{"id":8300,"date":"2023-07-06T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:14:41","slug":"reginald-and-roger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2023\/07\/06\/reginald-and-roger\/","title":{"rendered":"Reginald and Roger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m not writing, you can often find me reading.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been a voracious reader since grade school&#8230; and I love talking about books almost as much as I love reading them.\u00a0\u00a0 So when a British fellow named Reginald asked me to come on his podcast to discuss one of my favorite books, I was pleased to agree.\u00a0\u00a0 The hard part was picking a book.\u00a0\u00a0 I have a lot of favorite books, and favorite authors.\u00a0\u00a0 Tolkien, Heinlein, Lovecraft, Waldrop, Fitzgerald, Dickens, Bernard Cornwell, Stephen King, Jack Vance&#8230; the list goes on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>We could only do one, however.\u00a0 So I finally settled on Roger Zelazny.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but <em>WHICH<\/em> Zelazny, though?\u00a0 Roger wrote so many great ones.\u00a0\u00a0 LORD OF LIGHT, EYE OF CAT, CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS, DREAM MASTER, DOORWAYS IN THE SAND&#8230; and the short stories, he was great at shorter lengths as well&#8230; as his shelf of Hugo and Nebula Awards bears witness.<\/p>\n<p>Hard choice.\u00a0 In the end I went with NINE PRINCES IN AMBER&#8230; and the Amber series in general.\u00a0\u00a0 (Soon to be a TV series, we hope).<\/p>\n<p>We filmed the segment at Beastly Books in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n<p>Reginald did not turn up.\u00a0 I gather he does that a lot.\u00a0 Fortunately, his friend Dominick Noble was on hand to fill in, as he does often.\u00a0 (Dom has a great YouTube channel of his own, LOST IN ADAPTATION, where he compares films made from books with their source material).<\/p>\n<p>We had a lot of fun.\u00a0 You can watch the discussion here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Talking to George RR Martin About HIS Favorite Book\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V56WRApNUzM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve had a listen, go out and read NINE PRINCES IN AMBER&#8230; or any of Roger&#8217;s books, really.\u00a0 They&#8217;re all great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m not writing, you can often find me reading.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been a voracious reader since grade school&#8230; and I love talking about books almost as much as I love reading them.\u00a0\u00a0 So when a British fellow named Reginald asked me to come on his podcast to discuss one of my favorite books, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[302,62,12],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}