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| New Shadows of the Apt trade covers |
| 2011-09-05 13:20:00 |
Empire in Black and Gold and Dragonfly Falling, the first two novels of the Shadows of the Apt saga by Adrian Tchaikovsky will be out in March 2012 as a trade paperback editions. The two books received a new cover art, by artist Alan Brooks.Again, for the sake of comparison, I posted the US and UK covers of both novels. I think the new illustration for Empire is much better than the two previous covers but I prefer the UK art for Dragonfly... What do you think?...
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| The Way of Kings interior illustrations |
| 2011-09-05 08:23:00 |
When I read The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson last year (review), it was an ARC copy provided by Tor. While most of the illustrations in the book were not present, I thought that this visual support was a very good idea. Even though Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge (I may be stretching that idea too far in this case...), to have all these references about the wildlife and geography of Roshar only help build the world in my head. So, Brandon decided to post all the interior illustration on his blog.Here are some samples, for all the rest, head on to his page....
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| Weeks' The Black Prism french cover |
| 2011-09-03 09:23:00 |
Brent Weeks posted the french cover art for his latest novel, The Black Prism. The illustration for "Le Prisme Noir" is the work of Miguel Coimbra (his page here). For the sake of comparison, I also posted the US and UK cover art....
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| Chesley Award Winners |
| 2011-09-01 17:06:00 |
The 2011 Chesley Award Winners were announced in August. These awards are presented by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. Here's what's its about :ASFA annually gives out the Chesley Awards, which were established in 1985 as ASFA's peer awards to recognize individual works and achievements not otherwise recognized by the Hugo Awards, during a given year.Three winners attracted my attention as a fantasy reader :Best Cover Illustration – Hardback BookMichael Whelan for :Best Cover Illustration – Paperback BookJason Chan for :Best product IllustrationSam Weber for :...
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| September releases |
| 2011-08-31 18:17:00 |
The follow-up to one of the great debut of last year is out this month, Spellbound by Blake Charlton. I noticed that the book reading level on Amazon is Young Adult... I admit that it's for all the family but as I said in my review of Spellwright : "Judging by this, the book could almost be considered a YA novel, but I would tag it as for all ages instead, i.e. not specifically targeted towards the YA audience."David Chandler's second book in a couple of months will also be out, fellow Canadian K.V. Johansen is released and if you wondered what was Greg Keyes up to, well has written a second novel set in the Elder Scrolls universe.From the list of the 2011 releases I posted back in January, one novel set for release initially in September was pushed back to October, The Kingdom of Go...
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| The Well of Ascension review |
| 2011-08-25 20:59:00 |
The Well of Ascension is Brandon Sanderson second novel in the Mistborn trilogy. It was originally released in August 2007 and was Sanderson first sequel in one of his Fantasy worlds, the third 'non-YA' novel he wrote. Sadly, it's now his best work.The Lord Ruler is no more. The city of Luthadel and the central dominance are now in the hands of the newly crowned King Elend Venture. With the help of the crew and under the protection of the now named Lady Heir, the mistborn Vin, the young charismatic noble who dreamed of a utopian society is trying to create a kingdom with fair laws for everyone. However, for the nobles in the other dominances, this new regime is not to their taste. Upon the rumors of the cache of atium, the ultimate allomantic metal, residing under the city, it's not ...
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| New poll - Completed series |
| 2011-08-24 19:28:00 |
A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading The Crippled God by Steven Erikson, the final volume of his lengthy series. I remember saying "After 3 million 300 thousand words, I can't actually believe that it's over but I'm also glad for it." and "And even though you might struggle in some passages, you'll probably end up being quite satisfied that you went through the ten books.". So, as you can observe, as sporadic as it may seems for series (long lasting, not trilogies), I actually found at least one occurrence where the ending was satisfying enough for my taste. I know that many (and I should probably say quite a lot) of threads where not present at the ending but not all of them were necessary and few of them ended in cliffhangers. Though I would...
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| Updates - Weeks, Jemisin and Abercrombie |
| 2011-08-16 19:23:00 |
Some interesting tidbits surfaced in the last two days concerning Brent Weeks, N.K. Jemisin and Joe Abercrombie.***First, if you have a Facebook account (hum... who doesn't anyway...) you can take a peak at the first three chapters of The Binding Knife, book two of the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. The author posted the chapters on The Black Prism Facebook page. The novel is set for release in Fall 2012.The Binding Knife excerpt.***Lauren Panepinto posted another nice cover art this week for the Orbit release of the third novel in the Inheritance trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, The Kingdoms of Gods. The cover was drawn again by Cliff Nielsen with the same kind of city art with a face on the background.Here for the Orbit page.***Finally, Joe Abercrombie posted an update on ...
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| New Orbit covers for Abercrombie |
| 2011-08-11 10:22:00 |
Orbit unveiled today the two new covers for their upcoming trade paperback editions of two latest stand-alone novels by Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold and The Heroes.I still would pick up the original UK covers with the map background but it's an interesting result. At least Joe is happy about it! :) What do you think?Here's the previous covers : ...
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| The Dragon's Path review |
| 2011-08-09 21:01:00 |
The Dragon's Path is the first novel of a new fantasy series called the Dagger and the Coin by Daniel Abraham. The author already has a nice reputation in fantasy with his Long Price quartet which received very good reviews in general. He's also MLN Hanover when writing urban fantasy and James S.A. Corey when writing sci-fi. This is my first read of a novel by Abraham and it won't be my last. Cithrin Bel Sarcour is a ward of the Medean Bank of Vanai. Having to flee the city with the bank holdings before a new Antean invasion of the free city, she finds herself on a caravan on the long road to Carse. Guarding the caravan is the legendary Captain Marcus Wester, now a guard for hire. Back in Antea, Dawson Kalliam, Baron of Osterling Fells is plotting against the other ...
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