After years of staunch resistance, Author J.K. Rowling is finally ready to explore the possibility of allowing her massively successful Harry Potter books to be converted to a digital format for the e-reader crowd. Some say Rowling, who has always been [...]
Read moreBook Review: Tales From the Edge of Forever
Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Nazca Plains Language: English ISBN-10: 1610981715 ISBN-13: 978-1610981712 Synopsis: An anthology of mind bending imagination, Tales from the Edge of Forever offers a delicious collection of wildly original vignettes mixing fantasy, speculation, spirituality and science invention. Hammond has created stories with [...]
Read moreNew Mass Effect Book Coming Soon
Del Rey has just announced that Mass Effect: Deception, the 4th chapter of the all-new, original story in set in the Mass Effect universe, will be released in Fall 2011. In Mass Effect: Deception will be written by William C. Dietz [...]
Read moreBook Review: The Desert Spear
Hardcover: 608 pages Publisher: Del Rey Language: English ISBN-10: 9780345503817 ISBN-13: 978-0345503817 Synopsis: As the Warded Man works tirelessly to spread the knowledge of the lost Battle Wards to the people of the North, another enemy rises in the South. Jardir, once true friend of [...]
Read moreBook Review: Lost and Found
Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books Language: English ISBN-10: 9780545229241 ISBN-13: 978-0545229241 Summary: A girl finds a bright spot in a dark world. A boy leads a strange, lost creature home. And a group of peaceful creatures loses their home to cruel invaders. [...]
Read moreMelissa Rosenberg To Pen Big-Screen Adaptation of Earthseed for Paramount
Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight) is set to adapt Pamela Sargent's futuristic, 1983 sci-fi novel Earthseed for Paramount Pictures. Earthseed is the first in a trilogy of novels by Sargent, which also includes 2007's Farseed and 2010's Seed Seeker. Check out [...]
Read moreMaurice Sendak’s Unused Tolkien Illustrations: The Hobbit that Almost Was
When J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 it was the intention of the publishers was to market the work as a new fairytale for children; part of that marketing included decorating the book with full-paged illustrations to add to [...]
Read moreThe Magician King Release Date Announced
Over on his blog, author Lev Grossman has announced that The Magician King, the much anticipated sequel to his debut The Magicians (at least by me!), will be released at the end of the summer. The only details on the [...]
Read moreDouglas Adams’ Lost Doctor Who Story to be Novelized
In the late 70's Douglas Adams, acclaimed author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wrote a six part series of Doctor Who, featuring Tom Baker that was intended to wrap up the season 17th season. For reasons of industrial [...]
Read moreRetro Book Review: Sandman Slim
Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Harper Voyager Language: English ISBN-10: 0061714305 ISBN-13: 978-0061714306 Summary: James Stark was having a pretty bad day, and then he went to Hell. After 11 years in the Pit, fighting in gladiatorial games and learning all sorts of [...]
Read moreFinal Chapter in Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle Announced
It's been a long road for Christopher Paolini and Eragon, the Last Dragon Rider of Alagaësia, but the end is finally in sight. Random House has announced that Inheritance, the 4th and last book of the Inheritance Cycle will be [...]
Read moreKing Robert’s Hammer Replica On the Horizon, I Reach For My Credit Card
With HBO's Game of Thrones just shy of a month away, George R. R. Martin fans everywhere are beginning to foam at the mouth (yours truly included -- my keyboard is a mess!) We spend hours poring over [...]
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