Heavens, it's almost seven years since A Dance With Dragons - A Song of Ice And Fire Book 5 was released. When will we see Book 6, The Winds of Winter? George R.R. Martin’s main tactic with The Winds of Winter is to delay everyone. In January 2017, he said of the sixth A Song of Ice and Fire … [Read more...]
Left Hand of Darkness for TV
Sketch of Le Guin by Drew Weing Hugo and Nebula-winning novel, The Left Hand of Darkness from Ursula K Le Guin is considered the most famous exploration of androgyny and gender fluidity in speculative fiction. After the success of The Handmaid's Tale, it's no surprise that television producers … [Read more...]
Forgotten Books
If you don't know, Forgotten Books is a website "discovering and republishing formerly out of print books". Translation : It publishes public domain works, scraping books uploaded to Project Gutenberg, and titles posted to Google Books, then republishes them under its own imprint. These books … [Read more...]
Flavia Albia in order
A new series from Lyndsey Davis, first published in 2013. The heroine is Falco’s adopted daughter, Flavia Albia, who has grown from a troubled teenager to a feisty widow and who is an investigator in her own right. The series begins in 89 CE, shifting the background from the reign of jovial … [Read more...]
Marcus Didius Falco
Curriculum Vitae Born AD41, Rome, Italy, to M. Didius Favonius (aka Geminus) and Junilla Tacita. Plebian rank, father an auctioneer. Brother M. Didius Festus, legio XV Apollinaris, killed AD68, Bethel, Judaea; awarded Palisaded Crown. Marriage: Helena Justina, d of D. Camillus Verus, senator, … [Read more...]
Falco Novels in order
Marcus Didius Falco was born in March 41 CE into a plebian family, joined the army in 59 CE and served with the Second Augusta (Legio II Augusta, a legion subsequently disgraced) in Britain during the Boudiccan Revolt. After being invalided out of the army, he set himself up as a Delator, a … [Read more...]