WiC Weekly: July 1-7, 2025

It's that very special time of the week where we update you as to all the biggest pieces of news from the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy, movies, TV and books from the past seven days. Let's start with A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, who never seems to lack for interesting things to say:

From one famous fantasy author to another, Brandon Sanderson weighed in on the cancelation of Amazon's The Wheel of Time show. Again, he had nothing but interesting things to say:

So many famous fantasy authors, so little time. This time it's The First Law author's Joe Abercrombie's turn. Not only is his newest book getting turned into a movie, James Cameron is working on it!

Reclusive author Patrick Rothfuss made a rare public appearance where he mentioned The Doors of Stone, the very-long-in-coming third book in his Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy:

Let's try and tip-toe away from fantasy authors. This one only tangentially involves George R.R. Martin. Mostly it's about the upcoming Elden Ring movie:

Hulu dropped a new Predator movie this weekend, and it's another banger from director Dan Trachtenberg:

HBO's new Game of Thrones prequel series isn't coming quite as quick as we would like, but we're hoping for the best when it finally arrives early next year:

Where my readers at? Bury your noses in this fresh stack:

Circling back to The Wheel of Time for a second, the odds of a revival may be long, but fans, cast and crew alike are keeping hope alive:

And now we circle back to big-time fantasy authors. Not only did we talk with Dungeon Crawler Carl author Matt Dinniman, we got to debut the cover for his next book!

We're just getting started. Hang out on WiC all week to see what else is in store.

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