis: From American cardiologist Robert Louis Smith comes the unique fantasy novel Antiquitas Lost, peppered with more than 70 eye-popping illustrations by Marvel Comics legend Geof Isherwood. This epic fantasy tells the story of [...]
Read moreGame of Thrones Gets a Swanky New E-Book Edition
A Song of Ice and Fire is getting fancy and interactive on iDevices. HarperVoyager is releasing an all-new enhanced edition of A Game of Thrones. The new e-edition will feature a glossary of characters and dynamic map tracking that will [...]
Read moreHarry Potter Director to Pen Fantasy Book Series HOUSE OF SECRETS
News has just broke that Chris Columbus, who directed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has closed a deal with HarperCollins Publishers to publish House of Secrets, a juvenile fantasy series to be [...]
Read moreNovel Sneak Peek: The Winds of Winter By George R.R. Martin
Fans waited 5 long years for George R.R. Martin to release A Dance with Dragons, the 5th book in A Song of Ice and Fire. Was it worth it? Hell yes it was, but that doesn't mean that the wait [...]
Read moreDreamWorks Heads Into the Fantastical World of DARKFEVER
DreamWorks Pictures is no novice to the fantasy genre with the Shrek franchise and loveable hit How to Train Your Dragon under their belt. Now with the movie-watching public in the post-Harry Potter mindset, the studio seeks to launch a [...]
Read more10 Fake Animals that Scare Me More Than Sharks
Yeah, it's another year, another Shark Week on Discovery Channel. Personally, I don't see the big deal that the world over has begun to make over the whole affair. Are sharks scary? Yep. But I think a week of documentaries on [...]
Read moreBook Review: Queen of Kings
Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult Language: English ISBN-10: 0525952179 ISBN-13: 978-0525952176 Synopsis: Once there was a queen of Egypt…a queen who became through magic something else… The year is 30 BC. Octavian Caesar and his massed legions are poised to enter Alexandria. A messenger [...]
Read moreTHE MAGICIAN KING Website Goes Live, MAGICIANS Fans Officially Titillated
Fans of Lev Grossman's The Magicians have a lot to look forward to in the upcoming sequel, The Magician King. To prove it to you Mr. Grossman has launched the official website for the book which reveals an interesting bit [...]
Read moreJ.K. Rowling Teases POTTERMORE Website, Promises Details Soon
Just one month away from the 8th and final installment of the Harry Potter film franchise, author J.K. Rowling has revealed a new and mysterious website called Pottermore that is nothing more than a placeholder with the images above. What [...]
Read moreHarry Potter Tribute Exhibit Blends Concept and Traditional Art, Is Amazeballs
If you're planning on being in California in July and your a fan of both fine art and Harry Potter, then this is definitely something you should check out. Running from July 9th through August 1st, the Harry Potter Tribute Exhibit [...]
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