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Download Five Years of Tor.com’s Original Fiction for Free!
Tor.com is celebrating its fifth birthday this week and as one of the many things we’re doing to mark the occasion, we’ve assembled the entire last five years of our award-winning original fiction into...
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Pacific Rim, You Are So Stupid and I Love You For It
If you transported monster-punching blockbuster spectacle Pacific Rim to any summer movie season in the 1980s, you’d have created a generation-defining cinematic experience, one that would flourish in...
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Divided, It Fails: Defiance’s Multiplatform Narrative Strategy Doesn’t Quite...
The Syfy original series Defiance just wrapped its first season last week, and I have… opinions.Defiance takes place in 2046 on the former site of St Louis. In 2013, the Votanis Collective, comprised...
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Hopefully, This Enormous Beached Dragon Skull Has Something to Do With Game...
Oh man this is real HOORAY THIS LIFE.This morning intrepid beach-goers in Dorset discovered a 40 foot long dragon skull seemingly washed up onto the shore. So either this has something to do with Game...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Song of Susannah, 5th...
“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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True Blood Season 6, Ep. 5: “Fuck the Pain Away”
“F-A-N-G the pain away?” Naw, this is True Blood, HBO’s flagship summer series, justifying its cable network R-rating by naming an episode after a particularly raunchy Peaches song. The episode was...
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The Stormlight Archive Sweepstakes!
Brandon Sanderson fans and The Way of Kings readers, we've got a special sweepstakes for you—sixteen signed Stormlight Archive booklets, with character profiles, a fold-out map of Roshar, and detailed...
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Rob Thomas to Veronica Mars Fans: The Movie is Just the Beginning
Vintage/Anchor Books recently announced that it will be publishing a series of novels set after the forthcoming Veronica Mars movie! The plot of the first book in the series will begin where events of...
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Zachary Quinto Says Star Trek 3 Will Start Filming Next Year, Everyone...
Zachary Quinto gave a public interview on July 12 and dropped some hints on what plans are being made regarding the next Star Trek film, including J.J. Abrams’ involvement with Trek in general! Let’s...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Always Remember Your First
“All the Way” by Steven S. DeKnightThe Magic Box is ramping up for a big Halloween sale! All the Scoobies are there in costume, and Dawn is looking for opportunities to make off with the small...
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Now That Sam Mendes is Returning to James Bond: A Skyfall 2 Wish List
Last week, defying expectations, Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes confirmed that James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson want him back for the franchise, and they’re...
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It’s 2 PM. Do You Know Where Your Towel Is?
For me, humor is essential to the science fiction genre because science fiction at its core is all about the hope that science and reason will led us into a better age as we blunder into the unknown....
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Advanced Readings in D&D: Jack Vance
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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Visit MacKids at SDCC!
MacKids has a packed schedule for SDCC 2013 including author signings, an all–star panel on YA romance, and several cool giveaways! MacKids will be at Booth 1220 hosting authors including Leigh...
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Heaven’s Shadow (Excerpt)
Check out Heaven’s Shadow, the first book in a science-fiction thriller series by David S Goyer and Michael Cassutt. Heaven’s Shadow is available now from Tor (UK) and Ace (US).In 2016 a pair of...
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A Spotter’s Guide to Kaiju: Seven Predecessors of the Creatures in Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim is out, and is being popularly hailed as Guillermo del Toro’s love letter to the giant monster (“kaiju”) movies of his youth—for that reason alone everybody everywhere should salute Mr. del...
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Morning Roundup: But How Can They Be Mapping Us If They Don’t Know We’re Coming?
There are few things on earth more wonderful than the moment when a treasure map in unfurled. Treasure Island, The Goonies, and Bugs Bunny cartoons—following dotted lines to big X-marked spots serves a...
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Everyone Should Want to Be A Hufflepuff, Or, Stop the Hogwarts House-Hate
In a rare annotated copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling commented that she wondered if people would have thought differently of Hufflepuff House had she gone with her...
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Experience NASA Firsthand—Rocket Launch Included—In This New Comic
Our resident space blogger and graphic novelist Alison Wilgus got to visit NASA this year for a rocket launch and recently completed a full comic book about her experience!Flip through and read about...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Kate Elliott’s Cold Steel
Kate Elliott began her Spiritwalker trilogy in 2010, with Cold Magic. Cold Fire followed in 2011, and now Cold Steel has arrived to crown the ensemble. Elliott’s métier is epic fantasy, and her...
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