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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
On this, the day after Boxing Day, Tor.com is pleased to present Conan Doyle’s day-after-Boxing-Day Sherlock Holmes tale — “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” It involves a goose and a jewel that...
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The Ten Essential Genre Films of 2012
Every year, a new pack of science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero and other genre films tease us with hyped-up anticipation, peppering the zeitgeist with their characters, situations, catch...
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Reopening The X-Files: “The Sixth Extinction”/“The Sixth Extinction II: Amor...
Season 7, Episodes 1 and 2: “The Sixth Extinction”/“The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati”Original Airdates: November 7 and 14, 1999What happens when you care about a show, and it doesn’t care back? I...
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Tolkien, Alignment, Non-Violence, and Why Hobbits are Required for...
At this point, using the Dungeons & Dragons alignment system to categorize popular culture is old hat; it has made its fair share of funny memes and passed into common parlance. There are a lot of...
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The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Adam Rex
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, artist, and others! This week we’re...
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Sometimes It’s Better When Things are Wrong
We are no strangers to digging deeply into the sci-fi/fantasy that we love, but sometimes we feel the need to step back and revel in the silliness that loving this stuff affords us.Troll Quotes...
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10 Reasons to Read a Star Trek Novel
You need something to get you through the cold, dark days until you can finally Trek Into Darkness, but Star Trek novels are so much more than something to tide you over until the movie comes out. Here...
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The First Four Minutes of Warm Bodies is a Sad, Funny Short Film About When...
Warm Bodies, the latest supernatural YA romance, has already exceeded our expectations with its first trailers: Rather than just be zombie Twilight, it looks to be a snarky, self-aware tale about an...
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What a Truly Faithful Comic Book Film Adaptation Might Look Like
What if the various Marvel films like Spider-Man, Iron-Man, or The Avengers featured the comic book characters the way they actually look in the comics? Artist Butcher Billy tackled that question with...
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Morning Roundup: This is the Doctor Who Will Deliver Your Mail
If you’re in the U.K., all of these time traveling blokes will assist you in getting your postal exchanges to the correct destinations! Which of the Doctors will you choose for your most important...
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Exploring Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: Episode 7, “The Backbone of Night”
The seventh episode of Cosmos, “The Backbone of Night,” is about scientific curiosity and the history of that curiosity—its evolution, and its suppression. The episode begins in Sagan’s present-day...
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The Hobbit Reread: Movie Interlude
Welcome back to the chapter-by-chapter re-read of The Hobbit. This week, we are actually pausing the book reread to consider the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which I saw last weekend and...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Descent, Part II”
“Descent, Part II”Written by Rene EchevarriaDirected by Alexander SingerSeason 7, Episode 1Production episode 40276-253Original air date: September 20, 1993Stardate: 47025.4Captain’s Log: We get a...
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Celebrate Stan Lee’s 90th Birthday By Watching All His Marvel Movie Cameos
The legendary Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee turns 90 years old today, and in his honor we present an awesome compilation of his cameos in the various Marvel films. From 1989's The Trial of the...
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Read an Exclusive Excerpt From A Memory of Light on NPR
NPR has just posted an excerpt of A Memory of Light, the final book in the Wheel of Time series ontheir First Reads page. The excerpt comes to us from Chapter 3, and gives us a peek at the increasingly...
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Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “Appointment in Crime Alley“ and ”Mad as...
“Appointment at Crime Alley”Written by Gerry ConwayDirected by Boyd KirklandEpisode #026Supervising Composer Shirley WalkerMusic Composed by Stu BalcombAnimation Services by Dong Yang Animation Co.,...
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Locus Reveals Results of Its All-Century Short Fiction Poll
Locus Magazine recently conducted the herculean task of polling its readers about the best SFF novels of the past two centuries. Called the All-Century Poll; they also asked readers to pick their...
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WondLa is WondLaful
What if the prophecy about the “The Chosen One” wasn’t about a school boy with a weird scar and foster parents who don’t love him…and was instead about a genetically engineered teenager raised in an...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wolves of the Calla,...
“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.”—Roland Deschain, of GileadWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series. Join me each week as I, Constant Reader, tackle the magnum opus of Stephen King’s...
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Spoiler Thread for the Memories of Light, Week Six
Welcome to the spoiler thread for the Memories of Light, the daily preview of the final volume of Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light. Some memories may shed new light on...
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