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- Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
- Replies: 8193
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I'm reading Neal Asher's Prador Moon. An alien invasion of an interstellar human society. The aliens are giant sentient crabs with a taste for human flesh, and extremely hard to kill. Asher is very good with xenobiology run amok, and this one's no exception. Lean and mean, just over 200 pages - not ...
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:13 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: The Mist
- Replies: 41
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I'm stunned. :o Shawshank Redemption is almost universally praised as the best King work to ever be made into a movie, and personally, I think The Green Mile is even better. I felt it got robbed, losing out for Best Picture to American Beauty. The Mist concerns a small group of Maine residents, trap...
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:39 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Dark Tower Comic
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11985
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:59 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: The Mist
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24424
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:57 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Dark Tower Comic
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11985
- Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:06 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Dark Tower Comic
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11985
I check King's official website every couple of weeks. (By the way, King has dusted off an old manuscript called Blaze, originally intended as a Bachman novel, and he has revised it. He expects to have it finished by the end of the year, so hopefully it will see publication in 2007. Also he's workin...
- Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:13 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Dark Tower Comic
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11985
- Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:48 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Dark Tower Comic
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11985
Dark Tower Comic
I picked up the free promotional DT sketchbook last night. There's not a lot there, plot-wise, but the artwork is sensational. This Jae Lee, I think, is going to do it justice. :D Some of the artwork makes me think, though, that the story is going to be a rehash of the flashback events in Wizard and...
- Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
- Replies: 8193
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Balon, Wizard and Glass as the high point of the series is up for debate. Personally I consider it number two, with the finale, Dark Tower VII, as the best. And V and VI, although not quite on the level of Wizard and Glass, are still tremendous reads and way above the norm in epic fantasy. So keep o...
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:16 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Stranger Than Fiction
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5201
- Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:56 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
- Replies: 8193
- Views: 1176111
I just read Stephen King's newest short story in Playboy, called Willa. Yeah, I know, I gotta be the only guy who picked that magazine up for the fiction in it. :P The story is mediocre, IMHO, one plot twist, but it's in the first third of the story. The rest is a mood piece, and I'm more into an ex...
- Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:19 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
- Replies: 8193
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I'm finishing Dan Simmon's Olympos. Superb novel, better even than Ilium. Wonderful imagination and truly epic in scope and execution. I really enjoyed how the old-style humans (Dan's word, not mine) changed and matured and really hung tough against overwhelming odds. If you love sf, and have any in...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:39 pm
- Forum: George R. R. Martin Forum
- Topic: George Martin vs. Pay Pal: A Storm of........toy Knights?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4069
Martin, here in the States disguised as a big old lovable teddy bear of a guy, is in reality Osama's right-hand man. His Song of Ice and Fire is a cleverly concocted codebook for a terrorist takeover, and Martin's so-called hobby of toy knight collecting was their way of laundering money and transpo...
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:06 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Stranger Than Fiction
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5201
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:59 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
- Replies: 8193
- Views: 1176111
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:56 pm
- Forum: George R. R. Martin Forum
- Topic: George is coming home...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4634
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:52 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Okay, where do I start?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 19200
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:34 pm
- Forum: George R. R. Martin Forum
- Topic: George is coming home...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4634
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:11 pm
- Forum: George R. R. Martin Forum
- Topic: Good lord!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3405
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:31 pm
- Forum: Stephen King Forum
- Topic: Okay, where do I start?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 19200
Yes, the stories in Gunslinger were originally serialized in that magazine. They sort of have a cobbled together feel to them in the book, too, which I think hurts it, compared to the rest of the Dark Tower series. However, King revised The Gunslinger just before the publication of Wolves of the Cal...