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Announcing the 2012 World Fantasy Award Winners!
Congratulations to the winners and nominees of the 2012 World Fantasy Awards! The World Fantasy Awards have been given annually since 1975, to fantasy authors the world over, and are announced every...
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Morning Roundup: Sharknado is Not in Kansas Anymore
From the people who brought you Sharktopus comes Sharknado! The great thing about Sharknado is that even if you wanted to come up with this premise, you probably couldn’t. On some level Sharktopus was...
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Monster of the Week: Dr. Freudstein
The annals of mad science are full of great men who selflessly put their bodies and minds on the alter of scientific research.They cut corners.They employed questionable logic in the pursuit of their...
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Wreck-It Ralph is the Best Pixar Movie That Never Was
I wasn’t expecting much from Wreck-It Ralph. Although I adore the Scott Pilgrim movie and grew up playing the very same video games that Ralph lampoons, there didn’t seem to be much else to the movie....
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wizard and Glass, Part 4,...
“Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin.”—Blaine the Mono, to Roland and the Ka-Tet, at the end of The Waste LandsWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series....
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The Walking Dead, S3 E4: “Killer Within”
Just when I thought this was going to be a dull episode....And a good chunk of it was. Honestly, I can’t decide if I liked this episode or not. On one hand, the whole Woodbury nonsense is just last...
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I, On The Other Hand, Do NOT Love My Power Glove: The Wizard
Calling The Wizard nothing more than a 100-minute commercial for Nintendo would only be partially accurate. It’s a 100-minute commercial for lots of other things, too. The way in which it goes about...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Where the Giles Things Are
Despite the almost overwhelming odds against her survival, Buffy has turned nineteen. Has it really been a year since Giles took her powers offline and helped the Watcher’s Council try to kill her? It...
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Announcing The Dresden Files Reread on Tor.com!
On November 27th, the fourteenth book of Jim Butcher's long-running urban fantasy series The Dresden Files, Cold Days, will be released. In honor of this, Tor.com is kicking off a reread of the whole...
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The Dresden Files Reread: Book 1, Storm Front
Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series is one of the most popular urban fantasy series around, currently coming in at 14 books with additional short stories, comic adaptations, and a short-lived television...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Top 10: The Forty-Niners
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will...
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Happy Birthday, Armin Shimerman!
We've been saving this one up for just the right occasion. Back in 1993 to promote the debut of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Regis and Kathy Lee had “Quark” on, sort of in character, as a very special...
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The Street Fighter Movie Could Have Been a Contender
Full disclosure: For most of my time as an impressionable gamer youth, Street Fighter II and the series following it was my jam. Can you blame me? SFII introduced the world to a new and promising genre...
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Remember, Remember the Fifth of November...
And for Guy Fawkes Day (or Bonfire Night, however you’d have it) we have the perfect buddy to oversee the festivities. Behold this cat. We cannot decide if Guy Fawkes Cat is hilarious or terrifying,...
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A Spellbinding Collection: Jonathan Oliver Makes Magic
“Genre fiction has had a long and complex relationship with magic,” begins anthologist Jonathan Oliver in the introduction to his excellent new collection of short stories, Magic.Horror fiction has...
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Check Your Facts With this Handy Hellboy Timeline
In anticipation of the forthcoming new Hellboy comic Hellboy in Hell, Dark Horse Comics has put together a handy infographic listing the top 10 most important moments in Hellboy’s long and...
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David Grove, 1940-2012
David Grove passed away last week after a long struggle with emphysema. He was an immensely accomplished illustrator since the 1970s, having worked for just about every book publisher, magazine, movie...
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Morning Roundup: Hogwarts Headmasters High Five!
At some point in the future of Hogwarts, this will happen. All these portraits will be positioned next to each other and Snape’s “life” will be really, really crappy. Can this guy catch a break? Even...
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Don’t Touch That Dial: Mysteries
Welcome back to “Don’t Touch That Dial,” a mini-series in which I, your friendly neighborhood television addict, will break down some of the shows screaming for your attention. Previously we delved...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Religious Revelation and Social Upheaval
Today I want to talk about Avalanche Soldier and Colony Fleet, Susan R. Matthews' two standalone novels. This is the penultimate Matthews post—after next week, we'll amble along to the next write—but I...
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