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Sci-fi writer makes $50,000 for charity off of his "troll"

When his online nemesis called him a rapist and a "gamma male," John Scalzi mobilized his readership for charity

o inspiracijo, ime ti je keš flou.... 








Amazon has the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming reprint novel The Iron King by Maurice Druon, the first book in the

The Accursed Kings   

series that "inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work", A Game of Thrones.

Here's the synopsis:





From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work.
"Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!"
The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men.
A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King; but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty...Book info as per Amazon US [Also available via Amazon UK]:

Toliko topika o Martinu, ne znam gde bih ovo stavio

George R.R. Martin expands on HBO deal    Not very far, but Martin confirms that, in the wake of the new deal, he is actively discussing Dunk and Egg with HBO and will be pitching a Tuf Voyaging TV series to them as well (note he doesn't say to HBO, but the exclusivity deal means it really has to be to HBO). He also suggests Conleth Hill (Varys in GoT)could make an excellent Haviland Tuf, and rules himself out from having any role on the new I, Claudius TV series.

No word on a possibly Ron Donachie-starring version of Fevre Dream, unfortunately. Martin's comments do confirm earlier supposition that the deal will be used - at least in part - to explore his existing, non-optioned franchises.

Syfy is adapting Philip K. Dick's book "The Man in the High Castle" into a four-part miniseries, with Ridley Scott attached to exec produce.

Dick's novel, set in 1962, depicts a world where Nazi Germany and Japan were the victors in WWII and occupy the U.S.  "The X-Files" vet Frank Spotnitz will serve as primary scribe and as exec producer. Scott will exec produce through his shingle Scott Free Prods., alongside Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Prods. and FremantleMedia Intl., which will also distribute the mini globally.
"Alternate history stories are part of an amazing and intricate genre of sci-fi," said Mark Stern, president of original content at Syfy and co-head of original content at Universal Cable Prods. "When done well, there's nothing better; and I can't think of better creative talent to bring Philip K. Dick's fascinating alternate-history thriller to life than Ridley Scott and Frank Spotnitz."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118066024/

MGM has acquired the rights to Richard Matheson's classic sci-fi novel The Shrinking Man with the aim of bringing an updated version of the story that was first adapted on-screen as The Incredible Shrinking Man in 1957.

Matheson, who turns 87 later this month, will pen the screenplay with his son, Richard Matheson Jr., keeping the tone of the original story but updating it to modern times.

Matheson is an icon in the horror and fantasy world, responsible for works such as I Am Legend (last adapted into a 2007 Will Smith movie), classic Twilight Zone episodes ("Steel" was turned into the Hugh Jackman movie Real Steel) and Duel, one of Steven Spielberg's earliest works.



The book, written when atomic-bomb fear ran high, centers on a man who is exposed to radiation and insecticide and begins to shrink. The Mathesons will modernize the story to reflect advancements such as nanotechnology.

Describing the new iteration as "an existential action movie," the elder Matheson says, "My original story was a metaphor for how man's place in the world was diminishing. That still holds today, where all these advancements that are going to save us will be our undoing."

Universal held the rights to the book for decades, releasing the original movie and trying with Imagine Entertainment to come up with ways to bring a new adaptation to the big-screen. At one point, Eddie Murphy was attached to star as a magician who shrinks due to a spell. (In fact, the comedy aspect of this concept has surfaced in recent decades in such movies such as 1981's The Incredible Shrinking Woman and1989's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which was not based on the novel but certainly took cues from it. The new Shrinking Man will not be a comedy.)

The rights lapsed last summer and MGM quietly swooped in. 

"The themes of The Shrinking Man continue to be relevant," says Jonathan Glickman, president of MGM's motion picture group. "And the Mathesons' cutting-edge ideas for the adaptation will make for a great film that will play all over the world."

"It's one of those fantasy concepts that does not age," echoes the elder Matheson, who continues to write. (He has a book titled Leave Yesterday Alone, due to come out later this year.)
Matheson will act as a producer on Shrinking Man with Matheson Jr. and Alan Gasmer via Matheson Entertainment. The company holds the rights to the combined works of Matheson and Matheson Jr, who also is an author and whose latest novel, Paranoia, is set for release later this year.
Director of development Matt Dines will oversee the project for MGM.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mgm-rebooting-shrinking-man-richard-421168

HC's Guy Gavriel Kay moves to HarperFiction 

15.02.13 | Joshua Farrington         
 
   HarperCollins is hoping to introduce author Guy Gavriel Kay to a larger audience, with his new book to be published by HarperFiction for the first time.

