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Ever wanted to be a wizard learning spells from a real Hogwarts textbook?
Of course you have.
Well, now’s your chance.
Inspired by the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling has teamed up with Sony to create a new augmented reality experience called Book of Spells, which is sure to excite all your young non-muggles.
What kind of J. K. Rowling novel might we expect where every character is a Muggle?
Book review: The Casual Vacancy confirms that J.K. Rowling does not lose her narrative gifts by stepping outside her usual realm. Stripped of the fantastic, she still draws the reader onward.
J.K. Rowling not ruling out writing a sidestep from the Harry Potter-series
J.K. Rowling plans to return to writing for young people — and the author says she doesn’t rule out another book set in Harry Potter’s magical world.
J.K. Rowling is finally leaving Hogwarts behind — and for decidedly more adult fare, too. Little, Brown Book Group and Little, Brown and Company announced Thursday that Rowling, author of the mega-successful Harry Potter series, is set to publish her first novel for adults.
“Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series, which has been published so brilliantly by Bloomsbury and my other publishers around the world,” Rowling said in a statement. “The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry’s success has brought me, and with that new territory it seemed a logical progression to have a new publisher. I am delighted to have a second publishing home in Little, Brown, and a publishing team that will be a great partner in this new phase of my writing life.”
Cloak announced by Pentagon aims to make someone invisible by bending time
Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a “time cloak” that briefly makes an event undetectable.
The laboratory device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for the merest fraction of a second an event cannot be seen, according to a paper published in the science journal Nature.
It adds to experimental work in creating next-generation camouflage — a so-called invisibility cloak in which specific colours cannot be perceived by the human eye.
“Our results represent a significant step towards obtaining a complete spatio-temporal cloaking device,” says the study, headed by Moti Fridman of Cornell University in New York.
(Photo: The cloak may not be exactly like the photo might suggest, but we’ve got high hopes. (Warner))
One of the best things about Captain America is that he’s not a teenage wizard, a sentiment the movie-going public seems to share. But now that “Captain America: The First Avenger” has successfully launched what appears to be a billion-dollar franchise in the making, how else can those involved capitalize? The Post’s Steve Murray provides a handy guide for anybody unclear on how to cash in on a blockbuster.
While the world prepares to say goodbye to Harry Potter, a refreshingly traditional Winnie the Pooh returns to the big screen. As Steve Murray illustrates, though, there’s plenty of room for both.
(L-R) Author J K Rowling, Actress Emma Watson, Producer David Heyman and Actor Daniel Radcliffe, listen to Actor Rupert Grint speak at the world premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2” in Trafalgar Square, in central London, July 7, 2011. Read more about Harry Potter on the Ampersand.
Appetite for destruction: Say bye to vampires and hello to Hell-on-Earth
Earth may not have ended this past May 21, as a small-but-confident group of religious zealots had hoped, but our planet fares much worse in a new crop of teen fiction: Thanks to Suzanne Collins’ mega-selling Hunger Games trilogy, dystopian and post-apocalyptic kid lit has replaced vampires as the biggest thing in YA publishing. (Ilustration: Steve Murray)
Gary Clement on the new Harry Potter movie. See all of Clement’s cartoons.
