Once again, it's time for our annual TRULY EPIC FANTASY StoryBundle, with tremendous imaginative novels that will draw the sword right out of your stone! This year we have some amazing work by world-class fantasy authors as well as the best of the up-and-coming indie authors in the genre. We'll start with a triple play by legendary and New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, three novels: The Sword of Bedwyr, The Woods Out Back, and The Education of Brother Thaddius. Famed Brandon Sanderson adds his incredible Sixth of the Dusk to the mix, and Michael A. Stackpole delivers A Hero Born. If you like your epic fantasy in...
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My Dragoncon schedule. Exact rooms in the program book. Be sure to come to my reading of the new Dan Shamble story on Saturday!   FRIDAY 1 PM X-Files panel 4-6:30 at Bard’s Tower booth 817, America’s Mart bldg 2, floor 3 7 PM Masculinity in Star Wars   SATURDAY 10-12 at Bard’s Tower booth 817, America’s Mart bldg 2, floor 3 1 PM Reading NEW Dan Shamble Story! 2:30 NYT Bestsellers Tell All 4-5 at Bard’s Tower booth 817, America’s Mart bldg 2, floor 3 5:30 Star Wars authors   SUNDAY 10-Noon at Bard’s Tower booth 817, America’s Mart...
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It took me completely by surprise. Rebecca and I made plans to drive three hours out of Colorado into the foothills of Wyoming to find a place where we could watch the total solar eclipse. It was a bucket-list item for both of us. I’ve been to six of the seven continents, seen the Grand Canyon and the Sahara Desert, Inca ruins in the Andes, Mayan pyramids in the Yucatan. My undergrad degree was in astronomy, and a total eclipse was something I didn’t want to miss. We found an isolated reservoir, open water, sparse crowds compared to the traffic...
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My friend Jeff Sturgeon is an amazing artist with an amazing imagination. I have watched him exhibit at science fiction conventions with his gorgeous and innovative paintings on burnished metal, but over the past several years Jeff has been possessed by a very energetic and demanding muse. He’s developed a breathtaking science fiction concept, THE LAST CITIES OF EARTH, a future after the explosion of the great Yellowstone caldera makes the surface of the world uninhabitable, but with enough forewarning, the major cities have used new technology to levitate themselves above the clouds. Now, centuries have passed, and each city...
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