The author of the Vampire Diaries has been fired from her own book series
L.J. Smith, the author of the bestselling Vampire Diaries series of novels, has been sacked by her publishers, HarperCollins. Another author will complete the series. The Vampire Diaries is unusual in that the series premise was (apparently, going by fan comments in the SpoilerTV link above) conceived by the publisher and given to Smith as…
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How life is imitating science fiction in Egypt
Walter Jon Williams’ Deep State, out next week, picks up the themes of viral marketing and social media from his previous novel This Is Not A Game. And a lot of the stuff that Williams wrote about is very similar to what’s been happening in Egypt and Tunisia. Is Williams a prophet of the internet…
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