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007 Reports for Duty in New Skyfall Trailer
This 30 second TV spot appeared during the Olympics. We like that it features a cool super-dramatic version of the classic Bond theme. Read the full article
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Ecce Orcus! An Argument for Humanizing the Orc
Orcs should be one of the core races of fantasy; both fantasy gaming and fantasy fiction. Humans, elves and dwarves are all well and good—I just want to see orcs added to that list.I’m not talking...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wizard and Glass: “Come...
“Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin.”—Blaine the Mono, to Roland and the Ka-Tet, at the end of The Waste LandsWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series....
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But You Didn’t Have to Stoop So Low. True Blood: “Somebody That I Used To Know”
No, True Blood thankfully didn’t play that Gotye song over the ending credits, despite it being as omnipresent as Lilith this summer. But that didn’t stop it from worming its way into my head tonight....
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How to Who: On Starting to Watch Classic Doctor Who
While you can start with the first episode and go from there, you can’t watch Doctor Who, from the very beginning, in its entirety. Literally, it is impossible. The BBC recorded over old film to save...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: The Do That Girl Girl, The Do That Girl
“Enemies” opens with Buffy and Angel coming down from a surprise encounter with erotica in film. The two of them are aroused, but thwarted by that darn gypsy curse. So, instead of a kickin’ fight, we...
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Picturing Books
A few months ago, Allen Williams emailed me a painting for an upcoming anthology, Queen Victoria’s Spellbook. (You can see the image in the post below.) Allen has been one of my favorite artists for a...
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In A Fix Sweepstakes!
You’ve read the excerpt, and now we’ve got ten ARCs of In A Fix to hand out to all you lovely people! Enter in the comments and you might win!NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A purchase does not...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Supreme, Part 3
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide...
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Fiction Affliction: August Releases in Fantasy
Fantasy flares brightly in August, with seventeen new releases, including series additions from Trudi Canavan (Traitor Spy Trilogy), Rowena Cory Daniells (Outcast Chronicles), Nancy Holder and Debbie...
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The Moon Flags are Still Standing!
Direct from the LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera) is the proof that the flags planted by various NASA missions to the Moon are still there, save for one. This comes from the blog by LROC...
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Morning Roundup: Ghostbusters or Real Ghostbusters?
In order to be more kid-friendly, the Ghostbusters had these crazy colored costumes in the cartoon instead of their regular beige outfits from the movies. But what if the two blended? There are some...
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The Electric Things Have Their Life Too: vN by Madeline Ashby
Amy, the main character of Madeline Ashby’s debut novel vN, is a self-replicating humanoid robot. Her race was originally created in the hopes of protecting and serving the poor humans who would be...
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Sleeps With Monsters: WE WUZ PUSHED. Brit Mandelo on Joanna Russ and Radical...
“If silence is starvation, and silence is looking into a mirror and seeing nothing, the only way to fix this erasure is to speak radical truths.” [Mandelo 2012, 48.]It’s hard to engage analytically...
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Chris Marker Passed Away—Take a Moment and Rewatch La Jette
Avanat-garde french Film maker Chris Marker passed away last Sunday in Paris at the age of 91. He is best known for La Jette, a twenty-six minute long time-travel movie told almost entirely in stills....
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Announcing the Tour for Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross’s The Rapture of the...
On September 4th, The Rapture of the Nerds, written by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross will come out from Tor Books. This collaboration features a post-Singularity solar system with post-humans and a...
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Next Year, You Get Champagne: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Movie Turns 20
It’s been 20 whole years since the world first met a vampire slayer named Buffy. And whatever your first impression was — stop with the leggings already, what was that title about, why is she a...
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Big Doctor Who Season 7 Spoiler Possibly Confirmed
We know Amy and Rory’s final episode on Doctor Who is coming next season (five episodes in, specifically) and we know they’ve been filming in New York City. Back in the spring we speculated (along with...
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How We Would Cast a Neil Gaiman Biopic
Let’s pretend that a biopic of Neil Gaiman’s life is going to be made. It won’t really, at least as far as we know. But it kind of should be, don’t you think? Something tasteful, somewhat...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 12
Hello, and welcome back to the Wheel of Time Re-read!Today’s entry covers Chapter 19 of Towers of Midnight, in which a bargain is made, and a box is unknowingly opened.The post is short today due to an...
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