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Touchstone (Excerpt)
You’ve entered the sweepstakes, but you need something a little more substantial — take a look at this excerpt from Melania Rawn’s new fantasy novel, Touchstone, out on February 28:Cayden Silversun is...
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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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Changing Metaphors: On I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
For the first time, I recently watched the film I Walked With a Zombie, an oft-discussed 1943 “B-movie” directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. (If those names sound...
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John Christopher, 1922-2012
I was sad to hear that John Christopher (Christopher Samuel Youd) died this weekend at the age of eighty-nine. He was best known for his cosy catastrophe novels, especially The Death of Grass (1956)...
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How to Succeed in Haunting Without Really Trying: The Woman in Black
To call The Woman in Black a Daniel Radcliffe vehicle would be akin to that old SNL Wayne’s World bit in which Garth praises every small container with the phrase “you could put your weed in there.”...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Love is a Path Marked With Bloody Footprints
It’s almost impossible to look at Angel in the first year of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and not think of everything that awaits him in the second, and beyond. There’s the big, obvious, unforgettable...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Swamp Thing, Part 3
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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Why Zardoz Isn’t the Kitsch Disaster You Think It Is
For many, the mere mention of John Boorman’s 1974 film Zardoz, immediately calls to mind an image of a mustachioed Sean Connery clad only in thigh-high leather boots, bandoliers, and a pair of trunks...
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No One Teenager Should Have All That Power: Chronicle
The idea of constructing a movie out of what purports to be — but isn’t — found footage is not necessarily a bad one. The “found footage” conceit lends a level of hyper-naturalism, a kind of camera...
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Once Upon a Time Special: “7:15 A.M.”
While Grimm took a break, Once Upon a Time moved ahead with a new episode that focused on the ever-complicated relationship between Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) and David (Josh Dallas). In it, Mary...
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Watch a Trailer for a Live Action Movie of Thundercats
What would a live action Thundercats movie look like? WormyTV took this question quite seriously and created a pretty convincing edit trailer for a Thundercats movie.There’s a lot of great SFF movies...
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The Witch’s Daughter Sweepstakes #2!
It’s time to give you another shot at winning a copy of The Witch’s Daughter! Take a look at an excerpt while you enter — we’ve got eight copies up for grabs and the next winner might be you!Check...
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Morning Roundup: Band Nerds and LOTR Nerds Finally Together In Musical Harmony
This Tuesday, we invite you to extend the game started by this poster from Tone Deaf. Here, they’ve attributed Lord of the Rings characters to various band instruments. Now, we’d like you to do the...
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Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Dickens: A Man Integral to Science...
In a 1991 episode of Cheers, psychiatrist Frasier Crane tries to drum up interest in the works of Charles Dickens among his fellow bar-denizens. Specifically, he tries to read them A Tale of Two...
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A Ghul Hunter Longing For Cardamom Tea: Throne of the Crescent Moon by...
When a fantasy novel comes along and isn’t set in a pseudo-medieval, Caucasian-populated knockoff of Northern Europe, it’s cause for celebration. When it’s as engaging as Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the...
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Amazing Full Trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man
It’s here! Now with more homemade web-slinging action! Peter Parker is back and with way more hair. Check out the full-length trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man.Read the full article
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Reader’s Guide to the New DC Universe Addendum: Saying Goodbye to Six
Last summer, I previewed all 52 of the New 52 DC Relaunch titles, and then provided a play-by-play of what the first four weeks looked like as summer turned to fall. Half a year later, we now have a...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Transfigurations”
“Transfigurations”Written by René EchevarriaDirected by Tom BenkoSeason 3, Episode 25Production episode 40273-173Original air date: June 4, 1990Stardate: 43957.2Captain’s log: The Enterprise is...
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Throne of the Crescent Moon (Excerpt)
Now that you’ve taken a look at the review, enjoy this excerpt from Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon, out today from DAW Books!:The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Gathering Storm, Part 18
Hi, WOTers! Welcome back to the Wheel of Time Re-read! Wasn’t that Madonna concert this Sunday awesome? It was awesome. (Though the tight-panted backup dancers seemed unnecessarily angry at each other,...
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