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Mignola & Golden Take Holmes Underneath the Waves in Joe Golem and the...
Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola’s first collaboration, Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire), was a brassy, bloody steampunk engine, a machine built to deliver timeless fables...
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3 Ways to Play Mass Effect 3 Wrong
Before you pick up a copy of Bioware’s latest SF RPG masterpiece Mass Effect 3—available today for Xbox 360,PS3, and PC—know that there’s a wrong way to play.“That’s unpossible,” you might cry in a...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Gathering Storm, Part 22
Let me hear you, let me hear you say yeah, WOTlings! It’s a Wheel of Time Re-read!Today’s entry covers Chapters 38 and 39 of The Gathering Storm, in which we have some lovely tea, some light reading,...
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Genre in the Mainstream: When Twain Mocked James Fenimore Cooper in an...
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among The Indians is Twain’s first attempt to directly parody one of the nineteenth century’s most popular American genres – the Indian adventure story. The unfinished novel...
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Incan Intrigues & More Make Naomi Novik’s Crucible of Gold A Captivating Read
Fans of dragons and historical alternate history alike must know about Naomi Novik’s popular Temeraire series, where dragons and men battle during the Napoleonic Wars. Lively, uniquely-drawn characters...
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Nothing is Going to Get Better, It’s Not: Hollywood’s Contempt for Dr. Seuss
Remember these immortal words: The Lorax made $70 million dollars in its opening weekend.Yes, you read that correctly. $70 million. It has already made back its budget, which means we can probably...
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Eye of Sauron Found in Space. Everyone Doomed.
Astronomers have recently discovered this image of the Eye of Sauron, staring back at us from 43 million light years away, surely signaling the end of this Age here on Actual-earth.This is actually a...
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Necessary Fictions: The Drowning Girl: A Memoir by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Caitlin R. Kiernan’s newest novel, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, is a story written by India Morgan Phelps — Imp — about her encounters and involvement with Eva Canning, a siren or a wolf or “something...
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“I’ve always liked a challenge.” David Weber’s A Rising Thunder
A Rising Thunder is the latest installment in David Weber’s Honorverse stories, and the thirteenth in the main sequence. Fans of the series will welcome an increase in pace from 2010’s sprawling...
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, V. 6 edited by Jonathan...
The sixth volume of Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, published by Nightshade Books, has just been released. It’s the first of the “year’s best” installments...
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Morning Roundup: The Cheetah Robot Runs Faster than Any Other Robot
If you had a robot pet, would you be jealous if it could run faster than you? We think as wonderful as the robot cheetah is, we’re a little worried it might make our robot dolphin a little sad. What...
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Dormanna
Enjoy “Dormanna,” by Gene Wolfe, a story inspired by an illustration from John Jude Palencar.“Dormanna” is part of a five-story series curated by senior Tor Books editor David G. Hartwell. All five are...
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Barnes and Noble Bookseller’s Picks for March
For over a decade, Barnes & Noble buyer Jim Killen has been a driving force behind Barnes & Noble’s science fiction and fantasy sections. Each month on Tor.com, Mr. Killen curates a list of...
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Heroes Who Fail
Way down in one of the recent Rothfuss Reread posts “mr. awesome” asked for recommendations for books about failed heroes.Not antiheroes who do or want bad things, but heroes who don’t achieve their...
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Arya, Sansa, and Bran Sing the Game of Thrones Theme Song
With the recent release of the Game of Thrones season 1 DVD/Blu-ray comes this treasure hidden in the commentary track of episode 3: the actors that play Arya, Sansa, and Bran singing their own...
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The Clock Arena Ticks: Rereading Catching Fire
The momentum that Catching Fire, sequel to The Hunger Games, manages to maintain is staggering in wake of the breakneck pace of its predecessor. In fact, I recall giving myself a few months before...
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Download Free Wallpaper from The Dragon Reborn Ebook
As part of the run up to the final book in the Wheel of Time series, Tor.com will be releasing free wallpapers of all available ebook art! This week we’re featuring the ebook art for The Dragon Reborn,...
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Farscape Rewatch: “Throne For A Loss”
Throne For A LossWritten by Richard Manning, directed by Pino AmentaSeason 1, Episode 41st US Transmission Date: 9 April 19991st UK Transmission Date: 6 December 19991st Australian Transmission: 27 May...
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Vampire Singing Motown While Doing the Dishes: Being Human, “Hold the Front...
Remember Adam from last season? He had been a vampire since he was kid, and he was living (read: feeding) off his parents who loved him very dearly until they died. He left Annie, Mitchell, and George...
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Once Upon a Time vs. Grimm, Part 12: A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
This week in the Battle of the Network Fairy Tale Shows, characters on both series are exploring their deepest dreams and desires to totally different effect. On Once Upon a Time, we learn how Grumpy...
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