Three new books, from epic fantasy to biological thriller, consider an age-old question. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-08-01 18:00:06 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie—the former PEN America President and Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, and Joseph Anton—just sold a new novel, and it sounds like a doozy. Billed as a translation of an ancient Indian myth, Victory City—Rushdie’s fifteenth novel, his first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-07-01 15:22:16 UTC ]
Growing up, Jeff Kinney discovered Tolkien, comics and computers at his local bookshop. When it closed he was bereft – would opening his own as an adult help to right that wrong?Author Jacqueline Woodson recently spoke about books being either mirrors or windows. Mirrors for seeing ourselves,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-10-05 09:00:40 UTC ]
Historical fiction writer Chris Humphreys is making a move into epic fantasy with a new trilogy for Gollancz. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Warner Bros. have acquired the film rights to the epic fantasy novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James. The first novel of the Dark Star trilogy, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” is based on African mythology. Set in a world of competing kingdoms and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Game of Thrones: Enhanced Edition, available through Apple from Thursday, promises ‘a world of additional content’ including sigils, family trees and glossariesGeorge RR Martin has hailed “an amazing next step in the world of books” as he announced publication of a new digital edition of A... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of epic fantasy will be explored on a PW Webcast set for 1 p.m. today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jack Vance, prolific author of science fiction, mystery and epic fantasy, died Sunday at 96, his son John told the Associated Press. He had written more than 60 books during his long life.Jack Vance, prolific author of science fiction, mystery and epic fantasy, died Sunday at 96, his son John... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]