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Announcing Night of the Mannequins, a New Horror Novella from Stephen Graham...
Tor.com Publishing is proud to announce that consulting editor Ellen Datlow has acquired World English rights to Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones. The deal was negotiated by BJ Robbins...
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Read an Excerpt from The Library of the Unwritten
Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing—a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside. Her job consists mainly of repairing and...
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Jobs From Hell Would Be An Improvement: David Liss’s “The Doors that Never...
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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Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Eighty-Seven
Welcome back to the Reread! We were planning to do a big “the book so far” wrap-up post this week in addition to chapter Eighty-Seven, but… it was a little too big, so we’ll have an entire article next...
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Heinlein’s Juveniles vs. Andre Norton’s Young Adult Novels
About five years ago, I reviewed all of the Heinlein Scribner juveniles (plus the two associated novels). Immediately thereafter, I reviewed fifty Andre Norton novels. This was not a coincidence. It...
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Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Maedhros Maitimo, Foe of Morgoth and...
In this biweekly series, we’re exploring the evolution of both major and minor figures in Tolkien’s legendarium, tracing the transformations of these characters through drafts and early manuscripts...
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In Her Skin: Sealed by Naomi Booth
Climate change is no longer something that can be denied by anyone at all. In Naomi Booth’s sharp, savvy second novel Sealed, the world has become hotter, and there’s a strange new disease that seems...
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Peace: Wolfe’s Masterful Rumination on Nostalgia, Memory, and Uncertainty
If Gene Wolfe is oftentimes a writer hard to decipher, there is nothing unclear or equivocal about his allegiance to the genre. He is first and foremost a writer of science fiction and fantasy, and in...
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17 Factual and Fictional Stories About Space Exploration
The Space Race encapsulates both the best and the worst of aspects of U.S. history. On the one hand, there is humanity’s drive to learn and explore. All space programs have no choice but to celebrate...
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Tor.com’s Guide to Literary Panels at San Diego Comic Con 2019!
It’s almost time for the wonderfully chaotic weekend that is San Diego Comic Con! Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned pro, it’s always helpful to have a guide of sorts to help navigate the panel...
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George R. R. Martin Has a Theater Full of Signed SFF Books and They’re Up For...
Would you like to do George R. R. Martin a favor? As many of you know, Martin runs a fantastic independent movie theater, the Jean Cocteau Cinema, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Like all good movie theaters,...
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5 Unexpected Continuations of Beloved Stories
It’s always hard to believe the words “The End”, isn’t it? Seems like there should always be room for another sentence after that. A paragraph. A chapter. And then sometimes… there’s another book. A...
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Ranking the Very Best Dogs of Star Trek
The latest Star Trek series—the forthcoming Next Generation sequel, Star Trek: Picard—will boldly go where no Trek series has gone before by seemingly having a dog as a central cast member. As fans...
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Paper Girls Comic Series Picked Up by Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios has landed a TV series adaptation of Paper Girls, the comic by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Cliff Chiang, as reported by Deadline. The ongoing series follows four girls who, while...
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“Get off my plains!”— Cowboys & Aliens
Platinum Studios released Cowboys & Aliens in 2006. The storyline, conceived by Platinum’s Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, had been in development since 1997, both as a graphic novel and as a film....
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Is Godzilla Technically a Dragon? The Discourse Unfolds on Twitter
Tor Books’ blog is currently wrapping up a stirring and fiery Dragon Week and, after publishing a Top 5 Deadliest Dragons article, Tor took to Twitter to ask the essential question: Which is the...
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War, Betrayal, and Dark Secrets in This Summer’s Upcoming Young Adult...
With the MASSIVE amount of amazing YA science fiction, fantasy, and horror dropping in July, August, and September, I might as well give up on trying to get my TBR queue under control. We’ve got...
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Great Lost Civilizations of Science Fiction and Fantasy
As previously discussed, it’s possible to do such a thorough job of destroying a civilization that all knowledge of it is lost…at least until inexplicable relics start to turn up. One example: the real...
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The Tao of Sir Terry: Pratchett and Political Philosophy
“It wasn’t that the city was lawless. It had plenty of laws. It just didn’t offer many opportunities not to break them.” —Night Watch (2002) In the Discworld series, Ankh-Morpork is the Ur-city, of...
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The First Trailer for The King’s Man Is Here
Buckle up, kiddos, because The King’s Man is about to take you on a wild ride through history. The first trailer for the Kingsman prequel is here, and it largely consists of Ralph Fiennes narrating the...
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