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Death’s Apprentice Sweepstakes!
You've read the excerpt, but eough with the waiting, you need a copy of Death's Apprentice by K. W. Jeter NOW. It just so happens that we've got 25 copies ready and waiting to be shipped out for 25...
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The One Time You Want To Hear Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone
A village on the Devil’s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of...
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Underwater Wonder: Katya’s World by Jonathan L. Howard
Having cut his comedic teeth writing the Broken Sword series of point and click puzzle games, and honed them to a sharp point through three novels starring Johannes Cabal, the renowned necromancer and...
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Morning Roundup: Matt Smith Rocks a Waistcoat
There was seriously a huge debate in the Tor.com rocket ship about the correct way to pronounce “waistcoat.” It turns out we're all right. And Matt Smith is losing the tweed for a bit on Doctor Who!...
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The Great Stephen King Re-read: Night Shift
No one wanted to publish a Stephen King short story collection, but when The Shining became his first hardcover best-seller right after Carrie hit it big at the box office his career kicked into...
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Superman vs. the Myth of Aristocracy
Stop me if you’ve heard this one.A child is born under the threat of immediate death. Desperate to save the boy’s life, his parents place him in a basket and abandon him to the wilderness. A kind...
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Reopening The X-Files: “S.R. 819”
Season 6, Episode 9: “S.R. 819”Original Airdate: January 17, 1999People don’t die so much on The X-Files. I mean, people die on The X-Files all the time, and if you’re an informant you’ve really got to...
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First 9 Minutes of Star Trek Into Darkness to Screen With IMAX Hobbit
Whoa. After teases of a teaser, its been announced that a whopping 9 minutes of the highly anticipated Star Trek Into Darknesswill be attached to IMAX screenings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey....
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The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 1, “An Unexpected Party”
Welcome to the reread of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, where we will consider one chapter of the book per week. I haven’t read the book in a very long time, and I wasn’t planning on re-reading it again...
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Visionary, Subtle, Incisive: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
Where do they keep coming from? Over the last handful of weeks I’ve read and reviewed Near + Far by Cat Rambo, At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson and Errantry: Strange Stories by...
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Beyond Wimbledon: The Wandering Wombles
Being a brave explorer was one thing. Keeping fit quite another.- The Wandering WomblesThe Wandering Wombles begins with a crisis moment for the Wimbledon Womble community: a new road, combined with...
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How Many Fandom Badges Can You Earn?
Vulture recently released a set of fandom badges for their list of Top 25 most devoted fanbases. The badges themselves are pretty awesome, and makes us all rightly curious—how many can you collect for...
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Sapphire Blue (Excerpt)
Check out this excerpt from the sequel to Ruby Red—Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier:Gwen’s life has been a rollercoaster since she discovered she was the Ruby, the final member of the secret...
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The Eldritch Conspiracy Sweepstakes!
The new Cat Adams book, The Eldritch Conspiracy, will be out on January 8, but we've got 10 ARCs for 10 of you to win! Check out those arm daggers, seriously everyone. Comment in the post to enter!NO...
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James Bond Will Ski on Your Lunch if He Wants
We saw this one a while ago, but we think it’s time to revisit it. Someone has created lyrics for the famous “James Bond Theme,” and they’re hysterical. His name is James Bond and he likes to get...
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Morning Roundup: From Hell’s Heart Steampunk Ahab Stabs at Thee
Over on Pinterest, Tor UK asked author Cherie Priest curate some cool steampunk images! So many of them are lovely, but being big fans of whales, we really liked this steampunk Moby Dick one. From...
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Exploring Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: Episode 2, “One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue”
The second episode of Cosmos, “One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue,” is an exploration of evolution from various approaches: historical, scientific, and contextual. An overarching concern with the order of...
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Don’t Touch That Dial: Cartoons for Geeks
Welcome to the final episode of “Don’t Touch That Dial,” a mini-series in which I, your friendly neighborhood television addict, will break down some of the shows screaming for your attention....
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The First Mortal Instruments Trailer is the Missing Link Between Buffy and...
The first trailer has been released for Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the movie adaptation of the first in Cassandra Clare’s urban fantasy series Mortal Instruments.The movie is out on August 23,...
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The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Jay Kristoff
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! We’ve asked each author to choose 5-10...
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