# Genre: Shared Worlds, Forgotten Realms, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (June 2, 2009)
# ISBN-10: 078695129X
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951291
# Author Blog: Rosemary Jones
Rosemary Jones first appeared in the Forgotten Realms universe with her dungeon-diving novel (plus a little white dog) The Crypt of the Moaning Diamond. In her [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Book Review: City of the Dead by Rosemary Jones
My friend helps us to visualize the US National Budget
I’m taking a one post break from my regularly scheduled programming to give a shout out to my friend Matthias who has recently been getting a lot of attention for his visualizations of the National Debt and Obama’s spending plan using 10,000 pennies. It certainly helped me understand some aspects of this massive amounts of [...]
What music reminds you of science fiction or fantasy?
My latest post for Tor.com puts a challenge to its readers to think of music (with lyrics) that reminds them of science fiction and or fantasy. Go check it out and put in your two (or twenty) cents.
Video: A Fountain of Youth for Materialists
I’ll admit to watching TBS’s World’s Funniest Commercials 2009 last night. And they were. This one really grabbed my attention with its fantasy elements of a wish fulfillment river. Watch careful for the guy who dips his knife in the water and gets out something much better. I can think of a few things (read [...]
Winner of the Chloe Neill Prize Pack is…
L. Norton of Illinois. You should be getting your signed book and extras in the mail in a week or so direct from the author. Thanks to all of the 40 people who entered!
Supporting literacy every day with little effort
This link will take you to a post at the Bookshop Blog that explains a simple thing you can do (i.e. change your home page) to support literacy with little or no effort. I think this is pretty cool.
Time: Watching ‘The Lord of the Rings’ in Tehran
Matt Staggs put this up in today’s Links and Things. Do read it. do.
“I wonder which official picked this film, starting to suspect, even hope, that there is a subversive soul manning the controls at seda va sima, central broadcasting. It is way too easy to find political meaning in the film, to draw comparisons [...]
Free Serialized Online Fiction: Bone Shop: A Marla mason Story
Bone Shop is a free, serialized online novella by T.A. Pratt, supported by donations from readers. Pay whatever you like. Tim explains more about the project at his livejournal.
Sci Fi Songs: The Transformers Theme
John Anealio has some fun with the 80’s Transformers Theme over at Sci-fi Songs today. I LIKE it! You will too.
David J. Williams/ Jerry Pournelle Cage Match (as told by Williams)
Williams, author of Burning Skies describes his heated discussion with (as he put it – and I’m not disagreeing) “living legend” Jerry Pournelle. He then develops some of the ideas over at Suvudu today.
