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Can’t wait for the season premiere of A Game of Thrones season two? Me neither! That’s why I’m so excited to have a peek behind the scenes courtesy of HBO. ‘An Invitation to the Set’ features short comments from many of the major players from season one, as well as some quick glimpses at characters premiering from season two. Keep your eyes peeled for Melisandre and Brienne of Tarth!
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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 [...]
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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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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Authors are busy folk, and none more-so that George R.R. Martin. Nevertheless, as A Song of Ice and Fire continues to take the world by storm, thanks to HBO’s Game of Thrones and 2011’s successful launch of the series’ fifth volume, A Dance with Dragons, Martin found some time to answer questions from his fans on Reddit, one of the Internet’s most vibrant and popular communities.
Courtesy of an astute reader at Winter is Coming, a popular Game of Thrones fan site, we have an unofficial glimpse at the filming of Game of Thrones season two in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The first video shows the Hound battling an unnamed soldier, and a second is a mob scene that shows the King, surrounded by his Kingsguard, navigating their way through an unruly crowd. Both videos can be viewed on Winter is Coming.
Sometimes we find ourselves among the giants, their immense talents casting shadows ever-long between which we small but steady lights dance and play and fade. Their dreams are our own, because they give them to us: flickering images of knights and dragons, statesmen and generals, all captured chiaroscuro and fragile in ink and paper.
George R.R. Martin [...]
Yesterday, George R. R. Martin released an early excerpt of The Winds of Winter, Book 6 in his Song of Ice & Fire series.
It’s a Theon Greyjoy chapter. Make the jump to read some of it and be sure to visit George’s website after!
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The more I think it through the more Atticus O’Sullivan seems the smart choice. I mean.. Aside...