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Simple Pleasures Are the Best — Star Trek: Discovery’s “New Eden”
Back in the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jonathan Frakes, who played Commander William Riker, expressed an interest in directing an episode of the show. The producers decided to go...
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India’s Enduring Love for Archie Comics
In 2018, it was announced that there would be a Bollywood-style live-action adaption of Archie comics produced in India. The freckled redhead and his friends Betty, Veronica, Jughead and the gang will...
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A Few Too Many Strings — Avengers: Age of Ultron
Throughout their comics history, the Avengers have had several recurring villains. While Loki brought them together in 1963, he was more Thor’s specific problem. Over the years, they kept coming back...
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Absurdist Allegory Unclay is Back in Print at Last
T.F. Powys’s novel Unclay holds the unwelcome distinction of being triply obscure. The first level of obscurity: you’re vanishingly unlikely to meet anyone who knows of an author named Powys—I’ve met...
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5 Books that Give Voice to Artificial Intelligence
While working on the anthology Mother of Invention, our lives and attention spans were full of knitted robots, intelligent spaceships, living computer programs and living creatures built out of sugar....
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Read “A Fire Within the Ways,” a Wheel of Time Deleted Novella Featured in...
Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting...
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Hidden Depths: Revealing C.S.E. Cooney’s Desdemona and the Deep
The spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below…. Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, dizzying fantasy with...
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A Tool Can Also Be a Weapon: How Stories Can Change Reality
“If you’re ever in Cody, Wyoming, just ask for Wild Bob!” –Slaughterhouse-Five One of the critical function of stories is to enforce an order and structure on a random sampling of events,...
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The Birds of Prey Movie Has a New Title and A Daring Look
Fans have been waiting to see what will come of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, and now we’ve got our first glimpse of the Birds of Prey film—which has a new title that’s bound to raise a few eyebrows....
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In “New Eden” Was Captain Pike Wrong About Star Trek’s Prime Directive?
Turns out that Captain Pike is so hot for the Prime Directive, he will literally jump on a phaser and die rather than interfere with a culture’s natural development. Except when it comes to giving out...
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All the New Fantasy Books Coming Out in February!
As we approach midwinter, you’ll need some engrossing new reads to keep you warm until spring! You could delve into fantasy intrigue through the eyes of bastard-orphan-turned-royal-heir Kihrin in Jenn...
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Black Lightning’s Second Season Explores Young Love and Redemption
The last few episodes of Black Lightning have been quite a ride. Since the end of the first season, young, talented, and defiant Jennifer Pierce has been struggling with the revelation that she’s the...
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A Girl’s Life is No Picnic: Andre Norton’s Steel Magic
After reading and rereading so many Golden Age Norton space adventures, shifting to the Magic books feels like starting all over again with a new author. We’re in a completely different genre,...
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Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cryoburn, Chapters 1 and 2
It’s new book time, Kittens! Today we’re starting Cryoburn! What is Miles doing? Miles is hallucinating. OK. That’s fun. There are falling angels that are also screaming? And there are a lot of them?...
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Outlander Season Finale: Who Are the “Men of Worth” in Season 4?
After last year’s Outlander finale, which literally shipwrecked Claire and Jamie onto the shores of America, I was expecting a bigger cliffhanger ending to this season—that the letter the redcoats...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Ba’alzamon’s Lies in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Well, this is it, my friends: the big showdown chapter. The challenge of writing a recap for “The Grave is No Bar to My Call” is that it is so superbly written. A lot happens in a short space of words,...
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Get Amazing SFF Reads (for Free!) with the New Tor.com Short Fiction Newsletter!
Tor.com is home to an award-winning short fiction program, with over a decade of weekly stories for science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans to enjoy. We want to make reading our stories even easier...
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The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons: Chapters 15 and 16
Debut author Jenn Lyons has created one of the funniest, most engrossing new epic fantasy novels of the 21st century in The Ruin of Kings. An eyebrow-raising cross between the intricacy of Brandon...
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Reading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 15 and 16
Of all the gin joint blog posts in all the Internets, you clicked on mine, Tor.com. And I couldn’t be more thrilled. Another post for you! This blog series will be covering the first 17 chapters of the...
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Instruments of Our Own Destruction: Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett
Vigilance, a new novella by Robert Jackson Bennett, is a love story between America and its guns—and as with all toxic relationships, someone’s going to get hurt. In a near-future America undergoing a...
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