Joe Abercrombie, a British fantasy author from Lancaster, England, has a background in freelance film editing before his first book, The Blade Itself, was published in 2006 by Gollancz. The first book in his Shattered Sea series, Half-A-King, won the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book in 2015. He currently lives with his wife …
In October of 2015, it was announced that Lionsgate had won a bidding war for the rights to adapt The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss for film, television, and video games. Now over a year later, creator and former star of Hamilton has signed on to produce the adaptation. From the article from The Wrap: Miranda will serve …
Put on your Stillsuit and mount your sandworm – Legendary Entertainment has acquired the film and television rights to Frank Herbert’s Dune. In the past, the novel was made into a film in the ’80s directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan and a miniseries on SyFy (then the Sci Fi Channel) in the early 2000s, starring …
On November 22nd, Stephen King and Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers will release Charlie the Choo-Choo by Beryl Evans. The book, based on the fictional children’s book by the fictional Evans comes straight out The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Here are the details from Simon & Schuster: Fans of Stephen King’s The …
Book geeks and Geeklies who love books often want to branch out, so I’ll be doing a few lists of works in translation, starting with Japanese novels. Japanese fiction is fairly well established in English translation, so I’m going to avoid such obvious talents as the Murakamis—Haruki and Ryu—who have achieved international fame, or Kawabata …
The Library at Mount Char – for your friend who loves Tarantino and David Fincher, anyone who prefers White Wolf to D&D, fans of Lovecraft, librarians, anyone whose favorite Christmas movie is The Nightmare Before Christmas. City of Stairs – for the person in your gaming group who always figures out the optimal moves (and …
Apparently it’s music week here at Geekly, because after the punk-rock showdown that was The Unnoticeables, we now have Last Song Before Night, a decidedly different take on what happens when you mix magic and musicians. Ilana C. Myer’s debut—coming out today!—introduces us to a world of uneasy peace between the vast network of musician-poets …
Ah, trolls. They brood under bridges and over 4chan, and now they’ve found another home in pseudo-monarchical France, the setting of Stolen Songbird. Cecile, a budding chanteuse, knows nothing of trolls as she prepares to leave her farm for the big city, to join her mother as a singer for the National Opera. But her …
Snow White this ain’t. (Moderate spoilers ahead) In Stitching Snow‘s version of the distant future, Snow White’s story begins with a cage match. Essie, alone in the ring with someone twice her size, surrounded by a crowd of men who want her to lose, shows us her wits and her grit right off the bat. …