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A Fantasy of Chocolate: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The success of James and the Giant Peach encouraged Roald Dahl to write another children’s book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Filled with Dahl’s fury at multiple aspects of contemporary life...
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The Tricks of This Tale Work. Mark Z. Danielewski’s Marvelous The Fifty Year...
The Fifty Year Sword is a tale of Dungeons & Dragons high fantasy, filtered through a modern experimental novella. No wait, I’m not sure that’s it; here, let me try again: The Fifty Year Sword is a...
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Some of the Best From Tor.com 2012 is Out Now!
Our new ebook anthology: Some of the Best From Tor.com 2012 is out today! This features ten of our favorite original stories published on the site in the past year. All of these stories are now...
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Fiction Affliction: January Releases in Urban Fantasy
It’s a quiet month in paranormal land, with fifteen releases and only eight of those for adult readers. The good news? They’re a highly anticipated octet, led by Kim Harrison’s eleventh Hollows novel,...
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I Want To Roll You Up Into My Life: Katamari Damacy and Ander Monson’s The...
Katamari Damacy is, as many of the franchise’s followers might tell you, more than just a game. The premise—wherein the player rolls a sticky ball around the screen to collect all of Earth’s objects to...
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Morning Roundup: Marty, Why Is Everything So Heavy In a Galaxy Far, Far Away?
Actually titled “I Find Your Lack of Jiggawatts Disturbing,” this piece of art comes from Anton Marrast and it’s available for purchase in a variety of formats (tote bags too!) on Society 6. In the...
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Exploring Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: Episode 8, “Journeys in Space and Time”
The eighth episode of Cosmos, “Journeys in Space and Time,” returns to the style of earlier episodes with a specific topical focus: space and time (rather obviously). It’s an information-heavy...
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All Yesterdays: An Alternative Look at Dinosaurs
I touched on some of the issues of illustration in biology when I read Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu and Patrick Gries’ Evolution, and while that point is largely moot when it comes to everyone’s favorite...
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Will J.K. Rowling Write a Doctor Who Short Story?
Allons-y! Expelliarmus! A rumor is circulating that the magical J.K. Rowling will pen a piece of short fiction featuring our favorite Time Lord from Gallifrey. As reported recently, a series of eleven...
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Flowers for The Lawnmower Man
The first time I saw The Lawnmower Man was at my friend’s birthday party when I was about 10 years old. We were all pretty obsessed with the Super Nintendo video game inspired by the movie, and my...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Return of the Crimson Guard, Chapter Five,...
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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Rewatching for the First Time: The Ruling Class
The Ruling Class is one of those movies you hear of all your life without seeing, adding to its aura as something you can’t quite believe actually happened at all. A 1972 satire of British class-war...
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The Chosen Rodent: The Twyning by Terence Blacker
Riddle me this, readers: what sees you when you’re sleeping? What knows when you’re awake? What’s never more than six feet away, and sometimes carries plague?That’s right! I’m talking about rats. Dirty...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Liaisons”
“Liaisons”Written by Roger Eschbacher & Jaq Greenspon and Jeanne Carrigan Fauci & Lisa RichDirected by Cliff BoleSeason 7, Episode 2Production episode 40276-254Original air date: September 27,...
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Fiction Affliction: January Releases in Paranormal Romance
It’s a long, lonely month in the fins, fangs, and fur community, with only six new releases this month to keep you warm. But there’s still a variety of critters to love, from goblin warriors to master...
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Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “Dreams in Darkness” &“Eternal Youth”
“Dreams in Darkness”Written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-StevensDirected by Dick SebastEpisode #028Supervising Composer Shirley WalkerMusic Composed by Todd HayenAnimation Services by Studio Junio...
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Morning Roundup: Look Closely at These Star Wars Unicorns
Yes. Look closer. Sure, they are Star Wars unicorns, and they have lightsabers instead of horns (or horn lightsabers) but can you spot the other amazing thing about them? Do you see it? Yes? Good.Now...
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The Rithmatist (Excerpt)
Here's a special early excerpt from Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist, out on May 14 2013:You may wonder how a two-dimensional drawing could possibly be a threat. Here’s the answer: Wild Chalklings...
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The 19th Century Painting That Most Blockbuster Movie Posters Are Based On
Though I’ve been complaining lately about the stunning visual and thematic sameness of blockbuster films, I do like a lot of them. There’s no denying the emotionally effective manipulation of the...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wolves of the Calla, Part...
“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.”—Roland Deschain, of GileadWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series. Join me each week as I, Constant Reader, tackle the magnum opus of Stephen King’s...
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