Superpowered Pulp: Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher
Hot on the heels of his neat noir debut, Empire State, author Adam Christopher returns with a winningly widescreen story about the fine line between right and wrong, and though Seven Wonders is a...
View ArticlePAX Prime 2012: The Last of Us Shows the Best of Gaming
Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us was one of the most talked-about demos in the PAX exhibit hall; those who braved the epic wait times were treated to an exclusive twenty minutes of live gameplay footage...
View ArticleThe Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 17
Last night I wrote a Wheel of Time Re-read post in my pajamas. How the post got in my pajamas I’ll never know!Today’s entry covers Chapters 29 and 30 of Towers of Midnight, in which we recap a pivot...
View ArticleFirst Trailer for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Hits
Jeremy Renner is Hansel. Famke Janssen Gemma Arterton is Gretel. But what if it had been the other way around? Read the full article
View ArticleA Promising Failure: The Corpse-Rat King by Lee Battersby
Angry Robot Books have a habit of putting out books with interesting concepts. Occasionally weird and wacky — sometimes hard to categorise — but as a rule, interesting concepts.The Corpse-Rat King has...
View ArticleReal Wolfmen (Excerpt)
We hope you enjoy this excerpt from Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America by Linda S. Godfrey, out right now from Penguin Books:The U.S. has been invaded – if many dozens of eyewitnesses are...
View ArticleBowl of Heaven Sweepstakes!
We’ve got ten copies of Gregory Benford and Larry Niven’s Bowl of Heaven, coming out soon in October! With that in mind, we suggest that you head down to comment and potentially win yourself a shiny...
View ArticleRevisit the Classic Star Wars Fan Film Troops
Remember what it was like to be a Star Wars fan in 1997? Back then no one had heard of Jake Lloyd or Hayden Hayden Christensen, and if we wanted to listen to “The Imperial March” while walking around,...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: The Zardoz Video Game that Never Was
Trying to determine the object of a Zardoz arcade game or NES game is tricky. Would it be to destroy the vortex and bring death to the Eternals? Would it be all about sleeping around? One thing is for...
View ArticleBarnes & 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...
View ArticleThe Book You Don’t Know You’re Looking For
This past weekend I was in Chicago for Chicon 7, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention. It’s a huge gathering of fans, it’s full of my friends, everyone is talking about books, it’s wonderful....
View ArticleDragonmount Announces eBook Store
The premier Wheel of Time fan portal Dragonmount has just opened a brand new eBook store featuring the entire line of Tor Book’s DRM-free eBooks. From Dragonmount founder Jason Denzel:“I’m very proud...
View ArticleTwo New Symphony of Science Offerings
While the folks at the Symphony of Science project have been producing music more slowly over the course of 2012, there have been two new tracks with videos that we haven't collected here yet. As the...
View ArticlePreorder the A Memory of Light CD Audiobook for a Wheel of Time Phone Cover
In anticipation of the fourteenth and final installment in the epic Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, Macmillan Audio has created custom Wheel of Time covers for the...
View ArticleMalazan Re-read of the Fallen: Reaper’s Gale, Chapter Eleven
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read 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,...
View ArticleStar Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “The Inner Light”
“The Inner Light”Written by Morgan Gendel and Peter Allan FieldsDirected by Peter LauritsonSeason 5, Episode 25Production episode 40275-225Original air date: June 1, 1992Stardate: 45944.1Captain’s Log:...
View ArticleA Storm of Swords is an Emotional Rollercoaster: It Gets Better
Oh, the ups and downs of being obsessed with an ongoing epic fantasy series, especially when that series is A Song of Ice and Fire. But it does get better. Except when it gets worse, and everyone dies....
View ArticleFarscape Rewatch: “Crackers Don’t Matter”
Crackers Don’t MatterWritten by Justin Monjo, directed by Ian WatsonSeason 2, Episode 41st US Transmission Date: 7 April 20001st UK Transmission Date: 17 July 20001st Australian Transmission: 10...
View ArticleDownload Free Wallpaper from the Crossroads of Twilight Ebook
As part of the run up to the final book in the Wheel of Time series, Tor.com is releasing free wallpapers of all available ebook art!This week we’re featuring the ebook art for Crossroads of Twilight,...
View ArticleLittle Star (Excerpt)
John Ajvide Lindqvist — named the new Stephen King by many fans of horror — is releasing his next book on October 2! Get a sneak peek at Little Star:A man finds a baby in the woods, left for dead. He...
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