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Fangirl (Excerpt)
Check out Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, available September 10th from St Martin’s Press!Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s...
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True Blood Season 6, Ep. 9 review: “Life Matters”
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have True Blood. Life matters, you see, even the life of a minor character whose mind-numbingly fun-sucking C-plots dragged down...
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BBC’s Atlantis Poised to Be the Next Hercules: The Legendary Journeys?
The first poster for BBC’s Atlantis has arrived, and it prompts... questions. So many questions. Such as why that giant minotaur is hanging out behind a fiery explosion. Or why a young Fred Flinstone...
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Morning Roundup Reminds All Damsels to Wear Their Swimmies
Many Golden Age comic strips used their title panels as little surrealist playgrounds, but none were as fun as Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Designer DJ Food compiled some of the best moments of the...
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How Concept Art Helped Sell the U.S. Space Program
To most Americans in the early 1950s, a period of post-war optimism but down-to-Earth practicality, the idea of manned space flight seemed solidly in the realm of science fiction.At the time,...
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Tale as Old as Time, Song as Old as Rhyme: Fairy Tale Musicals!
There are plenty of fantasy musicals out there, and quite a few of them have their roots in fairy tales, fables, and other lesson-plugging stories. Some chose to turn those tales on their heads, while...
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See Brandon Sanderson on His Steelheart Tour!
Brandon Sanderson, author of Elantris, the Mistborn series, The Rithmatist, The Way of Kings, and the upcoming novel Words of Radiance, will be embarking on a massive tour for his new novel...
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Short Fiction Spotlight: Warren Ellis’ “Dead Pig Collector”
Welcome back to the Short Fiction Spotlight, a weekly column dedicated to doing exactly what it says in the header: shining a light on the some of the best and most relevant fiction of the...
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The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Suzanne Johnson
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a recurring series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors, artist, and others!Today we’re joined by...
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The Wheel of Time Reread: A Memory of Light, Part 25
Holy introductory sentence, Batman, it’s a Wheel of Time Reread!Today’s entry covers Chapter 25 of A Memory of Light, in which we have extreme spelunking, Perrin pwning everything, and probably the one...
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Finding Your Real Life OTP: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell’s new YA novel, Fangirl, will paint a distressingly close-to-home picture for many Harry Potter-era geeks. Complete with novel-length fanfiction, navigating first-times with only erotic...
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The World’s End Sweepstakes!
In theaters on August 23, The World's End reteams director Edgar Wright with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, completing the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy (also known as the Three Flavours of Cornetto...
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Popcorn is Coming: George R.R. Martin’s Movie Theater Reopens!
Santa Fe’s Jean Cocteau Cinema had its grand re-opening last week, the man tearing the tickets was none other than its new owner, writer and harvester-of-readers’-tears George R.R. Martin. The night...
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This is Just a Small Piece of Happiness From the Iron Man 3 Gag Reel
We have to assume that the DVD/Blu-Ray released will have more for us, but just these brief 30 seconds from the Iron Man 3 gag reel are enough to brighten our day up like an arc reactor in the chest....
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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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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch: “Sanctuary”
“Sanctuary”Written by Gabe Essoe & Kelly Miles and Frederick RappaportDirected by Les LandauSeason 2, Episode 10Production episode 40512-430Original air date: November 28, 1993Stardate:...
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A World of Language: April Lady
Georgette Heyer began writing April Lady after a bad bout of illness and ongoing stress with the people she now considered her greatest enemies on the planet: Britain’s Inland Revenue. (Some of you may...
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Game of Thrones Season 3 VFX Reel
Need more Game of Thrones while waiting for season 4? Here’s SPINVFX’s effects reel—and it’s pretty epic all on its own. Watch as the effects masters create unsullied armies, turn Iceland into...
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Announcing the 2013 World Fantasy Nominees
The finalists for the 2013 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. This year’s judges are Holly Black, Tom Clegg, Marc Laidlaw, Stephen Laws, and Stephanie Smith. Winners will be announced at the...
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An Assortment of Anthologies, Featuring Secret SF Fan Stieg Larsson
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.This week, we begin with the shortlist for the...
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