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Rock, Bushes, Legos, Epidemiologist, Pirates: Diane Duane’s Doctor’s Orders
There’s no reason why all the people humanity encounters in the universe should have the same relationship with space and time. Some Star Trek novel writers ignore this possibility, as the television...
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Morning Roundup: We Want This Kitty Pryde Movie Now
It’s recently come out that back in the early 2000’s Fox was totally keen to do a Kitty Pryde movie, featuring Ellen Page in the titular role! Better yet, Juno scribe Diablo Cody was likely to have...
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Star Wars: Dark Empire is All About Addiction
This is going to sound like something someone’s parents would say; but when I was a kid, you had to go to the comic book store to get your Star Wars fix. Other than some bonkers Marvel back issues, and...
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The Way of Kings Reread: Prologue: To Kill
This is where the action begins after a prelude filled with meaning, but little else besides two people jabbering about being tired. Granted, that jabbering was a very important discussion. With the...
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2013 Clarke Award Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award have been announced. Congratulations to all.The Clarke Award is given to the best science fiction novel of the year, pulled from a shortlist of novels...
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The Testing (Excerpt)
Check out The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, out on June 4—and don’t forget to take a peek its prequel, The Testing Guide, right here on Tor.com!:It’s graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale,...
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The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 19, “The Last Stage”
Welcome back to the chapter-by-chapter reread of The Hobbit. You can find past posts at the reread index, or you can catch up with our previous reread of The Lord of the Rings. As always, the...
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City of Dragons Sweepstakes!
In anticipation of the final book in Robin Hobb's Rain Wild Chronicles, Blood of Dragons, coming out from Harper Voyager on April 9th, we're giving away one book in the series every day this...
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Gandalf Bumps Into Radagast in New The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Clip
Whilst tip-toeing around Dol Guldur, the Necromancer’s Mirkwood fortress, Gandalf the Grey runs into an old friend, complete with birds! Check out this awesome new scene from the next Hobbit...
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Annual Locus Poll & Survey Open for Voting
Venerable SFF magazine Locus has opened its award and survey ballot, which covers all works in the field from 2012. In each category, subscribers may vote for up to five works or nominees based on the...
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How to Read Poetry 101: Whys and Wherefores
Welcome, dear readers, to April, a month variously named sweet and cruel in poetry across the ages, and therefore uniquely appropriate to a series on How to Read Poetry. Over the next four weeks I want...
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Gaming Roundup: Disney Shuts Down LucasArts
LucasArts, one of the most influential and important development studios of gaming’s formative years, is no more, thanks to Disney. The studio was best known for its iconic and visionary games of the...
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Morgan Freeman Messes With Tom Cruise’s Head in New Three Minutes of Oblivion...
Tom Cruise is walking through a ruined library, asking people about memories, being watched on a space video and questioned ominously by Morgan Freeman in newly-released Oblivion footage. Watch and...
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The Doctor Puppet Has Lost His Friends! How Will He Find Them in These...
The Doctor Puppet has been a busy fellow these days! After saving Christmas last year in NYC, he is now starring in some new shorts produced by creator Alisa Stern and Nerdist—and they are adorable...
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Reopening The X-Files: “The Gift”
Season 8, Episode 11: “The Gift”Original Airdate: February 4, 2001The X-Files has always been driven by absence. The absence of Samantha, to begin; the absence of Scully, for awhile; and now the...
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New Avengers Deleted Scenes Feature Captain America Adorableness
Wow did The Avengers have a lot of deleted scenes! Straight from the special release of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe Phase One on Blu-ray comes even more deleted sequences, mainly centering on Captain...
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The Net Before the Net: John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner wrote four major novels, each of them set fifty years ahead of the date when he was writing. In each of them he extrapolated different social and scientific trends and problems he could...
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Contrast and Outlast: Indie Games You Won’t Want To Miss
Recently I was lucky enough to attend PAX East, one of the largest gaming conventions on the east coast. Hosted in Boston, PAX East draws tens of thousands of attendees and showcases the best that the...
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Morning Roundup: Tom Hardy Trains Younger Bane To Mumble
We know this one has been making the rounds on the inter-webs, but we really love this picture of Tom Hardy hanging out with a tiny Bane who will surely never learn to speak properly thanks to his...
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The Folding Knife Reread: Chapter Five
After the tumultuous events of the last chapter (when the Vesani began their first empire in a rain of fire and… er… poo), Basso and his chums get a well-earned break. Time to kick back and revel in...
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