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Category Archives: Books Aplenty
Did You Know…
… that today is Neil Gaiman’s birthday?
Well, it is! And, you know, isn’t that just splendid and all round nice on so many levels. Happy birthday, Neil! I hope it’s a good one.
On a somewhat Gaiman-related note, I might as well announce that I’m nearly halfway through his graphic novel series, “The Sandman” after having [...]
The Malazan Badass Quote of the Day
“The world, someone once said, gives back what is given. In abundance. But then, as Kallor would point out, someone was always saying something. Until he got fed up and had them executed.”
- Toll the Hounds, page 119, by Steven Erikson
Amazon, I Love Thee So!
Amazon is a fickle bitch. Two days ago I put down an order that they’re masterful system managed to disappear without a trace, like it somehow decided that this particular mixture of books and comics was too awesome for my mortal mind and decided to enter the goodness into its very own version of the [...]
Cover Art Galore
Thanks to Calibandar, who sometimes pops by this blog, for making me aware that Gollancz had put up the cover art for “Blood of Elves” by Andrzej Sapkowski. This is the second book in the series about “Geralt the Witcher”, and it’s due out in September. It’s been one of my most anticipated reads ever [...]
The Hugo Award Nominees
The Hugo Awards are alongside the World Fantasy Award, Nebula and a couple of others, the most prestigious awards for a genre work. Now, I don’t actually give much of a damn who wins – I think I’d have to be involved in ‘em for that to happen – but I like to see my [...]
Doomsday Weather Forecast
Easter is, for obvious reasons, an especially nice time of year to have a rockin’ Ragnarok, so I thought it prudent to prowl teh intarwebs for some signs of the oncoming End. This is what I came up with:
…Terry Goodkind’s epic fantasy series, ‘Wizard’s First Rule’ gets the greenlight for a 22 episodes long season. [...]
Also posted in Amras on the Prowl, Telly Series, Zombies Tagged A Slight Apocalypse, Arthur C. Clarke, Doomsday Weather Forecast, GRRM, SoT 3 Comments
The ‘Toll the Hounds’ Prologue
Is now up on malazanempire.
I never get much out of these prologues, but a mere glimmer of Steven Erikson’s world is better than no glimmer at all. And it provides endless amounts of fodder for discussion.
The best thing about this prologue comes at the very end:
“Join us, friend,” said Kruppe. “Sit here by this fire: [...]
(Take) COVER (!) (It’s the) ART (!)
I love reading books. I love it above nearly any other form of past time activity. I try to read as often and as much as I can, yet I never seem to get do enough. There’s always another book to read, another story to hear. Yet there are some books that you simply can’t [...]
Also posted in Silliness Tagged Dave McKean, Joe Abercrombie, Joe Hill, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Richard Morgan, Sandman, Scott Bakker Leave a comment
My Blog Has Expressed Its Dismay…
… at not being congratulated on it’s one-year anniversary.
Thus we must all suffer the consequences. The picture above was just one of the scenarios my blog has described to me in a threating e-mail that contained a lot of sinister looking pictures and all the words were copy/pasted from different sites on the Interweb. The [...]
Best of ‘08: SFF Books