John Gardner (American writer) Gardner was born in Batavia, New York.
His father was a lay preacher and dairy farmer, and his mother taught English at a local school. Both parents were fond of Shakespeare and often recited literature together. Peter V Brett, Author. Hi, I'm fantasy author Peter V. Brett - AMA : Fantasy. From Modern Mythcraft to Magical Surrealism. The website for New York Times bestselling author, Terry Brooks, devoted to his Shannara, Landover, Word/Void, and other works. Baby Got Books. Author N K Jemisin. Malazan Empire. Official Site of Steven Erikson. Adventures in Mongolia & Goat’s Head Soup: Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis. It’s axiomatic that the things one could do in youth (with that natural aplomb that comes with a conviction of personal invulnerability) do not happily extend into that period of middle age where desire and capacity no longer meet.
No, I’m not talking about sex. Scaling cliffs free-style, wandering through jungles for days at time, shooting rapids, even hitting the gas in an ancient Westphalia to surge across a washed-out road (of unknown depth) in the Mogollon Mountains of Arizona – these are among the manic stupidities of my younger days, and I seem to have come through relatively unscathed. As a veteran archaeologist and occasional explorer of unpleasant and inhospitable places, I viewed my upcoming return to the field with natural confidence. A crew of Russian and local archaeologists were preparing to revisit a site to resume excavating Late Paleolithic remains, in Northern Mongolia. From my home in Victoria, B.C., we were all preparing for a chaotic summer.
Photo Credits. Encyclopediamalazica / FrontPage. Malazan Empire. Patrick Rothfuss - Official Website. Tad Williams. Sam Sykes - Fantasy Author. The Official Raymond E. Feist Website. Brandon Sanderson: The official site. Forums - 17th Shard, the Official Brandon Sanderson Fansite. <div class='message error'><strong>Javascript Disabled Detected</strong><p>You currently have javascript disabled.
Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. </p></div><br /> Adonalsium - The Coppermind - 17th Shard. Cosmere - The Coppermind - 17th Shard. The cosmere is a distinct universe totally separate from our own,[1] in which several of Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy books take place.
Overview[edit] As the cosmere implies a simultaneous existence of the ten Shardworlds (planets with mentionable Shardic Influence), cosmere books are connected by an overarching story. Shard - The Coppermind - 17th Shard. This page is exemplary!
This page is comprehensive, well written, and cited. It is one of the excellent pages on the Coppermind. The Shards of Adonalsium, or Shards for short, are pieces of the power of creation itself.[1] They are named after a specific action or ideal, called an intent. A mind must control a Shard. When a person holds a Shard, they are imbued with its power, but they also become the Shard.[2] Despite this, fans have created the term Shardholder to refer to the person who holds a Shard (not to be confused with Shardbearer), but this term is not canonical. There are sixteen Shards[3], and they are the most powerful known entities in the cosmere. Nine Shards have thus far been mentioned in the novels, either referenced by their Shard's name or its holder.
Introduction[edit] IAMA professional fantasy novelist named Brandon Sanderson. - AMA. : Fantasy. George R. R. Martin's Official Website. Project Aon: Main / Home (browse) Joe Dever has most generously offered to allow some of his books to be published on the internet thereafter to be downloaded free-of-charge.
Rob Adams, Paul Bonner, Gary Chalk, Melvyn Grant, Richard Hook, Peter Andrew Jones, Cyril Julien, Peter Lyon, Peter Parr, Graham Round, and Brian Williams have also generously offered similar permission for their contributions to the world of Magnamund. Project Aon is a volunteer group of fans dedicated to publishing these works. "I would be especially pleased if my granting of the rights to distribute my books in this way was seen as my 'millennium gift' to all those devoted readers who have kept the Kai flag flying high, through all the good times, and the not-so-good.
The Dork Lord, on His Dork Throne. Queen of the Iron Sands. A Wheel of Time Community. The Thirteenth Depository - A Wheel of Time Blog. WoT Interview Database - Theoryland of the Wheel of Time Forums. Though this database is already by far the most comprehensive and organized collection of plot-related RJ and Brandon Sanderson quotes available on the web, it is a work in progress.
Updates are being made regularly, with signing reports from Brandon Sanderson, and corrections/additions to the RJ material All quotes are in reverse chronological order, because the most recent quotes tend to be the most relevant, as older questions have been made moot by revelations in the books, and in recent signings. For the RJ material, this puts the blog and TOR Questions of the Week at the top, but the Brandon Sanderson quotes are above those. The Janny Wurts Official Webpage. Neil Gaiman's Journal. Neil Gaiman's photo "Portrait of Adam interviewing. Blog « amanda palmer. Post-tour and new Neil mailbox... Got home from the summer Zombie/Slayer tour to a huge pile of mail, much of it for Neil.
I, of course, had very little time to blog in Europe and even less on the Canadian/US run. it was a beautiful summer, full of festival dates & new people... my wallet was full of many monies & Zombie guitar picks... I flew into LAX from Brussels at 10 pm on Monday night and Tuesday morning had me in a car service to meet Neil back at LAX at 10 am. Not much decompression time. Neil was coming off his AMERICAN GODS tour and he was a sight for sore eyes. The mails brought a Dr. And this game from Eloy & Third Eye Games in Fla: