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Check Out the Cover to The Warrior Moon, K. Arsenault Rivera’s Conclusion to...
We’re excited to share the cover for The Warrior Moon, the striking conclusion to K Arsenault Rivera’s epic fantasy trilogy that began with The Tiger’s Daughter. Barsalayaa Shefali, famed Qorin...
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The Conundrums of Ecstatic Time Travel: Tentacle by Rita Indiana
Time travel occurs in contexts both science fictional and fantastical. Stories centered around it can explore the bizarre paradoxes that it generates, or lose the reader in the thrills or dangers that...
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All the New Fantasy Books Coming Out in March!
Spring is just around the corner, and so are a bevy of new fantasy books! A world-altering spell sparks conflict in Jenna Glass’s The Women’s War; G. Willow Wilson plots a daring, magical escape in The...
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Revealing the Cover to Warrior of the Altaii, Robert Jordan’s...
On October 8, 2019, Wheel of Time and Robert Jordan fans will get to experience Warrior of the Altaii, a fascinating formative work by The Wheel of Time creator, offering an abundance of the epic...
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Raw Magic, Creepy Obsessions, and a Pseudo-Sea Battle in Children of Blood...
This week, our ongoing reread of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi continues with chapters 18-30, in which Inan goes all in with his magic, Tzain discovers his inner strategist, Amari cracks...
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Why I’m Counting on Captain Marvel
I didn’t grow up reading superhero comics. There wasn’t any real reason why, except perhaps that none of the adults around me did. It does mean, though, that when I talk to people about comics, and...
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Star Trek: Discovery’s Time War Could Change Prime Timeline
When a prequel series to the original Star Trek was announced, hardcore fans started freaking out and these are the kinds of things they said: How can anything that takes place before the OG Trek...
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Queering the Revolution: We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
The island of Medio is a nation divided—geographically, politically, and socially. A wall severs the island in two, sealing off the toxic sea from a toxic society. The wall is a weapon as much as it is...
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Genetic Engineering, Equine Style
Long before modern science cracked the genetic code, animal breeders had figured out that you can breed for specific traits. They watched to see what different individuals would produce in combination...
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Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cryoburn, Chapters 12-14
We’ve made the rounds of the interesting covers of Cryoburn. This week, I’m returning to my favorite, which is Esad Ribic’s. I don’t always like his work, but he did a nice job here. In Chapter 12, we...
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The Game of Thrones Final Battle Intends to Rival Lord of the Rings
With less than two months to go (April 14!), we’re starting to finally hear some details about the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones. Today’s eyebrow-raiser comes courtesy of Entertainment...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Perrin Struggles with Acceptance in Robert...
So… is there going to be a windy opening to every single one of the Wheel of Time books? Asking for a friend. This week in Reading the Wheel of Time, we delve into the first three chapters of The...
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What Sabrina Needs to Do to Depict Blindness Realistically
“I just can’t imagine what it would be like to be… like you.” This statement is often accompanied by a gesture, usually to my face, sometimes to my cane. They are referencing my blindness, my cataract,...
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Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 18 and 19
Hello, Tor.com! Welcome to where this read of TROK becomes a reread–for I have now read the whole thing. And it is awesome, and now I’m gonna read it again. You should come along and read it too!...
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Watch the First Trailer for the Final Season of Game of Thrones
After all the betrayals and White Walkers and gallons of Dornish wine and sexposition and poisonings and DRAGONS, the final season of Game of Thrones looms before us as inevitable as death itself....
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Five Fictional Books Inside of Real Books
Writers are book-lovers. It’s not surprising that the plots they devise often have to do with reading, storytelling, or the creation of works of literature. Sometimes, writers just namecheck fictional...
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Revolutionary Honesty: Mallory O’Meara’s The Lady from the Black Lagoon
In the first episode of her YouTube series, Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova discusses the nature of truth and memory. There are, she says, three version of events: the objective truth of What...
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Infinite Detail
The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. Author Tim Maughan makes the...
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All the New Science Fiction Books Coming Out in March!
This month’s science fiction titles take us from the cold depths of space to the far reaches of time, then sideways to a parallel world or two! Tade Thompson’s The Rosewater Insurrection returns us to...
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Fun, Messy Time Travel: Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield
I’m coming to the conclusion that Kate Heartfield may be the author whose work proves the exception to my “time travel stories never satisfy me” rule. Time travel is messy, and in a story where time...
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