Thanks to Pat and Bantam Dell, his Fantasy Hotlist is hosting a contest to win Dreamsongs, the massive collection of George R.R. Martin’s short fiction which was originally published by Subterranean Press as GRRM: A RRetrospective. Winners will receive signed ARCs (advanced reading copies) of both volumes of Dreamsongs (Volume 1, Volume 2 ).
As previously revealed, George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois will be co-editing a tribute anthology titled Songs of the Dying Earth, featuring a number of others contributing original tales set in Jack Vance’s memorable Dying Earth milieu. At the time that it was announced, only a British publisher had been secured. It’s now been revealed the Subterranean Press has landed the rights.
A new anthology, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, contains a reprint of George R. R. Martin’s “Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels”. As part of the publicity for the volume—which contains stories Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Cory Doctorow, Octavia E. Butler, and more—a website has been launched by the editor with more information about the stories and selected contributing authors.
Subterranean Press has just announced that Hunter’s Run, the novel-length expansion of the “Shadow Twin” novella by Daniel Abraham, Gardner Dozois, and George R.R. Martin, is now available for order in its limited edition forms. As a special incentive, the limited edition’s price has been reduced by $10 through to the 20th of August.
Hot on the heels of the news that George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois were editing an anthology with the title of Warriors, news has just slipped via Dan Simmons that they’re putting together a second anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth featuring stories set in Jack Vance’s Dying Earth setting.
Yvonne Gilbert has been nominated for the Chesley Awards in the Best Interior Illustration category for her work on George R.R. Martin’s The Ice Dragon. Also nominated in the same category is Justin Sweet (set to illustrate The World of Ice and Fire world book) for his contribution to Kull: Exile of Atlantis.
Hunter’s Run, the novel that grew out of George R. R. Martin’s collaboration with Gardner Dozois’s and Daniel Abraham’s science fiction novella “Shadow Twin”, is now available for preorder via Amazon.com.
According to this interview with Robin Hobb, she’ll be contributing to an anthology titled Warriors edited by Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin. She indicates that the anthology won’t be published for at least a year, however, so it seems it’s in the early stages yet.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with news concerning the forthcoming publication of Hunter’s Run, his collaboration with Daniel Abraham and Gardner Dozois which has been extended to novel-length from an original novel.
Bill over at Subterranean Press has provided an update on the forthcoming, illustrated limited edition of Fevre Dream. The update includes a look at the gorgeous cover. Also included in the update is news regarding the Thomas Canty-illustrated limited edition of A Feast For Crows, which is quickly approaching completion.
It’s been announced that George R. R. Martin will be doing a reading of a story from Dreamsongs (Volume 1, Volume 2) on Second Life, a graphical secondary world social game. He’ll also take questions from readers. GRRM’s avatar will be selected by people who vote at Bantam Dell’s website, so vote now!
GRRM has posted on his "Not a Blog" that an audiobook will be produced of Dreamsongs (Volume 1, Volume 2), the massive and exceptional collection of a large part of the body of George’s short fiction from his earliest days to the present. A number of different readers will be involved, and most fascinating of all is that George himself will be reading the interstitial introductions to each section of the book. These are some of the best parts of an already-great collection, thanks to the autobiographical insight into George’s life and work.
Note that the "Not a Blog" entry also includes word on A Dance with Dragons, including semi-spoilerish information.
Daniel Abraham provides a few more details on the previously reported new Wild Cards comic book series from Dabel Brothers Productions and Marvel Comics.
According to Abraham, the first story arc which he will be writing is titled “Hard Call”. Read his LiveJournal entry for more details.
Over at his blog, Daniel Abraham has provided a brief remark on the status of the novel-length expansion of the "Shadow Twin" novella, written in collaboration with Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin:
At the New York Comic Con, Marvel Comics and Dabel Brothers Productions announced that Wild Cards, a seminal superhero setting created by and written about by authors such as George R. R. Martin, will see new life in comic book publishing through a brand new series which will be entirely original. Instead of adapting previous stories as the previous Epic series did years ago, the first six issues will feature the work of author Daniel Abraham (who has recently become a part of the Wild Cards team of writers, including writing the interstitials for Tor’s forthcoming new Wild Cards volume, Inside Straight). Daniel’s own announcement follows: