Author of the Week: C.S. Friedman
C.S. Friedman was born in 1957 and soon proved to be a precocious child, reading and writing well above her age level. She discovered Isaac Asimov’s writing at the tender age of twelve (and if you are familiar with Asimov, you know he’s well capable of blowing the mind of adept adults…you can imagine the effect on a twelve-year-old), and decided that science fiction was the ultimate literature. (She changed her mind at some point to include fantasy, which I will get to in good time.)
Before publishing her first novel, In Conquest Born, Friedman studied costume design and earned an [...]
Interactive Rights for A Song of Ice and Fire acquired
Cyanide Studios has acquired the interactive rights for the A Song of Ice and Fire series of books by George R.R. Martin.
This is pretty big news for ASoIaF fans, but really, I’m not sure how this will be pulled off. The only type of game this could really produce is something like Civilization or maybe an RTS. There’s just not enough magic in the series for Cyanide to pull off a RPG of any kind, and the types of characters you could play would be pretty limited. A sellsword or a knight. There’s just no room for diplomats, politicians, and [...]
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