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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles The Drawing of the Three,...
Three. This is the number of your fate.Welcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series. Join me each week as I, Constant Reader, tackle the magnum opus of Stephen King’s career for the first time. If you...
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Happy Birthday Mark Twain, You Time Traveling Rascal
Today is Mark Twain’s 176th birthday, and as far as we’re concerned he’s never been more alive. Why, just this fall Michael Kupperman released Mark Twain’s Autobiography, 1910-2010, telling the tale of...
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Genre in the Mainstream: How Ray Bradbury Crossed Over
In a bar last week, a man I’d just met was telling me all about how Gene Roddenberry wrote an episode of The Twilight Zone. Not wanting to offend the guy, I gently said I was 100% confident that Gene...
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Trek Nation Documentary Debuts Today on Science Channel
Rod Roddenberry, son of the late Gene Roddenberry, is central to a new documentary called Trek Nation. The documentary follows Rod’s quest to understand his father’s legacy by taking a look at various...
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Ages to Come, Ages Long Past: The Wheel of Time Roundtable, Week 3
Welcome back to the Wheel of Time Roundtable! In this weekly mini-series from Tor.com, we’ll be asking a panel of Wheel of Time experts a number of questions that look at the upcoming final volume in...
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Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker to Shake Up Cinemas
Variety has just reported that Tor Books’s very own Boneshaker is headed to the big screen. Cherie Priest’s steampunk novel has been picked up for production by Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Media...
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New John Carter of Mars Trailer Hits Good Morning America
Taylor Kitsch was on Good Morning America today promoting the brand new trailer for John Carter of Mars. (We’re still not clear if the movies is called John Carter of Mars or just John Carter, but we...
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Queering SFF Tidbit: Kathe Koja’s Under the Poppy Wins 2011 Gaylactic...
The results for the 2011 Gaylactic Spectrum Award have been announced for the winner and shortlist in the Best Novel category. The Best Short Fiction and Best Other Work categories are given every...
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Fiction Affliction: “Genre-Benders” for December
What’s the deal with paranormal cozy mysteries these days? They’re everywhere, and three of our ten genre-benders this month fall into that category. The steampunk train seems to be slowing with only a...
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Morning Roundup: Harrison Ford in Ender’s Game? Plus, Your Fave Non-Film...
Thursday is like a beautiful baby pony grazing out in the field. It could turn and kick you at any moment, so best go back inside and take a look at some fun off-site links Stubby the Rocket has...
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December Recommendations from Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet International is a comics and SF retailer with locations in a number of cities in the U.K., Ireland, and one well-known store in Manhattan, stocking one of the largest and most diverse...
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High Quality, Spiffy John Carter Trailer
Ready for that Led Zeppelin-fueled John Carter of Mars trailer in high quality? We know the Internet is buzzing with how great it looks visually, but what does everybody think about everything else?...
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Holiday Gift Guide: A Very Cthulu Christmas
(Cthulu Christmas Brass Tentacle Ornament by RockLove)Having trouble wrapping your arms around what to get your friends and family for the holidays? Turn to your favorite cephalopods for help. Who...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Beyond the Sea”
Season 1, Episode 13: “Beyond the Sea”Original Airdate: January 7, 1994So we’ve had aliens, UFOs, a liver-eating mutant, Arctic worms…man, what is missing, here, what’s next, anyone, does anyone...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “The Price”
“The Price”Written by Hannah Louise ShearerDirected by Robert ScheererSeason 3, Episode 8Production episode 40273-156Original air date: November 13, 1989Stardate: 43385.6Captain’s log: Troi comes back...
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Cast of The Empire Strikes Back Reveal the Plots for All Nine Star Wars Films!
Recently, this vintage interview from 1980 surfaced featuring the cast of The Empire Strikes Back as well as director Irvin Kershner. Beyond raw nostalgia, the segment is interesting for a lot of...
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Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man’s Fear Part 13: It was Idyllic
Welcome to my no moon left unturned re-read of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles. This week’s post covers chapters 66—70 of The Wise Man’s Fear but also contains extensive spoilers for the whole...
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The First Explorations of Love: Camilla
Sometimes, one of the very hardest things about growing up is finally seeing your parents for who they really are. Sometimes, that process just happens to intersect with another hard part of growing...
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Hunger Games Fans Speak Out!
In addition to being an author, I’ve been a part of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom for 25 years. SFFH readers, writers, and fans are like family in many ways. After meeting an interesting...
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Fiction Affliction: December Releases in Urban Fantasy
The forces of evil don’t take holidays, so neither do the kickass heroines of urban fantasy (okay, there might be a few heroes, too, but not many—put that on your wish-list for Santa). And did we...
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