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Frederik Pohl, 1919-2013
Frederik Pohl has died today at age 93. His granddaughter reported the news via Twitter this afternoon. Read Jo Walton’s account of learning of the news during Worldcon, the annual assemblage of the...
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On learning of the death of Frederik Pohl
I was just sitting in the bar of one of this year’s Worldcon hotels, enjoying the end of LoneStarCon 3, the 73rd Worldcon, when bad news came through on Twitter. Frederik Pohl’s granddaughter announced...
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Morning Roundup: Bat-Signal in the Sky... I Can Go Twice as High...
Can’t you just see LeVar Batman holding some Falcone crime family member up by his lapels, dangling him over an alley, and then saying, “YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!” right before he drops...
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Super Frenemies: The Tumultuous Relationship of Superman and Batman
With the recent news that Ben Affleck will play Batman in the Man of Steel sequel arriving in 2015, now seems like a good time to look back on the often fraught relationship between the two most iconic...
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Ten Characters We’d Like To See on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
With the premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on the horizon, we’re all naturally excited, and I got to thinking about the things I’d like to see over the course of what (hopefully) is the...
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Sleeps With Monsters: The Obligatory Romance
What’s with that? Particularly in film and television. You can’t turn around with stumbling over Unfulfilled Sexual Tension, or True Love, or at least a fannish One True Pairing or four. It seems it’s...
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Under the Dome: Four Episodes in One!
“Stop bugging me, dome!” the crazy guy freaking out on drugs screams in episode 9 of Under the Dome, and I hear you, buddy. But despite Time Warner disconnecting CBS to protect millions of viewers from...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Might Be Khan A Sith in Star Wars: Episode VII
The rumor mill for Star Wars casting never ends these days, but this one was bound to crop up at some point. According to various playground whispers that Bleeding Cool unearthed, Benedict Cumberbatch...
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Curtsies and Conspiracies (Excerpt)
We’ve got an exclusive excerpt from Curtsies and Conspiracies, the second book in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School series, available November 5th from Little, Brown Books!Sophronia’s first year at...
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Get the First Five Chapters of Brandon Sanderson’s Steelheart Free for Kindle!
Calamity came—a burst of light in the sky that gave normal men and women people extraordinary powers. But these people didn’t become superheroes you read about in comic books—they became Epics,...
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Mage’s Blood Sweepstakes!
Out today in the U.S. from Jo Fletcher Books, Mage’s Blood is the first installment in David Hair’s epic Moontide Quartet Series. Check out an excerpt and our review, then enter to win one of the three...
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The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Holly Black
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, artists, and others!Today we’re joined by...
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Trailer for Under the Skin Has an Alien Scar Jo Seducing Poor Humans
If someone told you they were thinking of remaking that sci-fi horror flick Species, you wouldn’t be all that excited, right? Because no one needs that in their life.But if they were sort of riffing on...
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A Moment in Time: Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
What a difference a moment makes.I speak, albeit obliquely, of a single, solitary sequence at the very outset of Kim Stanley Robinson’s last novel; a prologue so powerful, a passage so painstakingly...
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Textus Disrespectus: Adam Robots by Adam Roberts
The title of the first major collection of short stories by the academic, critic and satirist Adam Roberts tells us almost everything we need to know about Adam Robots.It’s a joke, of course: a...
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Dark City (Excerpt)
Check out Dark City, a Repairman Jack novel. This second novel in F. Paul Wilson's Early Years trilogy is available October 15th from Tor Books! It’s February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but...
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Dragon Week Ebook Package Sweepstakes!
Love huge, scaly fire-breathers? So do we, and so does Open Road Media! They're celebrating their own Dragon Week with the release of Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart's Returner's Wealth, the first book...
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Tor Tour: The Audio-Book Department Explained
So, thinking about describing a normal day as an Audio Publishing Manager at Pan Macmillan UK… Um. Is there such a thing as a “normal day”?! For a start, I might be in the office or at the studio. The...
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Almanac of Small Shadows
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.I don’t know about you, but I’ve been on the...
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Morning Roundup Asks You What You Wish to Learn From the Cards
For centuries people have used tarot cards to predict their destinies. If you’re worried that your destiny might involve embarking on a perilous quest to rid the world of the Ring of Power, you might...
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