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The Reflection of Perfection: The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock
As a people, we are plainly preoccupied with the picture of perfection; obsessed, essentially, by being beautiful.But image isn’t everything, much as it may look that way in the day to day. As the...
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The First Trailer For Sherlock Season Three is Here!
BBC unveiled a sneak peek at Sherlock season three today, and it is a terrible, terrible tease. And not only because you just know John’s moustache won’t survive the first episode.Watch the sneak peek...
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British Genre Fiction Hitlist: Early August New Releases
From the fold of the British Genre Fiction Focus comes the British Genre Fiction Hitlist: your bi-weekly rundown of new releases out of the United Kingdom’s thriving speculative fiction industry....
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3 Implications We Can Make Now That Peter Capaldi is the Next Doctor
The BBC and BBC America have announced during a live broadcast that 55-year old actor Peter Capaldi will play the Doctor following Matt Smith’s regeneration this Christmas. This marks a departure from...
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Morning Roundup: Would You Buy a Mutant-Killing Robot From This Man?
The above is a promotional still of Carl’s dad visionary Bolivar Trask from X-Men: Days of Future Past, as played by Peter Dinklage. Trask Industries is responsible for the creation of Sentinels,...
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If Neil Armstrong Can Be the First to Land on a New World, So Can You
History remembers the now-departed Neil Armstrong fondly for being the first man to set foot on the moon. And it should. That first step was the culmination of millions of years of human exploration...
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The Black Company Reread: Shadow Games
As of right now, I am officially heading into territory that I haven’t stepped foot in for a number of years. The promise of Khatovar lies in the distance but there is a lot of pretty much unknown...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Song of Susannah, 8th...
“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. 8 review: “Dead Meat”
Previously on True Blood: While I was on booth duty at Comic Con and dancing with Mohawk Guy from NASA for four seconds (my big celebrity moment this summer), some juicy stuff went down in Louisiana. A...
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Preview the New Ender’s Game Movie Trailer Now!
While the weather was being pleasant and Peter Capaldi was becoming the new Doctor, armies battled fiercely online to unlock the new trailer to the Ender’s Game movie, coming on November 1st.The Dragon...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Larry’s Gay, Larry’s Dead, and High...
“Smashed,” by Drew Z. GreenbergAfter what feels like the longest “previously on BtVS” in the history of Sunnydale, we find Buffy interrupting a garden-variety mugging. Spike jumps in, eager to help. He...
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Elysium: The Art of the Film Sweepstakes!
Neill Blomkamp's Elysium comes out this week, and we've got three copies of the book that shows you how its stunning visuals and design developed. Elysium: The Art of the Film, out tomorrow from Titan...
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Babayaga (Excerpt)
Check out Toby Barlow’s Babayaga, available August 6th from Farrar, Straus and Giroux! If you're in NYC, be sure to check out Toby Barlow in conversation with Sean McDonald at McNally Jackson Books on...
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Advanced Readings in D&D: L. Sprague de Camp
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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The Lost Prince (Excerpt)
Check out Edward Lazellari’s The Lost Prince, out on August 20:In Lazellari’s debut fantasy, Awakenings, New York City cop Cal MacDonnell and photographer Seth Raincrest found themselves stalked by...
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Dial H #15 (Comics Excerpt)
Check out a preview of DC Comics’ Dial H #15, available August 6th! Dial H is written by China Miéville with art by Alberto Ponticelli and Dan Green. Cover art by Brian Bolland.In the small run-down...
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Morning Roundup: Han Solo Has a Balinese Dancing Girl Tattooed Across His Chest
Artist Dean Reeves has created some amazing poster art and illustrations, but the “Fett Noir” series is our favorite. Reeves reimagines the Star Wars universe as a gorgeous noir, where double-crossing...
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I Hate Boats
When you spend years and years immersed in any genre, I think it’s inevitable that you will come to develop prejudices. Patterns will begin to emerge before your eyes that change the way you experience...
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Latch-key Fantasia or Noir Subversion? Nelly Reifler’s Elect H. Mouse State...
The first signs that something’s amiss in Nelly Reifler’s debut novel come in the opening scene, as H. Mouse sets up his ballot box in his front yard, looking up and down his street at his neighbors’...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Kari Sperring Answers Five Questions
Kari Sperring is the author of two novels from DAW, Living With Ghosts and the very excellent The Grass King’s Concubine. In her other life, as historian K.L. Maund, she’s taught medieval topics for...
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