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First we get to hear that Robert Jordan’s last book has found its author, and now, another bit of news some of us have wondered about for a few years now: Peter Jackson will be producing The Hobbit. I know there was a whole dispute some time ago, with New…

Lawrence Watt-Evans, author of The Wizard Lord and the upcoming sequel, The Ninth Talisman, lists six rules of fantasy by which a reader or writer can understand the genre a little better, as well as get a clearer idea of how to go about writing a fantasy story Watt-Evans’ First…

If you want a peek at a way-ahead-of-schedule novel, check out this free offering by Brandon Sanderson (the same author who was picked recently to finish off Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series). Warbreaker is a novel that he plans to get published one of these years, but with the…

I’ve been watching some interesting graphic novel developments for the past couple of months, and if you dip into spec-fic news every now and then, you’ve probably come across articles discussing the Dabel Brothers company and some of the projects they’re in the middle of publishing. Each of the three…

And to provide you with some video distraction this weekend, did anyone know that the film adaptation of Pratchett’s The Hogfather is available entirely on YouTube? I certainly didn’t…until now. Here is part 1 of 22 video chunks which you can view in sequence. From the reviews I’ve read, this…

Terry Pratchett announced in this letter that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s, which, apparently, was the cause of the stroke he suffered earlier this year. He asks that people keep a cheerful attitude about the whole situation, and that they’re holding out with optimism regarding…

…but in style. Doesn’t that comfort you? The art of surveillance is a gallery of devices and technologies that either are being used or may someday be used to track people as they go about their daily routines. Some of it is presented as an artistic medium, while other devices…

If you haven’t already heard the news, you can read it on Tor’s official website:http://www.dragonmount.com/News/?p=326 Or on Brandon Sanderson’s blog:http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/585/Brandon-to-Finish-Wheel-of-Time I think this is incredibly cool. Brandon Sanderson has entirely won me as a fan with has fantasy novels, Elantris, Mistborn, etc, and I can see him pulling off A…

Now what in the world is that post title supposed to mean? Apparently some records were broken back in April concerning the tiniest book in existence: Teeny Ted from Turnip Town was created by a group of Canadian researchers using a focused gallium-ion beam to carve out eetsy-beetsy letters on…

What do you think of when the idea of Hell starts getting talked about? Okay, so not many people start up casual conversations around Hell. It gets thrown around more over the phone as a place where telemarketers are told to go…or maybe you see it in cartoons, with a…