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The story centres on woodsman Richard Cypher, played by Australian actor Craig Horner, who unwittingly possesses magical powers. He becomes duty-bound to use his skills against an evil tyrant named Darken Rahl, who commands an increasingly threatening army. The fantasy drama is based...
Wed, Jul 1 | from Truth.com | More Terry Goodkind
J K Rowling, best selling creator of the Harry Potter phenomenon completed her manuscript of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone‘ on an old mechanical typewriter. Her manuscript was rejected by twelve publishers before the relatively small publishing house Bloomsbury took i...
Tue, Jun 30 | from ttglibrary (WordPress) | More J. K. Rowling
I miss her. She lives in London, now. I don't see her as much as I'd like, and I speak to her most days only because she's really good about phoning me. I'm in California now, and it's still her birthday here, but it's finished in London, and she'll be asleep by now, and I haven't spoken to her yet tod...
Fri, Jun 26 | from Neil Gaiman's Journal | More Neil Gaiman
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle Beauty by Robin McKinley Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett Dealing with the Dragons by Patricia Wrede Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke The Two Princesses...
Fri, Jun 26 | from Yahoo! Answers | More Terry Pratchett
I love Charlaine Harris’ mixture of humor, mystery and romance in this series. Some may call Sookie a Mary Sue, but I think her self-deprecating sense of humor make her incredibly likeable, and her “stranger in a strange land” perspective amid all the supernaturals make her easy to identi...
Thu, Jun 25 | from reneesbookaddiction (WordPress) | More Charlaine Harris
Legend of the Seeker Season 2 Premiere Episode Spoilers Our friends over at Spoiler TV have gotten their hands on some casting slides for the premiere episode for season 2 of LEGEND OF THE SEEKER. The slides are calling the episode “MARKED.” It looks like that perhaps the line that Darken Rahl was feeding Jennsen in FEVER about their familiar connection might be true after all. It also appears that maybe the Mord Sith are about to take over being the Sisters of Dark. Click HERE to read the slides for yourself! Also here is an official ABC description for season 2: “At the end of the first season, Richard succeeds in his quest to defeat Darken Rahl, but it remains to be seen whether or not he has truly been destroyed. Richard will soon discover that, in...
Wed, Jun 17 | from Multipleverses.com | More Legend of the Seeker
In the build-up to the release of Half-Blood Prince, the LA Times will be releasing new information daily. Today they have published a new interview with Steve Kloves, screenwriter for most of the Potter movies. The piece includes a new photo of Steve, which can be seen here.
Wed, Jun 17 | from SnitchSeeker.com | More Harry Potter
Piers Anthony: "Incarnations of Immortality" series, "Xanth" series For more mature readers (15 and up), Piers Anthony takes mythology to a whole new level in the "Incarnations of Immortality" series. The series answers such immortal questions (pardon ...
Tue, Jun 16 | from Examiner.com | More Piers Anthony
PA extremist libertarians and conspiracy theorists rails about Zionist plots, about a New World Order that aims to imprison Americans in concentration camps, about government as Mordor (the evil entity in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. ...
Thu, Jun 11 | from OpEdNews | More Lord of the Rings
OH And now HarperTeen's “Supernatural Summer,” a tour featuring authors of urban fantasy books for young adults that stops in Cincinnati Thursday. One of those authors is Rock Hill, SC-based Kim Harrison, whose best-selling adult supernatural series, ...
Wed, Jun 3 | from Cincinnati.com | More Kim Harrison
Maybe I have overworked this author. I just didn’t find this book interesting even knowing some of the characters. The plot didn’t just plod, it made watching ice melt interesting. If his name wasn’t on the book, I wouldn’t believe the same guy wrote the Vlad Taltos series. This is a follow up to...
Fri, Apr 17 | from Pick of the Literate | More Steven Brust
AZ In the introduction provided by the author in the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition, Tad Williams describes himself as a dog person. What would be his first novel (written initially in 1985) “Tailchaser’s Song” was inspired by his ex-wife’s two cats, ...
Tue, Mar 24 | from Firefox News | More Tad Williams
Part 5 of our wonderful tour of the world of Xanth! Will we ever make it through the Void? And what about the Realm of Earth? Author: retrogamerclay Keywords: xanth "companions of xanth" "pc game review" review retro "the retro gamer" Added: December 30, 2008
Tue, Dec 30 | from YouTube | More Xanth
Genre: Short Stories; Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Part 9: The Heart in Conflict – Read by George R. R. Martin – Talks about how his work usually crosses genre lines, and how stories are just stories, whether they’re dressed up as fantasy, science fiction, horror, westerns, etc.
Thu, Dec 4 | from Fyrefly's Book | More George R. R. Martin
Forging the Darksword Doom of the Darksword Triumph of the Darksword Also, there's Legacy of the Darksword, afterward, and Darksword Adventures, but I'm not reviewing them here (Darksword Adventures is more for a role-playing game, and Legacy of the Darksword is about the not-so-dis...
Mon, Oct 13 | from Nabble | More Margaret Weis
Something woke her in the night." Genre fiction is rising from the dead to terrorize serious literature! In response to Michael Chabon’s (previously) new book, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Ruth Franklin wrote a review in Slate beginning with the line “Michael Chabon has spent consid...
Fri, Jul 20 | from MetaFilter | More Ursula K. Le Guin
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