We’ve recently gotten the bad news straight from George R.R. Martin himself: winter won’t be coming, at least, not until well after Game of Thrones‘ sixth season premieres this April. Martin’s been working on The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire, since 2011, but the television adaptation charged through five books’ worth of material […]
I’ve long referred to Ursula K. Le Guin my literary grandmother, a polestar of my understanding of fiction, fantasy, and the world itself. When I learned of her death earlier this year, I sat down and cried. Even though she passed at the respectable age of 88, I cried long, wracking tears. She is the […]