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Director Gore Verbinski, best known for directing several
Pirates of the Caribbean films, announced the project in an interview with Collider. This is arguably a bigger deal for fans than the
In the Lost Lands movie, because
Sandkings is good enough to hold three important distinctions: 1) it’s considered a novelette, 2) it’s important enough that the short story collection it appears is actually titled
Sandkings, and 3) it won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1980, Martin’s only story to do so.
The story is what could only be called a doozy: Simon Kress, a rich man on the planet Baldur, buys some mysterious exotic pets called sandkings. These creatures divide into colonies, build small castles, and go to war with each other. When Simon projects a hologram of his head into their terrarium, they even start decorating their castle with images of his face. Unfortunately, Kress is a huge jerk and an extremely bad pet owner, and begins to mistreat the sandki
Artist Rowena Morrill, 76, died February 11, 2021 following years of poor health. Morrill was one of the most prominent artists in the field, with an active career that spanned decades. Some of her work has been collected in Hugo Award finalist
The Fantastic Art of Rowena (1983) and
The Art of Rowena (2000).
Born September 14, 1944, Morrill graduated from the University of Delaware in 1971 with an art degree and attended the Tyler School of Arts MFA program (though she left before completing the degree). She moved to New York, where she worked in advertising. She soon began her career as a cover artist, starting in romance, and did her first genre cover for