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Seven Norse Myths We Wouldn’t Have Without Snorri: Part IV
Imagine you are a 40-year-old poet who wants to impress a 14-year-old king. You want to get him excited about Viking poetry—which happens to be your specialty—and land yourself the job of King’s Skald,...
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Spoiler Thread for the Memories of Light, Week Two
Welcome to the spoiler thread for the second of the Memories of Light, the daily preview of the final volume of Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light. Some memories may shed new...
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Second Trailer for Warm Bodies Has More John Malkovich Action
Summit Entertainment has released a second trailer for the impending zombie-romance Warm Bodies, and this one has slightly more John Malkovich action! New stills from the film have also surfaced,...
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Let’s Cast Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell!
Now that Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has been officially pegged for a BBC mini-series, it’s the most important time of all—the time where we all have to weigh in with our opinions about who out...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Slaying is Hard. Let’s Go Shopping!
Buffy and her friends are out in the graveyard, where vampirekind is having a party night: they’ve got numbers on their side, a snack in the larder, and the Slayer seems a little off her game. On the...
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The Dresden Files Reread: Book 5, Death Masks
Death Masks, the fifth book in the Dresden Files, opens up a new chapter in Harry’s life while revisiting some old chapters just to dig the knife in. The events of the first four books are starting to...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Part Two
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 provide...
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Green and Kalimpura Sweepstakes!
Jay Lake's Kalimpura won't hits shelves until January, but we've got a special sneak peek for you—10 ARC copies to give away, and a bonus on top of it! Find out where the story began with Green, the...
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The Rise of Ransom City (Excerpt)
Check out this excerpt from The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman, out now:This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name it’s most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of...
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Move Over James Franco! New Harry Osborn is Dane DeHaan
Star of the film Chronicle—Dane DeHaan—has just been confirmed by Marc Webb as the new Harry Osborn in the sequel to last summer’s The Amazing Spider-Man, first as a friend to Peter (we’re assuming)...
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New Man of Steel Poster
You have the right to remain super!In a scene taken from the brief Man of Steel trailer, the new poster for Zach Synder’s highly anticipated Superman reboot shows the Last Son of Krypton in handcuffs...
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Morning Roundup: They Ain’t Afraid of No (Pac Man) Ghost
Can’t you just hear the the Pac Man sound effect in concert with the pop-hiss of the proton streams? And what about the sound of Ecto-1’s siren? And the roar that Godzilla makes. And. And. And.Sorry...
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The Krampus is Coming to Town. Brom’s Krampus: The Yule Lord
He sees you when you’re sleeping. The Krampus that is. You all know who the Krampus is, right? That diabolical figure covered in black fur, with horns like a goat, cloven hooves and a long red tongue?...
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Sleeps With Monsters: R.M. Meluch’s Tour of the Merrimack Series
Today, we’re continuing our focus on female writers of science fiction space opera (or at least, my interpretation of this category) with a look at the most recent works of R.M. Meluch: her Tour of the...
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Goodbye, Karen Berger, Please Don’t Go
I first met Karen Berger at one of the early MoCCA Festivals, back when it was still in the Puck Building, but I didn’t really have a conversation with her until the following summer, at the massive...
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Bilbo Baggins Wants to be Left Alone in Latest Hobbit Clip
The latest Hobbit clip reminds us (as if we needed reminding) of the great comic talent of Martin Freeman. Is anyone home? Bilbo claims there’s not! This movies is shaping up to be way funnier than the...
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The Complex Mathematical Formula Behind Twilight’s Success
Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (of ∞) continues to rampage as the number one movie in America, and while the success of the movies and books comes as no surprise, no one has addressed the most...
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Alternate Timelines: What if Spielberg Directed Bond and Never Made Indiana...
When it comes to blockbuster films featuring action hero protagonists, the collective consciousness seems to have adopted a “if you can’t beat them, join them” attitude. James Bond is back this year,...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 29
Make a wish and yell my name incomprehensibly into a rainstorm, WOT guys and gals, because it’s a Wheel of Time Re-read!Today’s entry covers Chapter 56 through the end of Towers of Midnight, in which...
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The Colbert Report’s New York City as Middle-earth Map
It’s Hobbit Week over on The Colbert Report and while Stephen Colbert interviewing Ian McKellan, Peter Jackson, and more is all very, very awesome, what really tickled us was this map of New York City...
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