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That Train Has Sailed. True Blood Finale: “Save Yourself”
Bad, True Blood, bad!Now go sit in the corner for a year and think about what you've done.The season finale of True Blood was so full of awesome, evil cliffhanger goodness, it wasn't until after the...
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Acts of Witchery: Under My Hat: Tales From the Cauldron
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron is Jonathan Strahan’s newest anthology, a gathering of seventeen stories and one poem about witches and witchcraft directed to a young adult audience. As he says...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Pomp and Carnage
School is wrapping up and the Scoobies are saying goodbye. They are getting their graduation gowns and signing each other’s yearbooks, and Willow in particular is full of nostalgia. It’s almost warm...
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Janeway Doesn’t Deserve This Shit
Star Trek: Voyager is my favorite Star Trek series. Prompted in part by my own recent rewatch of the series and in part by this great piece on Princess Leia, I’d like to take a moment to talk about...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Tom Strong, Part 1
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide...
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Fiction Affliction: September Releases in Fantasy
Fifteen new fantasies hit the shelves this month, including the first in a new trilogy from Malazan master Steven Erikson, the ninth book in S.M. Stirling’s Emberverse series, and number six in David...
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The Doctor Drives a DeLorean Now. DeLoreans Are Etc.
The first episode Doctor Who's seventh season enjoyed a special preview/premiere screening in New York City this weekend. The cast emerged from multiple DeLoreans in a tip of the hat to that other most...
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Morning Roundup: Did You Read Vonnegut’s New Story in the July 1958 Issue of...
Most serious science fiction readers are aware that folks like Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury before him managed to publish their stories in all sorts of periodicals that would likely not publish...
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Cross-Dressing for Safety and Romance: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
Heyer wrote The Masqueraders, a cross-dressing gender romance with plenty of sword duels, while living in Africa with her then-engineer husband. (He would later choose the less physical job of...
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The Future is Really Safe in Part 2 of Pond Life
Part two of the 5 part minisode Doctor Who Season 7 prequel is here! In this installment, the Doctor busts in on Amy and Rory while they're in bed. Click below the cut for the Doctor's...
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Sleeps With Monsters: What Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover Stories Reveal...
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley, as the poet wrote. I’d meant to be writing a wee column about Leigh Brackett sometime this past summer, but I’m having a small bit of trouble when...
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Does Neuromancer Hold Up Now That its World Isn’t as Unique?
Does William Gibson's now-classic Neuromancer, the book that coined the term “cyberspace,” hold up to a reread now that a lot of the tech and social structures it depicted have been realized in real...
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End of the World Blues: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Bemoaning an abundance of dystopian or post-apocalyptic fiction right now isn’t exactly fair. During the Cold War, there was a flood of sci-fi dealing with nuclear war and fallout. Now, the reason...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 16
Neither rain, nor thunder, nor hurricane-force winds can stop me, WOTers, because the Wheel of Time Re-read must go through!Er. Let’s hope so, anyway.Today’s entry covers Chapter 27 and 28 of Towers of...
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Bill Murray Paper Dolls Now Exist, Are Wonderful
Now you can re-enact all of your favorite scenes from all of your favorite Bill Murray movie (more so, we mean) with Bill Wearing Socks, an amazing paper doll collection done by artist Niege Borges as...
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Jane (Excerpt)
This year marks Tarzan's 100th anniversary, and we have just the book for it — take a look at Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan by Robin Maxwell, out on September 18:Cambridge, England, 1905. Jane...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “The Next Phase”
Housekeeping note: Due to the combination of the Labor Day holiday and the fact that I will be at Dragon*Con 2012 (here’s my schedule), there will be no rewatch on Friday the 31st. We’ll be back in a...
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We’re Glad The Avengers Didn’t Start This Way
The upcoming Blu-ray/DVD release of The Avengers will include this deleted scene, an interview between the Shadow-y Council and SHIELD Director Maria Hill. The scene was originally intended to begin...
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Dead Space: Catalyst Sweepstakes!
So many lovely books, so little time. This one is not out until October 2, but we just can't wait — we've got ten copies of Dead Space: Catalyst, and we want to give them to you!Check below for the...
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Fiction Affliction: September Releases in Science Fiction
Science fiction fans will find twelve new SF-ish releases this month, including a new collaboration from Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, a new book from John Varley, an addition to Sharon Lee and...
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