Source: fearnet
CHRISTOPHER FARNSWORTH INTERVIEW ON BLOOD OATH NOVEL AND MOVIE
So much has been done with vampires, in all manner of media, that it’s hard to imagine they could still be used in any way that’s different. Yet that’s just what writer Chris Farnsworth has done with Blood Oath, his debut novel about a vampire secret agent named Cade assigned to the President of the United States. I recently sat down with Farnsworth and the screenwriter-turned-author told me how he conceived of Cade, what his plans are for his character, and – now that he’s sold the film rights – why he’d like to see Christian Bale cast as the undead spy.
The idea behind this book is one of those that, in hindsight, seems obvious – “Of course there should be a supernatural aide to the President.” It’s surprising it hasn’t been done already.
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Source: io9
URSULA LE GUIN’S LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
It’s 1970, and with this Hugo winner — Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness — we finally got the ladies up in here! And the men too! And of course, the menwomen.
So this is daunting. I mean, these are always daunting, but The Left Hand of Darkness — that’s daunting. It’s the first Hugo-winning novel by a woman, and even if it were simply about what it’s most famous for being about — the meaning of gender — it would be daunting, since that theme has made it the subject of intense critical and academic scrutiny for decades already, so what can I add to the conversation?
But then Left Hand has the nerve to go and be about so much more than gender.
(In fact, maybe it’s not that much about gender at all.) And on top of that, there’s the author: Names have power, as any wizard of Earthsea will tell you, and Ursula Le Guin’s name calls to mind a sort of storytelling perhaps best described as unfuckwithable; the word “myth” gets thrown around a lot to describe it.
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Christopher Farnsworth new novel “Blood Oath is must read. Check out our review for the book here.
Are you a fan of Ursula Le Giun? What are your favorite novels?
