Games

Some cover art for upcoming books. First up is Raymond E. Feist's Magician's End (US version): Normally I don't post much about Feist (that whole, 'Fourteen years since he last published a good book' thing tends to get in the way), but this is somewhat noteworthy as Magician's End concludes the entire 30-volume saga begun way back in 1982 with Magician , bringing to an end the cycle of riftwars and interdimensional chaos to plague the world of Midkemia. Feist plans to move onto other works and worlds (including an apparent SF series) for a while, which can only be a good thing for the quality of his writing. Magician's End will be published in May 2013. Meanwhile, Neil Gaiman's first full-length-novel-for-adults in eight years, The Ocean at the End of the Lane , will be published in June 2013. Cover blurbage: “They say you cannot go home again, and that is as true as a knife . . .” A man returns to his childhood village seeking comfort in memories of ...

Neil Gaiman's new novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane , will be published on 19 June 2013. Gaiman discusses the novel on his blog and has also released a cover blurb:   " The  Ocean At  The  End of  the  Lane  is a novel about memory and magic and survival, about  the  power of stories and  the  darkness inside each of us.   It began for our narrator forty years ago when he was seven:  the  lodger stole the family's car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.  Creatures from beyond  the  world are on  the  loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and a menace unleashed -- within his family, and from  the  forces that have gathered to destroy it.   His only defense is three women, on a ramshackle farm at  the  end of  the  lane.  The ...