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Don’t Cry Because it’s Over, Smile Because it Happened: Ari Aster’s Midsommar
To everything (turn, turn, turn) / There is a season (turn, turn, turn), The Byrds sang. If you listen closely, Ari Aster’s new horror film Midsommar says, you will hear the laughter behind a wrenching...
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The Wheel of Time on Amazon: 5 Answers About Rosamund Pike’s Moiraine
Some actors arrive already purely embodying their character, and for the crew of The Wheel of Time TV show, Rosamund Pike was clearly Moiraine Damodred. The Wheel of Time TV showrunner (that’s still so...
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When Even a Delightful Dragon Can’t Quite Cover Up the Misogyny: The White...
For the most part, Anne McCaffrey’s first few Pern books had focused on humans, not dragons. Indeed, the Harper Hall Trilogy (the side trilogy written for a young adult audience) had barely included...
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Neil Gaiman Says Season One of Sandman Will Follow “Preludes & Nocturnes, And...
Looks like there’s already a pretty solid plan in place for Netflix’s Sandman TV show! Since news broke that Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is finally coming to TV, thanks to a (reportedly) VERY expensive deal...
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Making Valdemar Work: Mercedes Lackey’s Eye Spy
Mercedes Lackey and I go way back. I started reading her Valdemar series when I was twelve and I kept on because I love it unconditionally. For those of you new to Lackey’s work, Valdemar has a very...
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The Spirit of the Century: Fritz Leiber’s “Smoke Ghost”
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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Quantum Leap Traveled into the Past to Give Us America’s Best Future
Given our current national political mood (I think “enraged and frothing” sums it up) I’ve spent the last few weeks thinking about what Quantum Leap had to say about America—and how the creators of...
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Happy Fourth of July from Tor.com!
Happy Fourth of July to everyone celebrating the holiday today, and for everyone else, Happy Thursday! Let’s get into the spirit with some classic, Muppet-style patriotism courtesy of Sam the Eagle:...
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: June 2019
June started off with a book promotion trip for Lent to Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, which was pretty reading intensive: long train rides, early nights in hotel rooms. Then I was home mostly revising...
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7 Lingering Questions We Have After Spider-Man: Far From Home
Spider-Man: Far From Home is the official closing of an era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And while the movie did tie up a few loose ends left over from Endgame, it predictably left us with just...
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Slide Rules and Nuclear Apocalypse
People often fear (or dislike, or get stressed out about) change—in culture, in fandom, in fiction, in science… and they like to make their displeasure known. For the record, I find complaining that...
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Almost Every SFF/Horror/Comic Book Adaptation in the Works!
Thanks to the landscape-shifting success of properties like Game of Thrones and Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, we’ve entered a golden age of sci-fi and fantasy being developed for film and television. It...
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Announcing a Debut Novel and Two New Novellas from P. Djèlí Clark
Tor.com Publishing is thrilled to announce that Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated and Alex Award and Locus Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark will return to the historical fantasy universe from “A Dead Djinn in...
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This Producer’s Cameo in Spider-Man: Far From Home Is Actually Part of a...
So, remember that scene in Iron Man when some poor, bald science lackey said that it was “impossible” to make a smaller Arc reactor, only to get yelled at by Obadiah Stane because Tony Stark was able...
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Star Trek: Picard — Ranking the 25 Most Likely Next Gen Cameos
For the first time since the nineties, two different Star Trek TV series will have new seasons in the same year. After the epic (and classic Enterprise-centric) season 2 finale of Star Trek: Discovery,...
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Maleficent Meets the Family in New Trailer for Mistress of Evil
While the first trailer for the Maleficent sequel showed a mysterious falling out between Aurora and her magical maternal figure, it looks as though their fight is destined to be a tad more… pedestrian...
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Through Doorways: Portal Fantasies as a Means of Queer Escape and Queer Hope
Before I looked for girls or boys, I was looking for doors first. It made sense, being born under a Nebraska sky that went on for miles: farm boy land. A dust bowl town was not a place for a queer...
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A Medievalist’s Guide to Godzilla & Friends
History hides the best monsters. Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the latest movie iteration starring the classic kaiju, which also re-introduces multiple enemies from Godzillas past, including Mothra...
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Can the Marvel Cinematic Universe Actually Support a Multiverse?
Multiverses are a known part of most comics canons that allow for experimentation with familiar characters, new settings, and multi-dimensional threats. And given how long the Marvel Cinematic Universe...
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5 Sweltering Southern Gothic Horror Novels for the Heat of Summer
There’s an element of tension in so much Southern Gothic that stems from America’s fraught history of slavery, violence, injustice, and class inequality. It hangs over the genre like the humidity...
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