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Unfettered
''Unfettered'' is a fantasy anthology edited by Shawn Speakman, featuring 23 short stories contributed by various best-selling authors in the fantasy genre. The book was released on 21 June 2013 by Grim Oak Press. The artwork for the book was done by Todd Lockwood. On 4 May 2015, Speakman announced the release of ''Unfettered II'', with short stories from at least 15 best-selling fantasy and science-fiction authors. The book was published on 21 November 21 2016, with the proceeds to be used to alleviate the medical debts of other authors and artists. A third volume, ''Unfettered III'', was released on 19 March 2019. Contents : "Foreword" by Patrick Rothfuss : "On Becoming Unfettered" (Introduction) by Shawn Speakman # "Imaginary Friends" by Terry Brooks (a precursor to the '' Word & Void'' trilogy) # "How Old Holly Came To Be" by Patrick Rothfuss (a ''Four Corners'' tale) # "River of Souls" by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (a ''Wheel of Time'' tale) # "The Old Scale Game" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American author. He is best known for his duology ''The Kingkiller Chronicle'', which has won him several awards, including the 2007 Quill Award for his debut novel, '' The Name of the Wind''. Its sequel, '' The Wise Man's Fear'', topped ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. Early life Patrick Rothfuss was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and received his B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1999. He contributed to ''The Pointer'', the campus paper, and produced a widely circulated parody warning about the Goodtimes Virus. He taught part-time at Stevens Point. In 2002, he received a master's degree in arts and English from Washington State University. He won the Writers of the Future 2002 Second Quarter competition with "The Road to Levenshir", an excerpt from his then-unpublished novel '' The Wise Man's Fear''. Career Writing In 2006, Rothfuss sold his novel '' The Name of the Wind'' to DAW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Orullian
Peter Orullian is an American fantasy author and musician. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington. Biography Orullian graduated from the University of Utah with a BA Honors in English in 1991. He has since published short stories in various anthologies, including stories which are set in Aeshau Vaal, the fictional world of book ''The Unremembered''. James Frenkel has written, "When I first read Peter Orullian's early draft of The Unremembered, I was attracted by the characters, and then by mysteries in the story that made me feel I absolutely had to find out what was going on. Then, as I read more, I realized that I was hooked on his world, which has a rich history and culture, as well as some surprises I couldn't have anticipated." Orullian's musical endeavors include involvement in the Keep it True tour in Germany with Heir Apparent and creating albums with Inner Resonance and Continuum. In 2010 he took the stage with Fifth Angel as a guest vocalist. Bibliography Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannara
''Shannara'' is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with '' The Sword of Shannara'' in 1977 and concluding with ''The Last Druid'' which was released in October 2020; there is also a prequel, '' First King of Shannara''. The series blends magic and primitive technology and is set in the Four Lands, which are identified as Earth long after civilization was destroyed in a chemical and nuclear holocaust called the Great Wars. By the time of the prequel ''First King of Shannara'', the world had reverted to a pre-industrial state and magic had re-emerged to supplement science. Setting The Shannara series is set in a post-apocalyptic world called the Four Lands. This world is a futuristic version of our own, and not a secondary world. The '' Genesis of Shannara'' trilogy reveals the Four Lands to be located in the modern Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. Much of the landscape has been changed by a future nuclear holocaust called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham (born March 23, 1969) is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy. Durham's first novel, ''Gabriel's Story'', centered on African American settlers in the American West. ''Walk Through Darkness'' followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War. ''Pride of Carthage'' focused on Hannibal Barca of Ancient Carthage and his war with the Roman Republic. His novels have twice been '' New York Times'' Notable Books, won two awards from the American Library Association, and been translated into eight foreign languages. Gabriel's Story, Walk Through Darkness and Acacia: The War with the Mein are all in development as feature films. A third book, Acacia: The Sacred Band, concludes his epic fantasy Acacia Trilogy. In 2016, Durham returned to historical fiction with the publication of ''The Risen: A Novel of Spartacus''. Born to parents of Caribbean ancestry, Durham has lived in Scotland for a number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lawrence (author)
Mark Lawrence (born 1966) is an American-British novelist who wrote ''The Broken Empire'' trilogy. In 2014, Lawrence won the David Gemmell Legend Award for best novel for ''Emperor of Thorns''. He operates the annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. Biography Mark Lawrence was born in 1966, in the United States. While he was still young, his parents moved to the United Kingdom. Lawrence has a degree in physics and holds a PhD in mathematics. He is married and has four children. Lawrence is the primary carer of his disabled child Celyn, and for this reason he does not travel to promote his books or attend conventions. He works as a novelist and was a research scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. Since 2015, Lawrence has operated the annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, a literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy authors. In 2021 Lawren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Iron Druid Chronicles
