In Deep Geek

C.J. Cherryh posted this week that she can no longer write. Repeated surgeries have damaged her ability to control narrative and she has accepted it. She published her first novel in 1976. More than 80 books followed. Three Hugo Awards. The SFWA Grand Master Award. The Alliance-Union universe. The Foreigner series. An asteroid named after her. She started writing at age ten because her favorite TV show got cancelled. She hid her gender behind initials because the industry wouldn't take a woman named Carolyn seriously. She won the Hugo for Best New Writer in 1977 and never stopped. Fifty years. Eighty books. A career that most writers would trade anything for. "The body of work is what it is." Another loss of a master. How much more can sci-fi take?

Sauron’s introduction in The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest character intros in cinema, that prologue, the armor, the sheer presence on the battlefield, instantly establishing him as a force rather than just a villain.

@ ira parker @ hbo @ keir starmer RELEASE THE EXTRA LYONEL SCENE!!!!

I’m so grateful to share that my work for Tea with Tolkien has earned a Tolkien Society Award in the ‘Best Online Content’ category!

update: new photo of them!!!

Top Fantasies according to a Locus Poll from 1987. Keep in mind that Locus is primarily a sci-fi award especially at the time so sci-fi and literary authors are boosted (basically perfect conditions for Gene Wolfe)

imagine if GRRM announces that Winds of Winter is coming out this year but then also simultaneously announces that instead of there being one more final book there's actually going to be three more. how do you feel.

Yeah his writing style is actually quite apparent in a lot of the episode. Little Blackwood v rude Bracken is right up his alley, and Viserys' fart speaks for itself