“Everything You See, You May Be Seeing For The Last Time”: Warm Bodies
For an unconventional love story set during the zombie apocalypse, Warm Bodies is frustratingly straightforward. Isaac Marion’s novel is inventive, to be sure. (Tor.com recommended it as one of 15...
View ArticleMalazan Re-read of the Fallen: Return of the Crimson Guard, Book Two, Chapter...
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,...
View ArticleA Memory of Light Tour Report Open Thread
The tour for A Memory of Light begins in earnest in February, so we’re starting up an open thread for fans to post tour reports! (Here’s the full A Memory of Light tour date list.)If you can’t be there...
View ArticleA Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 16
Welcome to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 16 of A Storm of...
View ArticleGaming Roundup: One Nation Over God
The impending release of BioShock: Infinite has developer Irrational Games slowly lifting the veil on game details and information, the latest of which is a sitdown with IGN to discuss the major themes...
View ArticleThe Science of Future Past: Part 5
In today’s installment of Science of Future Past, we finish up with part four of Asimov’s Foundation:The Traders.As we discussed a couple of weeks back, The Traders, tells the story of a space-faring...
View ArticleTour Dates and Locations for Cory Doctorow’s Homeland
Homeland, the sequel to Cory Doctorow's wildly successful near-future dystopia Little Brother, will be released on February 5th, and you can catch Doctorow on tour! Information about his signings and...
View ArticleCongrats to Tor Authors Included in Locus’s 2012 Recommended Reading List!
Locus Magazine has just released their annual Recommended Reading List, looking back at science fiction and fantasy published in the previous year. We’re happy to report it features several authors of...
View ArticleHomemade Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer is Low Budget Awesomeness
From Dust Films Originals; this shot-for-shot recreation of the latest Star Trek Into Darkness trailer is hysterical primarily for its accuracy, but also for the human-voice created BRAAM horns towards...
View ArticleA Jump To the Left: Impulse by Steven Gould
HELP!BEING HELD PRISONER BY TELEPORTING ALIENS!KEPT FROM NORMAL LIFE.SEND FRIENDS.ALSO ICE CREAM.Cent’s not your everyday average teenage girl. For one thing, she doesn’t officially exist. She’s lived...
View ArticleFiction Affliction: February Releases in Paranormal Romance
The paranormal populace is getting steamy in February with fifteen new releases in paranormal romance. New additions are coming in long-running series from Terry Spear (Heart of the Wolf 10), Lara...
View ArticleStar Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Inheritance”
“Inheritance”Written by Dan Koeppel and Rene EchevarriaDirected by Robert ScheererSeason 7, Episode 10Production episode 40276-262Original air date: November 22, 1993Stardate: 47410.2Captain’s log: The...
View ArticleShould Groundhog Day Become a Holiday That Celebrates Time Travel?
Groundhog Day has always been an odd little day. If the name of the day itself doesn’t make this apparent, imagine explaining it to someone from a foreign country, or an alien. (“It’s, um, this day...
View ArticleStar Trek Into Darkness Super Bowl Trailer
“I AM BETTER...at everything.” The latest, Super-Bowliest, trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness has arrived! Take a look.[Star Trek Into Darkness Super Bowl trailer]Read the full article
View ArticleExtended Iron Man 3 Trailer
While the Ravens and 49ers battle it out in the Super Bowl, Robert Downey Jr. is saving lives and being as awesome as ever in thisIron Man 3 trailer.[Iron Man 3 extended trailer and screen shots.]Read...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Dirty Harry Potter Goes Ahead and Makes Your Day
Maybe after the last Harry Potter book, HP becomes a crazy vigilante who takes down Muggle-world criminals. He also starts to look like Clint Eastwood and even says spells like “petrificus totalus” in...
View ArticlePaintwork
Enjoy this reprint of the title story from Tim Maughan’s short story collection Paintwork, a collection which also contains the BSFA Award nominated “Havana Augmented.” His collection comes highly...
View ArticleBest Served Cold: Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
Consume them independently at your own peril, but taken together, the eleven dark tales contained in Revenge by Yoko Ogawa make for a single, delectable dish. One best served cold, of course.Behold the...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Movie Trailer Roundup!
This year’s Super Bowl featured—in between some grotesquely sloppy football, a not-bad-at-all halftime performance by Beyoncé, and an extended (rather funny) power outage in the middle of the third...
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