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Watch the Final Trailer for the Ender’s Game Movie
The full and final trailer for Ender's Game has been released and it features way more alien fights and some good stuff from Harrison Ford. (Watch your back, Ender!) The movie comes out on November 1...
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Undead and Unsure Sweepstakes!
Tor.com is excited to host the final day of the Undead and Unsure Blog Tour: The 12 Days of Betsy! Betsy the Vampire Queen is back in MaryJanice Davidson's Undead and Unsure, out today from Berkley...
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...Nor Heavy Storm, Nor Ever Rain, But Disappointment: Elysium
Although different in both particulars and scale from Elysium, a look back at District 9 can illuminate how Elysium came to be what it is. District 9 made an instant name for debut director/co-writer...
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The Wheel of Time Reread: A Memory of Light, Part 24
Wheel of Time Reread, yo!Today’s entry covers Chapter 24 of A Memory of Light, in which we have awful nomenclature, awesome nomenclature, and a celestial sync-up session.Previous reread entries are...
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Hodor From Game of Thrones is a DJ and Sometimes This Life is so Rewarding,...
As if Game of Thrones actor Kristian Nairn wasn’t already cooler than we’ll ever be, now it turns out that He Who Is Hodor is a well-respected DJ under the moniker “kharmonix”!The news came out in...
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Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “Deep Freeze” &“Batgirl Returns”
“Deep Freeze”Story by Paul Dini, Bruce W. TimmTeleplay by Paul DiniDirected by Kevin AltieriEpisode #084Music Composed by Shirley WalkerAnimation by Dong Yang Animation, Inc.Original Airdate―November...
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When Tom Bombadil You Are, Look This Good, You Will Not
Many of the characters we love grow and change throughout their stories—but many of them also went through significant evolution before we even met them. Take, for instance, Yoda. You recognize the...
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Let the Joyous Flailing Begin! Watch the First Trailer for Muppets Most Wanted
Finally a reboot-sequel we can agree on! The Muppets will return in next spring with Muppets Most Wanted, and from the looks of it they’re rampaging across Europe, the Sahara, and some sort of...
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Transcendental (Excerpt)
Check out Transcendental, a space adventure by James Gunn, available August 27th from Tor Books!Riley, a veteran of interstellar war, is one of many beings from many different worlds aboard a ship on a...
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Zen Quest: Night Boat by Alan Spence
At the foot of Mount Fuji towards the end of the 17th century, eight year-old Iwajiro attends a lecture on the Eight Hot Hells, and develops a burning fear of fire that will prove fundamental to his...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch: “Necessary Evil”
“Necessary Evil”Written by Peter Allan FieldsDirected by James L. ConwaySeason 2, Episode 8Production episode 40512-428Original air date: November 14, 1993Stardate: 47282.5Station log: It’s a dark and...
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Ebook Bestsellers and the Edinburgh Festival
Welcome back to the British Genre Fiction Focus, Tor.com’s regular round-up of book news from the United Kingdom’s thriving speculative fiction industry.We begin today with a look at the fifty...
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Morning Roundup: You Can’t Exterminate a Fixed Point in Time!
It seems John Barrowman took a few minutes off from his usual con-schedule of licking and kissing anyone who will hold still long enough to recreate his Doctor Who death scene with help from the cutest...
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Cayos in the Stream
You’re the greatest writer of the age, gone to ground and subsiding into drink. You always said you wanted to catch some of those Nazi bastards in the waters around your beloved Cuba. What happens when...
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Watch the Stylish, Swaggery New Trailer to Thor: The Dark World
So here’s the thing about this new trailer for Thor: The Dark World. 1.) It’s awesome and 2.) We want to watch this movie right now. 3.) Pretty much every shot of this trailer looks gorgeous, possibly...
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Science of Future Past: Dune (Part 3)
When I sat down to think about which bits of science I wanted to highlight in Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the first things I thought of was Sandworm biology…[Read more]Read the full article
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One World to Rule Them All: The Six Pillars of Middle Earth (Part 1 of 2)
If you’re just tuning in, this is the second article in the Story Worlds column, which explores storytelling and world-building in movies, TV shows, books, games, and more. The previous article was a...
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Short Fiction Spotlight: With Her Body by Nicola Griffith
Welcome back to the Short Fiction Spotlight, a space for conversation about recent and not-so-recent short stories. Last time around we discussed a book in the PM Press Outspoken Authors Series,...
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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy: Introduction & Prologue
Welcome to the officially unofficial reread of Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, and, unless I do something horrifically offensive, eventually the entire First Law Trilogy.If you’re not familiar with...
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This Toymaker Encased His Friend in Carbonite and Now You Can, Too!
How much do you love your friends? Do you really love them? Do you love them enough to whisper, “I know,” and encase them in carbonite? Toymaker Thorsolli does, and lucky for us, he and his friend and...
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