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The Melancholy of Mechagirl, by Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne Valente’s The Melancholy of Mechagirl compiles Valente’s poetry and short fiction tied to Japan and Japanese culture. As Teruyuki Hashimoto points out in the collection’s introduction,...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Song of Susannah, 4th...
“Go, then. There are other worlds than these.”—Jake ChambersWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series. Join me each week as I, Constant Reader, tackle the magnum opus of Stephen King’s career for the...
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Short List for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Translation Awards Announced
The Association for the Recognition of Excellence in Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation has announced the finalists for their 2013 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards, and we’re...
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True Blood Season 6, Ep. 4: “At Last”
This show. I don’t even.Six seasons in, there are glimpses of True Blood’s former gloriously pulpy, soapy self but it’s getting hard see to underneath a film of sloppiness and total nonsense. True...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: World’s Silliest Jobs, Slayer Edition
“Life Serial,” by David Fury and Jane EspensonA chicken-bearing Buffy returns home after her meeting with Angel last week. (Though this is never shown on screen, the Internets tell me there’s an...
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The Halo Kilo-Five Trilogy Will Conclude This January
Tor Books and 343 Industries™ are excited to announce the forthcoming January 2014 publication of Halo: Mortal Dictata by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss. Traviss has penned #1...
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Twenty-First Century Folktales: Eleanor Arnason’s Big Mama Stories
It’s not unusual to find fairy tales or folk tales that have been reinvented or brought up to date in SF&F these days; Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys is probably one of the best-known examples of this...
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Sanderson, Doctorow, Ender’s Game & More! Tor Books at San Diego Comic Con 2013
Tor Books has just released its line-up for this year’s San Diego Comic Con International, including authors Cory Doctorow, Brandon Sanderson, Jay Lake, a ton of cool things on this year’s Ender’s Game...
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Advanced Readings in D&D: Edgar Rice Burroughs
In “Advanced Readings in D&D,” Tor.com writers Tim Callahan and Mordicai Knode take a look at Gary Gygax’s favorite authors and reread one per week, in an effort to explore the origins of Dungeons...
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Imaginarium 2013 Sweepstakes!
Our fifth birthday is coming up, and it turns out we've got a twin—ChiZine Publications turns five this July too! They've spent the last half-decade putting out wonderfully weird novels, novellas, and...
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Matt Fraction Will Fight You For Shaming Cosplayers About Their Weight
No, it’s not a polite note. It shouldn’t be a polite note. Recently, comic author Matt Fraction was sent a little thank you on Tumblr from user thetadoctor that was uplifting and rage-inducing all at...
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Box Office Poison (Excerpt)
Check out Phillipa Bornikova’s Box Office Poison, available August 6th from Tor Books!What happens when exquisitely beautiful elves start getting all the roles in Hollywood? Human actors sue, that’s...
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The Heart Wants To Beat: The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan
The struggle for life after death has been a theme in science fiction for ages. From Frankenstein, to cryogenics in all its myriad permutations, to uploaded cyber-consciousness, to even, in a sense,...
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The Legend of Korra Talks New Characters While the Comics Focus on Zuko’s...
News for The Legend of Korra has been pretty thin on the ground these days, with the latest series of sneak-peek videos revealing next to nothing. The newest of this lot shows a blurry shot of an...
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Morning Roundup: Don’t Worry. E. Coli Can’t Climb Stairs
Fear for your life! Or at least your intestines! Whovian Who-ligan created this Dalek out of E. Coli in a petri dish—because making a salmonella Cyberman would just be silly. The Doctor has inspired...
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The Ghost of Hayden Christensen: Why Anakin MUST Appear in Episode VII
The very end of the super-duper 2004 special edition of Return of the Jedi finds Luke gazing out to see Obi-Wan smiling, Yoda smiling, Anakin smiling, and the audience freaking out. Instead of...
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Iain M. Banks Will Now Reside Just Beyond Mars
Iain M. Banks was not just an acclaimed sci-fi author: he fought in the final battle scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, he appeared on several albums, and his work also had a singular role in...
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The Orc Renaissance: Race, Tolerance and Post-9/11 Western Fantasy
Orcs: grim, slimy, generally bald. They stink, they lurk. In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, they are harbingers of evil, the dull-minded minions who carry out Sauron and Saruman’s infamous plans....
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Sleeps With Monsters: Kate Elliott’s King’s Dragon
I first read King’s Dragon, the opening book in Kate Elliott’s seven-volume epic fantasy sequence Crown of Stars, in the same year I started secondary school.Returning to it after an interval of (give...
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Amazon Launches Jet City Comics Imprint, Will Follow With GRRM Story
Amazon has just announced the launch of their newest publishing imprint Jet City Comics, which will be dedicated to producing comics and graphic novels!Jet City arrives on the scene with new comics...
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