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Morning Roundup: Grumpy Catbus Demands Exact Change
Austin-based illustrator and printmaker Tim Doyle, drawing on his experience of living with “an indeterminate amount of cats” has created this adorable mashup of Miyazaki and Tardar Sauce—The Grumpy...
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On Stardust: Tolls, Rewards, and Treasures
“It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.”Welcome back to our exploration of Stardust.In the first installment, we...
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When I Grow Up: Fantasy Musicals!
It’s hard to separate out the fantasy from the sci-fi in the case of musicals because you already have the added fantastical element of characters breaking into the song with practically zero...
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Swift, Brutal Retaliation
Presenting “Swift, Brutal Retaliation,” by new author Meghan McCarron, a ghost story that cautions one against trying to win a ghostly prank war against one’s dead big brother. You can’t win that sort...
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One World to Rule Them All: The Six Pillars of Middle Earth (Part 2 of 2)
If you’re just catching up, this is the second part of a two-part look at J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. We’re using the book to explore something I’m calling the Six Pillars of a...
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Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Toll the Hounds, Chapter Twenty-Four (Part One)
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, going...
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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy The Blade Itself: The Survivors...
Some of last week’s commenters pointed out flaws in my argument about Joe Abercrombie’s status as the Earl of Grimdarkitude. They made some good points. The beauty of this relationship though is I get...
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Literary Mix-and-Match: Codex Born by Jim C. Hines
It starts with a body, and things quickly escalate. That’s how libriomancer Isaac Vainio’s life goes from complicated, to messy. Isaac, one of a select few who can use the magic of collective belief to...
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Farscape Rewatch: “Crichton Kicks”
Crichton KicksWritten by David Kemper, directed by AndrewProwse4, episode 11stUK Transmission Date: 23 September 20021stUS Transmission Date: 7 June 2002Guest Cast: Raelee Hill (Sikozu), Peter Whittle...
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Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage (Excerpt)
Check out Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage, the first in an epic series of novels by David Gibbins, available September 3rd from St Martin’s Press!This is the story of Fabius Petronius Secundus—Roman...
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Bad Dreams: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Paige Mahoney is a 19-year-old clairvoyant. Her specialty is dreamwalking, sending her spirit through the ether and into someone else’s dreamscape. She lives in a dystopian future version of London,...
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Morning Roundup Wants to Go Where the Magically-Disguised Alleys Have No Name
Old Red Jalopy is an illustrator and designer who likes to play with pop cultural images (check out the series on Seinfeld movie posters) so when NextMovie.com decided to take Wizard Rock to its...
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Parachronism, Possibility, and Penny-Farthing Futurism
“Peace! Count the clock.”It isn’t one of Shakespeare’s most memorable lines. But it is one of the Bard’s rare chronological mistakes. When the clock chimes in Julius Caesar, most readers wouldn’t bat...
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Have A Little Priest: Horror Musicals!
If there’s one thing you’ll realize instantly in taking a look at genre musicals—it’s all about vampires. Hardly surprising, since the rest of the world appears to feel similarly, but who looks at...
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Take a Peek at Guillermo del Toro’s Sketchbook Featuring Hellboy, Pan’s...
Who wants to take a peek at Guillermo del Toro’s sketchbook with all his pretty pictures and notes—you do! And we do too, so we were thrilled to find an imgur account with featuring a smorgasbord of...
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Back From the Dead, Assholes! The Mandalorian Armor
You’ll have to forgive me for titling this particular reread with a Robot Chicken quote—it seems appropriate, given the polarizing effect Boba Fett’s Expanded Universe resurrection has on Star Wars...
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The Way of Kings Reread: Epigraphs to Part Two
Welcome back to The Way of Kings reread on Tor.com. Last week we finished chapter 28, and with it completed our reread of Part Two: The Illuminating Storms. Next week we’ll move on to the Interludes...
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Styling Your Hair the Game of Thrones Way
The hairstyles of Game of Thrones are serious business. Arya’s bob helps her disguise herself as a boy—at least for a little while. Sansa is able to quietly signal her shifts in loyalty and blend in at...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 40
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 40 of A...
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Spoiler Thread for A Read of Ice and Fire, Part 4!
Welcome to Part 4 of the Song of Ice and Fire thread, in conjunction with Leigh Butler’s fabulous Read of Ice and Fire. (The first, second, and third threads, now massive, can be found here, here, and...
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