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Five Genre-Bending Young Adult Books
“Pick a genre,” they said. “Horror. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Romance. Crime. Thriller. What interests you most?” I was fifteen, and I could no longer hang out in the children’s section of the...
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The Tick Season Two Trailer Announces Premiere Date and Challenges Us to a...
The Tick is back with a new trailer and a Season Two release date! Prepare to scream SPOOOOOON! on April 5th, as Arthur answers the Call (finally!) and Miss Lint somehow becomes more of a bad ass?...
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Permafrost
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost—available March 19th from Tor.com...
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Ten Things You Won’t Find in the Necronomicon: Frank Belknap Long’s “The...
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, we’re...
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The Wheel of Time Episode 3 Title Revealed, Hints at Different Sequential Order
For this week’s #WoTWednesday, The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins has treated fans to another episode title page from the currently-in-the-works first season. But what’s most interesting is that...
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Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixty-Seven
I hope you’re all ready to sit criss-cross apple sauce, because this week Uncle Hoid’s in the house and ready to regale us all with a lovely tale of arrogance, trickery, and loss. It’s always a fun...
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Five Science Fiction-Themed Music Videos
Science fiction themes have been intertwined with popular music since the days of Ziggy Stardust, early Yes album covers, and Parliament’s Mothership Connection, to name but the tiniest handful of...
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Latest Dark Phoenix Trailer Reminds Us Who This Movie is Really About
The last Dark Phoenix trailer left us with a lot of questions. This one is better? Mainly because it doesn’t seem to be another long-winded quarrel between Professor X and Magneto. Prepare to see Dark...
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Buck to the Future: The Many Incarnations of Buck Rogers
In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers,...
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Bill and Ted, and the End of History
In February 1989, audiences saw, for the first time, a young Keanu Reeves lean close to a young Alex Winter and declare, “Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.” It was a critical moment, not only...
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QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: Hybrid Child by Mariko Ōhara
Hybrid Child by Mariko Ōhara is one of the few Japanese science fiction novels by a woman author that have been translated to English. It was originally published in 1990 and won the Seiun award the...
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A Furnace Sealed
Bram Gold is a Courser, a hunter-for-hire who deals with supernatural creatures, mystical happenings, and things that go booga-booga in the night. Under the supervision of the Wardein—his childhood...
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Standalone Fantasy Short on Complexity: The Priory of the Orange Tree by...
The last standalone epic fantasy of significant length I read was Jacqueline Carey’s magisterial Starless (2018), a novel told from the perspective of its sole narrator, and one so deftly paced that it...
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Sandra Newman Soars to The Heavens
How rare and wonderful it is to find a book that surpasses already high expectations. Sandra Newman’s The Heavens is one such title. It’s a fantasy about reality and it’s one of the best new novels...
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A Sorcerer in Love: Revealing The Heart of the Circle by Keren Landsman
Sorcerers fight for the right to exist and fall in love in The Heart of the Circle, an extraordinary alternate world fantasy thriller by award-winning Israeli author Keren Landsman. We’re excited to...
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Lost and Found — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Light and Shadows”
For six weeks, we’ve heard the characters on Star Trek: Discovery talking about Spock and seen the characters looking for Spock and had the characters think they were about to find Spock only to not...
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Science Fiction, Journaling, and Travels through China
Many writers keep journals. I’m one of them. I use journals to plot and plan (books, I promise, not murders), to figure out what I’m thinking about a particular topic or on a particular day, to...
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New Hellboy Trailer Brings Smoke and Fire
The new trailer for Hellboy is here, with all the gore and one-liners it can muster. Take a peek! Prepare for the hypnotic cadence of Sophie Okonedo’s voice… We’re… not sure about that “Smoke On the...
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“Did I leave the stove on?”— Deadpool
Deadpool first appeared as a somewhat irreverent mercenary sent to kill Cable in New Mutants #98, the same 1991 issue that introduced Gideon and Domino. His design, created by artist Rob Liefeld,...
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Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for March
For two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated...
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