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A Good Day to Die Hard Is Exactly What You Think It Is. Here’s Proof
In the spirit of science fictional experimentation, I decided to write my initial review of A Good Day to Die Hard about two hours before seeing the film. I figured, why not? With a movie like this,...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Homeward”
“Homeward”Written by Spike Steingasser and Naren ShankarDirected by Alexander SingerSeason 7, Episode 13Production episode 40276-265Original air date: January 17, 1994Stardate: 47423.9Captain’s Log:...
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Scarlet Sweepstakes!
We’ve got 24 copies of Scarlet, sequel to Marissa Meyer’s Cinder! (If you're interested in more from the Lunar Chronicles universe, take a look at the Tor.com short story “Glitches”!) So get a move on...
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Slow-Burn Insurgency: Blood’s Pride by Evie Manieri
Blood’s Pride by Evie Manieri starts stronger than any first fantasy in recent memory, with the devastation of an entire civilisation, richly rendered from the perspective of an ill-fated fisherman who...
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Unremembered (Excerpt)
Check out this excerpt from Jessica Brody's Unremembered, out on March 5 from FSG:When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why...
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Convention Report: Gallifrey One 2013, Day One
Here’s the thing to remember about Gallifrey One: at its heart, it’s essentially a convention run for fans, by fans, with a certain “hey kids, let’s put on a show!” vibe that still hasn’t gone...
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Convention Report: Gallifrey One 2013, Day Two
My notes from Sylvester McCoy’s Q&A on Saturday are sparse to nonexistent, and the most notable feature therein is the sentence, “Nothing I write is going to get across the insanity that is this...
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Forgotten Classics: Joy Chant’s Red Moon and Black Mountain
The Last Unicorn, The Chronicles of Narnia and the Tolkien oeuvre are, for many, definitive fantasy texts. It would be easy to conclude that they’ve reached that status purely as a result of their...
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The Best Stuff Revealed in the Game of Thrones Season 2 Blu-ray Set
The DVD and Blu-ray release of Game of Thrones season 2 hits on Tuesday, February 19 and includes a huge bundle of special content, including commentaries on every episode, special featurettes,...
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Talk to Mad Scientists Authors This Wednesday on #TorChat!
This Wednesday, February 20, at 4 PM EST #TorChat is taking you behind the scenes in some very dangerous places—the minds of several mad scientists. Joining readers will be the mistress of time travel...
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The Nightmare Affair (Excerpt)
We’ve got the first chapter of Mindee Arnett’s The Nightmare Affair, coming out on March 5!Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Spiking Memory Lane
Buffy is taking down the disposable demon of the week when it turns out he’s got a longer shelf life than most, and a wicked luck roll too: he sticks her with Mister Pointy and she ends up running for...
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Mending the Moon Sweepstakes!
After reading the excerpt, we cannot wait for Susan Palwick's Mending the Moon! And because we love to give you presents, we've got ten ARC copies of the book, ready to make the journey to your...
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The Dresden Files Reread: Side Jobs Pt. 2
In our last post about the various Dresden short stories, Harry Dresden found a little girl, saved a wedding, protected a group of LARPers and fought a creature out of legend. In this post we cover a...
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Convention Report: Gallifrey One 2013, Day Three
The last day of the convention always serves up a cocktail of sadness at the need to return to the real world and slight relief at being able to emerge, blinking, into the bright light and fresh air of...
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Morning Roundup: The Sentence that Contains All Your Favorite Things
Now, we know the “Use the force, Harry” featuring Patrick Stewart as Gandalf is pretty good, but this one has done it one better, because there are SIX genre references!Your daily collection of offsite...
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The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Evie Manieri
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a recurring series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors, artist, and others!Today we’re joined by...
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Sleeps With Monsters: The James Bond of Cosy Mysteries
Today I’m going to step outside the confines of the SFF genre—to break free!—and talk about television.I have to break free from the confines of skiffy to talk about television that’s both ongoing,...
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How Can This Be So Gripping? Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time
You probably heard that they found the bones of Richard III a few days ago, under a car park in Leicester. Actually they found them a while ago, but they’ve now been confirmed to be his bones from...
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The Human Division Read-Along, Episode 6: “The Back Channel”
Welcome to the Tor.com read-along for John Scalzi’s The Human Division—each week, as a new episode in this serialized novel is released, you can use this space to talk about how you think the story’s...
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