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Bonapartist Spies: The Reluctant Widow
When a wealthy, good looking baron asks you to marry his dissolute and drunken cousin so that you, not he, can inherit the cousin’s crumbling estate, you have a couple of options: you can wish that you...
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Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits (Excerpt)
Take a look at Chuck Wendig's new novel, Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits, out on May 7 from Abbadon Books:Five years ago, it all went wrong for Cason Cole. He lost his wife and son, lost everything,...
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Apple Bans Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga #12 Over Gay Sex Scenes
Earlier today Image Comics and comics writer Brian K. Vaughan reported that this week’s issue of Saga, the star-faring fantasy series written by Vaughan and drawn by Fiona Staples, has been banned from...
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High Homage: The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz by Dan Simmons
Truly, few milieus stand the test of time in the way the wonderful, whimsical world of the Dying Earth has. It can be condensed to a simple premise—a planet about to expire—but exemplary execution,...
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The Official Elysium Trailer
Here’s a first look at one of the most anticipated movies of the the year, Elysium, from District 9’s Neill Blomkamp. And it looks fantastic.The impoverished inhabitants of a ruined planet Earth fight...
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Mostly an Ode to Iain Banks
Welcome back to the British Genre Fiction Focus, Tor.com’s weekly column dedicated to news and new releases from the United Kingdom’s thriving speculative fiction industry.And what a week it’s...
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Morning Roundup: Jurassic Park Dino Sounds are Really Tortoises Having Sex
In this eye-opening article over on Vulture, a sound designer for Jurassic Park reveals that the barking sound made by the raptors is really tortoise sex and the raptor screams come from dolphin sex....
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Rag and Bone
“Rag and Bone,” by Priya Sharma, is about Tom, who buys unwanted household items and scavenges other materials (including bones) and resells them in an alternative 19th century Liverpool in which the...
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Infinitely Weird: All Your Genre Are Belong to BioShock
At E3 2010, somewhere near the mechanical bull at Bethesda Software’s annual Sunset Strip bacchanal, BioShock Infinite visionary Ken Levine leaned across a liquor-sticky table and gave me the best...
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John Scalzi’s The Human Division Has Been Renewed for a Second Season
Now that we’ve come to the end of the 13 episode serialization of John Scalzi’s The Human Division, it can be told: A second season has been commissioned!Author John Scalzi broke the news this past...
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The Sandman Reread: Sandman Midnight Theatre
For 70 issues in the mid-1990s a sort-of-Sandman spin-off detailed the pulpy adventures of one Wesley Dodds, aka the Golden Age Sandman, in a series by Matt Wagner and Steven Seagle and (mostly) Guy...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Toll the Hounds, Prologue
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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The Director of Pixar’s Brave Wants to Make a Sequel
Mark Andrews, the director of Disney-Pixar’s Brave, recently stated that he would be up for making a sequel to the film—provided that they can find the right story. Initially, Pixar made it a point of...
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Where to Find the Doctor in All of My Historical Fantasy Novels
I have had a long standing love for Doctor Who, dating back to middle school when I was watching Tom Baker episodes. The nice thing about a time traveler is that he can turn up anywhere so... in each...
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C.J. Cherryh’s Morgaine Cycle Novels Optioned for Film
Extremely prolific and beloved author C.J. Cherryh may have a series of her novels adapated into a series of films.Variety is reporting that producer Aaron Magnani has optioned the four-book cycle of...
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Learning by Doing: Mur Lafferty’s The Shambling Guide to New York City
This review feels a little odd to write. Not because of the book exactly but because of who it is written by. You see, The Shambling Guide to New York City is the mainstream debut of Mur Lafferty. She...
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Farscape Rewatch: “Thanks For Sharing”
Thanks For SharingWritten by Clayvon C. Harris, directed by Ian BarrySeason 3, Episode 71st US Transmission Date: 15 June 20011st UK Transmission Date: 8 October 2001Guest Cast: Jool (Tammy MacIntosh),...
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Bid on the MicroVisions Auction and Come to Happy Hour
For the past eight years, Greg Manchess,Dan Dos Santos, and I have asked a dozen friends to create a 5x7 artwork of their choosing. These miniatures are exhibited at the Society of Illustrators and...
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Monument 14: Sky on Fire (Excerpt)
Here's a sneak peek at Monument 14's sequel—Monument 14: Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne, out on May 28:Trapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and...
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Dizzying Switchbacks: Across The Event Horizon by Mercurio D. Rivera
Over the last few years, Mercurio D. Rivera has published some great, intriguing science fiction short stories in markets such as Interzone and Asimov’s. He’s been anthologized in one of Hartwell &...
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