Gavriel Kay's previous 11 novels have all been published by HarperVoyager, a fantasy and science fiction imprint.

His new novel, River of Stars, is set in the decadent reign of China's Song dynasty, and uses an epic scope to cover themes of culture, power and love.

Emma Coode, deputy publishing director at HarperCollins, bought UK and Commonwealth rights for the book (excluding Canada) in a deal with Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown.

Gavriel Kay has previously written about China's Tang dynasty in his book Under Heaven. He said: "I am very happy to be working again with the HarperCollins team, and honoured by the degree of enthusiasm they are showing for River of Stars, and the imagination and energy being applied to help it find new readers in the UK."

Coode said: "Guy has surpassed himself with his latest novel, which seamlessly combines beautiful prose, impeccable historical research and captivating adventure. Publishing Guy on the HarperFiction list, alongside literary historical fiction authors like Tracy Chevalier, places him in esteemed company and feels both natural and exciting."

Čajnin Grad i Grad na daskama... (via Europa SF)

The great sci-fi hunt: help us find the best independently published books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/feb/22/sci-fi-hunt-independently-published


The search is on for the best sci-fi, fantasy, horror – or just plain weird – books that might otherwise go unseen and unloved

A year ago I set out on a quest to find the best weird stories on the internet. I looked at more than 500 independently published ebooks, many on Amazon's Kindle store, others on humble blogs and one embedded in status updates on Facebook. I found five excellent stories that readers of weird fiction would love, and a few dozen rough diamonds in need of further polishing. But I also found hundreds of books that were far from ready to publish, or might never be ready. So I wrote a checklist of seven signs to help indie authors find out if their book is ready to publish or not.

Since I started looking, the indie publishing revolution has grown stronger. Even as I was scouring the internet for self-published weird stories, Hugh Howey's science fictional Wool series was gaining hundreds of thousands of readers, a major publishing deal and the interest of film director Ridley Scott. Howey is only one of a wave of "artisan authors" making full use of new digital publishing technologies to put new writing out there. Like the music industry before it, the publishing industry is now embracing DIY authors who have already attracted a fanbase.

So this year I am setting out to hunt down the best independently published sci-fi. I'm throwing the net wide to any and all science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird and speculative fiction. Last year I was seeking the weird stories that might never otherwise see the light of day – and I still want to know about these – but this time I'm also searching for the sci-fi blockbusters of tomorrow. I love great storytelling, and I believe the next Game of Thrones is already being written and, possibly, self-published. If it is, I intend to find it and share it with you.

But I need your help. Do you know any independently published sci-fi gems? Is there an ebook smash hit you want to shout about? Maybe you are the author of a potential sci-fi blockbuster and you're ready to show it off. Follow the instructions below and tell me all about it.


1. Nominate your weird stories
You can do this in the comments below. Please let me know the title, author and where I can read more (this might be a link to a website or blog, or a listing on an ebook store). Only add one link or your comment will be filtered as spam. You can include the opening sentence of the story if you like, but no more than that. And if you want to include your own review of the story, please do.

2. Help spread the word
You can link back to this article from your blog or website. Or share it on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks.

3. Join the hunt
I would love to know your opinion on any of the stories nominated. I am only one perspective, so if you want to share yours please do so in the comments below. You can follow my responses to the stories on Twitter @damiengwalter.

And, as I'm sure they will be asked, here are the answers to some likely frequently asked questions. If you have any others please leave comments and I will answer as soon as I can.

What qualifies as sci-fi? Your call. Science fiction, fantasy and horror stories certainly do. And I'm open to any kind of writing that is weird or speculative in nature. I'm interested in books with great sci-fi storytelling, and also books that transcend genre all together.

What do you mean by independently published? Ideally published either by the author or an independent publisher. Books from major publishers already get a lot of attention, and this is a search for works that might otherwise go unseen. But if you think there is a neglected masterpiece from a major publisher, please go ahead and nominate it.

