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When You Absolutely Need a Rocket on Your Chest: Tor.com Zazzle Store is Open
The Tor.com store on Zazzle is open for the holidays! The store features Tor.com specific merchandise (t-shirts, etc.) as well as some holiday-themed items, because what would the end of the year be...
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Anne McCaffrey, 1926-2011
Anne McCaffrey, legendary SF and fantasy author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series, has passed away. Random House has confirmed on Tuesday that McCaffrey died of a stroke at her home in...
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Morning Roundup: Biff! Pow! Ellen Page?
Real velociraptors were the size of turkeys. But did they taste like turkeys? As of this Thanksgiving we’ll find out! Yes, you heard us; we bred raptors on our raptor farm. Gobble gobble! Before...
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Primal and Mythic: Geoff Ryman’s The Warrior Who Carried Life
I always say that fantasy is a very broad category, and it’s wonderful that it exists and is popular because that means that really weird uncategorisable but wonderful things get published within...
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Bookended by Dragons: Somewhere Beneath Those Waves by Sarah Monette
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves is Sarah Monette’s first general short fiction collection, published by Prime Books, who also handled her collection of Kyle Murchison Booth stories The Bone Key in 2007...
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The Late Mike Fellinger’s Turkey Algorithm: An Exercise in Geek Cooking
I still think of this as Jon Singer’s Turkey Algorithm, because that’s the title under which I knew it for decades; but Singer says it was devised by the late Mike Fellinger, and must be credited to...
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Steven Erikson Answers Your House of Chains Questions
The first batch of answers has come in from Steven Erikson regarding your House of Chains questions. Usually these answers appear in-thread, but since this time around those answers span over 6000...
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How to Make Astronomical Illustrations
When I was painting traditionally — before I moved to digital media — I almost never did preliminary sketches... except perhaps for the occasional thumbnail doodle to remind me of an idea. And after...
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Feed Cthulhu: Pledge a Food Donation Today & Win The Book of Cthulhu
Ross E. Lockhart, the editor of recent Lovecraft anthology The Book of Cthulhu, out from Night Shade Press has started a Feed Cthulhu hunger drive.24 randomly selected people who make a food donation...
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Paint Splatter Superheroes by Arian Noveir
Everybody has a favourite superhero. Whether you love the vulnerability of Batman, Superman’s struggle with what it means to be human, or Spider-Man’s fight for Mary Jane, it’s easy to connect with...
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It’s All In The Game: Sherlock Holmes and The House of Silk
Halfway through The House of Silk — a lost tale which purports to take place a decade before the great detective “was found dead at his home on the Downs, stretched out and still, that great mind...
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Let’s Not Visit The Planet That Perpetually Lets You Down. 100 Planets by...
100 Strips. 100 Mondays. This 100 word review of 100 Planets.Englishman Daniel Merlin Goodbrey contemplates the planets we have yet to find, those we have found and those we wish to forget. Strips are...
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Happy Thanksgiving from Tor.com
The Tor.com staff is about to pile into Stubby and take off for the Planet of Food and Not Being On The Internet For Once (Or we might all just go see The Muppets, we haven’t decided yet.) but we’ll be...
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The Inspiration of Anne McCaffrey
I just heard the news about Anne McCaffrey’s passing and I’m at a loss for words. I can’t overstate her importance to the SF field, the influence she had on scores of writers and thousands upon...
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Play the First Line Game With Us
The First Line Game was originally introduced to us by Jo Walton back in 2008 and we tend to bring it back out about once a year for fun during holidays. Come play it with us![The rules and a first...
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The Rosencrantzes & Guildensterns of SFF
Though minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were given new life in Tom Stoppard’s famous 1966 play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. In this fantastic...
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Growing Up Potter
When Harry Potter was eleven, so was I.That is to say that I was eleven years old when the first book was released and, therefore, the same age Harry was that first year at Hogwarts. Initially, I was...
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The Future of the Book as Depicted in Science Fiction
In the past few years, media pundits and tech experts have been abuzz with variations on the question: “what is the future of the book?” Luckily, science fiction has been around a whole lot longer...
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Morning Roundup: Star Trek Releases! (In the Future)
Welcome back to your week! It’s Monday, and Stubby the Rocket is here to give you a brief rundown of everything happened while you were chasing velociraptors turkeys around the yard with a space-ax....
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This is the Leaked Prometheus Trailer
After being up and gone last week, that bootleg Prometheus trailer is back online. Though the quality is bad, and it’s missing several scenes, this looks to be the real deal. What can we see? Lots of...
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