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It's been quite a summer at HarperCollins: regime change, more and more and more work; and visits from some of my favourite authors. First came the wonderful Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) whom I've been publishing for over 20 years now, to promote her new novel, THE DRAGON KEEPER. Megan is always such a joy to spend time with: she's one of the nicest people I've encountered in my 25 years in the industry, and one of the finest writers too. I thoroughly recommend her return to the Rain Wilds:



Then in September my old friend Kim Stanley Robinson came through London on his way to guesting in Venice at a festival to celebrate Galileo's development of the telescope, coinciding rather beautifully with our publication of the magnificent GALILEO'S DREAM, showcased here in a fine piece by Guardian journalist Alison Flood.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/10/kim-stanley-robinson-science

And finally, yesterday I got to spend some time with the legendary George RR Martin, over in the UK to visit the sets where HBO are filming the pilot episode of A GAME OF THRONES, which could be the finest ever tv fantasy epic. We have his superb anthology tribute to Jack Vance out this month: the signing queues went round and round the block in Belfast, Dublin and London's Forbidden Planet. Oddly, in that strange synchronicity which happens so frequently in my life, George flew out of London for Marrakech this morning, to see the desert and Dothraki scenes being filmed in and around Ouarzazate. The really exciting news, other than the potential HBO series, is that we might get the long-awaited DANCE OF DRAGONS soon. I cannot wait.