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Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Patrick Rothfuss is giving his fans a chance to get their name in the forthcoming The Wise Man's Fear ( Canada , USA , Europe ). And again this year, it has to do with a fundraiser for Heifer International. To find out how you can participate in this raffle, head on out to the author's blog . And good luck to everyone! Perhaps I should consider this. . . The way the Dallas Cowboys are...
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... Uglies; Patricia Wrede's Thirteenth Child; Robin McKinley's Sunshine; Elizabeth Bear's Dust; Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind; Kristin Cashore's Graceling; Neil Gaiman's Coraline; S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire; Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana; Elizabeth Moon's Once a Hero; Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring. Red Moon. First published as written by David Michaels, 2000; re-issued...
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Mike Brotherton: SF Writer (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
OK, I’m a hard science fiction guy, and read more sf than fantasy. I like to read fantasy on occasion and I wanted to share one I am really loving in a way that I haven’t loved a fantasy in a long time: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It started a bit [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... Force Unleashed), Tim Myers (Basho and the Fox), Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club) and Patrick Rothfuss (Name of the Wind)."Each of these amazing writers got their first big publishing break after being chosen by our blue ribbon panel of writers and appearing in the annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology," Joni Labaqui, Director of the contest, said....
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My Friend Amy (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
... enthusiasm for fantasy. This is where I discovered Cindy Pon (she’s really nice!) and saw Patrick Rothfuss. I didn’t agree with a lot of what Rothfuss had to say, particularly his slights against Harry Potter and Young Adult Literature. But he did mention that he felt the appeal of urban fantasy was the same as that of fairy tales explaining that the appeal of fairy...
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Babel Clash (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Not to blatantly self promote Babel Clash, but my favorite con moment was last year’s Babel Clash panel at Comic Con. Okay, so it blatant self-promotion, but still, I think it’s fun. We had our first live geeky debate on the topic: “Urban fantasy vs. Epic Fantasy.” Our guests were Patrick Rothfuss, Seanan Maguire, Rob [...]
