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Shadowplay (Tad Williams Novel)
''Shadowplay'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Tad Williams, the second book in the Shadowmarch tetralogy. It was released in hardcover in the US in March, 2007 and has been released with a region-specific hard cover in the United Kingdom (March 1, 2007). Book one, ''Shadowmarch'', was published in November 2004. Book three of Shadowmarch, '' Shadowrise'' was released in March, 2010. A fourth book, Shadowheart, completes the series. ''Shadowmarch'' was originally released between June 2001 and August 2002 as a bi-weekly episodic serial online, with a one-time $14.99 charge necessary to read chapters beyond the five initial free ones, however a lack of subscribers led to the completed first novel (and subsequent volumes) returning to orthodox publishing. The book contains additional chapters not found in the original online version. Originally, Tad Williams conceived ''Shadowmarch'' as an idea for a fantasy movie and later a fantasy TV series. ''Shadowmarch'' became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tad Williams
Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is the author of the multivolume ''Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn'' series, ''Otherland'' series, and ''Shadowmarch'' series as well as the standalone novels '' Tailchaser's Song'' and The War of the Flowers. Most recently, Williams published ''The Bobby Dollar'' series. Cumulatively, over 17 million copies of Williams's works have been sold. Williams's work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called ''The Next''. He also wrote '' Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis'' issue #50 to #57. Other comic work includes ''Mirrorworld: Rain'' and '' The Helmet of Fate: Ibis the Invincible #1'' (DC). Williams is collaborating on a series of young-adult books with his wife, Deborah Beale, called ''The Ordinary Farm Adventures''. The first two books in the series are ''The Dragons of Ordinary Farm'' and ''The Secrets of Ordinary Farm''. Early life and career Robert Paul "Tad" Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webserial
Web fiction is written works of literature available primarily or solely on the Internet. A common type of web fiction is the web serial. The term comes from old serial stories that were once published regularly in newspapers and magazines. Unlike most modern books, a work of web fiction is often not published as a whole. Instead, it is released on the Internet in installments or chapters as they are finished, although published compilations and anthologies are not unknown. The web serial form dominates in the category of fan fiction, as writing a serial takes less specialized software and often less time than an ebook. Web-based fiction dates to the earliest days of the World Wide Web, including the extremely popular The Spot (1995–1997), a tale told through characters' journal entries and interactivity with its audience. ''The Spot'' spawned many similar sites, including ''Ferndale'' and ''East Village'', though these were not as successful and did not last long. Most of these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Tad Williams
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term Romance (literary fiction), "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek novel, Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels First Published In Serial Form
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Fantasy Novels
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2007 American Novels
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan (born 29 June 1950) is an Americans, American artist of imaginative Realism (arts), realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through contemporary art gallery, galleries in the United States and through his website. The EMP Museum#Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame citation His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey Books, Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series, Piers Anthony's ''Incarnations of Immortality'' series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' ''Barsoom, Mars'' series, Melanie Rawn's ''Dragon Prince and Dragon Star'' series, the De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadowplay UK
Shadow play refers to shadow puppetry or shadow theatre. Shadowplay, Shadow Play or The Shadow Play may refer to: Literature * ''Shadowplay'' (novel), 2007 novel by Tad Williams *''Shadowplay'', 1990 novel by Jo Clayton *''Shadowplay'', 1993 novel by Nigel Findley *''Shadowplay'', 2005 graphic novel series by Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith, Christina Z *''Shadowplay'', 2010 novel by Karen Campbell *''Shadowplay'', 2014 novel by Laura Lam *''Shadowplay'', 2019 novel by Joseph O'Connor * ''Shadow Play'' (play), 1935 play by Noël Coward *''Shadow Play'', 1993 novel by Charles Baxter * "Shadow Play" (''Look and Read'') (2004), the last story of ''Look and Read'' Film * ''Shadow Play'' (film), a 1986 TV movie * ''The Shadow Play'' (1992 film), a Turkish film directed by Yavuz Turgul * ''The Shadow Play'' (2018 film), Chinese film directed by Lou Ye * ''Shadowplay'' (2022 film), a 2022 Czech film directed by Peter Bebjak Television *"Shadow Play", an episode of ''Doctor Who Confidenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadowrise
''Shadowmarch'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Tad Williams, the first book in the Shadowmarch tetralogy. It was released in hardcover on November 2, 2004, and in trade paperback on November 1, 2005. A paperback edition was released in September 2006. The second book in the series, ''Shadowplay'' was published on March 6, 2007, in hardcover and on March 4, 2008, in paperback in both the US and the UK. The third book in the series, ''Shadowrise'', was released in hardcover on March 2, 2010. The last book in the series, ''Shadowheart'', was published in hardcover on November 1, 2010. Background Originally, Tad Williams conceived Shadowmarch as an idea for a fantasy movie, and later a fantasy TV series, which has been described as "''Hill Street Blues'' meets ''Babylon 5'' meets ''Lord of the Rings''". When both of these options fell through, Shadowmarch was reborn as an online serial. It was later released between June 2001 and August 2002 in bi-weekly episodes, but the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Lockwood
Todd Wills Lockwood, (born July 9, 1957 in Boulder, Colorado, United States) is an American artist specializing in fantasy and science fiction illustration. He is best known for his work on the role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'', and for his covers for the books of R.A. Salvatore. His art has also appeared in books from Tor Books, DAW Books, and on magazine covers, including Satellite Orbit magazine in 1984-1985, ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', ''Dragon Magazine'', and '' Dungeon Magazine''. Biography Todd Lockwood was born in Boulder, Colorado. Lockwood received his education at The Art Institute of Colorado, in Denver, Colorado, and went to work immediately in the design and advertising world. Lockwood worked for a design agency for a year and a half, and won numerous awards in the Art Directors Club of New York's annual show. He then focused his career on illustration, doing freelance illustration for ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetralogy
A tetralogy (from Greek τετρα- ''tetra-'', "four" and -λογία ''-logia'', "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works. The name comes from the Attic theater, in which a tetralogy was a group of three tragedies followed by a satyr play, all by one author, to be played in one sitting at the Dionysia as part of a competition. Examples Literature * Tetrateuch is a sometime name for the first four books of the Bible. The Tetrateuch plus Deuteronomy are collectively referred to as the Pentateuch. * ''Tintitives'' by Antiphon of Rhamnus; the author was an orator, and ''Tintitives'' is a kind of textbook for students. Each book consists of four speeches: the prosecutor's opening speech, the first speech for the defense, the prosecutor's reply, and the defendant's conclusion. Three of his tetralogies are known to have survived. * The traditional arrangement of the works of Plato into nine tetralogies, including some doubtful works, and the letters as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Novel
Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fantasy literature may be directed at both children and adults. Fantasy is a subgenre of speculative fiction and is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes, respectively, though these genres overlap. Historically, most works of fantasy were written, however, since the 1960s, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music and art. Many fantasy novels originally written for children and adolescents also attract an adult audience. Examples include ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', the '' Harry Potter'' series, '' The Chronicles of Narnia'', and ''The Hobbit''. History Beginnings Stories invo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
