If you would pardon my simile, a good author is much like a gardener. As he tells his story, he slowly and with great care plants the seeds which will one day grow into a tall and wondrous tale.
Patrick Rothfuss is one of the greatest “gardeners” I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting, and his garden, The Kingkiller Chronicle has had its seeds well sown with his first book in the presumed trilogy, The Name of the Wind.
Finally, NIS America has a Twitter! To make this news even sweeter, they are thinking about implementing exclusive Twitter giveaways and contests.
NIS America is, of course, the Japanese counterpart of Nippon Ichi Software. They love bringing Japanese pop culture over to America. However instead of releasing a new video game, they are bringing a picture book to the US.
“Tsubame the Ninja is a story about a ninja boy, Tsubame. He is an ordinary elementary school student during the day, but at night he and his family turn into Ninjas! The story follows his life and the Ninja Olympics, which Tsumabe enters.”
It is a hardcover book which will be shipped out mid-September. Pre-order it at the Rosenqueen store.
I’ve been a huge fan of tabletop games, Dungeons & Dragons in particular, for the better part of my life. Most of the time, I’m right there with the majority in that I really don’t like people going in and mucking about with rules when everything is already oh so good.
But then, at GenCon, I played Pathfinder from Paizo Publishing LLC for the first time with the newly released and completed core ruleset, and I absolutely fell in love.
This is what D&D was meant to be.
I love a good bit of bad news about Twilight. But then again, doesn’t everyone?
GenCon is just around the corner, and the Geekspective staff is going to be there! There are going to be a lot of exciting guests this year and well over 5,000 events to attend.
One of the people I find myself most excited to meet is the ’09 Author Guest of Honor, Patrick Rothfuss.
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Sean Bean (pictured above-left) has been casted to play Lord Eddard Stark (pictured above-right) in the upcoming HBO adaptation of the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.
Bean, best known to geeks for his work as Boromir in the Academy-Award winning Lord of the Rings movies, will join a thus-far stellar cast including Peter Dinklage, Mark Addy Jack Gleeson, Harry Lloyd, and the fresh, new face of Kit Harington to begin filming the pilot episode of the mini-series soon.
I, for one, can’t imagine a better pick for Neddard.
Today, in honor of the new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, we bring to you all a very special match-up. This one is a battle for your inner child as two geeky little twerps battle for supremacy. It’s Potter versus Pagemaster in today’s Circadian Showdown.
