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Happy Star Wars Day: A heated Ewok exchange

Gollancz Team: - May 4th, 2013
Other

Happy Star Wars Day, and May the Fourth be with you!

Today’s post is the best of the heated debate around the Gollancz office this week on the value of Ewoks. Love them? Hate them? There’s a pretty powerful sway on both sides, but we will let you decide for yourself. Rest assured it has been meticulously edited for strong curse words and bloodstains. 

 

Mark

At a recent Gollancz marketing meeting (yes, we plan this stuff) it was suggested that someone write … More

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Titanic 101: The Ghost from the Grand Banks

Gollancz Team: - April 15th, 2013
News, Other, Science Fiction, Seasonal Posts, SF Gateway

It was 101 years ago today that the one of the greatest – certainly the most famous – of all maritime disasters occurred: the sinking of the RMS Titanic. With a hull containing sixteen separate airtight compartments, causing some to refer to it as ‘unsinkable’, the Titanic struck an iceberg south of Newfoundland and sank, five days into its maiden voyage, resulting in the loss of over 1,500 lives.

The Titanic has fascinated explorers, historians and writers … More

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The Westeros Wagon and Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones

Gollancz Team: - March 4th, 2013
Fantasy, Fiction, George R.R. Martin, News, Other, TV shows

To celebrate the release of Game of Thrones Season 2 HBO UK sent the Westeros Wagon around London.

When we found out the Westeros Wagon would be around the corner from our offices  . . .

Team Gollancz took a few minutes to hand out copies of Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones.

. . . and there was food. Free delicious Game of Thrones themed food . . .

. . . which was very much in demand.

Issac Hempstead-Wright (Bran … More

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It started with a title: a special guest post from Den Patrick

Gollancz Team: - February 7th, 2013
Acquisitions, Author Post, Fantasy, Guest Post, Other

It started with a title.

My girlfriend at the time commented my ears were ‘so pale they looked like porcelain’. I was hideously hungover and being pale has always been my standard look.

‘The Boy with the Porcelain Ears, that would make a great book title’, I said. That was nearly ten years ago. I knew there was an orphan, I knew it took place in a huge castle (thank you Mervyn Peake) and I knew the King was a recluse. Outside … More

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Oh, Prometheus

Gollancz Team: - January 9th, 2013
Film Reviews, Films, Other

Aww, remember this? Remember how excited you were…?

And then you saw the movie.

Some have been scathing of Prometheus, but I rather enjoyed it. No, it wasn’t Alien or Aliens, but it looked jaw-droppingly stunning, and there were great performances. But something wasn’t quite right, and it was largely the screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof who came in for a kicking.

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