Game of Thrones Episode 8 “The Pointy End” reviewed: Boomtron Podcast #10
Boomtron Podcast is the official podcast of Boomtron.com and the rest of the Boomtron Empire. It’s groupthink on genre news from the most un-nerdy pair of ladies you will find talking about SFF in public and select, empire-approved guests. This week Elena, Rachel, and guest Amy Ratcliffe from Geek with Curves discuss Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy, the German film Die [...]
Random House has 5 free books for download: Hobb, Novik, Turtledove, Pratt & Kim Stanley Robinson
Random House has made available 5 novels for you to download for free.
They include His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik, Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt Settling Accounts: Return Engagements by Harry Turtledove . . .
Book Review – Renegade’s Magic
Author: Robin Hobb Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Eos Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2008 Renegade’s Magic is the third part of Hobb’s fourth trilogy and quite a change from her works in the Realm of the Elderlings. Hobb places the Soldier Son trilogy in a more technically advanced world than her previous works. If you [...]
Book Review – Ship of Destiniy
Author: Robin Hobb Cover Artist: John Howe Publisher: Voyager Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2001 The final part of Robin Hobb’s Liveship Traders trilogy. This is actually a reread for me, I have read all the books in the Realm of the Elderlings before. One thing that strikes me about these trilogies is that [...]
Book Review – The Mad Ship
Author: Robin Hobb Cover Artist: John Howe Publisher: Voyager Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2000 The second book in Hobb’s Liveship Traders trilogy. I reread this book during my recent move and had to drag myself away repeatedly to see to such trivial details as packing. Like the first book in this trilogy The [...]
Book Review – Ship of Magic
Author: Robin Hobb Cover Artist: John Howe Publisher: Voyager Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 1999 The first volume in the Liveship Traders trilogy. In this trilogy Hobb returns to the realm of the Elderlings where her hugely successful Farseer trilogy is set. Anyone expecting a return to the Six Duchies and Fitz is in [...]
Contest – win Shaman’s Crossing and Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
The first contest announced from Fantasybookspot.com this June will award the winner the first two installments of the Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son Trilogy, last year’s Shaman’s Crossing, and the forthcoming (in July) Forest Mage which will include bookplates autographed by Robin Hobb! Here is the synopsis for Forest Mage: Nevare Burvelle is the second son [...]
Book Review – Assassin’s Quest
Author: Robin Hobb Publisher: Bantam Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1997 Assassin’s Quest, the third book in Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy, picks up right where Royal Assassin ended. The noble bastard FitzChivalry struggles to regain his humanity after living inside the mind of his wolf. As in the previous books, Hobb evocatively describes the intersection of [...]
Book Review – Royal Assassin
Author: Robin Hobb Publisher: Bantam Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1996 Royal Assassin, the second book of Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy, picks up right where Assassin’s Apprentice ended. The noble bastard FitzChivalry Farseer, having foiled a plot against Prince Verity and his foreign bride Kettricken, returns to Buckkeep. Hobb continues the development of Fitz’s character as [...]
Book Review – Assassin’s Apprentice
Author: Robin Hobb Publisher: Bantam Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1995 Robin Hobb burst onto the fantasy scene in 1995 with Assassin’s Apprentice, the opening volume of the Farseer Trilogy. These books sold so well that Hobb wrote two later trilogies set in the same world. Soon word leaked that “Robin Hobb” was actually long-time mid-list [...]
On the Spot at BSC – Robin Hobb interview
This week my On the Spot guest is a name that is a fixture in epic fantasy for more then a decade now, and an award nominated author even before that under the name Megan Lindholm. She is responsible for recent fan favorite series like the Farseer, Live Ship Traders, and Tawny Man trilogies. This [...]
Book Review – Shaman’s Crossing
Author: Robin Hobb Cover Artist: John Howe Publisher: Voyager Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: July 2005 Since Megan Lindholm started scribing tales under her pen name, she hasn’t only been consistently reliable, she also has maintained a level of quality, while offering fans of epic fantasy a worthwhile read for ten of the last eleven years. [...]
