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Don’t Touch That Dial: Sitcoms
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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Morning Roundup: Grand Moff Tarkin Loves Luke Skywalker
If you’re evil and you have an evil twin, what does that look like? We think it looks something like this. In a bizzaro universe, Grand Moff Tarkin is a nice person who bakes cookies for his friends,...
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How to Make a Triffid
Tor.com is proud to present the very first published work by Kelly Lagor, the original short story “How to Make a Triffid,” a chilling tale of science, science fiction, and how we break. (And even more...
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Full Trailer for Oz: The Great and Powerful
Behold the new full-length trailer for Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful, in which monkeys fly, good witches wear leather pants, and James Franco is charged with saving the citizens of Oz from the...
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If Game of Thrones Was Done As An Eric Carle Picture Book
Remember reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle? It was pretty awesome. Carle had a way with illustration that has captured generations of children, so when we saw the book...
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The Contemporary Appeal of CW’s New Arrow
It was only a matter of time before DC’s beloved Batman-meets-Robin-Hood franchise made its way to the long list of contemporary film remakes; comic book movies and television are all the rage, after...
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American Gods Reread: Chapters 19, 20 and Postscript
Welcome to the ninth installment of our ongoing American Gods Reread, a rambling literary road trip through Neil Gaiman’s Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning novel (soon to be an HBO series). Each...
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American Gods Mix Tape: Chapters 19, 20 and Postscript
As a side project to our American Gods Reread, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at all the various songs quoted and referenced throughout the novel. Every epic adventure deserves an...
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Terry Pratchett Reveals He Will Hand Off Discworld to His Daughter
Fantasy fans have been quite nervous since 2007, when Sir Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Pratchett is still active as ever, of course, but the question stood for some time—who will...
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Varian Jeggare and Radovan Virholt Are the New Fafhrd and Gray Mouser:...
Count Varian Jeggare and his bodyguard Radovan Virholt are deserved inheritors of the “buddy adventurers” mantle. They belong squarely in the company of Fafhrd and Gray Mouser as heroes par excellence,...
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What We Don’t Know Now: Roadtripping Across Saucer Country with Paul Cornell
The bleak days of autumn are a time for both the wandering spirits of Halloween and related holidays, and the free-floating anxieties of election season. This vanishing-point of thrill and dread...
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Farscape Rewatch: “Look At The Princess II: I Do, I Think”
Look At The Princess II: I Do, I ThinkWritten by David Kemper, directed by Andrew Prowse and Tony TilseSeason 2, Episode 121st US Transmission Date: 28 July 20001st UK Transmission Date: 18 September...
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Five Favorite Casual Games
I’m not a hardcore gamer. I’m not anywhere near Theresa and Pritpaul. I mean, I play video games. I have for a while. I have fond memories of Mega Man 2 for the NES…and by “memories” I mean “from last...
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Death’s Apprentice Sweepstakes!
You've read the excerpt, but eough with the waiting, you need a copy of Death's Apprentice by K. W. Jeter NOW. It just so happens that we've got 25 copies ready and waiting to be shipped out for 25...
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The One Time You Want To Hear Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone
A village on the Devil’s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of...
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Underwater Wonder: Katya’s World by Jonathan L. Howard
Having cut his comedic teeth writing the Broken Sword series of point and click puzzle games, and honed them to a sharp point through three novels starring Johannes Cabal, the renowned necromancer and...
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Morning Roundup: Matt Smith Rocks a Waistcoat
There was seriously a huge debate in the Tor.com rocket ship about the correct way to pronounce “waistcoat.” It turns out we're all right. And Matt Smith is losing the tweed for a bit on Doctor Who!...
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The Great Stephen King Re-read: Night Shift
No one wanted to publish a Stephen King short story collection, but when The Shining became his first hardcover best-seller right after Carrie hit it big at the box office his career kicked into...
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Superman vs. the Myth of Aristocracy
Stop me if you’ve heard this one.A child is born under the threat of immediate death. Desperate to save the boy’s life, his parents place him in a basket and abandon him to the wilderness. A kind...
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Reopening The X-Files: “S.R. 819”
Season 6, Episode 9: “S.R. 819”Original Airdate: January 17, 1999People don’t die so much on The X-Files. I mean, people die on The X-Files all the time, and if you’re an informant you’ve really got to...
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