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Reading the Wheel of Time: The Rise of the Evil Bubbles in Robert Jordan’s...
Perrin and Faile find the halls of the Stone surprisingly busy with both off-duty Defenders as well as servants making their way to and fro. Perrin keeps his head down unless he is right in the light...
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You Wouldn’t Believe How Lonely You Get: Five Terrible Ways to Live Forever...
Science fiction and fantasy are full of horrible ways you can die, but the genre has also been pretty inventive in horrible ways to live forever. There’s something about the fantasy of never dying that...
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Mr. Robot Creator Sam Esmail Is Rebooting Battlestar Galactica
Looks like it’s Battlestar Galactica’s turn to go through the reboot machine—again. According to Deadline, this time, it will be helmed by none other than Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. NBC Universal,...
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Spock and the Myth of “Emotion Versus Logic”
Look, I’m just saying that Spock was wrong. Not about everything, of course. But about his developmental crux, the war going on betwixt his delightfully pointed ears. People love to talk about Spock’s...
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Tamsyn Muir on How She Got Her Lesbian Necromancer Novel Shaped Up and Other...
Tamsyn Muir’s epic-sci-fi-fantasy-necromantic-comedy debut, Gideon the Ninth, published last week. (From the writer herself: “Everyone agrees that Charles Stross put it best when he described it as...
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Grass Is Terrifying in the First Trailer for Netflix’s In the Tall Grass...
“Grass, but make it scary” may seem like a dubious set-up for a horror story, but the first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill’s novella actually makes the humble...
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Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 62 and 63
CAKE OR DEATH, Tor.com? Cake? Well, we’re OUT of cake! So instead, have a RROK Goddess of Death with your afternoon tea, won’t you? I thought you would! This blog series will be covering The Ruin of...
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Joe Abercrombie’s A Little Hatred: A Book at War With Its Past
What must it feel like to live in your own legend? This is one of the key themes of Joe Abercrombie’s books: characters swept up in their own narrative, sometimes willingly, more often not. The burden...
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Steel Crow Saga Sweepstakes!
Four destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in battle in Paul Krueger’s...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Is This the Book I Wanted to Read?
A difficulty haunts me, now, when I’m reviewing or otherwise critiquing books: am I judging the book I in fact read, or the one I wanted to read? Sometimes they’re the same thing. Often they’re not,...
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V.E. Schwab’s The Archived Book Series Being Adapted for The CW
A new team of ghost hunters are making their way to The CW Network. V. E. Schwab’s The Archived is currently being developed for the CW, according to Variety. The team behind Jane the Virgin, writer...
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Amazon Announces That its Middle-earth Series Will be Shot in New Zealand
New Zealand will once again be home to Middle-earth. Amazon announced that its upcoming series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium will begin production in Auckland “in the coming months.” The series...
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The Vetting
A suspenseful near-future story about what happens during the vetting process of a researcher from the Middle East, who is trying to enter the US to continue his studies, and the immigration lawyer...
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Five Fantasy Books Steeped in History
“If the purpose of science fiction is to ask questions about where humanity is going, what is the potential speculative purpose of fantasy?” is a hyper-specific question asked by perhaps no one but me,...
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There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one. https://t.co/5N8Q3P2e5G — Cary Elwes (@Cary_Elwes) September 18, 2019
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It’s the Night Monkey’s Turn to Shine in the Spider-Man: Far From Home...
It’s the Night Monkey’s world, and we’re all just living in it. Peter Parker’s hastily improvised Spider-Man-but-in-a-black-suit alter-ego is getting his own movie at last. Psych! It’s just the trailer...
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Revealing the Cover for Alina Boyden’s Stealing Thunder — Plus Read Chapter One!
We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for Alina Boyden’s Stealing Thunder, an immersive epic fantasy inspired by the Mughal Empire. Stealing Thunder publishes with Ace in May 2020—check out the full cover...
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A Quiet Hero’s Journey: Processing Trauma in Fantasy
In The Goblin Emperor an airship explodes, killing the emperor and his three eldest sons. We later learn that this was not an accident, but the work of assassins. Later still, we learn that those...
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Damon Lindelof Reveals Lots of Worldbuilding Details in New Watchmen Show
We, along with everyone else who has an HBO subscription, will be watching the Watchmen come October 20, and ahead of the series premiere, Damen Lindelof sat down with Entertainment Weekly for a...
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A Single Mom Raises a Superhero in the First Trailer for Raising Dion
It’s hard enough being a single mom, but when the child you’re raising is a burgeoning superhero with tons of reality-bending abilities, this comes with an entirely different set of challenges. That’s...
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