A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE

I have read New Spring in the Legends short stroy collection edited by Robert Silverberg and while I felt it was weakest of stories included in the anthology I found the introductory description of the world to be interesting and the stroty itself was all right. What do you guys think about this series?

Some more books for my pile today,

Weaver, Stephen Baxter
The Court of Air, Stephen Hunt
The Gunslinger, Stephen King (geez I didn't realize I had bought three Stephens)
Lonely Werewolf Girl, Martin Millar
Superpowers, David Schwartz
The Demon and the City, Liz Williams

I wanted to buy the new Sedia book as well as the third Detective Chen book and the next two Swierczynski books, but they didn't have them.

Also bought a Bantam Classics publishing of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.

We’ve gotten the final approvals and issues worked out with Longclaw, production is now starting, we should have pictures of the prototype being taken this week, with preorders starting the first week of July, at least for mail orders. The Needle concept art has been approved. So we’ll now move forward with the technical drawings [...]

I've had luck enough to procure myself an ARC of the -- as I can now already proclaim it -- stellar "The Ten Thousand" by Paul Kearney. It marks a cornerstone in Kearney's carrier as a writer, a kind of rebirth. He evolved a bit since the "Sea Beggars" trilogy and now mixes a bit of Richard Morgan as well as David Gemmell into the mix, albeit maintaining his own voice throughout. "The Ten Thousand" tells an epic story of ten thousand elite mercenaries (think hoplites on steroids) of the race of Macht helping an upstart prince of the Assurian Empire to wrest the throne from his brother, the king. What sets out to be a tale of glory and gold, gradually turns into something harsher...someting made out of brute force, courage, loyalty, hard won friendships and bare survival. Kearney has done it again. You can read the review on Realms of Speculative Fiction.