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Footnotes, Ephemera, and Other Stories From the Margins
It’s an uncertain night in early November after the American election, and I find myself checking for footnotes. Yes, footnotes. I reach for footnotes, marginalia when things are uncertain. It’s a...
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The BBC Will Bring Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life to Life On the Small Screen
In Life After Life, Ursula Todd dies the night she’s born. But then she doesn’t. Kate Atkinson’s bestselling novel follows Ursula as she lives and dies repeatedly—a cinematic concept that will be...
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Netflix’s Disenchantment Returns in January
Bean, Luci, and Elfo will soon return to Netflix—the streaming service has released a new trailer for Matt Groenig’s epic fantasy series Disenchantment, and has revealed when the third season will...
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Venture Into the Garden With Kalynn Bayron’s This Poison Heart
We are thrilled to share the cover for This Poison Heart, a new novel from Kalynn Bayron that reimagines The Secret Garden with dark magic! This Poison Heart will be available on July 6, 2021 in the US...
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Netflix Will Send Emily Beecham Into the Scary Past in 1899
Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the creators of Dark, are heading into the past with their next series. Deadline reports that Emily Beecham—Into the Badlands‘ spectacular Widow—will star in 1899, a...
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Some of the Best Articles on Tor.com in 2020
At Tor.com, we’re extremely proud of our short fiction program and of course the output of excellent SFF titles from Tordotcom Publishing—but we also love our hundreds of stand-alone feature articles,...
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Watch Arkady Martine in Conversation With Amal El-Mohtar
Earlier this year, A Memory Called Empire author Arkady Martine appeared in conversation with Amal El-Mohtar, co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War, as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Now,...
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The Gang Isn’t All Back Together: Season 5 of The Expanse Finds the Rocinante...
The crew of the Rocinante have been through a lot, from the moderately mundane (exploding ships, interplanetary secrets, attempted murder) to the previously unimagined (a deadly hybrid, an alien...
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Why I Love “Uncool” Characters Like The Jungle Book’s Bagheera
When I was a kid (like a kid kid, under the age of ten), I had a very specific pet peeve regarding the entertainment that I consumed. It centered around the inevitable bashing of any character who...
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Pinkerton’s Detergent Vs. the Eternal Bloodstain: Oscar Wilde’s “The...
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we’re...
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Ted Chiang’s Story “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” to Be Adapted...
One of Ted Chiang’s longer stories might soon be headed for television, says Deadline. The Flight Attendant creator Steve Yockey has picked up the rights to adapt Chiang’s story “The Truth of Fact, The...
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Dawnshard Reread: Chapter 15 – Epilogue
Lyn: Well, my Cosmere chickens, we’ve reached the final installment of the Dawnshard reread, and boy do we have a lot to talk about! Sam: Hoo boy…. This week the chapters we’ll be talking about...
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History, Discovery, and the Quiet Heroics of Gardening
When people think of gardeners, many of them tend to picture little old ladies in straw hats with bright green gloves, pottering among the roses. When people think of gardeners who are also children’s...
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“There are no spoils from peace”— Star Trek: Discovery’s “Terra Firma, Part 2”
This past weekend, Star Trek novelist Dave Galanter, whose work included the Voyager novel Battle Lines, as well as the recent Discovery novel Dead Endless, lost his battle with cancer at the age of...
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We Only Have to Wait Four More Months for Shadow and Bone
At last, we have a release date for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone! Or at least a release month: the adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s books will make its epic debut in April. Netflix shared the news with an...
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Disney Will Bring Megan Whalen Turner’s The Thief to the Screen
Megan Whalen Turner’s award-winning novel The Thief is the latest adaptation on Disney’s plate. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the studio optioned the book for a live-action film to be written by...
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Adventure Rooted in Reality: Mars by Ben Bova
In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers,...
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The Only Right and Proper Way To Read The Chronicles of Narnia
As someone who has been known to start series smack in the middle—with both books and television shows—I tend to be a bit agnostic on the question of “what order should I read/watch these in?” With...
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M.K. England’s The Disasters Is Coming to The CW
It’s all adaptation news all the time this week: Deadline reports that M.K. England’s YA science fiction novel The Disasters is in development at The CW. And yes, of course Greg Berlanti is involved....
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Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Unforgettable”
“Unforgettable” Written by Greg Elliot & Michael Perricone Directed by Andrew J. Robinson Season 4, Episode 22 Production episode 190 Original air date: April 22, 1998 Stardate: 51813.4 Captain’s...
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