George R.R. Martin

I apologize right now for flogging a dead dog, but this is one more visit to the Sad Puppies controversy. On the other hand, George R.R. Martin has done it, so why shouldn’t I? And neither he nor I are doing this out of some fetish for balance and even-handedness – rather, to highlight what […]

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As a follow-up to his previous piece on the 2015 Hugo Awards/Sad Puppies debacle, George R.R. Martin has done one of the best-constructed refutations of the Sad Puppies’ claims of some kind of Social Justice Warrior conspiracy hijacking a once-great awards series that you could wish for. It also helps that Martin effectively rebuts all […]

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If there’s any one thing that is likely to rivet even more eyeballs on the Hugo Awards/Sad Puppies saga, it’s the intervention of probably the single most famous and most highly esteemed living SF/fantasy author worldwide, George R.R. Martin. And now, writing not from Westeros, nor even Westercon, he has given his own personal history […]

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The Final Ballot for Bram Stoker Awards® has been announced on the Horror Writers Association website. The nominees are in line for voting for “superior writing in eleven categories including traditional fiction of various lengths, poetry, screenplays and non-fiction. Previous winners include Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, George R. R. Martin, Joyce Carol Oates and Neil […]

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Since being killed by George R.R. Martin is apparently the latest fad, I’m glad to be able to report that if you turn up for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, there is a slight but distinct possibility that he may kill you too. He might knock the mike over onto your head during a […]

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Library users are not going to be thrilled when they discover that many—actually most, probably—of the titles on the summer reading lists recommended in seemingly every magazine (online or in print) are unavailable when they check the online catalog or look on their library shelves. What can we do for those readers? You certainly don’t want them to leave the library empty-handed or exit the library’s website in frustration. That’s why I think the roundup produced by the ALA RUSA-CODES Reading List Council is so good. For every new book cited,