Tagged: Deathly Hallows

F&SF News & Links

F&SF News & Links

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  • July 10, 2007

Colleen Mondor has a long essay about mysterious houses in various genres. (That picture, by the way, is the very first result for "mysterious houses," though they don’t look terribly mysterious to me.)

SF Signal thinks about who the next Grand Masters of the Science Fiction Writers of America should be.

Cracked lists the seven lamest Transformers of all time. Oh, yeah…as if being a giant killer robot who can turn into something else isn’t pretty damn cool no matter what… [via Extra Life]

The UK SF Book News Network reports on the launch of Galaxiki – a wiki-editable virtual galaxy intended to become a gigantic collaborative writing project.

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Harry Potter Mania!

Harry Potter Mania!

It seems that every news outlet in the world is scrambling to keep up with the Harry Potter frenzy. And I know you people at home are wondering, "How can I keep up with all of these mildly diverting stories that all rehash the same three or four facts?" Well, friends, wonder no more, for we have gathered those stories for you, in the handy "hyperlink" format, for your clicking pleasure. Please, no applause…it’s what we’re here for.

The Boston Globe manages to find some doom-and-gloom in the story of how the Harry Potter books got millions of kids to read long, complicated books: some of those kids might not be reading much else! (Shock! Horror!)

Continuing the all-Harry-all-the-time drumbeat, the Minneapolis Star Tribune anatomizes the secrets of Harry’s appeal.

And the Arizona Republic ponders the musical question: Will Harry Potter become a classic?

The Austin Statesman-American worries that young fans will abandon books entirely after Deathly Hallows. (Just as millions of Americans have given up on television after the Sopranos finale.)

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SF&F News & Links

SF&F News & Links

Forbidden Planet International previews the very cool-looking new entry in the Penguin Modern Classics line, A Science Fiction Omnibus, edited by Brian Aldiss.

Today’s Harry Potter hoopla: The New York Times reports on Harry-themed conferences, parties and festivals taking place this summer.

Also working the HP beat: The Washington Post has an article about avoiding spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with lots of anecdotes about people deliberately spoiling the last book. It’s hard out there for a muggle…

Del Rey’s latest e-mail newsletter announces a giveaway – they want to send thirty advance copies of Terry Brooks’s new novel, The Elves of Cintra, to ordinary readers for their early review. You can get full details at that link, or sign up for the newsletter yourself. [via Fantasy Book Critic]

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Science Fiction/Fantasy News & Links

Science Fiction/Fantasy News & Links

Variety reports that Robert E. Howard’s most famous sword-swinger, Conan the Barbarian, may be coming back to the screen via New Line Pictures, mere weeks after Warner Brothers lost the rights to the Cimmerian. [report – but not link – originally from SciFi Wire]

Warming us all up for the publication off Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in less than a month, the Californian provides a short history of the boy wizard, with lots of learned quotes.

Time Magazine, also on the Harry Potter beat, talks to the “brain trust” at Scholastic – J.K. Rowling’s US publisher – about all of the security measures in place to keep the events of Deathly Hallows secret.

Onelowerlight has thrown down the gauntlet: Serenity is “not good SF” because it has too much sex and is “preachy” about things that blogger does not agree with. The sound you hear is a million browncoats screaming in unison… [via SF Signal]

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Harry Potter Spoilers Online

Harry Potter Spoilers Online

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  • June 21, 2007

BBC News is reporting that a "hacker" calling himself Gabriel has posted the ending of the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, on his website.  Thoughtfully, the BBC does not provide a link.

The book is due in stores on July 21.  Author J. K. Rowling has said that two characters will die in the book.  She also said, "There will always be sad individuals who get their kicks from ruining other people’s fun."  She said she hoped,that her readers would "embark on the last adventure they will share with [Harry] without knowing where they are they going."

As an old hippie and a knitter, I’d agree that it’s the journey, not the destination, that’s most important.

Party with Harry Potter

Party with Harry Potter

Today, Scholastic announced a contest to celebrate the publicationof the seventh — and last — Harry Potter book.  Seven US fans will be selected to win a great prize — round-trip airfare for two to London, three nights there in a hotel, and a seat at the midnight launch of the book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with a reading by author J. K. Rowling.

You have to be younger than 21 to enter. 

The "Moonlight Signing" takes place at the Natural HIstory Museum.  Only 1700 fans will be allowed to attend the signing.  The contest winners will be among the 500 people allowed to attend the reading.

Eligible to enter?  Go to http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter and fill out an entry form, or print your name, home address and phone number and send it to:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Sweepstakes

Scholastic Inc.

557 Broadway

New York, NY  10012

Your entry must be received by June 15, 2007, and you’ll know if you’ve won by June 21, 2007.  If you do, please let us know and send us a report about the event. 

Potter breaks another record

Potter breaks another record

  • News
  • March 14, 2007

The last time Harry Potter headed out to the bookstores, he brought 10,800,000 books with him. Today, he’s older and stronger and can carry an unprecedented 12,000,000 copies of his latest, and last, thriller.

So if you’re investing in first editions, you can skip double-bagging Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The promotion theme wil be "There Will Soon Be 7," although a great many fans believe that by the end of this final volume, we won’t have Harry Potter to kick around anymore.

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