Reopening The X-Files: “Invocation”
Season 8, Episode 5: “Invocation”Original Airdate: December 3, 2000So what is this, is this business as usual? A monster-of-the-week, a skeptic and a believer investigating the disappearance slash...
View ArticleSleeping Beauty: Stung by Bethany Wiggins
Bethany Wiggins’ Stung is a YA fantasy novel about a young woman from a dystopian future where one poorly planned scientific overreach created a chain effect of terrible circumstances. Fiona went to...
View ArticleFiction Affliction: April Releases in Urban Fantasy
Twenty-three new urban fantasy titles give readers’ wallets a little break after the March onslaught. Still, there are new series additions from Faith Hunter (Jane Yellowrock); M.J. Scott (Half-Light...
View ArticleAntiagon Fire (Excerpt)
Take a look at the next installment of L. E. Modesitt, Jr.’s Imager Portfolio, Antiagon Fire, out on May 28:The hard-won battles fought in Imager’s Battalion have earned Quaeryt a promotion to...
View ArticleAudioslice: Listen to Chapter 1 of Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry
The latest in Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series is now available. In Extinction Machine, the Department of Military Sciences must go up against someone—or something—in search of new technology that...
View ArticleThe Human Division Sweepstakes!
We know that you're having fun reading along with Ron Hogan as each installment of Human Division is released, but we're sure you'd love to get you hands on a flashy, paper-and-ink sort of copy. Well,...
View ArticleLearn to Love Radio Plays By Listening to Neverwhere
In the U.S., radio plays do not have the popularity they once might have enjoyed years ago, but in the U.K. they are an enterprise that continues to flourish. Big Finish has given the many Doctors of...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Star Destroyer Cloud Rolls Up on Castle in Finland
The shield generator must not be working in Finland, because this Star Destroyer managed to sneak in undectected! Seriously, we’re pretty sure that the only thing cooler than this cloud is the awesome...
View ArticleThe Folding Knife Reread: Chapter Four
Chapter Four. War. Friendship. Family. Empire. Cow poop. Is it fair to say this is my favourite chapter yet? I think it is.Let’s get into it.Chapter 4: “The man who wins at the end is the man who can...
View Article“Doctor Potter” Meme is the Closest We’ll Get to a Harry Potter Doctor Who...
via evadneThere have been plenty of articles detailing which Doctor Who actors have shown up in the Harry Potter films and vice versa, but have you ever thought about what would happen if these two...
View ArticleUnder Heaven, Everything is Different: River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay
Legends are not born, but made. Not fated, but carefully—or carelessly—shaped.A lesson for the ages, there, but not one that every scholar takes to heart.“Is it possible... can a man be born into the...
View ArticleWhy Dinosaurs Are the Ultimate Childhood Companion
It’s a scene familiar to parents, teachers, guardians, what have you. A small child poring over a book about massive, voracious, clawed killers. If blood is dripping from their jagged teeth, all the...
View ArticleTor Books Announces New Dragon Age™ novel with BioWare Senior Writer Patrick...
Tor Books—the largest publisher of science fiction in the world—and BioWare™, a division of Electronic Arts, are excited to announce the fourth novel in the award-winning Dragon Age™ fantasy RPG...
View ArticleSteampunk Events for April 2013
Who wants to go on an airship ride in a California ghost town? Or travel via a historical tram to another world in Amsterdam? Or go to Doctor Who-themed costume ball? All that and more is happening in...
View ArticleDoctor Who Library Sweepstakes!
On April 2nd, three new Doctor Who novels from Broadway Books will hit the shelves, and we’re giving you a stellar prize pack to celebrate![Read on to see what you can win!]Read the full article
View ArticleA Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 24
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 24 of A...
View ArticleGet Tor eBooks for $2.99 For a Limited Time
For a brief time, a few Tor titles will be available for 2.99 in the in ebook form in the US, Canada and many other countries. If you’re looking for magical realism or literary historical science...
View ArticleRichard Griffiths, Vernon Dursley in Harry Potter, Dies at 65
We’re sad to report that well-loved British character actor, Richard Griffiths passed away yesterday due to complications arising from heart surgery. Griffiths, who is known to many Potter fans as...
View ArticleWho Was Dracula? (Excerpt)
Check out Jim Steinmeyer’s Who Was Dracula?, out on April 4 from Tarcher Books:An acclaimed historian sleuths out literature’s most famous vampire, uncovering the source material – from folklore and...
View ArticleStar Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Preemptive Strike”
“Preemptive Strike”Written by Naren Shankar and Rene EchevarriaDirected by Patrick StewartSeason 7, Episode 24Production episode 40276-276Original air date: May 16, 1994Stardate: 47941.7Captain’s Log:...
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