Can I nominate my own story? Yes. In fact, I hope you will.

I'll be returning in a few weeks to write about the best stories I've found in the great sci-fi hunt. Let the search begin!

Neil Clarke has announced that Gardner Dozois has joined Clarkesworld magazine as reprint editor.  Dozois, who edited Asimov's Science Fiction for twenty years and a best of year anthology for nearly thirty, will select two reprint stories from the last forty years to appear in each issue of Clarkesworld, beginning with the April issue.
For more information...

ooohhhh, evo nam ga i BOWLgate! 






http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=3952

Evo kako se to radi:


A Compilation Of the Week's Rabble Rousings on Contracts and Advances

(via Whatever (Scalzi))


da bi se stiglo do ovoga:

Random House Hydra, Alibi, Flirt, Loveswept Contracts Improved Following Writer Pressure

(via Huffington Post)


I iako Scalzi ne želi da preuzme zasluge za ovo, činjenica je da je itekako uticao da se promeni način na koji Random House sklapa ugovore s autorima.

Quote from: LiBeat on 03-03-2013, 09:59:35
ooohhhh, evo nam ga i BOWLgate! 

http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=3952

Moj čovek, statističar!

... a Strange Horizons nudi mali osvrt na distopicne trendove iz pera Eleanor Arnason:

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...


I can understand the writers who create future dystopias. We need warnings,
just as we needed post-nuclear-war fiction in the 1950s. The government then
told us that we could survive nuclear attacks by crouching under grade school
desks or in basement fallout shelters. Modern war was no big deal. Science
fiction—with its vast, glowing, radioactive wastelands—said otherwise.


But there are limits to dark fiction.  We need to face reality, but we also
need to imagine ways to change reality. Does contemporary science fiction do
this? A friend of mine wrote recently that she was looking for science fiction
with hope and not finding it.


When I look at the field, and I admit I am having trouble keeping up, I see
Steampunk, YA dystopias, zombie fiction, alternate histories, and the usual
fantasies and space operas.


The critic Brian Attebery has suggested that there is science fiction that
shows a positive future, but it begins in the past. He cites Kim Stanley
Robinson's Galileo's Dream, which starts in the sixteenth century with
the great Italian scientist and then moves into the future. I'm not sure what
this might mean: the present is so hopeless, we have to rerun the past to reach
a decent future?


In 2312, a more recent novel, Robinson gives us a future that has
all kinds of resources and possibility. Humanity has gotten through the
twenty-first century and expanded throughout the Solar System, creating amazing
societies. In his earlier environmental trilogy—Forty Signs of Rain,
Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting—he gives us a
period of transition, when we get to start to get out of our current mess.


I think I turn to Robinson as an example because he thinks about politics and
economics and the process of change. As I see it, our problems are largely
political and economic, rather than technological. We have unimaginable
resources, which are—to a large extent—tied up in the world financial
superstructure and in a consumer society.  We can (most likely) save the planet
and ourselves, but this requires that we free up these resources, and that means
changing society.


This is what I'm trying to write about: a society that conserves and shares
and makes survival of the community its top priority. It might seem like a
cramped society to us, with apartments and row houses instead of suburban
McMansions. A person like me might not be able to have a closet full of clothes
and shoes.
...

kolumna je ovde: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2013/20130311/arnason-c.shtml

Under fire from gay activists, DC Comics shelves Superman project by Mormon 'Ender's Game' author  by Kirsten Andersen
 
       NEW YORK CITY, March 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – After pro-homosexual activists promoted an online petition demanding the firing of award-winning speculative fiction writer Orson Scott Card from an upcoming Superman comic anthology, DC Comics confirmed that Card's portion of the project has been shelved indefinitely.

Card, who is Mormon, sits on the board of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and has been outspoken about his opposition to redefining marriage to include same-sex couples.

  Orson Scott Card           

In an opinion piece for the Mormon Times, he wrote, "Marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down."

