There are some great sci-fi/fantasy bloggers out there, fans who are devoting a lot of time and energy into supporting authors and their readers. Variety is the spice of life, as they say, and with the menagerie of unique and very different individuals out there contributing, it produces a whole that is better than its parts.
Here is a list of what other bloggers on the internet(s) did in the last week—reviews, interviews, comments, giveaways, and the like.
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Every week I’ll be bringing you a comic book cover that I feel eclipses others out there—to the point I might just have to own it when released!
This week: Game of Thrones #5! The Death of a Direwolf!
Read MoreNow, clearly I’m biased. I started as her assistant, I’m still her colleague, and I’m also her friend.
But the fact that the Locus 2011 Poll and Survey is now up, and doesn’t list Anne Groell as a nominee for Editor of the Year bothers me.
Why?
Because name a science fiction and fantasy editor that had [...]
Science fiction and fantasy have long been vehicles for social activism.
Mary Shelley. Ursula K. Le Guin. Octavia Butler. Margaret Atwood. All have worked hard at changing how Mankind has often treated women, empowering them, and building a better future.
In that vein, New York Times bestselling author Carrie Vaughn has just been nominated for the 2012 Amelia Bloomer List, which names “the best books with significant feminist content that will appeal to young readers.” Here is an interview with her! Enjoy!
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Epic fantasy can be great for obvious reasons.
It can also be bad for a very important reason. Volumes in an epic fantasy series are usually quite large, requiring a lot of words to tell the tale—and therefore a long time to finish.
Not so with David Anthony Durham’s Acacia trilogy. It is finished. It is epic. It is fantastic. And George R. R. Martin has something to say about it!
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THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) and the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that an original novel set in the Darksiders® universe will be published by Random House’s Del Rey imprint in May 2012. DARKSIDERS: THE ABOMINATION VAULT, written by author Ari Marmell, will take place millennia before the events of the first game of the Darksiders series. Random House Worlds, the Random House Publishing Group’s intellectual property creation and development group, will also develop the IP bible for the Darksiders universe.
Every once in a while, I can twist a friend’s arm into conducting an interview for me.
In this case, a friend brought me an interview that is long and filled with great information about science fiction. The friend? Peter Orullian, Tor Books author of The Unremembered. Who did he interview? Ted Chiang, writer of numerous award-winning science fiction short stories!
More after the jump!
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Last night, HBO aired a new trailer for Game of Thrones Season 2.
The season is based on A Clash of Kings, the second book in George R. R. Martin’s mega-hit series, A Song of Ice & Fire.
Make the jump to watch the preview — You Win or You Die!
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