George R. R. Martin’s Armageddon Rag has received some interesting attention on the Internet, starting with author Jo Walton praising the novel at Tor.com, which led Cory Doctorow to link the article and offer his own praise for GRRM’s newly-reprinted horror/fantasy novel about the culture and music of the 60’s.
Dark Sword Miniatures has posted pictures of all ten George R. R. Martin Masterworks Wave 1.5 figures, mostly featuring wildlings sculpted by Jeff Grace some of which have previously been featured on GRRM’s “Not a Blog”. Particularly eye-catching is Tom Meier’s inspired take on Daenerys Stormborn, inspired by Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. The update includes information on further miniatures in the series to be sculpted by Grace, including all the Stark direwolves and Mance Rayder. Tom Meier is very busy at present, but when he has time will continue to produce figures for some of the most well-known characters in the series.
Green Ronin has put out a press release announcing the availability of the Wild Cards Campaign Setting written by John Jos. Miller, one of the original Wild Cards authors:
Via Board Game News, some official information concerning Fantasy Flight Games’s in-development board game, A Song of Ice and Fire: The Adventure Game notes that it’s being designed by Eric Lang, who also designed the popular A Game of Thrones Collectible Card Game.
As previously reported, Dark Sword Miniatures had a new series of miniatures in the George R. R. Martin Masterworks collection on display. GRRM has followed this up with a post at “Not a Blog” containing photos of a number of the wildling miniatures sculpted by Jeff Grace.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with a News item discussing the Songs of the Dying Earth anthology, with an almost-complete list of stories and contributors. Other updates include an update to his forthcoming Appearances and a pair of posts to his “Not a Blog” discussing Worldcon, work on A Dance with Dragons, and the entry of Brett Favre into the New York Jets.
After a long time of trying to get a new webring setup (since the existing, off-site solution has not been usable for several years), we have decided that we will have to settle for a much simplified version, since we just don’t have the skill to code something more complex. Effective immediately, this will be the webring code used on the site, and the webring account at RingSurf will be closed as soon as any active sites that we are aware of have moved over to the new system.
We will email all sites that we still have a contact email for, to send out the new webring code and new site ID. If you have a site in the old ring and you don’t get an email, you will need to sign up again. We will also be accepting new signups.
If there are any questions, just let us know.
Below is the official press release announcing the availability of the A Song of Ice and Fire calendar, but just to get you extra excited, here’s some art! Two of the pieces will be familiar to fans who purchased the limited edition prints from Dabel Brothers productions, but you can glimpse a couple entirely new pieces among the dozen total. Linda and I have had the good luck to see most of the art, and it’s everything you could have hoped for from Michael Komarck. These look to be some of the definitive pieces of A Song of Ice and Fire art.
Oh, and if you want to pre-order the limited edition variants from DB Pro? Go here.
An attendee of Gencon has let slip and provided a few details concerning a new board game, A Song of Ice and Fire: The Adventure Game, secretly being developed by Fantasy Flight Games. The system in use is apparently similar to the already-published World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game. FFG has also published the A Game of Thrones Living Card Game and the A Game of Thrones strategic board game, as well as The Art of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.
The PDF version of the Wild Cards Campaign Setting is now for sale at Green Ronin’s on-line store. Written by John Jos. Miller, one of the original Wild Cards writers and creators, the book is an exhaustive collection of information concerning the events, characters, and locations of the popular shared world superhero anthology series.
According to the latest update from Jim at Dark Sword Miniatures, six never-before-seen miniatures from the GRRM Masterwork Collection will be made available for sale in limited quantities at Gen Con. Besides these, four other brand new miniatures in the series will be on display (but not for sale).
Green Ronin has kindly provided a brief preview of the cover to the upcoming Wild Cards Campaign Setting for their popular Mutants and Masterminds superhero RPG system.
Paizo Publishing has placed the poster map of the Seven Kingdoms, published in Dragon #307, on clearance sale for $1. It’s an older map that lacks a number of castles introduced in A Feast for Crows, but it’s certainly a bargain at the price.
Preordering of Valyrian Steel’s replica of Longclaw is now available. Preorder information, and pictures of the prototype sword, can be found
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The good gentlemen at Valyrian Steel have posted a concept drawing for Needle, discussing some of the design decisions as determined by George and then turning to the production of the display piece. Needle should be technically easier to produce than Longclaw, and in comments it’s said that pictures of the actual Longclaw replicas will be revealed when pre-ordering is made available on Monday.
