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Gaming Roundup: Sony Reveals the PlayStation 4
Let the rumors and speculations come to an end. In a spectacular and lengthy press conference last night, Sony finally unveiled the PlayStation 4 live in New York, and revealed that their next-gen...
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The Science of Future Past: Part 6
In today’s installment of Science of Future Past, we finish up our look at Foundation with a discussion of The Merchant Princes.The Merchant Princes is one of the most exciting parts of Foundation in...
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Shattered Pillars (Excerpt)
We've got an excerpt from Elizabeth Bears' Shattered Pillars, sequel to Range of Ghosts, out on March 19:Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets...
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The Girl Who Died: Karen Healey’s When We Wake
When We Wake is New Zealand author Karen Healey’s third novel, after Guardian of the Dead and The Shattering. It’s an excellent YA novel. It’s also really excellent science fiction: I stayed awake far...
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Ichabod Crane Will Be a Time Traveling Detective in New Sleepy Hollow
The most iconic gaunt character of them all—Ichabod Crane—will travel through time from the 18th century to the current day Sleepy Hollow in the forthcoming Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman-penned TV...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Hollywood A.D.”
Season 7, Episode 19:“Hollywood A.D.”Original Airdate: April 30, 2000“Hollywood A.D.” is not so much an X-Files episode as it is an X-Files pageant, a presentation put together for Parents Night or...
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The Inexplicables: The Low-Down
This month is UK publication month for The Inexplicables! So WHAT you may ask IS THE SKINNY ON THIS ONE? Well, I’ll tell you, starting with an amended version of the flap copy.[Aside: Why amended?...
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The Savage Boy (Excerpt)
Take a look at this excerpt for Nick Cole's The Savage Boy, out in ebook format from HarperVoyager on February 26:Amid the Wasteland remains of a world destroyed by a devastating Global Thermonuclear...
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Read Sherlock’s “A Scandal in Belgravia” as a Disney-Style Storybook!
Artist Angela Taratua (@alassieI89) took several screenshots from Sherlock’s “A Scandal in Belgravia” and rendered them as these amazing cartoon illustrations. We were so taken with these that we...
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Grand Canyon (Excerpt)
A curious alternate future (written during WWII), take a look at Vita Sackville-West's Grand Canyon, out now in ebook format:The Second World War has been won. Germany has conquered Britain and all of...
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Morning Roundup: Remember That Time Star Trek: The Next Generation Crossed...
Over on Buzzfeed, there’s a fairly rowdy article featuring a ton of the kitschy covers of the 90’s digest, Disney Adventures. The conceit of each of these covers was essentially the same: merge a...
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Dear Joanna Russ: A Letter for an Inimitable Writer
While researching for We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling, I developed a passionate engagement with Russ’s astounding, provocative body of work—and I had intended, at the time, to...
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Your Publishing Questions Answered
We know there’s a certain amount of curiosity about the route of the manuscript to the bookshelf. And what publishers and editors actually do (contrary to popular belief it’s not read and drink coffee...
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Your Cat is Literally Making You Crazy
See that guy up there? That’s my guy! He’s probably thinking about how much he loves me and wants to destroy me. And according to a scientist based in the Czech Republic, he’s also probably infected me...
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Iron and Sacrament and Dead Man’s Blood: Deborah Coates’ Deep Down
Deborah Coates brings to her contemporary fantasy a breath of horror, a frisson of the quiet dread that comes from a really good ghost story. Wide Open (2012) was good, an excellent debut.Deep Down is...
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Written in Red (Excerpt)
Check out Anne Bishop's new series, starting with Written in Red, out on March 5 from Roc Books:In a thrilling new fantasy series, enter a world inhabited by the Others, unearthly entities—vampires...
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It’s About Time the Saturn Awards Introduced a Superhero Category
On Wednesday of this week, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Films announced their nominees for the 39th annual Saturn Awards. Established in 1972, the awards honor the ways in...
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Megan Fox Cast as April O’Neil in Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Once Michael Bay kicked Megan Fox out of the Transformers franchise in 2011, it seemed as if the sultry actress had learned to safely keep her distance from genre movies. But now comes the news that...
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The Wheel of Time Reread Now Available as Collected Ebooks
Tor.com has assembled Leigh Butler’s Wheel of Time Re-read into handy (and searchable!) ebooks. There are currently four volumes, covering the first twelve books and New Spring. Each volume is...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 19
WWelcome 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 19 of A Storm...
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