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Ancillary Justice meets Annihilation: Announcing Leech, the Debut Novel From...
We’re thrilled to announce Leech, the surreal and horrifying debut from author Hiron Ennes—arriving Fall 2022 with Tordotcom Publishing. Leech combines parasitic body horror with gothic family drama in...
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Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020 Is Out Now!
The 2020 edition of Some of the Best From Tor.com is out today! This anthology features twenty-four of our favorite original stories published on the site in the past year. Of course, you can always...
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Five SFF Characters You Want to Trust, but Probably Shouldn’t
Everyone loves a smart ass. Whether it’s Loki from Norse mythology or Deadpool and his wise-cracking girlfriend Vanessa, tricksters are an important archetype. In novels, they lend a sense of...
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The UK’s Royal Mint Commemorative H.G. Wells Coin Has Two Big Flaws
Britain’s Royal Mint just released its set of 2021 commemorative coins, honoring the likes of Sir Walter Scott, television pioneer John Logie Baird, decimal day, Her Majesty The Queen’s 95th birthday,...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Warnings, Wards, and Power-Wrought Blades in...
Hello and welcome back to Reading The Wheel of Time. It feels like it’s been an Age, doesn’t it? I hope the new year finds all of you at least a little bit more rested and rejuvenated; I myself am...
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I Loved These Books as a Teen — Do They Hold Up as an Adult?
I recently found myself combing through some boxes of old books and papers and came across a fascinating personal artifact. On the surface it’s a pretty unremarkable object, just a crumbling...
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His Dark Materials Season 2: What Worked and What Needs to Change
Forever ago, in the forlorn wilds of late 2020, I wrote about the twinge of hope I felt that, despite being filmed concurrently, the second season of His Dark Materials would improve upon the failings...
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Read an Excerpt From Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger
Fire burns bright and has a long memory…. We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Fireheart Tiger, a romantic fantasy from Aliette de Bodard—available February 9th from Tordotcom Publishing. Fire burns...
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SF Books That Did Not Belong in the Childrens’ Section of the Library
Back when I was young, SF was a comparatively obscure genre. Many librarians assumed that it was all kid stuff, and filed it as such. Consequence: I was allowed to check out and read books that would...
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Let All the Children Boogie
As the Cold War stalls and the threat of nuclear warfare dominates the news, small-town misfits Laurie and Fell bond over a shared love of music and the mystery of the erratic radio messages that hint...
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Five Recent Books Featuring Superpowered Characters
Extreme strength. Super speed. Telepathy. These types of powers and more tend conjure up images of superheroes—and typically, superheroes are the realm of comics, TV shows, and movies. In books? Not as...
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Korean’s Sci-Fi Film Space Sweepers Will Debut in February on Netflix
Last August, Korea’s Bidangil Pictures and Dexter Studios released a trailer for its forthcoming science fiction blockbuster, Space Sweepers—a kinetic-looking, CGI-loaded film about a group of...
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The Magician’s Nephew: The Creation of Narnia and the Coming of Evil
The last time I read The Magician’s Nephew was thirty years ago. Before I sat down to read, I tried to bring to mind all the things I could remember, and I was surprised by how many there were: Aslan...
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Five Books by Authors We Lost in 2020
It is a regrettable fact that authors are mortal. This year has seen at least sixty SFF-related authors, artists, and editors die, some of natural causes, some due to the ongoing pandemic. Here are...
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Angry Robot to Publish Tim Pratt’s Kickstarted Collection, The Alien Stars...
Last year, Tim Pratt launched a Kickstarter for a new book, one set in the same world as his Axiom (The Wrong Stars, The Dreaming Stars, and The Forbidden Stars) trilogy: The Alien Stars: and Other...
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Netflix Drops Action-Packed Trailer for Anthony Mackie’s Outside the Wire
Netflix’s next big science fiction movie is set to debut next week: Outside the Wire, a military science fiction thriller starring Damson Idris as a soldier assigned to assist a classified military...
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Monsters Aren’t Afraid: The Expanse, “Tribes”
Usually I love nothing more than peeling apart the layers of Expanse episodes, separating the storylines and what they have to say, thinking about what the action means for the characters, how they’re...
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Solar Opposites Season 2 Drops on March 26th
Last year, Hulu debuted a new series from Rick & Morty creator Justin Roiland, Solar Opposites, about a family of aliens that crash-lands on Earth. The series is coming back for another season,...
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Stay Up Very, Very Late With the Trailer for The Night
“Don’t you want to go to a more crowded one?” is the first line of dialogue in the trailer for Kourosh Ahari’s hotel horror film The Night. Of course the answer should be yes! Do not stay in the creepy...
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Read an Excerpt From Samantha Shannon’s The Mask Falling
We’re excited to share an excerpt from Samantha Shannon’s The Mask Falling, the fourth novel set in the world of Scion—available January 26th from Bloomsbury. Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death...
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