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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wolves of the Calla, Part...
“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.”—Roland Deschain, of GileadWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series. Join me each week as I, Constant Reader, tackle the magnum opus of Stephen King’s...
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How Science Fiction (Kind Of) Saved the Oscars
Signaling that we are finally, officially, living in the future, last night’s 85th Annual Academy Awards was simply broadcast as “The Oscars,” forever shucking those cumbersome extra words and numbers....
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Ghoulish Song (Excerpt)
Take a peek at the sequel to Goblin Secrets (winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature)—Ghoulish Song by William Alexander, out on March 5 from Margaret K. McElderry Books:Kaile...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Snakes and Shadows
“Shadow” opens with the grim spectre of Joyce getting a CAT scan while her daughters wait for news and contemplate the many frightening possibilities. Dawn tries to distract herself with some whimsical...
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How Game of Thrones Season 3 Will Split A Storm of Swords
Last summer it was revealed that the upcoming third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones will only depict the first half of A Storm of Swords, the third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Fans of the...
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The Dresden Files Reread: Side Jobs Pt. 3
The last set of stories detailing Harry Dresden’s Side Jobs sends Harry investigating contaminated beer, love gone wrong, then switches gears to give us a story from the point of view of Karrin Murphy,...
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Watch a Shot-For-Shot Remake of The Big Lebowksi as a Doctor Who Mashup
Imagine the cult film The Big Lebowski remade by fan Bob Mitsch with Doctor Who characters and terminology. Yep. It’s the most unlikely thing since Ghost Rider was mashed-up with He-Man.[Watch trailer...
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Fiction Affliction: March Releases in Fantasy
Twenty-two new fantasies come in like a lion in March (or is it a kitten?). There are some series beginnings and standalones this time for a change, but for series fans there are also new offerings...
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History Being Written: The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb
Over the years, Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings has become one of fantasy’s most beloved settings. So far, the series consists of three completed trilogies (Farseer, Live Ship, and Tawny Man), as...
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Pluto’s Two New Moons Have Names. One of Them is “Vulcan”
Though it was theonly one of the Greek/Roman names not directly associated with the mythology regarding the underworld, “Vulcan” won by a landslide in the Pluto Rocks poll to name the two new moons...
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Morning Roundup: Stephen King & Stephen Colbert are The Shining Twins
Here’ssssssssss Stephen! And Stephen! Whoa! Looks like those twins from The Shining grew up to look way different than you’d expect them to turn out. Maybe it’s just that they're wearing a different...
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River of Stars (Excerpt)
Take a peek at Guy Gavriel Kay’s River of Stars, out on April 2 from Roc Books, set four centuries after his acclaimed novel, Under Heaven:Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of...
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Is This the Smoking Gun Proving Deep Space Nine Ripped Off Babylon 5?
This past Friday, February 22nd marked the 20th anniversary of that little space station that almost couldn’t; Babylon 5. Early 2013 also marked the 20th anniversary of another science fiction show...
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Gambling to Romance: Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter
Georgette Heyer initially found it difficult to sit down and write Faro’s Daughter, distracted as she was with World War II and with a new idea for a contemporary novel that would eventually become...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Epic Fantasy is Crushingly Conservative?
I’ve been thinking about a question asked by @Gollancz on Twitter. “Epic Fantasy is, by and large, crushingly conservative in its delivery, its politics and its morality. Discuss. And why? (Oh why?)”...
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The Human Division Read-Along, Episode 7: “The Dog King”
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...
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Darkly Fantastic Derring-Do: Gideon’s Angel by Clifford Beal
I’ve never been particularly interested in alternate history, though I grant that there’s a lot to be said of the impetus animating most such stories, which is to say... what if?For instance: what if...
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New Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Photos Reveal Mary Jane Watson
With this year’s Oscars out of the way, Hollywood is back in the swing of moviemaking! Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence dyed her hair brown to do some Catching Fire reshoots, while newly redheaded...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: A Memory of Light, Part 4
Say my name, say my name, WOTlings! Or, if you ain’t running game, have a Wheel of Time Re-read!Today’s entry covers Chapter 1 of A Memory of Light, in which dudebros hang, potential beach frolics are...
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Watch a Film of the Cassini Probe Wandering Up, Down, and Around Saturn
In May of 2011, filmmaker Christopher Abbas assembled NASA’s massive collection of recent stills (we’re talking thousands of pictures) from the Cassini space probe and created a two minute movie...
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