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Sleeps With Monsters: Space Opera and Explosions
I’ve been reading several books that I’d like to be able to tell you about in detail. Unfortunately, a feverish chest infection is really really good at wiping the details from my mind, so I can only...
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It is Your Destiny to Watch the Trailer for Netflix’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden...
Even though it’s been fifteen (!) years since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon took our collective breaths away with its gravity-defying fight sequences, watching the trailer for Netflix’s film sequel...
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The Same Thing We Do Every Night, Brain: “Hypnos”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s original stories. Today we’re looking at “Hypnos,” written in March 1922 and first...
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The Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Great Hunt, Part 27
What ho, Tor.commers! Please to be settling in for a Wheel of Time Reread Redux, yah? Yah! Today’s Redux post will cover Chapters 48 to the end of The Great Hunt, originally reread in this post. All...
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The Reluctant Pilot
In this ongoing series, we ask SF/F authors to describe a specialty in their lives that has nothing (or very little) to do with writing. Join us as we discover what draws authors to their various...
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Ewoks Are Not a Good Enough Reason to Hate On Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
So here’s my problem: While I’m aware, in my brain, that A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back are undoubtedly the best two Star Wars films to date, none of that matters when the chips are down and...
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Ten Billion Tomorrows Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of Brian Clegg’s Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future, available today from St. Martin’s Press! Science fiction is a...
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Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “Wolf in the Fold”
Sorry for the deadline-induced delays. We’re back on track, I promise! “Wolf in the Fold” Written by Robert Bloch Directed by Joseph Pevney Season 2, Episode 7 Production episode 60336 Original air...
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Supergirl and Mind Control: Variations on a Theme
I don’t want to focus on the overall plot of Kara losing her powers on this week’s Supergirl, because to be honest, Buffy did a better job in 3×12 “Helpless.” Instead, what grabbed me about “Human for...
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NOS4A2 Is Coming to Feast on the Souls of TV Viewers!
Soon Preacher and The Walking Dead won’t be the only dark fantasies on AMC! Deadline is reporting that Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 will be adapted into a series by Michael Eisner’s production company! The show...
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See 1,705 Exoplanets in Orbit All at Once
One of the great traditions of science fiction has been the imagining of planets far beyond our own solar system. Authors and filmmakers allowed their imaginations to run wild, bringing us exotic...
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The Log Goblin
On a cold winter’s night, a goblin is caught stealing firewood. Then things start getting weird. I was a little sad to take down the huge old beech, a wolf tree three times as large as anything else...
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Cliffhangers and Character Arcs: Adapting Abaddon’s Gate
Abaddon’s Gate is the third novel in James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series. The powers-that-be here at Tor.com asked me to revisit it in advance of the premiere of the television series based on the books....
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Dark Horse to Publish Margaret Atwood’s First Graphic Novel, Angel Catbird
I have to admit that, when I heard that Margaret Atwood was writing her first graphic novel, I didn’t think this was how she would describe her protagonist: “I have concocted a superhero who is part...
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The Sci-Fi/Fantasy Characters We Couldn’t Stop Talking About in 2015
Some of them are humans, some of them are robots, all of them are fictional. These are the characters we couldn’t stop talking about in 2015. The writers and staff here at Tor.com talk about a lot of...
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Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Crack’d Pot Trail, Part Ten
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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Rereading The Elfstones of Shannara, Chapters 45–47
Welcome, readers of Shady Vale, to this week’s installment in our reread of Terry Brooks’ classic epic fantasy, The Elfstones of Shannara. If you’re unfamiliar with Elfstones, Brooks, or this reread,...
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Monsters and Romance: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Mid-Season Finale
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is halfway through Season Three, and so far, it’s been quite a ride. The Terrigen compound has triggered the transformation of humans into Inhumans all over the world....
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First Second Books Prize Pack Sweepstakes!
’Tis the season of giving, and First Second Books would like to send a present to one lucky reader: a stellar stack of some of their best books of 2015! This prize pack includes: Dragons Beware by...
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Poor BB-8 Doesn’t Pass NASA’s Test for Space Travel
BB-8 has already won 2015 despite Star Wars: The Force Awakens not coming out yet, but apparently not everyone is won over. In an interview with Wired, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab roboticist Brett Kennedy...
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