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Brandon Sanderson Finishes the Final Wheel of Time Book

Matt — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:11:02 +0000

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 made an announcement yet.

Ladies and gentlemen, A Memory of Light–the final book in The Wheel of Time–has been finished.

— Brandon Sanderson (@BrandSanderson) December 21, 2011

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Trailer Posted

Matt — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:39:26 +0000

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 related works.

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Neil Gaiman Interviews Terry Pratchett on BoingBoing.net

Matt — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:01:14 +0000

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.

TP: On a point of order, Mister Gaiman, the world in which Sam Vimes finds himself is hardly fantastic. Okay, there are goblins, but the overall ambience is that of the shires of Middle England. It’s all about the commonality of humankind. Shove Sam Vimes into a situation that has gone toxic and away he goes, as realistic as any other policeman and thinking in the very same ways and being Sam Vimes, questioning his motives and procedures all the way through.

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Fantasy Faction Interviews Brandon Sanderson

Matt — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:53:11 +0000

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 released this fall, and that the movie is still happening so far. The script is done and it’s being shopped around to various film companies in Hollywood.

Brandon Sanderson Video Interview [Fantasy Faction]

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And Pottermore is…

Matt — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:36:14 +0000

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, come October, a “unique and free-to-use website which builds an exciting online experience” around the Harry Potter series. It will be something of an interactive web game full of unpublished material from Harry Potter.

The author has written thousands of words of new material “about the characters, places and objects in the much-loved stories, which will inform, inspire and entertain readers as they journey through the storylines of the books.

The website will also later serve as an exclusive place to purchase and download the novels in ebook and audio book form, without annoying DRM.

For further reading:

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Pottermore: J.K. Rowling’s New Announcement

Matt — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:06:11 +0000

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 of the editors at The Leaky Cauldron have seen a preview of Pottermore, and have described it as “breathtaking.” They say that it’s not a new book, but something “equally exciting.”

We’ll keep you posted as more information becomes available.

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Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Trailer Online

Matt — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:18:34 +0000

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, Flash and iPod-ready videos.

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Garth Nix Begins Writing Sequel to Sabriel Trilogy

Matt — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:58:50 +0000

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 Old Kingdom, where is almost no threat from the Dead or Free Magic, and the Abhorsens are considered something between an archaic remnant of worse times and municipal rat-catchers. Clariel will probably be a 2013 release.

The Old Kingdom Trilogy is set in a thrilling fantasy world featuring undead-creating necromancers fought by a mysterious figure known as the Abhorsen—whose duty is to undo their workings and enforce the magical Charter.

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New Episodes of Warehouse 13, Eureka Resume July 11

Matt — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:10:57 +0000

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 months before running the second half.)

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Mistborn: The Alloy of Law Cover Art and Synopsis

Matt — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:51:29 +0000

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 gone anywhere. (Sanderson, on Twitter, was talking about writing a Mistborn gunfight…)

Tor has posted the cover art as well as a short synopsis over at Tor.com.

The fourth Mistborn book is currently scheduled for a November release, and the author has hinted about plans for three more to follow.

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