Blogging Roundup: 13 April to 1 June 2020

The Wertzone

News
Michael Moorcock rules out an ELRIC TV show or movie in the near future, citing similarities to THE WITCHER
A legal dispute may have confirmed the ELDER SCROLLS VI subtitle
Henry Cavill to resume his role as Superman
Cover art for new Joe Abercrombie book revealed
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE SECOND AGE given greenlight to resume filming in August
Original DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN trilogy to get first UK audiobook release
A first look at CBS's unexpectedly topical adaptation of THE STAND
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER returns to Netflix
CBS greenlights STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, featuring Captain Pike
George Miller locks in a MAD MAX: FURY ROAD prequel as his next project
Bethesda updates STARFIELD website for the first time
MAFIA, one of the best video games of all time, is getting a full remake this year
Katee Sackhoff to join THE MANDALORIAN
Square Eidos selling 53 great games (and DAIKATANA) for peanuts
Temuera Morrison to return as Boba Fett in THE MANDALORIAN
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS movie gets yet yet another creative shake-up
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 3.0 gets its showrunner, confirmed to be yet another remake
Taika Waititi signs with Lucasfilm to direct and co-write a STAR WARS film
Frontier Developments developing a WARHAMMER: AGE OF SIGMAR real-time strategy game
Games Workshop revives original WARHAMMER setting in completely unforeseen development
Amblin Entertainment developing a film version of THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST
Chris Wooding confirmed to be a writer on ASSASSIN'S CREED: VALHALLA
New DISCWORLD TV adaptations announced, unrelated to THE WATCH
UK cover art for Brandon Sanderson's RHYTHM OF WAR revealed
Rockstar only "early in development" on GRAND THEFT AUTO VI
New Daniel Abraham epic fantasy novel confirmed for 2021
A brand new XCOM game is coming out this month
More images released from the new DUNE movie
Our first glimpse of Denis Villeneuve's DUNE

Reviews
Space Force: Season 1
Pacific Rim: Uprising
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
The Office (USA): The Complete Series
Wertzone Classics: Lyonsse - Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Alien: Isolation
Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Season 1
The Last Kingdom: Season 4
The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski
Wertzone Classics: Aliens
Wertzone Classics: Alien
The Day Shall Come
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Sniper Elite 4
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Valkyria Chronicles 4

Articles
The Music of the Book
It has been revealed that David Eddings and his wife were jailed in the 1970s for child abuse
A rough and ready LAST KINGDOM CHRONOLOGY

Atlas of Ice and Fire
Nations of the Forgotten Realms
A Map of Jack Vance's Elder Isles (Lyonesse)
Fallout Maps
Atlas of the Imperium: Star Maps of Dune (updated)
A New Map of the Forgotten Realms

Patreon
Sequence Complete: The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Sequence Complete: The Helliconia Trilogy by Brian Aldiss
The Music of the Book

Dragonmount
The Wheel of Television: WoT on Prime Updates - May 2020

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