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Star Wars: Jedi Academy Sweepstakes!
Out on August 27 from Scholastic, Jeffrey Brown's Star Wars: Jedi Academy contains the illustrated adventures of Roan, a young Jedi-in-training who dreamed of going to Pilot School before he was...
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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: No Choice at...
Remember last week when I told my commenters to shove it? Yeah, this week I look pretty bad. In my last post I misspelled Glokta. Glotka, as I spelled it, does not exist. He is a figment of my...
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Terry Gilliam is Sick of Superheroes and Zombies, Offers Us Zero Theorem
Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem looms before us, inching ever closer, premiering at festivals and cons while cruelly denying us a US release date. Dammit, cinema gods! It’s been five years since...
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Morning Roundup is Made of Liquid Metal, and it’s Adorable
Man, everything sounds better if the T-1000 says it. Try it:“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” said the T-1000.“Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again...” said the...
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Kermit the Frog: Greatest Muppet Diva of Them All
Miss Piggy, when viewed in the midst of the Muppet gang would commonly be labeled either the Leading Lady or, more often, the Diva. And this is because our cultural definition of Diva tends to lean...
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Re-enacting The Hunger Games at Summer Camp: Is It Actually Controversial?
A few weeks ago, Country Day Montessori school hosted their second-annual “Hunger Games Summer Camp” and were suddenly met with a flurry of horrified reactions after a hand-wringing article by the...
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Picturing Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s passing was a loss for everyone who enjoys storytelling in all of its forms. Not the least of which are artists and illustrators. Bradbury’s tone, the poetry and atmosphere of his...
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How a Fables Cover Gets Made: Greg Ruth on Crafting Fables #135
A new era is beginning for the Farm as knights begin to arrive from every corner of countless worlds. In the old version of Camelot, the brief shining moment was destroyed by infidelity, infighting and...
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The Way of Kings Reread: Interludes I-4, I-5, and I-6
Welcome back to The Way of Kings reread here on Tor.com. I can’t believe we’re already this far down the Stormlight hole with the second set of Interludes. You all were getting a little tired of being...
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Ray Bradbury: The Best Writing Teacher You Could Ever Have
Today would have been Ray Bradbury’s 93rd birthday, and there are many, many stories you can tell about Bradbury’s life and career: Fahrenheit 451 was written in nine days, and cost the young author...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 41
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 41 of A...
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Middle-Management is Cool? 6 Outfits Considered For the Eleventh Doctor
One of the most important decisions every Doctor makes is choosing his uniform. Each incarnation has a very specific sense of style, and while the pieces he wears may vary slightly season to season,...
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Love in the Time of Global Warming (Excerpt)
Check out Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block, available August 27th from Henry Holt & Co. Seventeen-year-old Penelope (Pen) has lost everything—her home, her parents, and her...
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Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth
Not even Pharaoh can give orders to a cat.–Time Cat, Lloyd AlexanderLater in life, fantasy author Lloyd Alexander was to say that his best friends and teachers were books. He claimed to have spent most...
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Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage Sweepstakes!
We've given you an early look at the epic life of Favius Petronius Secundus, Roman legionary, centurion, and hero of David Gibbins' Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage, out on September 3 from St....
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The Chronicles of Amber Reread: The Hand of Oberon
Welcome to the fourth installment of the Chronicles of Amber reread, this time focusing on The Hand of Oberon. By now the greater threat facing Amber has been revealed and it’s up to Corwin and his...
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New Details and Footage Emerge For Dragon Age: Inquisition
At a recent Gamescon event, BioWare, makers of Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins, debuted a dev diary video and released some new info on their upcoming next-gen RPG Dragon Age: Inquisition.Watch the...
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Archer’s Dr. Krieger is Spending His Summer Creating Monsters
While we eagerly await new adventures from super spy Sterling Archer and his co-workers at ISIS, it appears that highly unethical “doctor” Krieger has been spending his summer kicking back and creating...
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The Fallout (Excerpt)
Check out The Fallout, SA Bodeen’s sequel to The Compound. The Fallout is available September 24th from Feiwel & Friends.Eli and his family lived in an underground shelter they called the Compound...
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Gaming Roundup: GTA V Online Brings the Heat
As GTA V’s launch date inches closer, Rockstar Games chose last week to provide gamers with a full preview of the multiplayer experience that awaits them in the studio’s next inevitable megahit. And...
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