In another commentary for Sunstone Magazine, he wrote, "[G]ay activism as a movement is no longer looking for civil rights, which by and large homosexuals already have. Rather they are seeking to enforce acceptance of their sexual liaisons as having equal validity with heterosexual marriages, to the point of having legal rights as spouses, the right to adopt children, and the right to insist that their behavior be taught to children in public schools as a completely acceptable 'alternative lifestyle.'"
"It does not take a homophobe to recognize how destructive such a program will be in a society already reeling from the terrible consequences of 'no-fault' divorce, social tolerance of extramarital promiscuity, and failing to protect our adolescents until they can channel their sexual passions in a socially productive way," Card continued.  "Having already lost control of the car, we now find the gay activists screaming at us to speed up as we drive headlong toward the cliff."

Homosexual activists said his views should have disqualified him from being hired in the first place.  While his Superman short story was not expected to touch on gay issues, activists argued that to give him a paycheck for his work was tantamount to funding NOM directly.

The petition demanding his firing said, "To DC Comics: By hiring Orson Scott Card despite his anti-gay efforts you are giving him a new platform and supporting his hate.  Make sure your brand stands for equality and drop Orson Scott Card now."
Click "like" if you want to defend true marriage.

DC's decision to shelve Card's portion of the project came after illustrator Chris Sprouse backed out of doing the art for Card's short story under heavy pressure from gay advocates and the media.  "The media surrounding this story reached the point where it took away from the actual work, and that's something I wasn't comfortable with," Sprouse said.

In a statement, DC Comics said the company "fully supports, understands and respects" Sprouse's decision to abandon the project.  They said they would "re-solicit the story at a later date when a new artist is hired."  However, most industry insiders speculate that DC will be in no rush to replace Sprouse as an artist, allowing them to let Card's story die a quiet death without actually firing him and opening themselves up to a discrimination lawsuit.  (It is illegal in the state of New York to fire an employee for his religious beliefs.)

Homosexual outcry over Card's views is expected to reach a fever pitch in the coming year as the film version of his classic 1985 novel "Ender's Game" is released.

The move toward blacklisting writers who fail to support homosexual causes has caused some controversy in speculative and licensed fiction circles.  While many in the publishing industry support same-sex "marriage," some say they are uncomfortable with the idea of banning opposing thought outright.

"I think it is dangerous to support any blacklist of any creative for any reason," John Ordover, former editor of the Star Trek series at Pocket Books and open supporter of gay marriage, wrote on his Facebook page.  "It's validating the entire concept of blacklists. To oppose blacklists, we have to stand against blacklisting those whose opinions we find abhorrent as well as those we agree with."  Ordover, who now owns and operates the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art, is hosting a roundtable debate on the issue at the gallery on April 10, called "Superman vs. Orson Scott Card."

Scott M. Roberts, assistant editor at Card's own "Intergalactic Medicine Show" online magazine, also took to Facebook to voice his concerns over the apparent blacklisting, but his concerns were much wider than just this single incident's effect on his boss.
Roberts said the obsession with political correctness is ruining the genre by banning entire points of view from existence in fictional universes, making for bland, repetitive storytelling.  "This is a plea for the speculative fiction community to stop obsessing over race, sexuality, gender, and political affiliation and which author (and which characters) are on the right side of the dividing line between moral bankruptcy and sainthood," Roberts wrote.

"The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice in artificial, forced homogeny posing as tolerance. Propaganda-disguised-as-story drives readers away as agenda takes the place of wonder, excitement, character, and conflict."

Brad Torgersen, award-winning speculative fiction author, built on Roberts's Facebook musings in a blog post, saying, "Science fiction is supposedly the 'dangerous' genre, but I've found this to be a largely toothless claim, based on past glory. Science fiction in the 21st century doesn't want to be dangerous. Science fiction wants to be safe – at any speed ... let any author or editor fall foul of the signposted sins – ist and ism — and it's a cause for significant outrage. How dare someone let a scoundrel into our beloved genre!? Someone fetch the smelling salts! Vapors! Gnashing of teeth!"

Added Torgersen, "The quest for tolerance has led us down a very odd road where the proper enacting of tolerance is to be, well, intolerant. To not tolerate the 'intolerable' according to trendy or arbitrary or otherwise assigned values of correctness: correct thought, correct speech, correct action. Not only must the stories themselves hew to this rigid correctness calculus, authors themselves must hew to this rigid correctness calculus."

