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• The Authorized Ender Companion by Jake Black

  
  FanaticSpace — Authority: 91
  Ender’s (Authorized) Companion The Authorized Ender Companion is an encyclopedia to the universe of Ender’s Game . Jake Black has compiled detailed character summaries, technical specifications and essays regarding various aspects of the Ender series created by Orson Scott Card. Sections Include An ...
  14 hours ago

• A Story for Christmas

  
  Honk if you love justice! — Authority: 112
  Now that you’ve unwrapped your presents and seen the fam, here’s a Christmas story of a different kind .  If it’s familiar, I’ve linked it before, but it’s worth reading agian.  Enjoy.  Merry Christmas!
  2 days ago

• First Dragon Age comic issue coming in March

  
  Big Download Blog — Authority: 604
  Filed under: Culture , RPG , Dragon Age: Origins Earlier this year we reported that comic book publisher IDW Publishing was teaming up with Electronic Arts to launch a new line of EA Comics . Today IDW has revealed that the first issue of the monthly Dragon Age comic book series will ship to stores in ...
  5 days ago

• A War of Gifts, by Orson Scott Card

  
  Sun and Shield — Authority: 124
  I  have previously posted about Orson Scott Card , an important author of fantastic literature, and, in particular, about his Ender books . Since that time, I have read another book set in that sub-creation, which is A War of Gifts . Ill say little about the plot, which is well summarized in the immediately ...
  1 week ago

• A new look for the Starscape edition of Ender’s Game

  
  Tor/Forge's Blog — Authority: 421
  By Susan Chang, Senior Editor When we were choosing the books that would launch our Starscape imprint for middle grade readers in January of 2002, the number one pick on our list was the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. The protagonist is a brilliant child character, ...
  1 week ago

• Universe in Flux—Canonizing the Companion

  
  Tor/Forge's Blog — Authority: 421
  By Jake Black It was 2006, I believe, when I was first approached about writing an encyclopedia of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game Universe. I thought the prospect was extremely exciting. I had done some smaller encyclopedic works for other properties, but nothing like this would be. At the time, I hadn’t ...
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• What Now? A Post-Apocalyptic Reading List

  
  Books Worth Reading — Authority: 111
  Cover of Earth Abides Between the movie 2012 and the actual year 2012 looming on the horizon, global warming summits and Viggo Mortensen heading down The Road , the apocalypse has been on a lot of minds lately. But if you’re one of the (un)lucky ones to survive the actual big event, then what should you do? ...
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• Seventh Son

  
  Roots, Leaves and Threads — Authority: 112
  Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card (1 of Tales of Alvin Maker) The book is set in an alternate colonial America, where practitioners of magic have been exiled. Alvin Miller is born the seventh son of a seventh son- and thus his family & community expects him to be destined for greatness- that is if he can survive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Last-Minute Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Console Games

  
  The GATE — Authority: 126
  For those of you still stumbling around looking for the perfect gift this holiday season, here are a few suggestions that may come in handy for that special adult gamer in your life. Including some of the best video games released this year, these titles are sure to please the person in your life who just cant tear ...
  2 weeks ago

• What is Urban Fantasy Romance?

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 481
  I had to educate myself on this. For instance, until I read Katiebabs’ WTF post on Laurell K. Hamilton (among other things) I would have cleanly classified Anita Blake as contemporary paranormal romance. If Anita Blake is urban fantasy then so to by deduction must be Keri Arthur’s Riley Jenson Series and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zing: Unexpected Fear

  
  MentatJack — Authority: 91
  When I was in the first grade, I travelled with my parents from the mountains of Highland County Virginia to Montevideo, Uruguay. We were there to visit my mom’s sister and family. I have many memories that have been reinforced over the years by slide shows, but one that sticks out distinctly involved a simple ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dynamite Entertainment Acquires Dabel Brothers Publishing

  
  Hypergeek — Authority: 445
  Dynamite Entertainment announced today that they have signed a comprehensive agreement with Dabel Brothers Publishing to transition all of their titles to the Dynamite brand. Dabel Brothers was originally founded in 2000 by four brothers, Ernest, Les, Pascal and David Dabel as Roaring Studios . Initially ...
  3 weeks ago

• Worth Reading: Wastelands

  
  Books Worth Reading — Authority: 111
  Cover of Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse , edited by John Joseph Adams (2008) For a retrospective of the post-apocalyptic story — and of the best contemporary science fiction and horror authors dabbling in the sub-genre — you can’t do much better than this ...
  3 weeks ago

• Looping through the Mormon Arts, from me to me

  
  A Motley Vision — Authority: 465
  . Though this post is by it’s very nature heavily self-indulgent, I am going to try to spin it as more altruistic than it is. Altruism #1: Katya’s Mormon Arts Wikia is exploding. BYU’s Mormon Literature & Creative Arts database is still an excellent resource and in many respects superior, ...
  4 weeks ago

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