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Andrew Garfield Shoots Hoops With Kids While Dressed as Spider-Man
Andrew Garfield recently took a break from filming Amazing Spider-Man 2 in Chinatown to shoot some hoops with local kids... while dressed as Spider-Man. While Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) looks on. We love...
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Neptune’s Tears (Excerpt)
Check out Neptune’s Tears by Susan Waggoner, out on June 25:London, 2218 A.D. Seventeen-year-old Zee is an intern empath. She’s focused on her job, poised for a great career—until one day an attractive...
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(Trying-Mightily-Hard-To-Be) A Comprehensive Reference Guide to Good Omens
Part of what makes Good Omens such a fantastic read is the plethora of referential material that the book offers up in categories ranging from history to art to literature. Here’s a list (though it’s a...
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Revealing the Cover for Brian Staveley’s The Emperor’s Blades
Tor.com is stoked to reveal the cover for The Emperor’s Blades, the first novel in The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, a new fantasy series by Brian Staveley beginning in January 2014 and published by...
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Replica Sweepstakes!
If the excerpt for Jenna Black's Replica wasn't enough for you (and it shouldn't be—we were really bummed that it cut off right where it did), then get a copy into your hands now! We have ten of them,...
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Made to Order Apocalypse: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
At the outset of Red Moon, Patrick Gamble, the teenage son of a single soldier, is having one of those mornings. You know:A what the hell morning. His father is leaving his son, is leaving his job at...
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Farscape Rewatch: “Scratch ’n’ Sniff"
Scratch 'n' SniffWritten by Lily Taylor, directed by Tony TilseSeason 3, Episode 131st US Transmission Date: 20 July 20011st UK Transmission Date: 24 November 2001Guest Cast: Jool (Tammy MacIntosh),...
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A Discourse in Steel (Excerpt)
Take a peek at Paul S. Kemp’s A Discourse in Steel, out June 25 from Angry Robot Books:Egil and Nix have retired, as they always said they would. No, really – they have! No more sword and hammer-play...
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The Garden of Stones Sweepstakes!
The first installment in Mark T. Barnes' Echoes of Empires series just came out yesterday from 47North, and we've got three brand-new copies for you to win. Take a look at the excerpt here, then...
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Charles Stross on the Merchant Princes Series: Crib Sheet
There’s nuts and bolts science fiction, and then there’s science fiction where the ideas are all drawn from some other field. In the case of the Merchant Princes, underneath the second world fantasy...
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Brandon Sanderson’s New YA Novel The Rithmatist Debuts on the New York Times...
Tor Books has just received word that Brandon Sanderson's first young adult novel The Rithmatist has debuted at #6 on the New York Times YA Bestseller List!Congratulations to Brandon Sanderson and...
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Morning Roundup: Sherlock and Watson Defend Their Turf
John, we need to let Moriarty know this is our turf. Futher, did you bring my hat? I want to wear my fly hat so the honeys know the Sher-Lock is on Lock. You are my homey, John. Homeys are forever.Your...
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Is There A New New Wave of Science Fiction, And Do We Need One Anyway?
Just shy of half a century since the young Michael Moorcock took the editorial helm of a long-running magazine called New Worlds and ushered in a new age of avant-garde science fiction, it appears that...
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Vader vs. Xizor—Cagematch! Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
According to what is generally upheld in Star Wars canon, there are only about six months to one year between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. On the other hand, a lot can happen in that...
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Gaming Roundup: Meet the Xbox One
Unsurprisingly, the gaming news du jour has revolved pretty exclusively around Microsoft’s official Tuesday unveiling of the Xbox 360’s successor: the Xbox One. While there have been months of build-up...
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The Way of Kings Reread: Interludes I-1, I-2, and I-3
Welcome back to the Way of Kings reread! With the end of part one we get to see the true evolution of a hero from the lowest point in his life. Kaladin shall rise from the ashes of who he was to become...
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Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary 20: Watching his Master
My obsessively detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles is over, but we want to keep on talking about the books. I’m going to post the occasional speculative summary of cool things...
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The Healer (Excerpt)
Take a look at Antti Tuomainen’s The Healer, out now from Henry Holt and Co.:It’s two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling a ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded;...
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Another Journey Into Chocolate: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005 film)
Despite getting a writer’s credit for Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl by all accounts hated the final film, to the point where he was reluctant to allow any of his books to be...
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Are the Genre Wars Won?
Here in the UK, there’s no more prestigious prize for literature than the Man Booker, and to no-one’s surprise, British genre fiction fans have made an annual habit of bashing this very visible award...
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