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A Good Day for Richard Matheson: A New Musical & Century-Spanning Award
Take that, sparkling vampires! The Richard Matheson classic, I Am Legend has been named the Vampire Novel of the Century by the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards. The classic 1954 novel tells the story of a...
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Once Upon a Time Special: “Hat Trick”
Okay okay, so I was wrong about there being a new episode of Grimm before last Friday, but there will be from now until May 18th! Ask Grimm writer, Akela Cooper, if you don’t believe me!So, we have...
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Avengers vs. X-Men: Marvel’s Major Event and Why You Should Read
While Marvel movie audiences await the upcoming Avengers release this May, Marvel Comics has stepped up their big title team-up tradition once more to bring fans the battle of a lifetime. Helmed by...
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Geek and Sundry: A YouTube Channel For the Geek Masses
One of the highlights of last month’s WonderCon was the panel announcing Felicia Day’s latest foray into New Media. She, along with producing partners Kim Evey, Wil Wheaton, Veronica Belmont and Tom...
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Excuse This Rant About Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror is undoubtedly the less-favored of the two Snow White tales hitting the box office this season. The camp apparent in its trailer was not well-received by many commentators, especially not...
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Morning Roundup: Straight Talk from Yoda
Speaking Correct Order of Words Yoda Is from MechaStewart on Vimeo.Beyond being clever, the above video featuring Yoda speaking words in pretty much the “correct” order made us wonder the following: do...
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Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for April
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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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
In the year 2035, all that’s remaining of humanity is a group of twenty-six people who live in the Shell, an enclosure built two decades ago by the alien race known as the Tesslies when an...
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Royal Street (Enhanced Excerpt)
We’ve a got a special treat! Suzanne Johnson’s Royal Street excerpt now extends to Chapter 3, and contains a number of fun annotations by the author herself! Just follow the link here, and keep it up...
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No One Ever Quits: Black Heart by Holly Black
Black Heart, the third and final novel in Holly Black’s “The Curse Workers” series, picks up with Cassel Sharpe where the second book (Red Glove) left off: he’s playing several long games, trying to...
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Green-Blooded Hooligans: IDW’s Star Trek #7
The IDW ongoing Star Trek comic series has started to boldly go where it hasn’t gone before: a totally original storyline. All the prior installments of this series have, up until this point, been...
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Genre in the Mainstream: Hemlock Grove and the Post-Lynchian Melodrama
I had just started reading Brian McGreevy’s Hemlock Grove when I spotted a news item about how Netflix had picked up a 13-episode series based on the novel, about a series of grisly murders in a...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Gathering Storm, Part 26
Hello! This is a Wheel of Time Re-read! Unless you look at it from the opposite point of view, in which case it is… well, no, it’s still a Wheel of Time Re-read, never mind.Today’s entry covers...
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“I forget you have a sense of humor, Mundy.” David Drake’s The Road of Danger
The Road of Danger is the ninth novel in Drake’s Republic of Cinnabar Navy series, after 2010’s What Distant Deeps. The series as a whole is an excellent example of space operatic military SF, and The...
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My Shapechanging Boyfriend: Sharon Shinn’s The Shape of Desire
Romance heroes have always had a touch of danger—the rakes with a bad reputation in Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances, for example. Dig further back and you’ll end up at Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, or...
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On Our Radar: Fish Fingers and Custard Day!
Because April 3, 2010 was the very day when the Eleventh Doctor’s first episode “The Eleventh Hour” aired, April 3 is dubbed by Who fans as “Fish Fingers and Custard Day”! For those of you aren’t...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Devil’s Due”
“Devil’s Due”Written by Philip LaZebnik and William Douglas LansfordDirected by Tom BenkoSeason 4, Episode 13Production episode 40274-187Original air date: February 4, 1991Stardate: 44474.5Captain’s...
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Rage of the Dragon (Excerpt)
The third book in the Dragonships of Vindras series comes out on April 24, but we’ve got a sneak peek just for you! Take a look at Tracy Hickman and Maraget Weis’ Rage of the Dragon:Skylan Ivorson is...
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Windships and Drowning Basins: The Straits of Galahesh by Bradley Beaulieu
My path to Bradley Beaulieu’s writings was probably different from most people’s: I discovered him only recently through Strata, the excellent science fiction novella he co-wrote and self-published...
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The Twelfth Doctor Probably Won’t Be a Woman. But If She Was....
The Daily Express is claiming today that a “mole” in the Doctor Who camp has revealed that we’re getting a female Twelfth Doctor in the form of Sherlock alum Lara Pulver after a Matt Smith regeneration...
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