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.
 

 

• Want to know more about Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time? Tor and Rock Soup Productions have put together a series of videos with Brandon Sanderson, Harriet McDougal, Tom Doherty, Jason Denzel, and more. You can see the first two on Tor.com now!.)

• John Scalzi returns to the Old Man’s War universe on January 15th, with the debut of The Human Division!

• Jim C. Hines, the fantasy author famous for striking a pose, has decided to do it again – this time for charity. And he’s challenged John Scalzi to a pose-off!

• There are some truly beautiful images in Tor.com’s Picturing the Hobbit.

• This week was Hobbit Week on The Colbert Report. Did you watch?

• Tor.com is collecting some of their favorite stories from the year, and the ebook is now available for pre-order.

• io9 has a new glimpse behind the scenes of Season 3 of Game of Thrones!

• Last but not least, here’s the first look at Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff, yelling at Ender and his fellow launchies. We can’t wait for this movie to come out.
   
  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)
  • eBook Sale: People of the Earth by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 1/2)
  • eBook Sale: Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 1/2)
  • eBook Sale: Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising: Edge of War by Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 1/2)
  • eBook Sale: Imager by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 1/2)
  • Goodreads First Reads: Homeland by Cory Doctorow (Ends 1/9)
  • Goodreads First Reads: Kalimpura by Jay Lake (Ends 1/9)
  • Goodreads First Reads: A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (Ends 1/9)

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