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The Great Stephen King Reread: Carrie
People praising Stephen King sometimes chalk his popularity up to the way he tells a story. They say that he’s all about the plot, driving it ahead like a runaway train, keeping his readers hooked on...
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Same Old Beauty, Same Old Beast: Beauty and the Beast
Beauty & the Beast premiered last Thursday at 9/8c. in traditional CW style – with high doses of melodrama and just enough viewers to keep it alive for the rest of the season. The first five...
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Reopening The X-Files: “The Beginning”
Season 6, Episode 1: “The Beginning”Original Airdate: November 8, 1998The strangest thing about “The Beginning” is how much it cares about “The End.” After the bright, broad bombast of Fight the...
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8 Highlights From Doctor Who’s Peter Davison at NYCC
Peter Davison was at New York Comic Con this year, and there were plenty of fans scrambling to get into the room with him. The reason why became apparent in seconds: Davison is a con veteran, the sort...
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Rothfuss Re-read Speculative Summary 15: Stick by the Maer
My obsessively detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles is over, but the speculation goes on. I’m going to post the occasional speculative summary of cool things posted since last...
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Do You Have a Cold—Or the Flu?
There's a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away the tissue. But such simple measures won't stop this flu. Because when...
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The Emperor’s Soul (Excerpt)
Enjoy this excerpt from Brandon Sanderson’s novella The Emperor’s Soul, out now from Tachyon Publications.When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must...
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When Magic Is a Bit of a Letdown: Magic or Not?
Edward Eager’s fifth novel in his Magic series, Magic or Not, is his take, more or less, on Edith Nesbit’s The Wonderful Garden, that children’s book where neither readers nor characters could be...
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It’s All Neville, All The Time on Revolution: “Soul Train”
It’s been five weeks since NBC introduced us to the post-apoc blackout drama Revolution and – dare I say it? Has the show finally hit its stride? This week our storylines collide, as our intrepid...
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George Lucas’s Mom Was Yoda? Michael Kupperman’s Talkin’ Bout Star Wars
Over at the Huffington Post comic illustrator and writer Michael Kupperman (Tales to Thrizzle, Mark Twain 1910-2010, the Lemony Snicket series) is talkin’ bout Star Wars on account this year being its...
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Morning Roundup: Ivan Reitman Will Do Ghostbusters 3 Without Bill Murray
The notion of a Ghostbusters 3 without Bill Murray is in two words “mass hysteria.” But the latest of the rumors haunting the morning links is just that. Original director Ivan Reitman might be going...
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Finally a Chinese Steampunk Movie that Unquestionably Is Exactly That: Tai...
Okay, for those who know me, I’m very into non-western steampunk. And I enjoy kung fu comedies. A good steampunk film isn’t just pretty-looking with quirky tech, but addresses shifting social and...
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What it Would Be Like if H. P. Lovecraft Wrote Fantastic Four
Funnybook writer Mike Sterling recently wondered what it would be like if H.P. Lovecraft had written the Fantastic Four. (Which would, of course, actually be called “The Phantasmagorical Four.”) He...
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Welcome Ellen Datlow, New Consulting Fiction Editor for Tor.com
Since 2008, Tor.com has been a leading market for science fiction and fantasy short fiction. Several of our stories have been Hugo and Nebula finalists, Charlie Jane Anders’ “Six Months, Three Days”...
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What Comics Are Truly About: Cooking, Theatre, and Cardboard
Everyone complains that today’s Hollywood-heavy comic conventions aren’t for comics fans anymore. But for me it’s just a question of how far they are from comics – and how far into other worlds comics...
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The Justice League Will Arrive in Theaters in 2015
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Warner Bros. has officially scheduled a Justice League movie for summer of 2015, where it will go head to head against Avengers 2.While huge Marvel and DC comic...
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The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Madeline Ashby
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a new series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors! We’ve asked each author to choose 5-10 talking...
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Neil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket and More Read Coraline to You
HarperCollins has just unveiled a new video series where authors, friends of Neil Gaiman, and more, each read one chapter from Neil Gaiman’s book Coraline. The series begins this week with Chapter One...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 5
Welcome to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 5 of A Storm of...
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Gaming Roundup: “An Ancient Evil Awakens” as Halo 4 Goes Hollywood
Last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon brought about the debut of a new, Hollywood-powered Halo 4 trailer. Produced by David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)...
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