The Dresden Files Reread: Book 4, Summer Knight
As promised, the latest book in the reread, Summer Knight, is the best in the series so far. While we’ve seen faeries in the Dresden Files before (Toot Toot and Lea, for example), Summer Knight delves...
View ArticleSci-Fi/Fantasy eBooks Only $2.99 This Week
It’s Cyber Monday and both Tor Books and St. Martin’s Press are pleased to announce a special $2.99 ebook promotion for the following awesome titles. These titles range from hard sci-fi to magical...
View ArticleThe Great Alan Moore Reread: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Part One
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve monthsmore 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 provide...
View ArticleJack Frost is Your New Hero: Rise of the Guardians
Though the quirky conceit of fairytale characters/folk heroes suddenly being presented as badasses is fairly tired at this point, it persists nonetheless. From whatever number Shrek movie they’re on...
View ArticleFiction Affliction: December Releases in Fantasy
There are thirteen new fantasies to put on your holiday wish list this month, with a new anthology in Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental Masters world, a new Jody Lynn Nye volume in the late Robert Asprin’s...
View ArticleAnnouncing the A Memory of Light Tour
We are very excited to reveal the upcoming tour schedule for the highly anticipated final book in the Wheel of Time saga: A Memory of Light. Author Brandon Sanderson will kick things off with a...
View ArticleBe a Memory Keeper on the Tour for A Memory of Light
Interested in getting a little behind-the-scenes on the signing tour for A Memory of Light? Apply to join the Memory Keepers! Fans will be recruited at each tour stop to help out with the tour and...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Don Cheadle’s Captain Planet is Crazier than Ever
The power is his...again. And it looks like Don Cheadle’s Captain Planet videos on Funny or Die have become a series. We’re not sure what to make of this one. The first installment was a hysterical...
View ArticleThe Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Jim Butcher
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a recurring series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors! This week we’re joined by bestselling...
View ArticleStar Trek Into Darkness Plot Synopsis Reveals Big Trouble for Starfleet
Below the is the first official plot synopsis for next summer's Star Trek Into Darkness. This could definitely be considered a little spoilery, so read at your in risk! With the first 9-minutes set to...
View ArticleSleeps With Monsters: “Claymore”
I know nothing about anime, except that the animation style can usually be relied upon to—at best—distract me, and at worst annoy the hell out of me.There’s a whole digression that could be had here...
View ArticleOne of the Best Books in the Series: Jim Butcher’s Cold Days
Today is the release day for Cold Days, the fourteenth book in Jim Butcher’s bestselling Dresden Files series! Cold Days picks up right where the previous book, Ghost Story, left off, with Harry trying...
View ArticleeDiscover... Newton’s Wake by Ken MacLeod
eDiscover is a new series on Tor.com that highlights sci-fi/fantasy titles recently brought back into print as ebooks.Ken MacLeod is an author I’ve always wanted to get to know better. I’m a big fan of...
View ArticleJoseph Gordon-Levitt: Justice League’s Batman?
Though this is very much a rumor, Hit Flix is reporting “sources” claim Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Batman in Warner Bros. upcoming Justice League film. Presumably this will tie in the continuity...
View ArticleThe Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 28
Happy Month of Shopping Frenzy, WOTerians! If you buy this Wheel of Time Re-read post, you get the next one at half off.WHAT A DEAL AMIRITEToday’s entry covers Chapter 53-55 of Towers of Midnight, in...
View ArticleIf I Ruled the Multiverse!
Imagine Mike Mearls has given you the job of coming up with the #dndnext cosmology. What would you keep from prior editions and what would you bin?That is the question Rich Green—author of the Midgard...
View ArticleVote In Locus Magazine’s All-Centuries Poll!
From Locus Online: Locus Online is hosting, during the month of November 2012, a poll for the best novels and short fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries, the first such poll Locus has conducted since...
View ArticleBryan Singer Confirms: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, McAvoy & Fassbender All...
In what is possibly the coolest casting news we’ve had in ages, Bryan Singer tweeted today that Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, and James McAvoy are all CONFIRMED to appear in X-Men:...
View ArticleStar Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “The Chase”
“The Chase”Written by Ronald D. Moore & Joe MenoskyDirected by Jonathan FrakesSeason 6, Episode 20Production episode 40276-246Original air date: April 26, 1993Stardate: 46731.5Captain’s Log: The...
View ArticleFive Questions With Cherie Priest
This month saw the U.S. release of The Inexplicables, the latest in Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century series, out in the U.K. on Valentine’s Day 2013. High time we caught up with the Queen of Steampunk...
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