Blogging Roundup: 1 November 2025 to 31 March 2026

 

The Wertzone

News

• Tor Books release the rights to The Sword of Shadows series by JV Jones, allowing new publishers to come on board or self-publishing

• Ultra-long web saga The Wandering Inn to get physical releases starting this autumn

• For All Mankind renewed for sixth and final season

• Peter Jackson to produce yet another frankly unnecessary Lord of the Rings film

• Firefly animated TV series in development

• Hulu passes on Buffy the Vampire Slayer sequel series after shooting a pilot

• Two missing Doctor Who episodes recovered

• Cast of Firefly tease possible reunion

• Red Dwarf co-creator returns to franchise after thirty years with new novel

• Royal Shakespeare Company confirms launch of Game of Thrones: The Mad King for Summer 2026

• Pinnacle Entertainment launches Deadlands 30th Anniversary Kickstarter

• Baldur's Gate TV series in development at HBO from Last of Us team

• Sales of A Song of Ice and Fire surpass 100 million

• Hugh Cook's epic Chronicles of an Age of Darkness series returns to print

• Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere setting picked up for adaptation by Apple TV

• Blake's 7 reboot in development

• New Malazan novel, Legacies of Betrayal, slated for October 2026 release

• Kathleen Kennedy steps down as the head of Lucasfilm

• Hosting an event with Peter F. Hamilton in late January

• Total War: Warhammer 40,000 announced

• Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced

• Brandon Sanderson hits 50 million sales

• Creative Assembly announce Total War: Medieval III, confirm another game announcement for next week

• Tor Books passes on completing JV Jones's Sword of Shadows series, author to pursue self-publishing

• RUMOUR: Something may be up with Half-Life 3

• Paramount shelves the Star Trek "Kelvinverse" permanently

• Mass Effect TV series to be an original story set after the original video game trilogy

• China Mieville announces new novel, The Rouse, for 2026

Features

• RIP Nicholas Brendan

• RIP Dan Simmons

• RIP Rob Grant

• RIP Jean Rabe

• A Preview of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

• Doctor Who Review Index (2025)

• A revised Malazan reading order

Reviews

• Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Volume 02

• Age of Mythology: Retold

• Slow Gods by Claire North

• Person of Interest: Season 1

• Relics of Ruin by Erin Evans

• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1

• Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Volume 01

• Dispatch

• Pluribus: Season 1

• Empire of Exiles by Erin Evans

• Sniper Elite 3

• Red Dead Redemption

• Doctor Who: Season 26 and the TV Movie

• The Outer Worlds 2

• Doctor Who: Season 25

• Forge of the High Mage by Ian Cameron Esslemont

• Doctor Who: Season 24

• Doctor Who: Season 23 - The Trial of a Time Lord

• No Life Forsaken by Steven Erikson

• Doctor Who: Season 22