Thu, Dec 22, 2011
Yesterday morning, Brandon Sanderson tweeted that he had finished the draft of A Memory of Light, the fourteenth and final book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. He estimates that the revision period should be six months, so the book is likely to be released in the fall of 2012, though Tor has not [...]
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Wed, Dec 21, 2011
Warner Brothers has posted the announcement trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to their YouTube channel, as of December 19th. The film, slated to be released on December 14, 2012, will be the first of the two movies planned to tell the story from Tolkien’s The Hobbit, along with some additional material from other [...]
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Fri, Oct 28, 2011
Author Neil Gaiman recently interviewed Sir Terry Pratchett, following the release of Snuff, and the resulting dialogue has been published on BoingBoing.net. It’s worth a look if you’re a fan of Discworld. NG: The Watch fascinate me. You get to do hardboiled police procedurals while still writing funny smart books set in a fantastic world. [...]
Neil Gaiman Interviews Terry Pratchett on BoingBoing.net is a post from Fantasy Folder
Sun, Jul 03, 2011
Fantasy Faction has recorded a half-hour video interview with Brandon Sanderson while he was in Europe recently. The interview has some interesting discussion about The Way of Kings, the upcoming Mistborn sequel, and some of Brandon’s book recommendations. There was also some fresh Mistborn news. The Mistborn (pen-and-paper?) RPG “is a go” and should be [...]
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Fri, Jun 24, 2011
More owls slowly appeared on J.K. Rowling’s YouTube channel as the countdown ticked closer to the deadline today. After the clock reached zero, a video was uploaded with an announcement. Pottermore, as it turns out, is not a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game, sadly. It might be the next best thing, though. Pottermore.com will be, [...]
And Pottermore is… is a post from Fantasy Folder
Fri, Jun 17, 2011
Four years after the publication of the seventh Harry Potter book, and about a month before the final movie, J. K. Rowling once again is…up to something. A new website, Pottermore.com, has gone up. It’s pretty much a fancy “coming soon” page, with an accompanying Twitter profile and a countdown on Rowling’s YouTube channel. Some [...]
Pottermore: J.K. Rowling’s New Announcement is a post from Fantasy Folder
Fri, May 06, 2011
The first trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is now online, featuring a few clips from the huge battle at Hogwarts, as well as the Gringots break-in. Apparently the final fight between Harry and Voldemort has been…embellished a bit. The Leaky Cauldron, as usual, has links to high-quality QuickTime, Windows Media, [...]
Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Trailer Online is a post from Fantasy Folder
Thu, Apr 28, 2011
Garth Nix is currently writing Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, the much-awaited sequel to the Old Kingdom Trilogy (first book: Sabriel). He is currently estimating a 2013 release date. I’m writing CLARIEL: THE LOST ABHORSEN at the moment. It is set about 300 years before the events of SABRIEL, in an extremely settled era of the [...]
Garth Nix Begins Writing Sequel to Sabriel Trilogy is a post from Fantasy Folder
Sat, Apr 16, 2011
Syfy has finally released the air dates for the season premiers of Warehouse 13 and Eureka. Both will air on July 11, 2011. Warehouse 13 is entering it’s third season, and Eureka will be continuing its fourth. (Eureka has a strange split-season thing going on, where Syfy airs half a season and then waits several [...]
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Sat, Mar 19, 2011
Information about Brandon Sanderson’s new Mistborn novel are starting to surface. The Alloy of Law, set 300 years after the Mistborn trilogy, is set in a world transforming from a medieval-style setting to something more along the lines of the 1800s. Electric lighting and railroads have come to Scadrial, but the Allomancers and Feruchemists haven’t [...]
Mistborn: The Alloy of Law Cover Art and Synopsis is a post from Fantasy Folder
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
The Name of the Wind is the story of a legend. Kvothe, the renowned hero famous for his skills in magic and music, somehow ends up as an innkeeper in a small village in the middle on nowhere after faking his death. Why? That’s what the scribe known as the Chronicler wants to find out [...]
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is a post from Fantasy Folder
Fri, Jan 06, 2012
Harbingers, book ten in the Repairman Jack series, seems like the beginning of the end. Jack has been dragged into the middle of the battle between the Otherness and the Ally, and his fate as the Heir to the immortal Sentinel is revealed. But it soon becomes clear that though the Ally opposes the Otherness [...]
Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson is a post from Fantasy Folder
Fri, Dec 30, 2011
Infernal, the ninth book of F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack series, is pretty dark. It’s tricky to go into detail without major plot spoilers, so let’s just say being a lightning rod for encounters with the Otherness is hazardous to those around you. Infernal breaks the usual formula of “fix it” jobs with a larger [...]
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Mon, Dec 26, 2011
Jack: Secret Histories, Jack: Secret Circles and Jack: Secret Vengeance comprise F. Paul Wilson’s YA trilogy about the younger years of Repairman Jack. My introduction to the character was through this spin-off series (via Secret Histories), which led me to pick up Legacies and get into the main story. Now that the last two books [...]
Secret Histories, Secret Circles and Secret Vengeance by F. Paul Wilson is a post from Fantasy Folder
Sun, Dec 18, 2011
The Magic Engineer is, possibly, my favorite of the Recluce books I have read so far. Like the rest of the books in the series, it’s set in a different age, with different characters and different political factions. The Chaos wizards of Fairhaven still have a hegemony extending across most of Candar, and they’re still [...]
The Magic Engineer by L. E. Modesitt is a post from Fantasy Folder
Tue, Dec 06, 2011
Three hundred years after the events in the original Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson’s The Alloy of Law gives a glimpse of what the world of Scadrial has become. The magic is the same, though it has evolved a little, with the addition of a couple new metals. The thriving city of Elendel now has trains [...]
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson is a post from Fantasy Folder
Wed, Nov 23, 2011
Sam Vimes is back in Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld novel—Snuff—and he hasn’t changed a bit. When Sybil talks him into taking a vacation in the countryside, Sam of course brings his work along. Between bouts of complaining about the aristocracy and the lack of loud city noises, Commander/Duke Vimes soon finds skulduggery afoot and simply [...]
Snuff by Terry Pratchett is a post from Fantasy Folder
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
The Towers of the Sunset is the second book, by order of publication, in L. E. Modesitt’s Saga of Recluce. (First book: The Magic of Recluce) It’s a prequel, covering the story behind the founding of Recluce, the island haven of Order mages. It takes awhile to get into Towers, not only because you’re unceremoniously [...]
The Towers of the Sunset by L. E. Modesitt is a post from Fantasy Folder
Sun, Sep 11, 2011
If you’ve already read Changes (the twelfth book of Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files), you know how shocking a few of its plot developments were. If you haven’t, stop reading before you run into some major spoilers. Yes, Harry Dresden—Chicago’s undead-fighting wizard detective—is now a ghost. After the deal he made with Queen Mab and [...]
Ghost Story by Jim Butcher is a post from Fantasy Folder
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
First Lord’s Fury brings Jim Butcher’s Roman-inspired fantasy epic The Codex Alera to a spectacular conclusion. Gaius Octavian returns to Alera, from the Canim lands across the sea, and is ready to do battle with the Vord. It’s fitting that the final battle takes place in the Calderon Valley, where it all began. The book [...]
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