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Welcome Ellen Datlow, New Consulting Fiction Editor for Tor.com
Since 2008, Tor.com has been a leading market for science fiction and fantasy short fiction. Several of our stories have been Hugo and Nebula finalists, Charlie Jane Anders’ “Six Months, Three Days”...
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What Comics Are Truly About: Cooking, Theatre, and Cardboard
Everyone complains that today’s Hollywood-heavy comic conventions aren’t for comics fans anymore. But for me it’s just a question of how far they are from comics – and how far into other worlds comics...
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The Justice League Will Arrive in Theaters in 2015
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Warner Bros. has officially scheduled a Justice League movie for summer of 2015, where it will go head to head against Avengers 2.While huge Marvel and DC comic...
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The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Madeline Ashby
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a new series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors! We’ve asked each author to choose 5-10 talking...
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Neil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket and More Read Coraline to You
HarperCollins has just unveiled a new video series where authors, friends of Neil Gaiman, and more, each read one chapter from Neil Gaiman’s book Coraline. The series begins this week with Chapter One...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 5
Welcome 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 5 of A Storm of...
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Gaming Roundup: “An Ancient Evil Awakens” as Halo 4 Goes Hollywood
Last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon brought about the debut of a new, Hollywood-powered Halo 4 trailer. Produced by David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Reaper’s Gale, Chapter Twenty-Three
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,...
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Anyone Up for Some War, Famine, and Plague? Between Two Fires
It was Christopher Buehlman’s Those Across the River that triggered my Eighties Horror reread last summer; the novel had similarities to some fondly-remembered horror novels from my teens, especially...
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Passenger (Excerpt)
Take a look at an excerpt from the next Marbury novel by Andrew Smith, Passenger, out now from Feiwel & Friends. (And take a look at the fabulous short story he wrote for Tor.com, King of...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Chain of Command, Part I”
“Chain of Command, Part I”Written by Frank Abatemarco and Ronald D. MooreDirected by Robert ScheererSeason 6, Episode 10Production episode 40276-236Original air date: December 14, 1992Stardate:...
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Loper: Slouching Into the World of Tomorrow
The past isn’t what it used to be, because nothing stays down anymore. The drab decline of 1970s dystopias—all whimper and no bang—has had a fruitful flashback in recent years, especially this one, as...
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Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “The Forgotten” & “Be a Clown”
“The Forgotten”Written by J. Dennis, R. Mueller and Sean Catherine DerekDirected by Boyd KirklandMusic by Shirley WalkerAnimation Services by Dong Yang Animation Co., LTD.Layout Services by NOA...
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Morning Roundup: We Have Enough Mana For Nicki Minaj
Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” soundbite from the latest presidential debate has generated a lot of images online, and like a game of telephone, it has resulted in the Nicki Minaj Magic: The...
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Experience the Haunting of Tor.com For Ghost Week!
There’s something strange in your neighborhood rocket... it’s Ghost Week on Tor.com! All week long we’ll be hanging out with spooks, spectres, slimers, spirits, hauntings, poltergeists, full-torso...
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The Terrible Old Man
To kick off Ghost Week, please enjoy this classic H.P. Lovecraft chiller straight from the new from Random House/Vintage Books; The Big Book of Ghost Stories edited by Otto Penzler! In “The Terrible...
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Monster of the Week: Trolls
Norway is troll country. Oh sure, the electronic music and pickled fish are nice too, but it’s the region’s indigenous populations of hulking, deformed hill monsters that captivate our imaginations...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wizard and Glass, Part 4,...
“Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin.”—Blaine the Mono, to Roland and the Ka-Tet, at the end of The Waste LandsWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series....
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The Walking Dead, S3 E2: “Sick”
Oh, The Walking Dead, you continue to surprise me and then crush me with disappointment. Well, okay, so I’m being a little harsh. “Sick” wasn’t as awful as it could have been—as it would have been if...
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Ghosts in the Machines
We are gathered here at the final end of what Bradbury called the October Country: a state of mind as much as it is a time. All the harvests are in, the frost is on the ground, there’s mist in the...
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