"There is no room in 21st century science fiction for real people," Torgersen alleged, "(b)ecause sooner or later the ist and the ism are exposed — both real and, as often as not, imagined — and the evil-doer is punished and/or cast out."

Whether Card will be punished and/or cast out from the November release of the long-awaited film adaptation of his best-known work, "Ender's Game," remains to be seen.  The Hollywood Reporter says executives at Summit are dithering over whether or not to include him in the summer's main fan gathering and press junket, San Diego Comic-Con.

"I don't think you take him to any fanboy event," said one unnamed studio executive. "This will definitely take away from their creative and their property."  Another insider said the same: "Keep him out of the limelight as much as possible."

Priznajem da ovu knjigu navodim samo i isključivo zbog imena koautorice! 











A sharp, original urban fantasy about a near-immortal secret society's battle to save itself — on the streets of Las Vegas
The Incrementalists — a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations, races, and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world better, just a little bit at a time. Their ongoing argument about how to do this is older than most of their individual memories.
Phil, whose personality has stayed stable through more incarnations than anyone else's, has loved Celeste — and argued with her — for most of the last four hundred years. But now Celeste, recently dead, embittered, and very unstable, has changed the rules — not incrementally, and not for the better. Now the heart of the group must gather in Las Vegas to save the Incrementalists, and maybe the world.Book info as per Amazon US [Also available via Amazon UK]:

Obituary: Rick Hautala

Filed in Authors, Obituary | Steven H Silver, March 21, 2013 6:54 pm
Tags: A. J. Matthews, Rick Hautala

Horror author Rick Hautala (b.1949) died on March 21. He began publishing novels in 1980 and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers of America in 2012. Hautala teamed up with Christopher Golden to write the Body of Evidence series. In addition, he published as A. J. Matthews as well as screenplays.

PC strikes again:

http://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=16802

:-/

http://www.iain-banks.net/2013/04/03/a-personal-statement-from-iain-banks/

Ali... ali on je relativno mlad čovek... samo što to ovde nema uticaja rak je zlo.

Auf! 

Šta se bre dešava ove godine? 

al' je potrajalo... steta... je bila jos kad su ugasili papirno izadanje.

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2013/04/04/eclipse-online-to-close-effective-immediately/

QuoteIt is with sadness, therefore, that we are announcing that Eclipse Online has ceased publication effective immediately. All stories in inventory have been returned to their authors, and no new stories will be considered for publication. All authors have been paid. Any queries regarding other payments should be directed to Night Shade Books.

Kad citam vesti unazad:

Night Shade je kaput! Sto je stvarno steta, bili su mi jedan od drazih izadavaca poslednjih par godina.

http://io9.com/another-indie-publisher-on-the-ropes-night-shade-books-468876511

http://io9.com/night-shade-books-editor-in-chief-on-the-buyout-this-470262244

zanimljiva analiza

http://www.staffersbookreview.com/2013/04/night-shade-books-what-went-wrong.html

i reakcija:

http://www.michaelastackpole.com/?p=3288

Quote from: Melkor on 05-04-2013, 05:41:06

zanimljiva analiza

http://www.staffersbookreview.com/2013/04/night-shade-books-what-went-wrong.html

Uh! Komplikovano!
Očigledno su se spotakli na marketingu, al' desi se to.



Nego, meni je ovo...

Quote from: Melkor on 05-04-2013, 05:41:06

i reakcija:

http://www.michaelastackpole.com/?p=3288

... mnogo interesantnije!

A evo šta o ovome misli Foglio


via Girl Genius Adventures

https://twitter.com/KameronHurley/status/319510621253152768

A to sto su SFWA preporucili potpisivanje novog ugovora? Vandermeer je bas prso zbog toga ali je, u medjuvremenu, obrisao sve postove na tu temu, izgleda. 

Pre sam sklon da verujem Majku Stekpulu nego SFWA.

http://www.kameronhurley.com/dealno-deal-writers-arent-totally-stupid/

"I am reminded of Roger Zelazny dying in poverty. I am reminded of how often we are fucked because we're poor."

Zato volim ovu ženu.

