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Tag Archives: Fantasy
By the light of the guttering candle
It’s been a while since I updated the books that The Daughter and I have been reading at bedtimes, so here are some capsules. Some of the most satisfying and entertaining reading I’ve done lately has come at night, as … Continue reading
A Tango with Tiamat
George R.R. Martin reports on the writing of A Dance with Dragons: he now has 1100 manuscript pages, and hopes to bring the book’s final manuscript in under 1500 pages. He says that the book is now longer than A … Continue reading
Bone
UPDATE: Welcome, readers of Boneville, and thanks to Jeff Smith for the link. I’ve read a few graphic novels lately that I’ve procrastinated posting about, so here goes. I’ve seen Jeff Smith‘s name mentioned a lot in comics circles as … Continue reading
“One land, one king!”
Here’s a good example of something that makes clear that I’ll never understand the mindset that governs the way Hollywood does business. Apparently Bryan Singer, who was reported last week as being attached to a new Battlestar Galactica reboot movie, … Continue reading
Lying Locke
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch was pretty strongly hyped when it came out a few years ago; I remember seeing it mentioned on nearly every SF and Fantasy site I tend to frequent. I made mental notes … Continue reading
Gee, thanks for coming down from Elysium to talk to us….
Someone from the New Yorker decided to read some fantasy: I’ve read a few best-selling fantasy series—Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials, Twilight, Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time, The Dark Is Rising—but I would never describe … Continue reading
From the Ashes
So I was wandering the magazine aisle at work the other day, and I saw a new issue of Realms of Fantasy Magazine. This struck me as odd, because RoF ceased publication a few months ago. So what gives? Well, … Continue reading
Thirty Fantasy Movies
SamuraiFrog did this last week, and I just have to follow suit. That being the case, here are my thirty favorite fantasy movies. One caveat: I’m taking a more inclusive stance on what constitutes “fantasy” here, to basically include any … Continue reading
Rising Darkness
The Daughter and I recently finished working our way through Susan Cooper’s Dark Is Rising Sequence, a five-book series where each novel tells a distinct story that is part of a larger whole, depicting the final battle between the Old … Continue reading
Brightly Weaving
After clearing the decks of some earlier reading I wanted to get out of the way, I’m finally embarking on something I’ve intended to do for a couple of years now: I am re-reading every word Guy Gavriel Kay has … Continue reading