Sometime next year (probably end of Febuary in UK and end of May in US) a new Malazan book is coming out. Ian Cameron Esslemont's Dancer's Lament will take us back to the very beginnings of Malazan Empire - the meeting of Dancer and Kellanved.

It was once a land ravaged by war, minor city states, baronies and principates fight for supremacy, and ( Read more... )

The biggest story right now of course is Spiderman joining MCU. This makes everyone excited at the thought of having all Marvel properties back together but it's very unlikely for X-Men. X_men have bottomless supply of characters and are basically universe on their own. Spiderman despite being popular is just one character. All the plans to make ( Read more... )

The winners of the World Fantasy Award were announced yesterday in Brighton during World Fantasy convention:

World Fantasy Special Award: William F. Nolan and Brian Aldiss

Novel
Winner: Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
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Assail - the last book of Ian Cameron Esslemont's Malazan Empire series is to be released in UK on 27th March 2014. The blurb is as follows:

The final chapter in the awesome, epic story of the Malazan empire ( Read more... )

One thing that annoys me about switching to ebooks is that I'm at the mercy of US publishers. Back when I was buying actual books I could get it from whatever place had it first in a language I could read. Now, I had to wait for Ian Cameron Esslemont's Blood and Bone for half a year while out there in UK people read it and discussed it. Of course ( Read more... )

First it snowed. Just a little bit but, since it was, below 0 and even below -2 the whole day, the snow stayed on the ground. Then it rained. The cold rain that would be freezing if not for the ground still being pretty warm. Then the rain froze and the sky started dropping tiny ice balls. I was technically hail but hail hits hard and this was just ( Read more... )

The weather is winter again ( Read more... )

I was afraid I would have to go through withdrawal but fortunately Ian Cameron Esselmont got a 4 book deal with Transworld. All of them  Malazan books. That’s not counting the ones already out - NoK and RotCG. So the dreaded end of Malazan stories has disappeared in a distant future. Besides Dust of Dreams next year and Chained God year after that ( Read more... )