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Generational Trauma and the Art of Letting Go: Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam...
Generations after the Big Shake left the world in ruins, Mega City emerged from the rubble. Dominated by women, Mega City is ruled by the all-powerful Déesse from her royal enclave in the Towers,...
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All the New Genre-Bending Books Coming Out in March!
Spring is a time of rebirth and renewal, so what better season for a dark tale of the zombie-plague in Helen Marshall’s The Migration? If urban fantasy is more your thing, dive into a mystery with an...
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Writing Ahead of the Future
Something quite odd happened to me. I experienced, for the first time, the odd sensation of having something you dreamed up for a story happen in real life. In 2011 I wrote a short story called...
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Captain Marvel is the Joyful Realization of a Woman Coming Into Her Power
It took Marvel Studios eleven long years to bring fans a female-led film, and expectations have been running high among MCU devotees. Fortunately, Captain Marvel isn’t much worried about the hype train...
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Old, New, Borrowed, and Red—Star Trek: Discovery’s “If Memory Serves”
It is rare that a “previously on” segment at the top of an episode will make me squee. Generally it’s just there as a reminder of what happened before and a primer on what will be important in the...
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“Christ, that’s disturbing…”— Deadpool 2
Fox took a low-risk flyer on Deadpool. It had a budget smaller than any other X-film (in fact, the only other X-film to have an eight-figure rather than a nine-figure budget was X-Men in 2000, and...
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Space Battles, Secrets, Refugees, and Dying Suns: The Vela
The Vela is the latest in Serial Box’s slate of speculative fiction offerings. This one’s space opera, with an approach to politics ever so slightly reminiscent of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse. Its...
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5 Books for the Fantasy Naturalist
Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve loved to be out in nature. Whether I’m hiking, sketching trees, observing frog spawn, or just relaxing to the sounds of birds and running water, it never fails to...
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Murderbot Will Return in…Network Effect. A Full Novel by Martha Wells.
Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries series of novellas has caught the world by storm! Not only is it a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, not only has it won a Hugo, a Nebula (and currently nominated...
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Why Anthropomorphic Animals Will Always Have a Place in Fantasy
With Netflix having recently premiered its new adaptation of Watership Down, now seems like a great time to look back and ask: while zombies, airships, and plenty of other fantasy staples go in and out...
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Congratulations to the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists
Lambda Literary has announced the finalists for the 31st annual Lambda Literary Awards, or “Lammys,” celebrating achievement in LGBTQ literature published in 2018. Chosen from nearly 1,000 submissions...
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Complicated Morality in Children of Blood and Bone, Chapters 31-41
The reread of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi continues with chapters 31-41 in which Amari is overcome with terror, Tzain is kidnapped by guerrilla fighters, Inan has a change of heart, and...
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Star Trek: Discovery’s Pike and Spock Relationship Perfectly Sets Up Kirk
The male duo of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock is famous; not only for being the most enduring on-screen bromance of all time, but also for birthing an entire subgenre of fan fiction. But Kirk…Kirk was not...
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Read “Seven”, a Story from Naomi Novik Featured in Unfettered III
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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Turning the World with Andre Norton’s Fur Magic
There’s been an uptick in blowback lately from commenters who take issue with my reading Andre Norton’s works with the eyes of 2019. They explain, with varying degrees of equanimity, that she wrote...
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Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cryoburn, Chapters 15-18
Last week, Miles questioned Lisa Sato and invited her to sit in on his interrogation of Dr. Leiber. Last week I also mentioned that I think Dr. Leiber is a creep. If one absolutely MUST be a creep, one...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Liking What You Become in Robert Jordan’s The...
This week in Reading the Wheel of Time, I have a lot of feelings about Perrin and wolves and the question of destiny in the Rand universe. A lot of these chapters are still reminding us of what we...
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How Do You Fight an 80-Foot Sand Dune?
Everybody knows deserts are dangerous. You’ve got your dehydration, which can kill you in less than two days. You’ve got your venomous animals—snakes, scorpions, spiders, lizards, and I’m sure I’m...
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Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 20 and 21
Hello, Tor.com! Welcome back to the once Read, now Reread of The Ruin of Kings! This blog series will be covering The Ruin of Kings, the first novel of a five-book series by Jenn Lyons. Previous...
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Make Way for Prince Ali in the Full Trailer for Aladdin!
The first substantial peek at Disney’s live remake of Aladdin seemed like it might be cause for alarm, particularly where the big blue form of Will Smith’s Genie came in. This trailer feels a bit more...
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