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The Great Pastiche Game: Notable Non-Doyle Holmes Books
When I was 17 years old I obtained a copy of Nicolas Meyer’s The Seven-Percent Solution. I couldn’t have been more excited; a Star Trek writer/director taking on Holmes? Yes! And then I read the...
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Fiction Affliction: “Genre-Benders” for January
Among seventeen new “genre-benders” for January, dystopian and apocalyptic fiction continues to dominate the YA releases, including the third in Sophie Littlefield’s Aftertime series. Adult-fiction...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Little Green Men”
Season 2, Episode 1: “Little Green Men”Original Airdate: September 16, 1994Have you ever seen this show called The X-Files about two agents who used to work on something called the X-Files and now...
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Read a Chapter From George R. R. Martin’s The Winds of Winter
Yes, you read that right. We hope you’ve polished off A Dance With Dragons, because series author George R. R. Martin has just posted an excerpt from The Winds of Winter, the next book in the Song of...
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Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man’s Fear, Part 17: All the Stories in the World
Welcome to my no moon left unturned reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles. This week’s post covers chapters 86-93 of The Wise Man’s Fear but also contains extensive spoilers for the whole...
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The Adventure of The Devil’s Foot: Neil Gaiman and the Great Detective
The last time international treasure Neil Gaiman tangled with the classic canon coined by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he came away with a Hugo Award in 2004 for writing the year’s Best Short Story, and...
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Growing Up, or Not: The Moon By Night
In 1959, Madeleine L’Engle and her family took a camping trip across the United States. The trip proved remarkably beneficial to L’Engle’s writing career: not only did she conceive of A Wrinkle in Time...
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Fiction Affliction: January Releases in Urban Fantasy
Got all those holiday gift cards for books ready to go? Thirty new adult and YA urban fantasy books arrive in January just in time for those New Year’s reading resolutions.New series titles include...
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Moffat’s Women Christmas Special: Why Madge Pwns Abigail
There’s already a recap of this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special here at Tor, so I won’t go too much into what I thought about the episode as a whole. What I will say is that I loved it even more...
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Papercrafts! A Cute, Fun Geeky Gift (or, for Yourself)
If you’re still looking for a cool gift to give this season (or next) that’s also cheap, look no further: Cubeecraft is a free paper-craft website with an awesomely large selection of pop culture...
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Elementary, Dear Reader: The Best Sherlock Holmes “Ah-ha!” Moments
Essentially, a good Sherlock Holmes story is more like a brain teaser and less like a Miss Marple whodunit. But instead of the reader playing along with the puzzle or brain teaser, the only person who...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “A Matter of Perspective”
Due to Christmas there was no rewatch on Monday, and this one’s a bit late due to holiday cheer, but we should be back on track next week/next year with “Yesterday’s Enterprise” on Monday the 2nd and...
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Transformations and Discoveries: New SFF Anthology Heiresses of Russ Debuts
The inaugural installment of a series of books that will be collecting the best lesbian speculative fiction of the previous year, Heiresses of Russ 2011 is Lethe Press’s newest offering, a sister to...
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Fiction Affliction: January Releases in Paranormal Romance
The cold winds of January must mean it’s a good time to curl up with a good romantic novel filled with immortal warriors, shapely shapeshifters, and virile vampires. Thirty-three new paranormal...
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Holmes for the Holidays Closes the Case
We hope you enjoyed the brief holiday we spent with the world’s finest detective and the various characters and happenings inhabiting his world. Here at Tor.com, Holmes, Watson, Moriarty, Mrs. Hudson,...
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: “The End” and “The End”
The End: Two films with the same title, one about a scarecrow awaiting his end and the other about some characters discovering what comes after.(6:23 and 6:18 minutes, respectively)[Watch the films...
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Get Ready for the Last Year on Earth!
Take heed, Tor.com readers, this the final year on Earth! Possibly of Earth!2012 has always been a popular target date for those who do and do not joke of the end of the world. (Although why would you...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles The Waste Lands, “Jake:...
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,And the dry stone no sound of water.— From T.S. Eliot’s “The Wastelands”Welcome to A Read of the...
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The Prometheus Trailer is Really Trying to Get Us Thinking Alien
Stubby the Rocket commented on the new, official Prometheus trailer when it was released, and noted the typographical hearkening to the initial Alien trailer. Clearly, Tor.com weren’t the only ones who...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Captain Britain, Part 1
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide commentary on...
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