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Truth as Fiction: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
There was a moment toward the end of The Empress of Salt and Fortune where Chih learns the truth about the new empress when I realized just how supremely talented Nghi Vo is. I experienced that...
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Never a Mother: Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (Part 7)
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...
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Introducing the Rhythm of War Reread!
Welcome back to the Stormlight Archive ongoing reread project! We hope you had a thoroughly fantastic holiday season, and wish you all the very best in the coming year. Now that you’ve had a chance (we...
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“Wanting is not the same as doing”— Star Trek: Discovery’s “That Hope Is You,...
Okay, my favorite part of the the third-season finale of Discovery is the ending: the closing credits, which employs the closing-credits music from the original series. This probably would’ve been even...
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Alien Abduction Meets Military History and Adventure: Janissaries by Jerry...
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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Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: December 2020
So long 2020. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. 2020 may have been a trash fire of epic proportions, but at least the short speculative fiction was good. These ten science fiction, fantasy,...
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Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “One”
“One” Written by Jeri Taylor Directed by Kenneth Biller Season 4, Episode 25 Production episode 193 Original air date: May 13, 1998 Stardate: 51929.3 Captain’s log. Seven is on the holodeck, trying to...
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Looking for the Fun: A Conversation With Author Charles Yu
Charles Yu has been writing award-winning, genre-bending work for nearly twenty years now, including the short story collection Third Class Superhero and How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional...
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: December 2020
2020 is over, huzzah! December was yet another quiet month in lockdown. I read fifteen books. From All False Doctrine, Alice Degan (2014) This was recommended to me by a friend, and looked fascinating....
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A Lightly Annotated List of Number 22’s Mentors in Pixar’s Soul
One of the best aspects of Pixar’s Soul is a running gag about all the famous people who have tried to mentor the recalcitrant Number 22, voiced by Tina Fey. We meet a few of these figures via...
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Read an Excerpt From Stormbreak, Book 3 in the Seafire Trilogy
Caledonia Styx will risk everything—her heart, her crew, and even her life—to defeat Lir and take back the Bullet Seas once and for all… We’re excited to share an excerpt from Stormbreak, the epic...
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Dancing With Chaos! Announcing Self Portrait With Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka
Tordotcom Publishing is delighted to announce the acquisition of two books from debut novelist, Aimee Pokwatka. In Self-Portrait With Nothing we meet Pepper Rafferty. Abandoned as an infant on the...
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Five of the Best Books I Never Meant to Read
While but a callow youth, I subscribed to the Science Fiction Book Club. The club, wise in the ways of procrastination, would send each month’s selection of books to subscribers UNLESS the subscribers...
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Green Arrow & The Canaries Won’t Take Flight at the CW
It looks like superhero fans won’t be returning to Star City anytime soon. According to Deadline, Green Arrow and The Canaries won’t get a full series order for the CW. Given the amount of time spent...
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Loki Writer Will Pen Kevin Feige’s Star Wars Film
Last month, Lucasfilm announced a ton of new Star Wars projects that it was putting into development: a bunch of new streaming shows for Disney+, as well as a Rogue Squadron movie, to be directed by...
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Revealing Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell
A secret war against artificial intelligence and a future, unknowable foe; and a love that transcends death and time… We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell’s...
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The Umbrella Academy Introduces Its Seven New Siblings
The second season of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy ended not only with a dramatic confrontation (naturally), but with a game-changing reveal. (That kind of thing tends to happen when you’ve been messing...
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New Horror Book Imprint Nightfire Announces Its First Full Line-Up
Nightfire, the new horror imprint that joins Tor, Forge, Tor Teen & Starscape, and Tor.com Publishing as part of Tom Doherty Associates (TDA), is thrilled to announce its first full season of...
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Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Hope and Fear”
“Hope and Fear” Written by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky Directed by Winrich Kolbe Season 4, Episode 26 Production episode 194 Original air date: May 20, 1998 Stardate: 51978.2...
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7 Questions for Disney+’s Adaptation of Megan Whalen Turner’s The Thief
Before the holidays, fans of Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s Thief series got an early present: News that Disney would be developing her 1996 novel The Thief for its Disney+ streaming service. It’s...
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