The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, to honor the year’s best work in genre television, film, and home entertainment. They have been given annually ever since. This year’s year’s awards ceremony, the 52nd, was held in the Hilton Universal City in Los Angeles, on February 2.| georgerrmartin.com
We spent a month across the pond last summer, from July 15 to August 15. We started in Belfast and environs, where A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS was being filmed. From there we went on to Amsterdam, where I paid a call on my Dutch publisher, and then London to call on Jane Johnson and the good folks at Voyager, my UK publisher. Oxford was next. The Oxford Writers House had invited me to deliver a talk on fantasy with Philip Pullman, the author of HIS DARK MATERIALS. I was really ...| georgerrmartin.com
After Belfast, the next stop on our summer travels was Ashford Meadows, where I’d heard there was a tournament going on. No way I was going to miss that, so off we went. Rumor was that some Targaryen princelings would be attending.| georgerrmartin.com