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Jessica Jones is Uniquely Qualified
Hot off her Alias reread, Tansy Rayner Roberts reviews Netflix’s Jessica Jones. In this post: “AKA Take a Bloody Number” and“AKA Smile.” Spoilers for season 1. Episode 12 AKA Take a Bloody Number...
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Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Crack’d Pot Trail, Part Nine
Welcome to the Malazan Reread of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda, and finally comments from Tor.com...
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The Hive Construct Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of Alexander Maskill’s’s The Hive Construct, available now from Corgi! Situated deep in the Sahara Desert, New Cairo is a city built on technology—from the huge, life-giving...
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Queen Latifah IS the Wizard of Oz: NBC’s The Wiz
I tuned into NBC’s recent live broadcast of The Wiz with trepidation. I mean, yes, I love Oz. Yes, I love musicals. But this particular version of The Wiz was part of NBC’s now annual tradition of...
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Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for December
For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog and Tor.com, Jim shares his curated...
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Holy Rewatch Batman! “True or False Face” / “Holy Rat Race”
“True or False Face” / “Holy Rat Race” Written by Stephen Kandel Directed by William A. Graham Season 1, Episodes 17 & 18 Production code 8713 Original air dates: March 9 & 10, 1966 The...
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Science Says: Octopus Brains are Something More Than Human…
When it comes to determining how smart octopi are, you don’t really need to go further than this video of an octopus unscrewing a jar from the inside to escape to know that our eight-limbed “friends”...
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File This Under “X” for “Exactly This, Yes.”
What a wonderful mix of old and new media: Instead of a headshot, The X-Files star Gillian Anderson was presented with the printout of a viral tweet chronicling two decades of the actress not taking...
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Oral Argument
We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to publish internationally bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson’s first stand-alone short story in twenty-five years. In it, we get a glimpse of a very green...
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Readers’ Choice: Best Books of 2015
We had our say—now it’s your turn to opine about the best books of 2015! We asked our Twitter followers what they loved this year, and the resulting list (a) involves a lot of books that start with the...
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The Bands of Mourning: Chapter One
With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period...
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Waking the Giant: Rereading Leviathan Wakes
It’s been just four-and-a-half years since James S.A. Corey — a pseudonym for Daniel Abraham, author of The Long Price Quartet and The Dagger and the Coin (both fantasy series), and Ty Franck, who was...
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Josh Hutcherson is Playing Denny in James Franco’s The Room Biopic!
When the Hunger Games trilogy concluded a few weeks ago, my friends and I found ourselves debating what the rest of Josh Hutcherson’s career arc would be. I didn’t believe he’d jump into another...
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Why Peter Capaldi is the Über-Doctor
In Paul Cornell’s recent comic book series Doctor Who: Four Doctors, he has the 12th Doctor saying: “Posh Doctor and Baby Doctor seem to think I’m Scary Doctor.” The fact that this dialogue is in a...
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Intersection: Here’s What Happens When You Read The Water Knife and The...
While traveling this summer, I read Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife (Knopf, 2015) in hardback and William Gibson’s The Peripheral (Penguin, 2014) on my e-reader… synchronously. Why read both...
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Jurassic London to Publish Special Illustrated Edition of Daniel Polansky’s...
Did you love Daniel Polansky’s Tor.com Publishing novella The Builders but want to see the bloody escapades of the Captain and his company outside of your own imagination? Well, you’re in luck, because...
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Get Off My Planet. Doctor Who: “Hell Bent”
We’ve reached the end of season 9 and, safe to say, it’s a season that will be remembered as one of the better in Doctor Who’s long history. And what of its finale, “Hell Bent”? Summary The Doctor...
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We Have Wormsign the Likes of Which the Holidays Have Never Seen
The pumpkin spice must flow, but so too must the cinnamon spice, the Chinese five spice powder, and the vanilla spice extract. Fortunately, they all combine in this brilliant (and terrifying)...
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Where to Find the Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Fiction Recommendations Online
Sci-fi and fantasy has no shortage of short fiction, but now there’s a new “problem” where you, the reader, require trusted voices to recommend a story you’ll like. Luckily, there’s no shortage of...
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The Expanse’s Line in the Sand: Caliban’s War
I was surprised when SyFy decided to launch The Expanse with the story from Leviathan Wakes. Although Leviathan Wakes is the first book in the Expanse series by James S.A. Corey, it also unquestionably...
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