''The Iron Druid Chronicles'' is a series of urban fantasy novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories, written by Kevin Hearne and published by Del Rey Books. All the books, including short stories, have recorded as audiobooks narrated by Luke Daniels (for the US) and Christopher Ragland (for the UK market.) Synopsis The series is set in our world—the first two books are set in Tempe, Arizona—where supernatural creatures exist. These include witches, vampires, werewolves, demons, elementals, as well as various deities from many mythologies. The entire series is told in the first-person point of view. In the beginning, the narrative is described exclusively by ancient druid Atticus O'Sullivan (aka. Siodhachan O Suileabhain), owner of the occult bookshop ''Third Eye Books and Herbs'', as he becomes embroiled in the day-to-day struggle of gods, goddesses, and other supernatural creatures. Granuaile and Owen Kennedy (arch druid to Atticus) narrate later chapters after they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline A. Carey (born October 9, 1964)"Jacqueline Carey – Summary Bibliography" Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 4 August 2014. is an American writer, primarily of . Biography Carey was born in , and attended , both in the northern suburbs of Chicago. She received[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn (born January 28, 1973) is an American writer, the author of the urban fantasy ''Kitty Norville'' series. She has published more than 60 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines. She is one of the authors for the "Wild Cards" books. Vaughn won the 2018 Philip K. Dick Award for ''Bannerless'', and has been nominated for the Hugo Awards. Career Vaughn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College (during the course of which she also spent a year at the University of York) and later graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. Vaughn's stories have received a number of mention credits in ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'', edited by Gardner Dozois and ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', edited by Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant. Her short story "Amaryll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kingkiller Chronicle
''The Kingkiller Chronicle'' is a fantasy trilogy by the American writer Patrick Rothfuss. The first two books, '' The Name of the Wind'' and '' The Wise Man's Fear'', were released in 2007 and 2011. The books released in the series have sold over 10 million copies. The series centers on a man named Kvothe, an infamous adventurer and musician telling his life story to a scribe. The book is told in a "story-within-a-story" format: a frame narrative relates the present day in which Kvothe runs an inn under an assumed name and is told in omniscient third person. The main plot, making up the majority of the books and concerning the actual details of Kvothe's life, is told in the first person. The series also contains metafictional stories within stories from varying perspectives that tie to the main plot in various ways. Synopsis ''The Kingkiller Chronicle'' tells the life story of a man named Kvothe. In the present day, Kvothe is a rural innkeeper, living under a pseudonym. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Hearne
Kevin Hearne is an American urban fantasy novelist born and raised in Arizona. Hearne is the author of nine novels published by Del Rey in the fantasy book series '' The Iron Druid Chronicles'', plus the 2015 ''Star Wars'' novel '' Heir to the Jedi''. His novel ''Tricked'' made the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list. His novel ''Shattered'' was his first work released in hardcover and was on the '' USA Today'' best sellers list. Hearne was a high school English teacher and moved to Colorado from Arizona with his wife and son. He is a graduate of Northern Arizona University. In 2022, Hearne became a Canadian citizen.Citizenship at KevinHearne.com; published August 9, 2022; retrieved October 15, 2022 Bibliography |
Blake Charlton
Blake Charlton (born 1979) is an American science fiction author. He is the author of the ''Spellwright'' series published by Tor Books and currently a cardiology fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. As a boy, Charlton had severe dyslexia. He learned to read fluently by the age of 13. As an author, he's been largely held by libraries. Charlton's non-fiction has appeared in the ''Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine'', ''The British Medical Journal'', and ''The New York Times'' and his science fiction short stories have appeared in the ''Seeds of Change'' and the '' Unfettered'' anthologies. Charlton graduated summa cum laude from Yale University studying English Language and Literature and went on to graduate from Stanford Medical School. In 2013, Blake Charlton was the IDA's (International Dyslexia Association The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is a non-profit education and advocacy organization devoted to issues surroundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient mythology, myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic (paranormal), magic or other supernatural elements as a main Plot (narrative), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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