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Sleeps With Monsters: Kameron Hurley Answers Six Questions
Joining us today to answer a few questions is Kameron Hurley, author of the Bel Dame Apocrypha. Her first novel, God’s War, won the 2011 Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award for best début, and was...
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Creating a Sub-Genre by Accident: Georgette Heyer’s The Corinthian
Georgette Heyer wrote The Corinthian a few months after the tragic death of her brother-in-law, a close friend, in one of the early battles of World War II, and under the terrible fear that her husband...
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5 Wheel of Time Stories I Want to Read Post-A Memory of Light (and 4 Others)
(SPOILERS ahead for A Memory of Light!)Finishing A Memory of Light, and The Wheel of Time series, was a very satisfying experience.At DragonCon in September 2012 I had heard Brandon Sanderson say that...
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History in the Making: Imager’s Battalion by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Imager’s Battalion is the sixth novel in L.E. Modesitt Jr.’s Imager Portfolio series, and the third one focusing on the life and times of Quaeryt, after Scholarand Princeps. The initial three novels...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Gambit, Part II”
“Gambit, Part II”Written by Naren Shankar and Ronald D. MooreDirected by Alexander SingerSeason 7, Episode 5Production episode 40276-257Original air date: October 18, 1993Stardate: 47160.1Captain’s...
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The Winter Witch (Excerpt)
Take a look at The Winter Witch, sequel to Paul Brackston’s The Witch’s Daughter, out on January 29 from St. Martin’s Press:In her small early nineteenth century Welsh town, there is no one quite like...
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Steven Utley, 1948-2012
On January 12th, the science fiction community lost writer and editor Steven Utley. Though Utley was fond of referring to himself as “an internationally unknown author,” his work has been widely...
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Steven Utley, 1948-2013
On January 12th, the science fiction community lost writer and editor Steven Utley. Though Utley was fond of referring to himself as “an internationally unknown author,” his work has been widely...
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Morning Roundup: Now Writers Can Drown Their Sorrows With Their Own Sorrows
Signature drink of the publishing industry or just some cheeky Irish whiskey? (Can't it be both?)We found this appropriately themed bottle of expensive Writer's Tears whiskey on Tor.com contributor...
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When We Were Heroes
George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards multi-author shared-world universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. Now, in addition to overseeing the ongoing publication of new Wild Cards books (like...
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Watching the Star Wars Prequels on Mute: An Experiment
Over at The Chronicle Review, Camille Paglia stirred quite a few pots a while back by asserting that George Lucas might be the greatest artist of our time. It’s no surprise that your average...
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The Sandman Reread: Preludes and Nocturnes
If you read comics long enough, or with any kind of sustained attention, you’ll notice that some series start off strong, with clear, powerful opening issues that define everything that will follow....
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Return of the Crimson Guard, Book Two, Chapter...
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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Monster of the Week: Winged Devourers (Beastmaster)
For a certain class of vorarephile, no fantasy is more enticing than one that ends inside a monster’s stomach. These strange fetishists crave the confinement of a Sarlacc’s belly. They lust for the...
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British Genre Fiction Focus: UK Publishing News and New Releases
So what do I have for you in the first edition of Tor.com’s edifying new feature? Well, fittingly, the British Genre Fiction Focus begins with news of a new genre fiction imprint, a new trilogy, two...
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Introducing the British Genre Fiction Focus
Some might say that living in the UK makes for a bit of a miserable existence, not dissimilar to spending length of time in limbo, assuming the skies there are still concrete grey in May... but putting...
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Farscape Rewatch: “Liars Guns and Money II: With Friends Like These”
Liars, Guns and Money II: With Friends like TheseWritten by Naren Shankar, directed by Catherine MillarSeason 2, Episode 201st US Transmission Date: 12 January 20011st UK Transmission Date: 11 December...
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“Time Is Not Successive” Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer
“Time is not successive,” he said. “It is concrete, constant, simultaneous, and not uniform.”I don’t know how to describe Argentine writer Angélica Gorodischer’s Trafalgar, only the second of this...
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Download Original Todd Lockwood Art for National Appreciate a Dragon Day
Today is National Appreciate a Dragon Day so we're featuring this gorgeous anatomical study of a dragon illustrated by artist Todd Lockwood for Marie Brennans's upcoming book The Natural History of...
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A Memory of Light Debuts at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List
A Memory of Light, the finale of the epic 15-volume Wheel of Time series, has debuted at #1 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.Ever since the publication of the eighth book in the...
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