The Week in Review
Welcome to the week in review! Every Friday, we comb through the links and images we found and shared this week, and pull the very best for this post. Consider it concentrated genre goodness from all around the web.
- The final book of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, is off to the bindary! (Image via Patty Garcia.)
- We’re also excited to announce Brandon Sanderson’s tour for A Memory of Light! Check out Tor.com for initial dates, plus the ones that include Harriet McDougal.
- Planning on attending one of the event dates for the A Memory of Light tour? Why not apply to be a Memory Keeper? You can help out with the event and get to spend extra time with Brandon!
- Locus Magazine wants to know your opinion on the best novels and short fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries! It’s a tall order. What do you think should make the cut? (Found via io9 and Whatever.)
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) is now online. Fair warning: it’s as addiction and time-consuming as TV Tropes.
- Happy birthday, Madeleine L’Engle! Your books, especially A Wrinkle in Time, are a childhood staple. They helped me discover genre fiction, and I imagine they did the same for many, many others.
- One final Wheel of Time note. If you’re hating the wait for January 8th, sign up at Tor.com to receive daily snippets from A Memory of Light. Then join us on the spoiler thread for endless discussion and speculation!
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!
- Goodreads Giveaway: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Ends 12/14)
- Newsletter Sweepstakes: Big Fat Books for the Holidays (Ends 12/16)
- Goodreads First Reads: Impulse by Steven Gould (Ends 12/18)
- Goodreads First Reads: The Sixth Station by Linda Stasi (Ends 12/19)
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Summer Grab Bag Sweepstakes
Tor.com
- Penguin Books Announces The Dark Crystal Author Contest!
- Bringing murder into the Regency: The Quiet Gentleman
- Celebromancy (Excerpt)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch: “The Forsaken”
- Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “House and Garden” & “The Terrible Trio”
- The Wheel of Time Re-read: A Memory of Light, Part 18
- Short Fiction Spotlight: Scott Lynch Special
- MacKids Events at ALA 2013
- Sleeps With Monsters: Anticipating the Second Half of 2013
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman: A Spoiler Review
Heroes and Heartbreakers
- Summer Lovin’: Summer TV Premieres, June 2013, Part 3
- Meet Maya Banks and Team H&H in NYC Tomorrow!
- June 2013 Bloggers’s Recommendations: Psy-Changelings, Avengers, Wedding Photographers, and More!
- Holding Out Through the Hiatus: Speculation on Lost Girl Season 4
- First Look: Rebecca Zanetti’s Twisted (June 20, 2013)
- Sean Bean Meets His Waterloo in Sharpe’s Waterloo
- No Prinny in Sight!: Not-Your-Usual-Historicals Shopping List For June 2013
- Exclusive Cover Reveal: Jade Lee’s What the Groom Wants!
- London’s Last True Scoundrel: New Excerpt
- The White Queen: Strong Women, War, and Romance
Criminal Element
- A Quick Hit and Run from CrimeFest 2013
- Longmire Episode 2.04: “The Road to Hell”
- Fresh Meat: Death of a Dyer by Eleanor Kuhns
- Buckles the Clown is Here for the Laughs...Kind Of
- Inspector Lewis: “Down Among the Fearful,” Episode 06.01
- Fresh Meat: The Summer of Dead Toys by Antonio Hill
- Fresh Meat: Crime of Privilege by Walter Walker
- Killer Stiletto Heels Cost $100k (in Bail)
- Fresh Meat: Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo
- Fresh Meat: The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag
They really need to have some way to correct errors in the text. The Charles de Lint entry has this choice piece:
(1951- ) Canadian musician and writer – born in the Netherlands to parents who emigrated to Canada when he was four months old – who began to publish work of genre interest with “The Fane of the Gray Rose” in Swords Against Darkness IV (anth 1979) ed Andrew J Offutt, and who has become the most significant, and almost certainly the most prolific, Canadian fantasy author. Especially in early years, he published stories as by Tanuki Aki, Henri Cuiscard, Jan Penalurick, Cerin Songweaver and Wendelessen; as Samuel M Key he has published three Horror novels, Angel of Darkness (1990), From a Whisper to a Scream (1992) and I’ll Be Watching You (1994).
to my knowledge, he has had only one alias, Samuel M. Key, and I know most, if not all, of the other alias listed are actually characters he created!