The Great Alan Moore Reread: The Batman Stories
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...
View ArticleCats in Space
What is there to say about a Star Trek / cat video mash up? Nothing except that it’s ABSURDLY AWESOME. Introducing, Cats in Space, the latest venture from identical twin filmmakers James and Robert...
View ArticleThe Best Science Fiction Ideas in any Non-Fiction Ever: David Graeber’s Debt:...
The thing that best sums up the experience of reading David Graeber’s Debt: The First Five Thousand Years is something that isn’t really in the book at all. I’ve mentioned here before that it’s my...
View ArticleSave Sean Bean! Your Game of Thrones Humor Roundup
We love us some George R. R. Martin and some Game of Thrones, but it’s just as much fun to see others lampoon the series. This past weekend offered up a cute assortment of Game of Thrones-related...
View ArticleThe Broken Universe Sweepstakes!
Paul Melko’s The Broken Universe comes out on June 5, but you’ve got a chance to read it right now! We’ve got 10 ARCs in the office, and we’re sending them your way. Just enter and you might be a...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Holographic Tupac Shakur Keeps the Beat
If you need any more evidence of the fact you’re living in FUTURE WORLD 2012, then we offer the above: a hologram of the late Tupac Shakur performing live with Snoop Dogg at Coachella. Not only does...
View ArticleBordertown, Behind-the-Scenes
Will Shetterly: My wife, Emma Bull, and I read the first Borderland anthology when it was published and loved it, but we didn’t expect to be invited to play in that universe. Then Bordertown series...
View ArticleHey, Everyone — Stop Taking This Picture! (No, I Mean It.)
So, the most recently released image of Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises kind of got me worked up. The moment I saw it I think I said something to the nature of, “If I have to see one more woman posed...
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Dino Avengers!
From Teryll Whitlatch, we’ve got the coolest combination of super-powered might and Jurassic (okay, they aren’t Jurassic) know-how on the internet. Meet the Dino Avengers! See them up close and...
View ArticlePoems of Fantasy and Wonder: Goblin Fruit
Psst. The goblins are calling.And they’re offering fruit. Well, poems—but that’s fruit for the soul, right?Since 2006, Goblin Fruit, edited by Amal El-Mohtar and Jessica Wick, has been offering a...
View ArticleThe Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City (Excerpt)
We hope you enjoy this sneak peek at the upcoming comic The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City by Jared Axelrod with illustrations by Steve Walker. It’ll hit shelves on May 22, so keep...
View ArticleThe Wheel of Time Re-read: The Gathering Storm, Part 28
Happy tax day, Wheel of Timers! There is no postage necessary and no forms to file to enjoy this Wheel of Time Re-read, I totally swear!Today’s entry covers Chapters 49 through the end of The Gathering...
View ArticleStar Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Night Terrors”
“Night Terrors”Written by Shari Goodhartz and Pamela Douglas and Jeri TaylorDirected by Les LandauSeason 4, Episode 17Production episode 40274-191Original air date: March 18, 1991Stardate:...
View ArticleThey Wrote What? 5 Screenplays Surprisingly Penned by Famous Novelists
If the medium is indeed the message then it seems like the crossover of a prose writer into the world of screenwriting would be as extreme as a unicorn turning into a panda. And though we can conceive...
View ArticlePrinceps (Excerpt)
The latest installment in the Imager Portfolio by L.E. Modesit, Jr. will be released on May 22. With that in mind, we present an excerpt from this upcoming novel, Princeps:The thrilling follow-up to...
View ArticleWhat You Never Knew about Neverland: Peter and the Starcatcher
J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan has seen its share of adaptations. It started off in 1904 as a play that opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London, and later became written down as a novel in...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Bring Back Grover as the Doctor
We admit it. We miss the 10th Doctor. That deep, gravely voice. The blue fur. The gangly arms. We’ve heard of a strange alternate universe in which the 10th Doctor was played by some joker named David...
View ArticleSons and Decisions: Sheri S. Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country
The Gate to Women’s Country (1988) is post-apocalyptic SF about gender roles. It’s probably the best book in the subgenre of SF where the women live in civilized cities and the nasty rough men live...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Comedic Fantasy Films According to Me
My first reaction to Ryan’s post on the ten funniest science fiction films was: “What about Time Bandits?” But then I figured, okay, you could make a decent argument that Time Bandits should be...
View ArticleSpace Music: The 2999 Project
What will the year 2999 look like? What will it sound like?That’s the creative catalyst behind The 2999 Project, a multimedia time trek to the end of the 30th century. Canada’s King Deluxe record label...
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