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The Way of Kings Reread: Chapter 11
Welcome back to the Way of Kings reread! We’ve reached Chapter 11, and with it the end of Part One. As such, I’ll only be covering one chapter this week, but will also offer my impressions on the...
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Our Favorite Eleventh Doctor Episodes of Doctor Who (So Far)
The most recent season of Doctor Who has been one hell of a rollercoaster, dramatic within and without. First it was split in two, then Clara showed up early, then Amy and Rory left, then news about...
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The Sookie Stackhouse Reread: Book 13, Dead Ever After Review
Well everyone, we’ve completed our 12 book re-read of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse books. Thanks for sticking with me! But we can’t end this journey without discussing the long-awaited...
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Gaming Roundup: What Are the Best Feuds in Gaming?
A few weeks ago, IGN took a stab at highlighting a few of the best vendettas in video game history. While a few inescapable classics will make almost any list largely based on tradition and recurrence...
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Robots! Monsters! New Pacific Rim Trailer Has Us Oversugared!
So the story is that there’s an interdimensional portal under the sea and something—maybe us?—accidentally opened it and WE’RE SORRY. WE DIDN’T KNOW. And now monsters. To which the only logical...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Essence”/“Existence”
Season 8, Episodes 20 and 21: “Essence”/“Existence”Original Airdates: May 13 and May 20, 2001If it seems like we keep ending eras, we do. We do keep ending eras. We’ve said goodbye to the Consortium,...
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Decoherent Histories: Ghost Spin by Chris Moriarty
The third and final installment of Chris Moriarty’s Spin Trilogy, Ghost Spin, releases at the end of May—nearly seven years after the initial release of Spin Control, itself the brilliant follow-up to...
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The God-Machine Hints at the World of Darkness’ Future
Beneath the skin of the world you know, a terrible machine grinds and gnashes its gears. Its cogs range in size from the flap of a butterfly’s wings to the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. The...
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Morning Roundup: Learning Your Lines Ain’t Like Dusting Crops, Boy!
Is Mark Hamill actually sleeping in this picture? Does Star Wars bore you sir? Do you have a problem with Star Wars? Fine, we’re going to cast someone else as Luke Skywalker! Good day, sir!Your...
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Welcome To Scarfolk... Hope You Survive
There is some corner of England that will forever be a foreign field—creepily familiar but horrifyingly other. Welcome to Scarfolk; you might even survive the experience.Scarfolk is the latest stop on...
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Supernatural’s Dean Winchester Dismantled His Own Machismo—and That’s Why We...
Whenever a television show makes it beyond four of five seasons, viewers have cause to be impressed, but commonly worried as well; often a series has played out their greatest themes by then, most of...
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The Folding Knife Reread: Chapter Nine (Part Two)
I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted after last week’s half-chapter. Breaking into the mint, breaking out of the mint, carrying 160,000 kilogrammes of gold back and forth… makes me nostalgic for...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Toll the Hounds, Chapter Nine
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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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 29
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 29 of A...
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Talking With Tom: A Conversation Between Tom Doherty and Gregory Benford
Who better to interview a living legend than another living legend? “Talking with Tom” is the third installment of a Tor.com series in which Tor publisher Tom Doherty chats with one of the many authors...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch: “Dax”
“Dax”Written by Peter Allan Fields and D.C. FontanaDirected by David CarsonSeason 1, Episode 7Production episode 40511-408Original air date: February 14, 1993Stardate: 46910.1Station log: Dax and...
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Spectrum Fantastic Art Changes Publishers
For the past twenty years, the Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual has been the gold-standard of fantasy and science fiction art. Cathie and Arnie Fenner created Spectrum as means to celebrate genre art in...
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Rise of the Planet of the Plankton
People tend to pay attention to big animals when they go to the zoo or museum. They go to see the gorillas, or the tigers, or the dinosaur bones. I get it; dinosaurs are awesome. The problem is that...
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“Going Native” in Steampunk: James H. Carrott and Brian David Johnson’s...
Recently, everyone and their grandmother are trying to place steampunk in the grander scope of things. Most of pop culture has poked at it at this point. Many in the SF/F community gives the subculture...
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Announcing the 2013 Spectrum Fantastic Art Awards
The 20th Spectrum Fantastic Art Awards were announced this evening at the awards ceremony at Spectrum Live, a weekend long celebration of fantastic art, in Kansas City. Congratulations to all the...
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