Apparently, HBO execs had a similar idea to mine and decided that Song of Ice and Fire would make a great series: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.html?categoryid=14&cs=1] Needless to say I’m excited.
A few months back I wrote about the comparison between Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Sopranos, likening the political world of knights and kings to Mafioso. I promised an update when I got around to watching the latest ‘reinterpretation’ of the Wild West: Deadwood. The
The first in my stack of Christmas gift novels was Charles Stross’s Accelerando. Definitely a fun read, one of the best sci-fi novels I’ve read since I finished Stephenson’s Diamond Age a few years back. The title refers to the singularity, the point where technological acceleration becomes
So it’s a New Year, and with it some pretty big changes. Recently married, on the verge of a large move, a host of never-ending responsibilities, the reluctant acquiescence of less and less free time. Regardless, perseverance has a few perks, one of them: crisp (somewhat unclean) first drafts.