Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman is TIME's book critic and its lead technology writer. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Magicians and The Magician King. He is chaotic good.

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Stephenie Meyer Wrote a New Thing

So Stephenie Meyer announced today that she wrote a new thing — her first such thing in two years. It’s a novella called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. It’s from the point of view of … Bree Tanner. It’ll come out on June 5. Some of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross.
So who the forks is Bree Tanner? The answer is simple:

Misty Water-Colored Memories of PAX East

People get sentimental about PAX. When it was over Wil Wheaton tweeted — possibly only semi-ironically — that he “needed a moment.”

But it’s true, PAX is different. Partly because it’s for fans, not the industry. Partly because it’s almost freakishly well-run. Partly because it’s animated by the spirits of Gabe and Tycho, a.k.a. …

The Techland Show: The Bitch God Episode

No seriously, I say the phrase “bitch god” in this one. The god in question is Poseidon. Other than that I have no idea what I was talking about.

Peter’s away at GDC this week, along with Evan, where they are probably using up our entire expense budget for the year. So it’s me and Steve, the movie guy, talking Tron, God of War III, …

The Techland Show: The Nice Edition

This week on the Techland show we once again feature our intern Allie Townsend. Not only do Allie’s posts get more traffic than mine, she also got to see Alice before I did. This time next year Allie will probably have my job. The year after that she’ll have your job.

We get to the bottom of that and much more in this week’s …

New Portal Stuff; New Halo Reach Trailer; Yay

There are signs of life from Aperture Science. Valve released on update for its incredibly compelling puzzle game Portal yesterday. This has set off a mad scramble through one of those weird augmented-reality scavenger hunts, starting with radios in the game releasing screechy audio transmissions, which were decodable into a series of …

Another Ridiculously Viral Video from OK Go

It may have cost them years of their lives, but I feel pretty confident that OK Go will once again ride the giant viral sandworm with this video. I think my personal favorite moment is the smashed TV at 3:39.

The making-of doc is below, in four …

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