suvudu.com - 1/22/2009
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It is always difficult when a writer has a hard time finishing a sequel. We as readers usually want the next book as quickly as possible and rarely give understanding to the necessary time needed for the writer to produce said book. Sometimes a writer takes longer to write a sequel than ...
In conversation with George R.R. Martin
communities.canada.com 8/8/2009 —
Both best-selling and critically acclaimed, author George R.R. Martin has been writing professionally since the early 1970s. He won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1973, the first in a long list of awards he’d go on to win. He began ...
No true knights: George R.R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings
tor.com 9/12/2009 — A Clash of Kings is the second in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. Sensible people would read them in order if they normally read chapters of a book in order.
What I want to say about this volume without spoilers is that again ...
No ice, no fire: George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows
tor.com 9/24/2009 — In the first three volumes of this series, Martin wrote chapters from different limited third-person points of view, with each character’s chapters forming a complete story but all the chapters interlinked and commenting on each other. The chapters ...
Paranormal fantasy that isn't: George R. R. Martin’s Fevre Dream
tor.com 8/31/2009 — Though Anne Rice is perhaps the best known writer of vampires, around about the same time that Interview with the Vampire was published another notable author had written a piece of vampire fiction. It didn’t get as much press at the time, but his ...
Book Review: Dark Haven by Gail Z. Martin
darkfantasy.org 8/9/2009 — The signifiers are everywhere: more nuanced and positive attitudes toward peasants, a central core of allies prominently united across national, gender, or species line against individuals of ill-will (many of whom seem to take a particular pleasure in mistreating women), and strong and equal ...
Empty Criticism
ruthlessculture.com 6/24/2009 — This week has seen some quite bitter disagreement over the role of the critic in writing about genre. As pieced together by Abigail Nussbaum and Niall Harrison, the debate started when a new group blog launched claiming not only the name ‘ethics’ ...
New George R. R. Martin Interview
suvudu.com 8/9/2009 — George R. R. Martin is one of the formidable forces in the fantasy genre.
He also is one of the nicest and sweetest men you will ever meet and he genuinely cares for all around him.
The first time I met him was at the San Jose Worldcon in 2002. ...
Book Review: Buyout by Alexander C. Irvine
darkfantasy.org 9/8/2009 — To say Martin wrestles with the morality of his labor is an overstatement; he and morality play pattycake, at best, and Martin becomes the face of the buyout program. The benefits are financial, immediate and tangible; the costs include his rapidly dissolving marriage, his privacy, the respect ...
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