WiC Weekly: August 28-September 3
By WiC Staff
The Wheel of Time stole a lot of the spotlight this week with that beautiful trailer, but there was plenty more fantasy and sci-fi news to take in:
Welcome to WiC Weekly, where we recap the biggest stories to hit this website over the past seven days. Let’s hop to it!
First up, we help you catch up with some of the great sci-fi and fantasy books you may have missed last year:
Amazon Prime Video drops a beautiful trailer for The Wheel of Time, it’s ambitious adaptation of Robert Jordan’s 14 book-strong fantasy epic!
Sticking with The Wheel of Time, showrunner Rafe Judkins walks us through some of the changes he’s making to the text:
Game of Thrones veteran Toby Sebastian plus Shadow and Bone possibly equals perfect casting choice.
Is Star Wars leaking? You didn’t hear it here:
The Wheel of Time got all the press this week, but HBO is forging ahead with its next big epic fantasy swing as well:
We review The Nature of Middle-earth, a new book about the work of J.R.R. Tolkien:
Evidently there are people out there who think that Game of Thrones is based on real history. Kit Harington (Jon Snow) has some thoughts about them.
The Walking Dead is inspiring a lot of conversation at the start of its eleventh and final season.
Wherein we look at the origins of that most iconic of Game of Thrones catch phrases: “Shame!”
We’re all week. Try the chicken.
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