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Winter is Coming…
14 Minutes of Awesome from HBO’s Game of Thrones! Winter is coming April 17th.
COSine 6
If you can get to Colrado Springs this weekend, you have a chance to meet several sci-fi legends at the 6th annual COSine science fiction festival, January 23-25. Several award winning authors from the WWEnd database will be present, including:
George RR Martin, a three-time Locus Fantasy Award winner, and an 18 time nominee for virtually every award in our database, will be the guest of honor. You can catch him on Friday at 3:00 when he’ll be part of a panel on science fiction literature with Connie Willis and Mem Morman, and then at the opening ceremonies at 7PM with Ted Monogue. Both Mr. Martin and Ms. Willis will be around pretty much all day on Saturday and Sunday.
Wil McCarthy, a Phillip K Dick and double Nebula nominee, will also be present on Sunday, with appearances at 10 and 2.
Check out the full schedule for these authors and many other guests. We’d suggest a Sunday ticket, if you want to meet all three award winners/nominees (it’s only $10 on that day), but you can hang out all weekend for $45. By the way, if you snag a pic of Wil McCarhy, we’d like a copy.
A Game of Thrones on HBO
This looks promising! According to /film, HBO has given the go ahead to produce a pilot for George R.R. Martin‘s A Game of Thrones series. There are a several things that excite me about this:
– I read the first 3 books of this series and found them to be quite good. I got distracted with other stuff and never got back to finish out the series so if they do make it I can finally see how it all turns out.
– The plan is to make each book in the series into an entire season! That is brilliant! I hate when a book, or indeed a series of books, gets condensed into a movie or miniseries. You lose so much detail! The council of Rivendell scene in The Lord of the Rings movies is a prime example. They can tell the whole story and they won’t have to make the kind of cuts that inevitably kill character development and back story.
– After watching half an episode of Legend of the Seeker I’m primed for somebody to make a good fantasy series and HBO has made some excellent shows. Rome anyone?
– Since it is HBO you can bet they will pull no punches. There is some serious violence and gratuitous sex in Martin’s world and we’ll get to see it all as only HBO can deliver. Uh…. Rome anyone?
What do you guys think? Can HBO pull this off?
