Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Smallville, the modern television retelling of the Superman story, has been officially renewed by The CW for a tenth season. Erica Durance told TVGuide.com that her contract ran through Season 10. Justin Hartley also said he would return if the show wants him back and Cassidy Freeman said that her contract [...]
Wed, Feb 03, 2010
Garth Nix’s Lord Sunday, the final book in the Keys to the Kingdom series, now has a solid release date: March 4th, 2010 in the U.S. and U.K., or sometime in February for Australia. LORD SUNDAY is the breathtaking conclusion to The Keys to the Kingdom series. In this, the seventh and final book, the mysteries [...]
Fri, Jan 15, 2010
Brandon Sanderson has some good news for those of you who are fans of his Mistborn series: it's going to be a movie. The blog update includes a press release along with some thoughts from Sanderson.
Wed, Jan 06, 2010
The Leaky Cauldron has unearthed some more news about the upcoming Lego Harry Potter videogame (developed by the same companies as the popular Lego Star Wars games). There is a new video preview for the game that looks promising, the tongue-in-cheek humor of the Star Wars games still obviously present. A website for the game is [...]
Wed, Dec 09, 2009
Nicholas Hooper’s score for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been nominated for a Grammy Award under the category of “Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media.” Up for best score soundtrack album are “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (composed by Alexander Desplat), “Harry Potter and the Half Blood [...]
Mon, Dec 07, 2009
The teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh of the series, has surfaced online. It appears tacked onto the end of some commentary and behind-the-scenes shots, and it's fairly short. This is the first major look at what's to come in the film, so without further ado, enjoy...
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
Sword and Laser, a podcast that is a fantasy/sci-fi book club of sorts, has published an interview with Brandon Sanderson, the author of the new Wheel of Time book. In the 27 minute-long MP3, Sanderson talks about how he got into writing, some of the books he likes, and how he ended up writing The Gathering [...]
Wed, Oct 07, 2009
In celebration of the much-awaited continuation of the Wheel of Time series, penned by fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson in the absence of the late Robert Jordan, Tor Books is offering to let us give away three sets of the books that started it all. Three lucky Fantasy Folder readers will receive, by random drawing, Robert Jordan’s [...]
Wed, Oct 07, 2009
Master satirist Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld novel, Unseen Academicals is now available, which once again features the wizards of Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University. The wizards at Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University are renowned for many things—wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime—but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. And so when Lord Ventinari, the city’s benevolent tyrant, [...]
Wed, Sep 23, 2009
Nicholas Hooper has confirmed that after composing the score for the previous two Harry Potter movies, he will not be coming back for the final two Deathly Hallows films. Warner Brothers is currently in talks with John Williams. If his schedule allows, he very well return after his absence since the third Potter film. “The question is [...]
Wed, Mar 03, 2010
Elantris was once the capitol of Arelon. It was called the city of the gods, for its shining walls and workers of wonders. A magical force known as the Shaod would, seemingly at random, transform people into nearly-immortal Elantrians overnight, granting them extraordinary powers, while turning their hair white and their skin an almost-metallic silver. They could heal quickly, move with great strength and speed, and perform magic by simply sketching symbols in the air. The Elantrians healed the injured and created food from nothing, distributing it to the people of the surrounding country of Arelon. There were no kings, just the wise inhabitants of Elantris...
Wed, Feb 10, 2010
Soul Music is one of my favorite Discworld novels. Naturally, as soon as I discovered the 1997 animated TV adaptation, I wanted to watch it. I was surprised by the quality of the production. Especially the music...
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
After enjoying The Gathering Storm, I wanted to try a Brandon Sanderson original. So I picked up a copy of Mistborn...and had trouble putting it down for the days that followed. Dystopia, politics, an oppressive immortal tyrant, intrigue, magical battles on the city's rooftops – Mistborn has it all.
Wed, Nov 25, 2009
I finally got around to watching The Brothers Grimm, and interesting movie that caught my attention when it was released in 2005. I didn’t know it at the time, but it turns out it was directed by Terry Gilliam (of Monty Python fame). The Brothers Grimm is set in France-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic era. It [...]
Wed, Nov 11, 2009
The Gathering Storm is the much-awaited twelfth installment in the Wheel of Time series. As some of you may be aware of, this latest novel was penned by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson in surrogate for the late Robert Jordan, working off the extensive notes left behind by Jordan. The Gathering Storm is different, but not in [...]
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
In Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel, football (not the American kind) comes to the disc. The wizards of Unseen University discover that a large percentage of their funding, in the form of a trust, will soon dry up should they fail to meet their benefactor's stipulation that they compete in the game "foot-the-ball..."
Wed, Oct 07, 2009
TarValon.net has a spoiler-free advance review of the upcoming Wheel of Time book, The Gathering Storm up in their forum, following the one Dragonmount had published this July. Yes, our narrator has changed. Sanderson’s writing is more focused on plot, and his style seems to put more weight on making things happen rather than world building. [...]
Wed, Aug 12, 2009
Superior Saturday is the sixth book in the seven-part Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. I started reading it a couple of years ago, after enjoying his higher-level Abhorsen series, in which Sabriel is the first installment. When I read Mr. Monday, the first in the Keys series, I thought it an interesting concept; [...]
Thu, Jul 16, 2009
The latest Harry Potter film adaptation, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, just hit theaters today. The sixth to date, it does the book justice despite the usual complaints of things being cut-out. The movie starts with a bang, namely the destruction of the Millennium Bridge in London. A group of three Death Eaters, doing the [...]
Wed, May 20, 2009
Bloodhound is the second book in Tamora Pierce’s trilogy centered around Beka Cooper, an ancestor of George Cooper’s (the Rogue from Pierce’s earlier Alanna series). Sequel to Terrier, Bloodhound continues the story of Beka’s life as one of the Provost’s Guard, Tortall’s police, also known as the Dogs. In Bloodhound, counterfeit coins are flooding Corus, Tortall’s [...]