 Sad već u aferi ima i dosta razumnijih glasova, valjda to znači da je onaj početni uproar donekle splasno ali, bogami, vandermer i dalje ne da prska nego pršti, oni kobajagi isečci iz kobajagi knjige u nastanku su prilično niski udarci, ono o izdavaču koji sjuri svoju izdavačku kuću u dugove zarad negovanja ovisnosti... missim...

A Better Deal for Night Shade Books' Authors

 NS se najverovatnije neće oporaviti ni vratiti na pređašnji status, kako god da se ovaj dil završi. Sa ovako oštećenom reputacijom možda i može da tavori na nekim minornijim imenima koja će dolaziti u NS samo zato što su ih svi ostali izdavači ignorisali, ali ne verujem da će tako skrpiti dovoljno para ni da preživi, a kamoli da se oporavi. Šteta.

Nego, u maloj digresiji van skandala, evo kako Robert J. Sawyer vidi biznis sa serijalima:

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The appetite for the kind of books Sawyer does  can be huge. He describes  himself as a commercial writer of mystery, science fiction and the like. And fan  loyalty can be huge. "And it's at your peril if you fail to feed that hunger as  often as it wants to be fed.

"This is particularly the case with the fantasy writer George R.R. Martin, who  has slowly been completing his fantasy series A Song of Fire and Ice, which  began with the novel Game of Thrones. His fans have been besieging Martin for  years about his books.

That has produced, Sawyer says, something he calls the George R.R. Martin  effect.

"This is about  people who don't want to start a new series — science fiction  or fantasy —
until they know that it's complete."

It has had a chilling effect on the industry, Sawyer says.

"When I did Wake, Watch and Wonder, which is my trilogy of hardcovers 2009,  2010, 2011, all kinds of people said to me, 'I waited till 2011 and then I  bought all three.'" It sounds great but it
actually depresses the sales for the  first two books, Sawyer says.

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Books+Robert+Sawyer+breaks+with+hard+boiled+gumshoe+story+Mars/8206252/story.html#ixzz2Pwgxj21z 

Nije to digresija, već filozofsko pitanje, čitati ili čekati, uživati sad ili strpljivo odlagati nasladu u očekivanju veće nagrade...


The Marshmallow Test

I kod nas je tako. Odnosno, čitaoci su izbegavali da kupuju Mistborn dok trilogija nije bila kompletirana. Međutim, izdavač je tada imao loše pokazatelje prodaje, pa je rešio da ne radi Alloy of Law.

Da trenutno postoji samo par aktivnih trilogija onda bi ljudi hrabrije davali novac, ali narod je poplavljen trilogijama. Toliko ih ima da nema potrebe da sad čita nešto nezavršeno, ako ga već čeka nekoliko završenih. A pisci i izdavači nek vide šta će, sami su sebi ovu čorbu zakuvali.

Quote from: Nightflier on 09-04-2013, 12:54:03
I kod nas je tako. Odnosno, čitaoci su izbegavali da kupuju Mistborn dok trilogija nije bila kompletirana. Međutim, izdavač je tada imao loše pokazatelje prodaje, pa je rešio da ne radi Alloy of Law.

Ovo je definitivna odluka? Nema šanse da se predomisle zbog značajnog poboljšanja prodaje (ako je poboljšanje značajno)?

U narednih godinu dana svakako ne, pošto se radi Way of Kings.

@Nightflier: Jel ti imas cast da prevodis WOK? Ako je tako srecno  Meni se recimo Mistborn nije svideo. Procitao sam samo prvu knjigu. Ali je zato WOK  bolje delo. Jedino sto me je nervirala velicina tog dela. Moglo je da bude krace za 300 strana.Covek se previse raspisao. A i nekako mi funcionise bolje na segmente nego kao celina. Moram svakako da pohvalim worldbuilding.  Kakvi su tvoji utisci o WOK-u?

Ajde mi postavi to pitanje na odgovarajućoj temi u mom potforumu, da ovde ne oftopičkarimo, molim te.

Quote from: zakk on 09-04-2013, 12:47:53
Nije to digresija, već filozofsko pitanje...

