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Farscape Rewatch: “Self Inflicted Wounds I: Could’a, Should’a, Would’a”
Self Inflicted Wounds I: Could’a, Should’a, Would’aWritten by David Kemper, directed by Tony TilseSeason 3, Episode 31st US Transmission Date: 30 March 20011st UK Transmission Date: 10 September...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Eye of the Beholder”
Sorry for being late with this. Real life, and all that. We’ll be back on track with “Genesis” on Friday.“Eye of the Beholder”Written by Brannon Braga and Rene EchevarriaDirected by Cliff BoleSeason 7,...
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The Secret Book of Sacred Things (Excerpt)
Check out Torsten Krol’s The Secret Book of Sacred Things, out now from Corvus Books:The coming of the Great Stone destroyed almost everything that used to be. But high in one remote valley, the Church...
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Jim Gates on String Theory and Sci-Fi
When I took the single quantum mechanics class offered at my liberal arts college designed specifically for students with no science background, my intent was to hopefully dispell some of the mysticism...
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Frost Burned Sweepstakes!
It’s tough reading a bit of a book and being made to stop. You’ve checked out the excerpt, and now you need this book! So we’ve got five copies of Patricia Briggs’ Frost Burned, and they are all up for...
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Monster of the Week: The Nightmare
This week’s monster takes a variety of forms, but its modus operandi is always the same. It attacks during the night, a dark and oppressive form that slithers on top of us in bed, crushing our bodies...
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George Lucas’s New Art Museum Will Celebrate Idealistic American Art
George Lucas’s latest project isn’t a film or a TV show—this time it’s an art museum. In this new segment for CBS, Lucas talks extensively about his impressive art collection and the kinds of pieces...
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Morning Roundup: David Bowie is Harry Potter’s Father
Coming from artist Madéleine Flores is the biggest plot-twist spoiler alert of all time: David Bowie is Harry Potter’s true father! We always thought James Potter was a little underdeveloped in the...
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Come to the Spring Tor.com Meet-Up on March 14! (PI DAY!)
The weather is getting warmer and the sun is sticking around later, which means it’s time to shake off some cobwebs and party at a Tor.com meet-up! This time, we’re throwing a shindig on Thursday March...
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A Prequel That’s More Fanfic Than Canon: Oz the Great and Powerful
Early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, when Oscar Diggs’ (James Franco) hot air balloon is being shredded by a tornado, he screams into the winds, “I’m not ready to die! Give me a chance!” While this...
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Not Rising Fast Enough: On Zahn’s Dark Force Rising
Sometimes our memory of cultural classics doesn’t always match up with the experience of the real thing. (Though many of us believe KISS’s one and only song is “Rock and Roll All Night,” it turns out...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson On Killer Asteroids, Dinosaurs, and Blowing Stuff Up
Astrophysicist, author, and Interplanetary Man of Mystery Neil deGrasse Tyson stopped by The Daily Show last night to talk about a bit about how the universe is constantly trying to destroy us. And...
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The Gaslamp Fantastic: Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells edited by Ellen Datlow...
Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells is an anthology of gaslamp fantasy—stories set in or around the world of nineteenth-century Victorian England—edited by the ever-dynamic Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling....
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LGBTQ Characters: If They’re In My Life They Should Be in the Fiction I Read
I started reading romance—full-bore (eh heh), graphic romance—when I was eleven or so. At that time, I’d come off a science-fiction and fantasy YA kick and moved to historical adventures of all...
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The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 15, “The Gathering of the Clouds”
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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The Sookie Stackhouse Reread: Book 3, Club Dead
Welcome back to the next installment in our Sookie Stackhouse series reread. This week we have the third book in Charlaine Harris’s New York Times bestselling series, Club Dead.As we begin our story,...
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Blood of Dragons (Excerpt)
Check out Robin Hobb's Blood of Dragons, next in the Rain Wilds Chronicles, out on April 9 from Harper Voyager:Years ago, the magnificent dragon queen Tintaglia forged a bargain with the inhabitants of...
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5 Nutty Things (and One Serious) About Stephen King’s Shining Sequel Doctor...
Retirees tooling around the country in your RVs...you’re on notice.Doctor Sleep, the Stephen King novel sequel to The Shining, is due to arrive on September 24th from Scribner Books and will follow a...
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The Last Excursions into Fantasy: The Minpins and the Vicar of Nibbleswicke
As a kind of final round up of Roald Dahl’s fiction before we get to the movies based on Dahl’s fiction, two short reviews of Dahl’s last works: The Minpins and The Vicar of Nibbleswicke. Reviews short...
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Steven Brust Loved His New Incrementalists Cover So Much He Wrote You a Song...
How much did Steven Brust like the cover of his forthcoming collaboration with Skyler White, The Incrementalists? This much: he wrote a song in persona as the author who’s head-over-heels about their...
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