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Five SFF Books With Bad Old Men
The old man in science fiction and fantasy is multitudinous. He shows his age in ways physical and spiritual. He can be a wise old mentor or a forbidding elder. He can be a distant God or a loving...
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Read the First Chapter of The Unkindest Tide, a New October Daye Novel from...
Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people...
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Andy Serkis Will Direct the Venom Sequel
The Venom sequel has found its director! On Monday, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Andy Serkis will be overseeing Tom Hardy’s continued descent into gooey, tonguey symbiotic goodness. While...
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We Might Be Getting an Event Horizon TV Show
Sure, where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see, but you should probably hang on to yours anyway, because guess what: Event Horizon just might be coming to TV! Variety has reported that Amazon and...
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Hugo Spotlight: Rachel Hartman’s Tess of the Road
In the lead-up to the 2019 Hugo Awards, we’re taking time to appreciate this year’s novel and short fiction Finalists, and what makes each of them great. We know the language for the novels that shape...
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Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 54 and 55
Ghosts and Orwell and Willy Wonka refs, oh my! This RROK post has got it all, Tor.com. 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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Falling in Love at the Ends of the Universe: Five Shippable YA SFF Books
“I love you.” “I know.” Iconic words for an iconic couple who fell in love in a galaxy far, far away. Han Solo and Princess Leia are, as they say, goals. No matter what their ending, in that moment...
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Read an Excerpt from A.K. Larkwood’s The Unspoken Name
What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does—she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. But on the day of her foretold death,...
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More Real Than Him
The beginnings of a tentative friendship between two roboticists complicate over career envy, female beauty, and a stolen robot designed to resemble a famous Korean actor. He opens his eyes and is...
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Revealing The Empress of Salt and Fortune and Publishing in the Age of...
We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo’s debut fantasy, available March 24, 2020 from Tor.com Publishing! Check out the full design by Alyssa Winans below, and...
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Five SFF Novels in Translation
Earlier this year, I resolved to start reading more science fiction and fantasy written in non-English languages. There’s something unsettling about reading a novel in a different language–the writing...
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Carnival Row’s Full Trailer Gives a First Look at Its Supernatural Serial Killer
The full trailer for Carnival Row is here, and for the first time, we’re getting a closer look at the supernatural Jack the Ripper who’s stalking the characters. Previously, the trailers for Carnival...
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Will There Be Justice? Science Fiction and The Law
“Not to go on all fours. That is the Law. Are we not Men?” So says one of the most enigmatic characters of early science fiction—the Sayer of the Law, from H.G. Wells’s 1896 novel The Island of Dr....
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Hugo Spotlight: The Devastating Alternate History of Justina Ireland’s Dread...
In the lead-up to the 2019 Hugo Awards, we’re taking time to appreciate this year’s novel, young adult, and short fiction Finalists, and what makes each of them great. 2018 was a damn good year for...
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Children of Blood and Bone Will Now Be a Disney Movie
Big news for the upcoming movie adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s Hugo-nominated Children of Blood and Bone! Deadline has reported that the film has been picked up by Disney and found its new screenwriter...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Reread — Avatar, Book One
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. A rough cut of the Ira Steven Behr- and David Zappone-helmed commemorative documentary, What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star...
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Myke Cole and Michael Livingston Reveal Their All-Time Favorite Aliens
If you haven’t heard the news, military historians and Tor authors Myke Cole and Dr Michael Livingston are starring in Contact, a new show premiering Wednesday at 10pm on Discovery and Thursday at 9pm...
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A Queer Fairytale Reclamation, with Dragons: Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim...
It begins in the aftermath. Two young women, in love, in a nation conquered by a powerful emperor. The mountain nation of Ilvera dragonriders was subjugated a generation ago, encompassed by the rule of...
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“Your Fight is Over”, Until It’s Not: The 100 Breaks Its Own Rules About Death
By its third episode, The 100 telegraphed everything its viewers needed to know about its relationship to death. Wells Jaha had been set up as one of the ensemble’s protagonists: son of the Ark’s...
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It’s Not the Chosen One’s Job to Knock on Doors — The Last Lovecraft: Relic...
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...
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