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Why Every Writer Should Join the US Military — Part I
A few months ago, I turned pro.By “turned pro,” I mean that I got my novel picked up by one of the major publishing houses in a three-book deal.I don’t want to overstate what that means. It’s the first...
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Why Michael Biehn In A Basement Isn’t Always Enough: The Divide
Michael Biehn’s been on my mind a bit lately, because he’s awesome, and because he’s in a picture that just opened in New York called The Divide. The trailer — which I came to find consisted almost...
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Connie Willis to Receive 2011 Damon Knight Grand Master Award from SFWA
Over the weekend, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced Connie Willis would be awarded the title of Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award at this year’s Nebula Awards. Past...
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Anime on the Front Lines
With giant battling robots being one of the first images to spring into people’s minds when you mention anime to them, it’s no surprise that military science fiction was for years one of the most...
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Watch Science Fiction Conversations with Nisi Shawl, Eileen Gunn, Le Guin & More
There’s nothing quite like stumbling upon something cool that had previously slipped under my radar — like a present from the past, really — and this time around, the discovery was the program Science...
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A Soldier Like My Mother. Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga
The military has traditionally been a male preserve, and military SF, coming from the traditions of military fiction, has tended the same way. There’s no reason an army of the future need be a male...
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This Spring, Help Give One Million Books Away
Have a book you really want someone to read? The organization behind World Book Night is currently recruiting givers for 2012’s World Book Night, which occurs on April 23rd in the U.S. and the U.K....
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Morning Roundup: Lucas Retires, Voyager Bros Chill Out
The best news you’ll receive all day today is that Robert Ducan McNeil (Tom Paris from Star Trek:Voyager AND Kevin from Masters of the Universe) is on Twitter. The second best news you’ll receive is...
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Tor.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards Update 01/19
We’ve tallied your responses to the Tor.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards as of 5:00 PM EST, Tuesday, January 17 and not much has changed, so this will be a quick post. The top ten voted on Novels...
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Horses, Aunts, and Space Battles: Elizabeth Moon’s Heris Serrano: Omnibus One
The Heris Serrano books — Hunting Party, Sporting Chance, and Winning Colours, now collected as Heris Serrano: Omnibus One in the US, and The Serrano Legacy in the UK — have been around for almost two...
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Shaking Hands in Hell: Sherlock’s “The Reichenbach Fall”
The second series of BBC’s super-popular Sherlock concluded its three-part offering over the weekend, and the results were shockingly unexpected and ridiculously exciting. This feat is impressive in it...
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Free Download of Sherlock Holmes The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1915.In connection to the new Sherlock Holmes movie which brings Moriarty to the forefront as...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Duane Barry”/“Ascension”
Season 2, Episodes 5 and 6, “Duane Barry”/“Ascension”Original Airdates: October 14 and October 21, 1994There’s a hostage situation. There’s a man, there’s an abductee. His name is Duane Barry and he’s...
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Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary Part 7: “There isn’t anything worse than...
We’re half way through our excessively detailed re-read of Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear, and we’re going to pause here for another speculative summary. After we’ve summed up some of the...
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Why Every Writer Should Join the US Military – Part II
(Read Part I here.)Do or Do Not. There is no Try.One of my assignments when I was activated to respond to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster was to put worthy sailors in for awards. I had to...
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Fighting Nothingness: A Wind in the Door
Some years after writing The Arm of the Starfish, Madeleine L’Engle decided to write a more direct sequel to her visionary novel, A Wrinkle in Time. Set about a year after the previous adventure, A...
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Starbuck’s Got A Gun (and A Cigar): Gender in Battlestar Galactica
The original Battlestar Galactica never quite felt like military SF to me, in the same way that it was hard to take in the military aspects of Star Wars. The characters were certainly part of an active...
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Upcoming SFF Events in February
If there’s anything SF readers and watchers, gamers and otakus enjoy more than their particular hobbies, it’s getting together to talk with like minded people. Doing so on tor.com is great, as is doing...
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Morning Roundup: The Size of the Known Universe
Above is the universe as we know it. While this video from The American Museum of Natural History and the Rubin Museum is very impressive, we’ve known how to fit the universe on a blog for three years...
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Tor.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards Update 01/20-Last Day to Vote!
We’ve tallied your responses to the Tor.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards as of 7:00 PM EST, Wednesday, January 18! Today’s the last day to vote — we’re closing in on the home stretch! Here’s where we...
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