Super onda, da i ja mogu da se pohvalim kako sam jedno takvo u životu rešila - elem, moj stav je da se čeka dok se svi naslovi ne objave. I ne vidim kako je Sawyer tu zakinut, onaj ko je hteo da kupi trilogiju, opet ju je kupio. Sawyer se žali što je na pare morao da čeka, a to je sasvim druga priča. A što ne bi čekao, zašto baš čitaoci moraju da čekaju?   


Pre će biti sa Sawyera muči to što serijali po pravilu dobiju manju ocenu nego njihov prvi "navlakuša" naslov, a to znači da ima jako puno ljudi koji zaglave u serijalu samo zato što su se tako upecali. Ja ni dandanas ne mogu da poverujem da bilo koji pisac, ma kako ingeniozan, ima dovoljno dobrog materijala da iz njega izvuče više od tri ili četiri toma. Vulf, možda, i niko više od onih koji su meni poznati. Sve ostalo je trun & mrvica dobre ideje utopljene i izgubljene u toni praznog hoda.


Zato se priklanjam čekanju, iako imam 2-3 serijala koji su me izvaćarili, ali dobro, na njih ionako gledam kao na mlados' - ludos' investiciju. 

Nisam kapacitet da citam tako na odlozeno. Mozda bih se, kad bih manje citao, vise secao pojedinacnih knjiga, ali ovako... kad se zavrsi. A sasvim dovoljno postoji neprocitanih knjiga da imam cime da popunim taj prazan hod 

... a obaska sto bi citao upola manje, kao ja, da citas na odlozeno.
evo, recimo, na SFSite Reader's Choice listi su uglavnom poodmakli serijali i ja nista od toga nisam citala. nista.

Da, tipicno, samo 3 standalone knjige. Al' utesno je sto sam jednu vec procitao a druge dve su u programu za citaonicu u sledeca 2 termina 

Sve Bejnovo, sunce mu žarko...

srecom, izgleda da ce se vecina serijala ionako filmovati, tako da... strpljen = spasen! 


Variety is reporting that C.J. Cherryh's Morgaine fantasy book series has been optioned for film by producer Aaron Magnani.  The plan is to launch a possible franchise called The Gates of Morgaine.
Cherryh's Morgaine Cycle consists of four novels: Gate of Ivrel (1976), Well of Shiuan (1978), Fires of Azeroth (1979), and Exile's Gate (1988). The series is about a time-traveling heroine named Morgaine and her loyal companion Nhi Vanye i Chya. Described as "sword-and-sorcery meets hard sci-fi", the epic story epic story chronicles one woman's mission across time and space to preserve the integrity of the universe.
Screenwriter Peter Arneson has already penned The Gates of Morgaine: Ivrel, the screenplay based on the first novel.

Leva ruka tame na daskama.

via Portland Playhouse    via Ursula K. Le Guin

da ostane zabelezeno:

Eclipse Online to close effective immediately


by admin   
on April 4, 2013   
in Eclipse Online, News     


Seven years ago Eclipse One was published and went on to be part of one of the most respected original science fiction and fantasy anthology series of its time, featuring major awards winners and nominees, stories destined to become classics, and either winning or being nominated for the World Fantasy, Aurealis, Ditmar, and Locus awards.

In October 2012 Jonathan Strahan and Night Shade Books decided to relaunch Eclipse as Eclipse Online, an online magazine featuring two new previously unpublished stories and artwork by Kathleen Jennings each month. Eclipse Online has featured stories by Christopher Rowe, K.J. Parker, Eleanor Arnason, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Lavie Tidhar, Christopher Barzak, Genevieve Valentine, F. Brett Cox, Susan Palwick, Peter M. Ball, E. Lily Yu and An Owomoyela.

It is with sadness, therefore, that we are announcing that Eclipse Online has ceased publication effective immediately. All stories in inventory have been returned to their authors, and no new stories will be considered for publication. All authors have been paid. Any queries regarding other payments should be directed to Night Shade Books.

Editor Jonathan Strahan said today: "While I am disappointed to see Eclipse Online close, I will always be grateful to Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen, Ross Lockhart, and the team at Night Shade Books for their enthusiastic and energetic support of Eclipse over the past seven years. It was a joy and privilege to work with the authors and with Night Shade to produce such wonderful work, and I am deeply grateful to them all. There are no future plans for Eclipse at this time, but Night Shade will always be a critical, valued part of its past."

