“’The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ opens New York’s Metropolitan Opera season” – NPR has the story. The opera, which runs about three hours with intermission, has music by Mason Bates and a libretto by Gene Scheer…. (4) EPIC FANTASY PANEL. FanFiAddict has posted a video of their Seattle Worldcon 2025 panel “The Shifting Landscape of Epic Fantasy with George R.R. During this epic two-hour conversation, they delve into a (brief) history of epic fantasy, the monolith of Tolkien and LotR, approaches to epic fantasy worldbuilding, research and immersion, magic systems as a tool for storytelling, epic fantasy film/TV adaptations, breaking into epic fantasy publishing, self-publishing and crowdfunding, finding success in the modern publishing landscape and more.