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Even if you’ve never picked up a book from one of the greatest writers ever, aka Stephen King, chances are you’ve either heard or seen one of the many films inspired by his work. Probably the most recognizable author living today, King has written 63 novels,&#x...

Stephen King Reveals His Favorite TV Adaptation Of His Work It feels like you can barely turn around these days without bumping into an adaptation of a Stephen King story, with the prolific author’s back catalogue having proven to be incredibly fertile ground for film and television projects over the last four decades. There are currently fourteen movies and six shows in development based on his novels and short stories, with The Outsider and The Stand both debuting this year. Given the sh...

Making Magic, Part 1: Defining and Selecting Magic Systems In the first of a two-part series, WD editor Moriah Richard explains how magic systems exist on a spectrum and gives you some tips on selecting a system that works for you. Author: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, is famously quoted as having said this: “The major distinction between fantasy and science fiction is, simply, that science fiction uses one, or a very, very few new postulates, and develops the rigidly consistent logical co...

The Stand: The Different Versions of Stephen Kings Story Explained The Stand limited series debuts on the streaming platform on Thursday, December 24th and if the series premiere episode is any indicator, many Stephen King fans will notice some differences between the master of horrors novel and this latest, live-action telling of the dystopian tale which sees a showdown between good and evil among the survivors of a horrific global pandemic. But while any adaptation prompts comparison between ...

Most Expensive Sales of 2020 2020 wont be remembered with much fondness. However, we had plenty of time to read, and some lucky people made notable and expensive additions to their collections. AbeBooks most expensive sales of the year list features a book that is celebrated each year in Dublin, a map from 1482, a photography book published in 2019, a British secret service agent, some rampaging dinosaurs, a wondrous childrens story and the last gunslinger. by James Joyce, £34,635...

(1) COVID-19 VACCINATION. First responder and noted fanzine fan Curt Phillips posted a photo on Facebook of him receiving the injection — First Covid 19 vaccination accomplished this morning. Fast, simple, easy. No adverse reactions at all. *Everybody* should get one! Soon as we can, Curt! He’s followed up in the intervening hours with a couple of posts to say there were no complications and there was no more arm soreness than there is with his annual flu shot. (2) Yahoo! News. …The tim...

(1) INTRODUCING BUTLER TO NEW READERS. Elizabeth Connor describes the work of “repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism” in “How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves” at Literary Hub. …After some back and forth—and plenty of discussion with the editor acting as mediator—we determined that by elegant, they likely meant more stylized human forms in more sophisticated poses, as well as a textural or brushy quality to the art (as there had been on t...

Stephen King Wishes Castle Rock Got a Season 3 ✖ With the series based on characters, locations, and events he chronicled over the course of his career, its understandable that Stephen King was disappointed by the cancellation of Castle Rock by Hulu, with the author recently expressing his frustrations that the series was scrapped just as the filmmakers were establishing the series and discovering their own strengths. A number of King adaptations debut on screens both big and small every yea...

The Stand Explores Morality in a Pandemic, and Star Owen Teague Has Advice About It On 12/16/20 at 1:50 PM EST The Stand. There are scenes of people coughing and hospitals overflowing with sick patients all suffering from the same virus—a deadly, highly contagious strain of influenza dubbed "Captain Trips." The ambulance and police sirens ring loud in the streets. The dead bodies pile up. And then comes the silence. Its an aspect of the show thats all too reminiscent, as people all around the...

Maximum Overdrive, The Dark Tower — have not. But what about the small screen? As with the film adaptations, attempts to bring King’s books to life on TV have had mixed results, and few have reached the heights of The Green Mile or Misery. But thanks to the longer running time afforded by a series, several of King’s more unwieldy novels have proved better suited to television than to the multiplex. “That is the great thing about TV,” King said, calling from his home in Bangor, Main...