Just a brief message to let you know what most people have probably assumed for a long time — Keeping the Door is to be put on ice permanently from now on.

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Well, we knew that the long-awaited book in George R. R. Martin’s long-awaited fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire was ready, but now the author has assured us that the book is *really* ready for its planned launch on the 12 of July this year. Martin writes in a lengthy [...]

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Although there is currently no hard completion date for his new novel A Dance with Dragons, fantasy master George R. R. Martin recently gave an update on how it’s not just the fans and his publishers that are angsty about getting the book out.

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Ever since Patrick Rothfuss published The Name of the Wind in 2007, much of the fantasy-loving book world has been living in a state of suspense, wondering whether the US author could follow such a strong debut up with a worthwhile sequel. Well, it looks like we can rest easy.

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Mariposa, the latest novel by American science fiction author Greg Bear, went on sale last week, accompanied by a limited set of generally positive reviews.

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American science fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson has slammed the US Republican Party’s attitude towards climate change, describing it as “like the Catholic Church denying the Earth went around the sun in Galileo’s time”.

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Australian fantasy author Karen Miller has finished The Reluctant Mage, the next book in her Fisherman’s Children series, which is the continuation of her Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series commenced with The Innocent Mage.

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Twilight author Stephanie Meyer appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show on November 13 to support the launch of the film adaptation of the second book in the series: New Moon. The Twilight series has sold over 70 million copies worldwide, according to Wikipedia, and is being made into a film series, with audiences enthralled by the love story between American teen Bella and Edward Cullen, a former human who was transformed into a vampire. In the interview Meyer said she started writing Twilight after having a vivid dream which became chapter 13 of the first book in the series. The scene is the one where Bella and Edward are in the woods and she reveals she knows he is a vampire.

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Fantasy author George R. R. Martin has told his UK publisher he might hand over A Dance with Dragons, the long-awaited next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, “soon”. It is common for fans of the series, one of the major fantasy works currently ongoing, to complain about the length of time taken by Martin to write each new book.

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Raymond E. Feist fans are only a short time away from stepping back into the fantasy world of Midkemia, with the author’s new book At the Gates of Darkness due out in some areas in early January 2010. At the Gates of Darkness is the second book in the Demonwar Saga arc, after 2009′s Rides a Dread Legion.

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