Books

It seems Stephen King is ready to retire. I
think he’s probably the most successful
horror-fantasy authour out there. I wonder if
anyone’s going to try and fill into the market
void he’ll leave behind. The details are here.

I just finished a first novel by an authour, which is also the first book I’ve read published through Xlibris. If you want to hear my opinion about a love story set in a town full of vampires, you can Read More.
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hbkk writes, The BBC has an article about a partially-finished sixth “Hitchhiker’s Trilogy” book that will reportedly be published. More information on the BBC news site.

The Hugos have been awarded. I usually retype all
the winners for the Bureau, but the awards groups
usually put seperate winners on seperate web pages.
The official Hugo site is well done, so I’ll just
link to that.
The list of nominees can be found here.

A new
report claims that the prosecution of Tolkien
fans reported
earlier isn’t actually happening. Let’s hope
this second report is more accurate.

This is rather disturbing… in one of the weird little dots that used to make up the Soviet Union, the police are arresting and allegedly torturing people who re-enact scenes from Tolkien novels.

I just received word (via a friend of his on the
Larry Niven Discussion mailing list) that Poul
Anderson passed away last night. I’ll post a link to
mainstream press articles if I find any.

The annual Bulwer-Lytton awards, given to the person
who writes the first sentence of the wosrt imaginable
novel, were awarded yesterday. The winners in all
categories (including the sci-fi and fantasy
categories) are given here.
I love the sci-fi dishonourable mention: Rodney
knew that he was going to die a horrible, screaming,
unspeakable death, when he arrived on the bridge in a
uniform that did not match the others, was referred
to only as “yeoman” and was to be sent planetside
with Captain Kirk and the regular away team.

Another spoiler free book review follows. Read more
for the goodies.

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This review is on Ender’s Shadow, the
parallel novel to Ender’s Game. Once again,
spoiler free goodness is just a click away.

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