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“As You Wish...” Eight Unabashedly Romantic SF/F Love Stories
Though we know in our heart of hearts that the true meaning of Valentine’s Day is all about brutal martyrdom, it’s a little disheartening that the common reaction to the holiday is often kind of...
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The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 12, “Inside Information”
Welcome back to the chapter-by-chapter reread of The Hobbit. You can find past posts at the reread index, or you can catch up with our previous reread of The Lord of the Rings. As always, the...
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Live-Action Wreck-It Ralph Will Make You Cycle Through All The Movie’s Feels...
I didn’t think Wreck-It Ralph could get any better, but then I saw this stunning live-action short and fell in love all over again. For the 2013 Virgin Radio Fake Film Festival, YouTube sketch group...
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Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 19: Each Woman Is Like An Instrument
My obsessively detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles is over, but the speculation goes on. I’m going to post the occasional speculative summary of cool things posted since last...
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Give Your Sweetie a Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Valentine
This Valentine’s Day, I urge you to remember the various and lovable members of Rogue Squadron who gave their lives to free the galaxy (not this one, another one) from oppression by giving Rogue...
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Nathan Fillion is Taking Valentine Requests
Whereas other celebrities will probably spend Valentine’s Day posting obnoxious twitpics of the opulent presents their equally famous significant others bestow upon them, Nathan Fillion is giving back...
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Transformation and Death: The Witches
“I don’t mind at all,” I said. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.”After the tragic death of his parents in a car accident when he is only seven, the...
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Gaming Roundup: In Space, No One Can Hear You Suck
Aliens: Colonial Marines launched earlier this week, and early reviews are... well... not good. Despite the early promise the game showed when we previewed it at PAX a few years ago—a few of the cool...
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Mending the Moon (Excerpt)
We’ve got an excerpt from Susan Palwick’s Mending the Moon, out on May 14!:Melinda Soto, aged sixty-four, vacationing in Mexico, is murdered by a fellow American tourist.Back in her hometown of Reno,...
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Blood and Bone Sweepstakes!
Now that you have had a chance to take a look at the excerpt, why not continue the read? We have 10 copies of upcoming Malazan tome Blood and Bone by Ian C. Esslemont, and they are longing to make a...
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Seven Science Fiction/Fantasy Martyrs Who Give Saint Valentine a Run for His...
In many ways the conception of Valentine’s Day feels a bit like a science fiction thing, or at the very least, an urban legend. Unlike Saint Patrick, who totally, for real, drove snakes out of Ireland...
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Morning Roundup: Voldemort’s Heart Will Go On
What’s the key to unlocking the riddle of Voldemort’s sweet heart? Celine Dion. The dark lord cannot get enough of Celine Dion and is partially responsible for bestowing upon her the the magical power...
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Dystopia and the Afterlife: Grand Canyon
There is a fascinating list of alternate history novels where the author imagines a world after the Nazis defeated Britain and won World War II. Robert Harris’s Fatherland is perhaps the most...
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Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for February
For over a decade, Barnes & Noble buyer Jim Killen has been a driving force behind Barnes & Noble’s science fiction and fantasy sections. Each month on Tor.com, Mr. Killen curates a list of...
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Meteorite Burns Up Over Russia
Unrelated to the asteroid 2012 DA14, which will pass near the moon today, a meteorite burned up over central Russia very early this morning, shattering windows, and producing an an extremely loud sonic...
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Constantine #1
After a landmark 300 issue run, Hellblazer came to an end this year. But John Constantine's adventures continue in DC Comics' new 52 title Constantine by Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes, with art by Renato...
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Malazan 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,...
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Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss Duel Through Book Signatures
Patrick Rothfuss posted recently posted a photo comparison on Facebook of dueling book inscriptions between him and fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. The battleground? Sanderson’s Way of Kings and...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 18
Welcome back 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 18 of A...
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Harrison Ford Will Play Han Solo Again. No One is Surprised
Coming from the often-correctLatino Review, Harrison Ford is rumored to definitely be coming back as Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode VII. This news claims to have been “triple checked,” but really,...
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