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| The Urth of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe |
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Ann Leckie
| Imperial Radch Trilogy | |
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| Ancillary Justice | |
| Ancillary Sword | |
| Ancillary Mercy | |
| Provenance |
Erik Larson
Roadmarks
The story broke a few days ago, and is now all over the internet: I am developing a new series for HBO, a science fiction show based on ROADMARKS, a novel by the late great Roger Zelazny. And what do you know — the story is actually true. https://t.co/eUYqgKzqfp
— George RR Martin (@GRRMspeaking) February 25, 2021
The story broke a few days ago, and is now all over the internet: I am developing a new series for HBO, a science fiction show based on ROADMARKS, a novel by the late great Roger Zelazny. And what do you know — the story is actually true. Which is more than can be said about most of the stories about me that I stumble over these days, boys and girls. (I have said it before, and will say it again, but sometimes it seems no one listens. Do not believe everything you read).
Anyway… YES! We had not intended to announce anything yet, to be sure. Development is a long and uncertain process. Thousands of shows are pitched, hundreds of pilots are written, dozens of pilots are filmed, but only a very few of them ever get greenlit to series. There is a reason that Hollywood insiders call it “development hell.” And what’s the point of announcing projects that might never make it to air? That’s why HBO — like most other networks and streamers — prefers to keep these things quiet.
Even so, even so… you cannot win the lottery unless you buy a ticket, so we all keep playing.
Which brings me back to ROADMARKS.
DEADLINE was the first to break the story, but the best and most complete account appeared on the WERTZONE, here: https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2021/02/hbo-developing-roger-zelaznys-roadmarks.html
| Roadmarks – Roger Zelazny |
Food
| Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain | |
| Binging with Babish: 100 Recipes Recreated from Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows – Andrew Rea | |
| I’m Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0 – Alton Brown | |
| Iron Chef: The Official Book – Kaoru Hoketsu (Translator), Fuji Television, Kabushiki (Editor) |
Doris Lessing
| Canopus in Argos: Archives | |
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| Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 | |
| The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five | |
Kim Stanley Robinson
| Three Californias (Orange County trilogy, Orange County triptych) | |
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| The Wild Shore | |
| The Gold Coast | |
| Pacific Edge | |
| The Mars Trilogy | |
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| Red Mars | |
| Green Mars | |
| Blue Mars | |
| Science in the Capital | |
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| Forty Signs of Rain | |
| Fifty Degrees Below | |
| Sixty Days and Counting | |
Newtonian Swag: 2020
| The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz – Erik Larson | |
| The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five – Doris Lessing | |
| LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian – The Razor Crest |
History
| Rise & Fall of British Empire – Lawrence James | |
| The Honourable Company – John Keay | |
| India: A History – John Keay | |
| Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi – Timothy R. Pauketat | |
| A Social History of Greece and Rome – Michael Grant | |
| Early Greece – Oswyn Murray | |
| Democracy and Classical Greece – J. K. Davies | |
| The Hellenistic World – F. W. Walbank | |
| The Roman Republic – Michael Crawford | |
| The Roman Empire – Colin Wells | |
| The Later Roman Empire – Averil Cameron | |
| The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic – Mike Duncan | |
| Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine – Barry Strauss |