Remember George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire series? Well… A Feast for Crows is done. Sort of.
A dark time for the fandom?
The Cleveland Plain Dealer mourns the end of optimistic science fiction. At least for now.
No love for the franchise
In an interesting bookend to the controversial sci-fi writers on Star Wars, Orson Scott Card goes after Star Trek.
Everyone needs a little trash in their lives
‘Serious’ SF writers don’t like Star Wars. Well, that’s a shocker.
Covered, again
It’s a banner day for covers, apparently… also debuting today is the cover for Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys.
Covering Harry
J.K. Rowling’s publishers have released the covers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In conjunction with the reveal, AP has an interview with Mary GrandPre, whose illustrations adorn the American editions.
There’s already massive speculation about what the cover art says about the story – keep an eye on the Daily Snitch, which will probably be updating in a few hours, with as much obsessive guesswork as you can stand.
The Great Father Speaks
The creator of Star Wars may be Uncle George. But the real family member at Club Jade is Timothy Zahn, father creator of Mara Jade.
(Club Jade. Mara Jade. Get it?)
“…makes the legendary Eye of Argon read like Asimov!”
SWFA scamhunters authors target vanity publishing scam PublishAmerica by writing the worst novel they can produce. An overview and more links can be found at Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s Making Light.
A Half-Blood Princess…
A hearty congratulations to JK Rowling and her husband on the arrival of her new baby girl on Sunday.
We are greatly pleased that the little tyke timed it so that her mother could finish the next installment of Harry Potter, first. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be clocking in at 672 pages, with a special edition containing 32 pages of artwork. (Big thanks to The Leaky Cauldron for feeding us our Harry Potter tidbits.)
Frodo??
Little Harry Potter is all grown up… Or did they just replace him with Elijah Wood?