MightyMega Launches: Our New Science Fiction Website Goes Online

For those of you who follow Technabob regularly, you might know we have another website, The Awesomer. Now, we've added a third site to our little family, a new science fiction website, called MightyMega.

     Disney shutting down LucasArts LucasArts, the game-making division of Lucasfilm, is being shut down by the company's new supreme overlords at Disney.


Disney is instead switching video game development of Lucasfilm properties (i.e. Star Wars) to external companies under a licencing model. The fate of 1313, a new Star Wars game internally developed by LucasArts and set between Episode III and IV, is unclear, although rumours have stated that the game has been on hold since late last year as Disney wants all new Star Wars games to focus on the time period of the new movies.

LucasArts was founded in 1982 and worked on some very early home video games before the release of its first big hit, Maniac Mansion, in 1987. That game introduced the SCUMM Engine, which put impressive graphics and a mouse-driven interface into the adventure genre, previously dominated by text inputs. Further games refined this system, such as the brilliant Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), the latter of which may still be one of the very best movie tie-in games ever made. LucasArts adjusted their formula in 1990 with the quirky and enjoyable LOOM, which replaced the typical command system with a music-driven one. In 1990 LucasArts released arguably their best-known, non-Star Wars game with The Secret of Monkey Island, following that up a year later with the epic and superior Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was released in 1992, followed by Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max Hit the Road in 1993.

Following this point, the widespread adoption of 3D technology for games left LucasArts feeling that their adventure games looked outdated. The Curse of Monkey Island (1997) was their last adventure game using 2D animation, with both Grim Fandango (1999) and Escape from Monkey Island (2000) featuring 3D graphics. Though critical acclaim was still forthcoming (rather less for Escape), LucasArts wound up its adventure-producing division in 2003. Many of the people working there went on to found Telltale Games, who eventually ended up producing episodic new Sam and Max and Monkey Island games. Their most recent hit was The Walking Dead episodic game series.

Meanwhile, LucasArts branched into other areas of gaming. In 1993 they published X-Wing, a Star Wars-themed competitor to Chris Roberts's Wing Commander series of space combat games. The critically-acclaimed series eventually ended up comprising four core titles: X-Wing (1993), TIE Fighter (1994), X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1997) and X-Wing Alliance (1999). Disappointing sales for X-Wing Alliance - accompanying the wholesale collapse of the space combat simulator genre after a decade of success - saw the series cancelled at that point. LucasArts moved into console gaming, working with BioWare to produce the RPG Knights of the Old Republic in 2003 and with Obsidian on the ill-fated Knights of the Old Republic II in 2004. They also produced the action game Star Wars: Republic Commando in 2005.

Increasingly, post-2000 LucasArts was working more and more with external companies to produce their games, with LucasArts often only providing oversight. The most recent example of this is the highly troubled MMORPG The Old Republic, co-produced with BioWare and apparently the most expensive computer game of all time (with rumours abounding about how close the game has come to breaking even). It is likely that these elements also factored into Disney's decision to shut down the company.

Sad news for the once-great games development company which kick-started the careers of, amongst many others, Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer.       

GRRM and Avatar Press

Thanks to Bleeding Cool, we've learned that Avatar Press executive Jim Kuhoric spoke at a panel at C2E2 about various Avatar Press projects, and in the course of it he discussed some of what's coming from George R.R. Martin. First and foremost, of course, is the comic book adaptation of GRRM's World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Skin Trade, to go along with their earlier adaptation of Fevre Dream. Thanks to that, Kuhoric revealed that GRRM will be at San Diego's Comic-Con (which GRRM has previously announced), where he'll make an appearance at Avatar's booth and sign books.

The most intersting item, however, was Kuhoric revealing that there's a "George R.R. Martin original" in the works, which "may" be superhero related. Kuhoric suggests this is a departure, as previously the works they've published have simply been adaptations. They'll reveal more later, but what I suspect this is is a brand new Wild Cards original comic book story, which will almost certainly be scripted by someone other than GRRM (possibly Daniel Abraham, responsible for the adaptation of Fevre Dream and the Dynamic Entertainment comic Wild Cards: Hard Call?).