Mending the Moon Sweepstakes!
After reading the excerpt, we cannot wait for Susan Palwick's Mending the Moon! And because we love to give you presents, we've got ten ARC copies of the book, ready to make the journey to your...
View ArticleThe Dresden Files Reread: Side Jobs Pt. 2
In our last post about the various Dresden short stories, Harry Dresden found a little girl, saved a wedding, protected a group of LARPers and fought a creature out of legend. In this post we cover a...
View ArticleConvention Report: Gallifrey One 2013, Day Three
The last day of the convention always serves up a cocktail of sadness at the need to return to the real world and slight relief at being able to emerge, blinking, into the bright light and fresh air of...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: The Sentence that Contains All Your Favorite Things
Now, we know the “Use the force, Harry” featuring Patrick Stewart as Gandalf is pretty good, but this one has done it one better, because there are SIX genre references!Your daily collection of offsite...
View ArticleThe Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Evie Manieri
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a recurring series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors, artist, and others!Today we’re joined by...
View ArticleSleeps With Monsters: The James Bond of Cosy Mysteries
Today I’m going to step outside the confines of the SFF genre—to break free!—and talk about television.I have to break free from the confines of skiffy to talk about television that’s both ongoing,...
View ArticleHow Can This Be So Gripping? Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time
You probably heard that they found the bones of Richard III a few days ago, under a car park in Leicester. Actually they found them a while ago, but they’ve now been confirmed to be his bones from...
View ArticleThe Human Division Read-Along, Episode 6: “The Back Channel”
Welcome to the Tor.com read-along for John Scalzi’s The Human Division—each week, as a new episode in this serialized novel is released, you can use this space to talk about how you think the story’s...
View ArticleDownload Calendar of Tales: 12 New Neil Gaiman Stories for Free!
This past February 4th, Neil Gaiman and Blackberry kicked off the joint #KeepMoving venture. For twelve hours, Gaiman released writing prompts through his Twitter account, themed for the twelve months...
View ArticleThe Wheel of Time Re-read: A Memory of Light, Part 3
We the people of Tor.com, in order to form a more perfectly snarky website, do ordain and establish this Re-read for the Wheel of Time!…Well, no, actually, y’all didn’t, I did, but that wouldn’t have...
View ArticleA Cactus Garden (Excerpt)
Take a look at A Cactus Garden by Jo Bannister, out now in ebook format from Tor UK:There was more to the brooding forest world of Mithras than the great Hive rising from its clearing, and somewhere...
View ArticleJohn Scalzi Announces Morning Star Alpha Graphic Novel
Last December, we reported that author John Scalzi was working with Industrial Toys on a first-person space shooter game called Morning Star, an original game designed to be playable on multiple mobile...
View ArticleBatman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You...
“If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?”Written by David WiseDirected by Eric RadomskiEpisode #039Music Composed by Carlos RodriguezAnimation Services by Blue Pencil, S.I.Original Airdate - November...
View ArticleShort Fiction Spotlight: Apex #45
Welcome back to the Short Fiction Spotlight, a space for conversation about recent and not-so-recent short stories. This time around, rather than picking out various stories from here and there, I’ll...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead, S3 E10 “Home”
If you ever had any doubt just how massive a hit this show is, AMC has reported that “The Suicide King” drew in 12.3 million viewers, the largest audience in the show’s history. 4.1 million stuck...
View ArticleCory Doctorow on Bookish Twitter Chat This Friday!
Tech guru and science fiction author Cory Doctorow will be answering questions on a special Twitter chat this Friday (2/22) at 1pm EST, sponsored by the new reading community, Bookish. Cory will be...
View ArticleMidnight Blue Light Special (Excerpt)
We've got a sneak peek at Seanan McGuire's Midnight Blue Light Special, out on March 5th from DAW Books:Cryptid, noun:1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically....
View ArticleStar Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Sub Rosa”
“Sub Rosa”Written by Jeri Taylor and Brannon BragaDirected by Jonthan FrakesSeason 7, Episode 14Production episode 40276-266Original air date: January 31, 1994Stardate: unknownCaptain’s Log: We open on...
View ArticleTrinity Rising (Excerpt)
Check out this excerpt from Elspeth Cooper’s Trinity Rising, out now:This sequel to Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper continues the story of a young man who has been sentenced to death, and then...
View ArticleThe Matrix (Excerpt)
From Jo Bannister, take a look at The Matrix, now released in ebook format:Dak Hamiko had never even heard of the Matrix. Nobody had, not for millennia, but The Matrix was not gone, only waiting. It...
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