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Libriomancer Sweepstakes!
The second book in Jim C. Hines' Magic Ex Libris series, Codex Born, came out from DAW Books this month, and we want to catch you up on the world of libriomancy by giving you Libriomancer, the first...
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Apollo in the Labyrinth: Shadows of the New Sun
Let’s say you made a bet. “Gene Wolfe can’t write a creepy story about...” you search and flail, hoping to come up with the most absurd thing you can think of, something nobody would be able to write a...
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This): The Secret World of Sleep by Penelope Lewis
Sleep is a wonderland of mystery. Why do we need so much of it? Why do we dream? How am I still awake after lying in bed for 6 hours praying for the sweet release of unconsciousness? These are just a...
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The King’s Assassin: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
After outfighting, outwitting, and outlasting her competition, teenage assassin Celaena Sardothien has won her place as King’s Champion, serving the paranoid and brutal king of Ardalan. She stalks at...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch: “Paradise”
“Paradise”Written by Jim Trombetta and James Crocker and Jeff King and Richard Manning & Hans BeimlerDirected by Corey AllenSeason 2, Episode 15Production episode 40512-435Original air date:...
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Fiction Affliction: September Releases in Paranormal Romance
Nineteen new paranormal romances hit the shelves for the fur, fang and fin-loving sets in September, including additions in longer-running series from Christine Feehan (Dark Carpathians); Lynsay Sands...
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An Empire of Broken Pottery: John Romer’s A History of Ancient Egypt
How much do you know about Ancient Egypt?If you’re anything like me, you are probably operating with some confidence in the knowledge that you have the story down, more or less. Pyramids, pharaohs, the...
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Announcing the 2013 Chesley Award Winners
The winners for the 2013 Chesley Awards, celebrating science fiction and fantasy art, have been announced. The Chesleys are given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists each year....
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The Return of Saturday Morning Cartoons
A million years ago, when we first started Tor.com, I carved out a little corner of the site for myself called Saturday Morning Cartoons, although few of them were cartoons in the classic sense....
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: “Herzog and the Monsters” and “How Wings are...
“Herzog and the Monsters”: Lost in a sea of Penguin books, “Herzog made stories from stolen letters...” They’re not so monstrous. This is so charming, I’ve often just let it play in the background....
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British Genre Fiction Hitlist: Early September New Releases
From the fold of the British Genre Fiction Focus comes the British Genre Fiction Hitlist: your bi-weekly breakdown of the most notable new releases out of the United Kingdom’s thriving speculative...
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Announcing the 2013 Hugo Award Winners
The winners of the 2013 Hugo Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all!The Hugo Awards have been given since 1953, and every year since 1955, by the annual World Science Fiction Convention...
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The Black Company Reread: Bleak Seasons
Bleak Seasons marks the beginning of the final plot arc in the Black Company series. It also marks the point (at least in my editions) where the cover art stops being all cartoonish and 1980s fantasy,...
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Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for September
For over a decade, Barnes & Noble buyer Jim Killen has been a driving force behind Barnes & Noble’s science fiction and fantasy sections. Each month on Tor.com, Mr. Killen curates a list of...
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Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz Sweepstakes!
We showed you Juan Ortiz's innovative Star Trek poster designs when Quantum Mechanix released his first set of Original Series-inspired movie posters, and now Titan Books has compiled a book that...
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The Return of Cassandra Kresnov: 23 Years On Fire by Joel Shepherd
It’s been almost a decade since the release of Killswitch, the third novel in Joel Shepherd’s excellent Cassandra Kresnov series. In that time, Shepherd wrote a series of four fantasy novels entitled A...
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Austenland is Secretly a Tribute to Philip K. Dick
Most Philip K. Dick stories feature loners who get themselves into conspiracy situations seemingly, at first, for no reason. Such was my experience with the new Jane Austen-inspired/Keri Russell...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: In which everyone suffers, including all of us
“Dead Things,” by Steven S. DeKnight“Dead Things” opens with another morsel of quirky BtVS misdirection: we hear something that might, possibly, be fighting. Soon enough, we realize that it’s actually...
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He’s That Bad and That Likeable: Pitch Black
There’s no magic formula for making a sleeper hit, but one of the best ways to achieve it is to have a standout lead character. Before 2000’s Pitch Black, Vin Diesel was relatively unknown, more...
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Advanced Readings in D&D: Michael Moorcock
In “Advanced Readings in D&D,” Tor.com writers Tim Callahan and Mordicai Knode take a look at Gygax’s favorite authors and reread one per week, in an effort to explore the origins of Dungeons &...
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