The readers remember!
When I do reader surveys one refrain is fewer posts on science fiction and fantasy. I’ve honored this request insofar as I post very little on such topics now (in the early years of this weblog there was even a “fork” weblog devoted to this). But indulge me for a moment. Many of us believe […]
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…
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…
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&#…
George R. R. Martin in The New Yorker
A friend mentioned last night that he was watching a bit of A Game of Thrones, the new HBO series based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. I’ll probably wait until after the DVD version comes out, if I watch it at all. …