The Boiled Leather Audio Hour Episode 19! Women of Westeros, Part IV: Margaery, Melisandre, and Lysa It’s a power-player episode of BLAH this time out, as our irregularly scheduled series on the women…
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The Boiled Leather Audio Hour Episode 15! Women of Westeros, Part II: Brienne & Asha WARRIOR WOMEN OF WESTEROS IN HOT SWORD-ON-SWORD ACTION! Haha j/k LOL. Stefan and I proudly present the second…
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The Boiled Leather Audio Hour Episode 18! Women of Westeros Part III: Catelyn and Daenerys The mother of dragons squares off against/pairs up with the mother of direwolves in our new episode — the…
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We discuss "A Dance With Dragons," the latest 1000-page installment in George R.R. Martin’s bestselling "Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy series. Is this series going to end well? Which parts of this book were good, and which just treaded water? Would adding Klingons have helped? Why are trees the Westeros equivalent of security cameras? These are the sorts of questions you ask deep in the middle of a long fantasy series.
The Boiled Leather Audio Hour Episode 13! Women of Westeros, Part I: Sansa & Cersei BLAH’s long summer has ended at last! We’re back with the first in what promises to be a more or less ongoing series…
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Season 2 of HBO’s "Game of Thrones."
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5by5 - The Incomparable #62: The Pig is Chekhov’s Gun
John Hodgman interviews George R.R. Martin, author of series of fantasy books called, collectively, "A Song of Ice and Fire," which was recently adapted for the acclaimed HBO show "A Game of Thrones."
In today’s episode of Law Talk, we hear from George R. R. Martin, the prolific author of the “high fantasy” series The Song of Ice and Fire. George has also been a screenwriter and Hollywood producer, an editor, a chess tournament director, a union leader, and a volunteer media director for the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. As I’ve previously written, George is a leader in the movement to bring a degree of realism to fantasy, and he has been dubbed (by Time Magazine) “The American Tolkien.”
George and I talked for almost an hour, on topics ranging from the role of law in fantasy books (starting 3.5 minutes in); the limits of magic as a plot device (20 minutes in); law professor Robert Cover (22 minutes in, brought up by me, to my shame); why most fantasy novels seem to be set in merry olde england (28 minutes in); fan fiction and copyright infringement (31minutes in); how writing sci-fi is like selling music, and whether he likes Radiohead’s distribution model (35 minutes in); how to keep control over your work when it is transformed into another medium (39 minutes in); and inheritance law (toward the end).
George is a fantastically interesting, well-read, thoughtful guy, and I think you will enjoy this interview quite a bit. (If you aren’t a fan of the books, ignore my constant, irritating, references to characters you have never heard of.) Finally, if you want to learn more about George, visit his blog (which he says isn’t one) and join the hordes of folks waiting for the next installment of the series, A Dance With Dragons, to ship.
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