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Sleeps With Monsters: R.M. Meluch’s Tour of the Merrimack Series
Today, we’re continuing our focus on female writers of science fiction space opera (or at least, my interpretation of this category) with a look at the most recent works of R.M. Meluch: her Tour of the...
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Goodbye, Karen Berger, Please Don’t Go
I first met Karen Berger at one of the early MoCCA Festivals, back when it was still in the Puck Building, but I didn’t really have a conversation with her until the following summer, at the massive...
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Bilbo Baggins Wants to be Left Alone in Latest Hobbit Clip
The latest Hobbit clip reminds us (as if we needed reminding) of the great comic talent of Martin Freeman. Is anyone home? Bilbo claims there’s not! This movies is shaping up to be way funnier than the...
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The Complex Mathematical Formula Behind Twilight’s Success
Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (of ∞) continues to rampage as the number one movie in America, and while the success of the movies and books comes as no surprise, no one has addressed the most...
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Alternate Timelines: What if Spielberg Directed Bond and Never Made Indiana...
When it comes to blockbuster films featuring action hero protagonists, the collective consciousness seems to have adopted a “if you can’t beat them, join them” attitude. James Bond is back this year,...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 29
Make a wish and yell my name incomprehensibly into a rainstorm, WOT guys and gals, because it’s a Wheel of Time Re-read!Today’s entry covers Chapter 56 through the end of Towers of Midnight, in which...
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The Colbert Report’s New York City as Middle-earth Map
It’s Hobbit Week over on The Colbert Report and while Stephen Colbert interviewing Ian McKellan, Peter Jackson, and more is all very, very awesome, what really tickled us was this map of New York City...
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Sparkling Murder: Georgette Heyer’s Death in the Stocks
Having been rather harsh on Georgette Heyer’s first three mystery novels, I thought it was only fair to chat about Death in the Stocks, her first entirely successful mystery novel—and one which,...
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Watch Frank Sinatra and Willie Nelson Loving on Space Technology
Sure, here’s a video of Frank Sinatra in the 1980s talking about the benefits of space technology, but it isn’t quite quirky enough, right? Let’s make it weirder. Anyone got Willie Nelson’s phone...
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5 Reasons You Should Be Reading All New X-Men
There have been a lot of shake-ups lately in the world of comics. In the DC universe, the Joker is running amok once again trying to kill everyone in the Batman family. Vertigo is ending their...
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The Bones of the Old Ones (Excerpt)
Take a look at this excerpt from The Bones of the Old Ones by Howard Andrew Jones, sequel to The Desert of Souls, coming out from Thomas Dunne Books on December 11, 2012:As a snowfall blankets 8th...
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The Ivan Book: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance
Gosh I love this book.I’d say this is my favourite new Vorkosigan book since Komarr.Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance is the promised “Ivan book”, the book in which Miles’s cousin Ivan finds a girl and......
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Slow Motion Space Opera: Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
I don't care what people say: size matters. Equally, however, it isn't everything. If it were, Great North Road would be Peter F. Hamilton's best book since The Naked God in 1999, but it's not. It's...
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Morning Roundup: 007 Must Go Faster
Hold onto your butts! Even Bond can't stop Nedry's hacking Jurassic Park. Bond. The phones are not working! (There was a Daniel Craig/Skyfall photoshop contest on PhotoshopDisasters. Several were good....
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The Finite Canvas
We are marked by what we have been. And erasing either of those can have unpredictable consequences...This novelette was acquired for Tor.com by Tor Books editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden.[Read “The...
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Why the Resident Evil Films are Great Entertainment, Part II
Resident Evil: Extinction grossed $147 million on its 2007 release. Narratively, it may well be the weakest instalment in the franchise:* the combination of its sere desertscape and mad-scientist-lair...
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First Look At Harrison Ford Yelling At Kids On The Set of Ender’s Game!
See that right there? That’s Harrison Ford all decked out as Colonel Graff, preparing to dress down Asa Butterfield’s Ender Wiggin, who’s concerned that his emails to home are being blocked. Click...
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Tor Books Unveils the Real Cover for Greg Bear’s Halo: Silentium
Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC—the largest publisher of science fiction in the world—and 343 Industries™ are excited to unveil the real cover art—previously hidden since it...
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Gaiman For Younglings: The Charles Vess Picture Book Collaborations
Famed fantasy illustrator Charles Vess has been collaborating with Neil Gaiman since 1989, producing three acclaimed issues of The Sandman and the novel Stardust along the way. Their collaboration has...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Return of the Crimson Guard, Chapter Two, Part...
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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