The Bodhisattva

Updated Brackets.
So we have come down to the Final Four in our inaugural All-Time and 2006 Tournaments over at Fantasybookspot.com and it breaks down like this:
2006 Final Four:
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy vs. The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker
Have your say here.
- The Oracle’s Queen by Cinda…Lynn Flewelling VS. Kafka in Bronteland by [...]

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You know, I have been reading around and I’m thinking everybody on earth is getting Lynch’s Red Seas Under Red Skies - except me! What do I have to say to that? Rock on people!
- John C. Wright podcast interview.
- Neal Stephenson talks 300.
- Women’s books are trivial according to The [...]

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Over at FBS, KCF just put up his interview with Patrick Rothfuss. I don’t know, the ‘buzz’ hasn’t reached me which either means buzz has been redefined, or I am out of touch, but Rothfuss has a debut -The Name of the Wind (read excerpt here)- that will be released at the end [...]

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Continuing with my A Cup of Joe feature This issue is entitled All the Ships at Seas.

You Know It Was The 80’s Quote:
“Soft Master is a Ninja. His technique of wrist rocket deflection is a deadly secret” - Reply to a letter from a fan wanting to learn how protect himself - from you [...]

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It’s really cool that we get so much new content (that I don’t anything to do with) that I can report
First, adding to our mess of on-going contests, Brian has announced a chance to win a copy of Peter Spiegelman’s Red Cat (which he also reviewed).
This is the latest in a ton of current [...]

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Yeah it’s rough, but it’s Golden Age Dark Knight and a classy, bad ass Penguin cover to boot!

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Some reading to head into the weekend
- Over at Fantasybookspot.com Brian pointed to The Top 10 People Who Are Glad Happy Captain America is Dead
- Jeff VanderMeer and Cat Rambo collabo*, Lucius Shepard, non-fiction by Elizabeth Bear and more over at Subterranean Press, where she reminds us:
“and of course we can’t get Terry Goodkind off [...]

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I have got a lot of contests that will be coming up starting next month (announcing them now would be just a too tad* early) representing a wide range of forthcoming goodies, but in the meantime get something for your damn kids, as Damon has cooked up a contest for children’s writer David [...]

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Check out the DOPE brackets!
As I discussed in a previous post, FBS’s book tournaments begin today! There are two brackets! One All Time bracket where the first round discussion/voting last until the March 15th and the 2006 bracket that moves on to the next round after tomorrow!
Make your picks and plead your [...]

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What’s worth reading from the last week or so:
- RIP Steve Rogers (yes I know you will be back - or never left):

As discussed by Steven Colbert.
- 300 fans - Bow down to Watchmen!
- I was reading Jeffrey Ford’s blog and he points to some fab art that Charlie Vess has [...]

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Continuing with my A Cup of Joe feature This issue is entitled Dreadnoks on the Loose.

You Know It Was The 80’s Quote:
“We’re gonna need a bat to drive off those California girls when they see this bad short tooling down the coast highway” - Clutch
The Straight Dope:
- Rock n’ Roll, Breaker and Clutch* are [...]

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I know right - finally!
Issue 2 is wrap. I hear there is some amazing art to accompany this issue which will feature 3 pieces of fiction and a poem. We are just waiting for the contracts to come back in and some D&D magic. Where are the articles that were the staple of issue#1? [...]

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Over at Fantasybookspot.com and in the spirit of March Madness, Brian and Patrick have cooked up a rare project in our online community - people talking about books.
It’s tournament time people! So if you’re a reader, whether you have lame tastes or not, come and support your favorite books or condemn the [...]

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Linking it up again!
- Harold Bloom at Newsweek.
- Daniel Abraham (author of last year’s A Shadow in Summer which I reviewed last year) is going to be teaming up with the Dabel Brothers on some Wild Card comics.
- Pretty interesting reading on Cerebus, part II of the essay is here.
- Quentyn Martell is the new [...]

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FBS had two eyes at last week’s NY Comic Con (not including hired muscle, who had to beat down some folks to get FBS some Press Passes - bodies not yet found), but since Damon is a slacker, I am left having to make two seperate blog posts pointing them out (as I noted earlier [...]

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