Category: Fantasy
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A Dance with Dragons, hopefully the nadir
A few weeks ago I said that I would post an update on how A Dance with Dragons was doing on Amazon. Here it is: A 5 star rating is good. The sample size is not too large in relation to previous books, but I think we can conclude that this is more in k…
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A Dance with Dragons, day 1
George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons has been out one day. There are now ~20 reviews (as of this writing) on the Amazon website. So we have some information in in terms of reader reaction. The sample size is small, so I don’t have a h…
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Dances with Dragons, t-minus ~ 1 month
So A Dance with Dragons, A Song of Ice and Fire #5, is coming out in about a month. Honestly I’ve been wondering if it really would drop (at ~1000 pages, it’s literally going to be a heavy drop). Seems as if it’s for real, Publisher&#…
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Is “Game of Thrones” racist? Not even wrong….
One of the aspects of fiction is that it serves as a Rorschach test. Over at Slate Nina Shen Rastogi has a post up, Is “Game of Thrones” Racist?: The Dothraki are dark, with long hair they wear in dreadlocks or in matted braids. They sport …
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Nerd alert!
Apparently July 12th, 2011, is now a hard date for the publication of George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons, the 5th book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. Martin has confirmed the date on his website: “Barring tsunamis, general st…