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Fiction Affliction: April Releases in Urban Fantasy
With twenty-eight new urban fantasy titles hitting the shelves in April, it would be shameless for me to pimp my own release, wouldn’t it? Of course it would *coughs, Royal Street, coughs*. Especially...
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The Background to the Moorcock Multiverse: London Peculiar
Is there anything Michael Moorcock hasn’t done? Creator of some of our greatest literary anti-heroes — Elric of Melniboné, Jerry Cornelius, Colonel Pyat. Editor of the seminal New Worlds magazine....
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: “Panspermia” and “Pangea — The Neverending World”
Panspermia: Life is moving in on a brand new world. (2:12 minutes)Pangea — The Neverending World: It’s a big world out there when you’ve just hatched from an egg, especially when you live on a...
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Weekly Highlights: Redshirts, Summer Movies, and When Robot Unicorns Attack!
You are busy! And we want to make life easier for you. So we’ve put together a roundup of the happenings around here this week. We hope you like them. We do. (But we’re a pretty weird bunch.)Here’s...
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Covers Revealed for John Scalzi’s Manga Fantasy Trilogy
This past Friday, Tor Books announced that John Scalzi’s award-winning fantasy trilogy Shadow War of the Night Dragon will be adapted as a manga with artist Madeleine Rosca on illustration duties. (You...
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Entirety of Game of Thrones Season 2 Leaked
In a shocking display of contempt for HBO, it appears that every detail about the highly-anticipated season 2 HBO drama Game of Thrones has been leaked, mere hours before the premiere of the show.The...
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Sword and Sensibility: Conan Creator Robert E. Howard’s Lesser Known...
At the time of his death in 1936, thirty-year-old Robert E. Howard had published hundreds of works of fiction across an astonishingly broad swath of genres. His voluminous output, according to Paul...
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All Of Us Are In The Gutter: Review of Oscar!
I’ll admit that when I first heard about Oscar! I wasn’t impressed. “He’s a playwright famous for his bon mots, he’s a grouch who lives in a trash can: they fight crime.” Oscar Wilde (Geoffrey Rush)...
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Morning Roundup: Hey Bungalow Bill, What (Rancor) Did You Kill?
This giant Rancor, clearly killed by a big game hunter makes us think of the inevitable Ernest Hemingway/Star Wars mashup. Think about it. It writes itself:The galaxy was far way. Farther away than...
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Full Total Recall Trailer Hits
It doesn’t matter what your remember about the original film, or the Philip K. Dick story upon which it was based (“We Can Remember it for You Wholesale.”) The new, full, Total Recall trailer is...
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Steven Moffat Reveals New Picture of Old Dalek
Straight from Steven Moffat’s Twitter account comes this new Doctor Who set picture of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan posing with a Dalek from a bygone era. Apparently Moffat has been polling the cast as...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles The Waste Lands, “Lud: A...
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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Game of Thrones, Season 2, Ep. 1: “The North Remembers”
My how those direwolves have grown.I won’t say it’s good to be the king, but it’s good to be watching a new episode of Game of Thrones. The premiere episode did a fantastic job of taking stock of the...
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Winners of the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards Announced
The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards™ at its annual awards banquet on Sunday, April 1st. The 2011 awards mark the 25th anniversary of the awards.The award...
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Mark Molnar Takes Us to Arrakis: Dune Concept Art
Concept artist Mark Molnar has been having some fun doing some Dune speed paintings as a personal project.... Makes us wish some studio would give the movie another go.[Read more]Read the full article
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Celebrating National Poetry Month on Tor.com
April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate we’re taking the opportunity to showcase poetry written by notable names in the science fiction and fantasy fields.When thinking of the mediums that...
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Mouse Koan
Tor.com is celebrating National Poetry Month by featuring science fiction and fantasy poetry from a variety of SFF authors. You’ll find classic works, hidden gems, and new commissions featured on the...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: The Wonderful World of Oz
It was Suzy McKee Charnas, author of the unforgettable werewolf story “Boobs,” who first pointed out—to me, anyway—that the werewolf is the most tragic of the classic horror monsters. It’s...
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The Cage
In honor of today’s Oz-centric Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch essay by Alyx Dellamonica, we’re re-posting “The Cage,” which made Locus Magazine’s 2011 recommended reading list. This tale of a lesbian...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: The Green Lantern Corps
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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