Watch the First Nine Minutes of Star Trek Into Darkness
Watch it while you can! The first nine minutes of Star Trek Into Darkness has leaked online, so if you weren’t lucky enough to catch this playing before The Hobbit this weekend, check it out now.It’s a...
View ArticleeDiscover... Agyar by Steven Brust
eDiscover is a new series on Tor.com that highlights sci-fi/fantasy titles recently brought back into print as ebooks.Back when paperbacks were first invented, Penguin used to sell their books with...
View ArticleJohn Scalzi’s Old Man’s War Only $2.99 Today
Today only, in the US you can purchase the ebook version of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War for just $2.99! Released by Tor Books in 2005 and the winner of Tor.com’s 2011 Best SFF Novel of the Decadepoll,...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Carl Sagan Doesn’t Want Your Space Trash
Carl Sagan would like to remind you that whenever we go to into space, we really should avoid plastering it with tons of giant advertisements. Stubby couldn’t agree more, but would be totally okay with...
View Article2012 Fiction Wrap Up from Tor.com
It's the end of 2012, and we've been so proud to publish some excellent fiction this year! We couldn't be more pleased to have championed such a diverse group of voices which continue to keep us on...
View ArticleSleeps With Monsters: Laura E. Reeve
Strange aliens. Mysterious artefacts. A cold war that used to be hot. A pilot with a dark secret in her past, and a troubled present. Disarmament treaties for weapons of mass destruction. Plots....
View ArticleMichael Moorcock is The Eternal Champion
Today is the 73rd birthday of celebrated and influential author and editor Michael John Moorcock. Involving himself in the SF/Fantasy scene practically as soon as he discovered it, Moorcock began...
View ArticleMonster of the Week: Dr. Edward Pretorius (From Beyond)
In the filmFrom Beyond(watch it on Hulu here), Dr. Edward Pretorius pioneered use of the Resonator, a device that expands human perceptions of reality via wave manipulation of the pineal gland.As the...
View ArticleThe Wheel of Time: A Light Re-read of Memory, Or Something
Happy holidays, People of Tor.com!I know, you’re like, what are you doing here, Leigh? The Wheel of Time Re-read is on hiatus! And so it is, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still talk about the Wheel of...
View ArticleA Touch of Mystery with Derring-do: Georgette Heyer’s The Talisman Ring
Heyer wrote The Talisman Ring when she was simultaneously creatively blocked on another, more serious book, and desperate for money. Turning to farce as inspiration worked remarkably well. She wrote...
View ArticleFirebrand Sweepstakes!
Gillian Philip's Firebrand won't be out until February 19, but we've got 10 ARC copies on hand to send to 10 of you! It's a great chance to get your hands on one awesome read, weeks ahead of...
View ArticleHas Star Trek Into Darkness Revealed That It’s the Contemporary Wrath of Khan?
A flurry of new information regarding the highly-anticipated Star Trek Into Darkness has come to light in the past few weeks: twotrailers, a full 9 minutes from the beginning of the film, the supposed...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Excerpt)
Check out this excerpt from The Lost Writings of Bram Stoker, edited by John Edgar Browning, out on December 24:Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve...
View ArticlePat Murphy’s “About Fairies” Picked for Best SF
We’ve just received word that Pat Murphy’s Tor.com story “About Fairies” will be included in Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Seven. This anthology will be released early...
View ArticleDave McKean Reveals Artwork for Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Dave McKean, frequent Neil Gaiman collaborator, released a few “visual moments” from a special edition of Gaiman’s upcoming novel The Ocean and the End of the Land...and it looks spectacular. The...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: You Know Nothing, Charlie Brown
We don’t even want to entertain other Peanuts characters as Game of Thrones people. It’s already scaring us just starting to think about what Lucy’s football might represent. But look! Snow! It’s the...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Christmas
Which is harder: seeing your own future - or truly knowing your past? Enjoy this year's Tor.com holiday story “The Ghosts of Christmas,” a new original story by Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, Saucer...
View ArticlePathfinder’s Best Bestiaries
Whenever I start reading monster collections, I start…well, thinking about how roleplaying is just such an interesting salmagundi. You get mythologies of every historical stripe hodgepodged with H.P....
View ArticleAll the Whos Down in Whoville are Aliens
If you’re going to watch a heart-string tugging Christmas special with children on or around the holidays, why you’re not watching the 1966 animated adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is...
View ArticleArtificial Life Story: Age of the Android Reinvents the Past
The rivalry between master inventor Thomas Edison and visionary conceptual scientist Nikola Tesla runs through the Animal Engine Theater Company’s Age of the Android, and the mystery of what gears mesh...
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