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Morning Roundup: Ah Peku, I Choose You!
Team Rocket would probably think twice before taking on this fearsome Charmander, one of a series of “Pokemayan” created by artist and Tumblr-er Monarobot. Our personal favorite, Maaayyy-duck, hasn't...
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Doctor When? The Dialogue Surrounding the 11th Doctor’s Regeneration
Straight off the bat, let’s say it—Peter Capaldi is going to be a stellar Doctor. The show has never cast an actor who couldn’t play the part, and it’s unlikely that it will start now. It’s time to...
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Weird Reality: Reality TV Aimed At Your Inner Geek
Reality TV can be pretty weird, even when you don’t include what Beetlejuice’s Lydia Deets would call “the strange and unusual.” Yet throughout the evolution of reality television, producers have...
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I Never Knew My Grandfather, Only What He Pretended to Be
Toby Barlow's Babayaga is out this week from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and follows the travels of a CIA agent posing as an ad executive CIA agent in Europe in the 1950s. What begins as a relatively...
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Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Toll the Hounds, Chapter Twenty-Three
Welcome to the Malazan Reread of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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The Elric Reread: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Welcome back to the Elric Reread, in which I revisit one of my all-time favorite fantasy series, Michael Moorcock’s Elric saga. You can find all the posts in the series here. Today’s post discusses The...
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Heiresses of Russ 2013 Sweepstakes!
Available tomorrow from Lethe Press, Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction brings togetherworks by talented writers like Carrie Vaughn, Malinda Lo, and Tor.com's own Brit...
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Gaming Roundup: What’s Wrong With Free-to-Play?
The free-to-play (or f2p, or freemium, as may suit your fancy) business model has been kicking around the gaming industry for a number of years, but it has never before achieved the level of prominence...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch: “Second Sight”
“Second Sight”Written by Mark Gehred-O’Connell and Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt WolfeDirected by Alexander SingerSeason 2, Episode 9Production episode 40512-429Original air date: November 21,...
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Monsters of the Earth (Excerpt)
Check out Monsters of the Earth, the new novel in David Drake’s ongoing chronicles of Carce, The Books of the Elements, available September 3rd!Governor Saxa, of the great city of Carce, a fantasy...
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Love and Corpse Disposal: Dead Pig Collector by Warren Ellis
In comics and prose, Warren Ellis excels at the procedural—Transmetropolitan followed Spider Jerusalem’s (admittedly often unorthodox) journalism, Planetary followed the exploits of superpowered...
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Morning Roundup: C is For Cookie and That’s Good Enough for Evil
Curse you, Loki, for turning the Cookie Monster to your side! We can only hope Thor and Oscar the Grouch team-up to halt their menace, for we are not strong enough to resist the sway of Tom Hiddleston...
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5 Reasons Why Han Solo is the Most Realistic Person in Star Wars
Essayist Ashley Cardiff makes an astute observation about Star Wars in her new book Night Terrors. In an essay titled “Nightmares,” she points out how, as children, we go from loving Luke Skywalker to...
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Mean Green Mother From Outer Space: Science Fiction Musicals!
People who say that they don’t like musicals are wrong. Chances are they just haven’t seen the right musical yet, the one that will win their heart and convert them forever to the all-singing...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Song of Susannah, 9th...
“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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“What the f**k happened here?” Ben Aaronovitch’s Broken Homes
Broken Homes is the fourth instalment in Ben Aaronovitch’s bestselling Peter Grant series, after last year’s Whispers Under Ground. If you’re new to the joy that’s PC Peter Grant and the mysteries he...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Wait. Martha Stewart isn’t a Demon?
“Wrecked,” by Marti NoxonIt’s the morning after, bigtime, for Spuffy, and it begins with Tara and Dawn waking up to discover that neither Buffy nor Willow has come home. The house is empty, and their...
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Boxers and Saints (Comic Excerpt)
Gene Luen Yang’s two-volume graphic novel Boxers and Saints, due out September 10th from First Second Books, explores the stories of two peasants during the Boxer Rebellion in China who struggle with...
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Babayaga Sweepstakes!
Out now from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Toby Barlow's Babayaga is a Cold War romp filled with spies, witches, and glimpes into bohemian Paris in the 1950s. Get a taste of the novel with this excerpt,...
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Advanced Readings in D&D: L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
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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