The Makers of Coraline are Doing a Samurai Movie! Watch the Trailer for Kubo...
Laika, the stop-motion studio that brought us the eye-popping film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, have just released a trailer for their new original movie Kubo and the Two Strings. And it looks...
View ArticlePatchwerk Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a galley copy of David Tallerman’s Patchwerk, available January 19th from Tor.com Publishing! Fleeing the city on the TransContinental airship, Dran Florrian is traveling with the...
View ArticleWe’ve Got Your Festivity Right Here: Listen to Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas...
A Christmas Carol has inspired some delightful adaptations over the years. All the best characters in pop culture has attempted their own adaptation, from Mickey Mouse to the Muppets to the (real)...
View ArticleWhich Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Crewmember Could You Beat Up?
Ever wondered if you could beat up any of the main characters from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine? Wonder no more! Tumblr user Sheva The Gun has played out a fight scenario with each crew member (and then...
View ArticleCold Fires
Tor.com is pleased to present Mary Rickert’s “Cold Fires,” originally published in 2004 and recently included in the new collection You Have Never Been Here, available from Small Beer Press. Faced with...
View ArticleThe First Fantastic Beasts Trailer is Here!
The first trailer for the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes us back to the wizarding world, or a 1920s American version, anyway. The trailer is pretty light on any...
View ArticleThe Pros and Cons of That Star Trek Beyond Trailer
I needed help. Paramount put out a trailer for Star Trek Beyond, a movie that I think I kind of need to be good and evocative of Star Trek, and I thought it was the worst thing ever. In flew Ryan...
View ArticleSleeps With Monsters: Tempus Fugit
How is it the middle of December already? I could swear that the last time I looked around, it was only October. This whole business of time travel only taking us to the future is terribly infuriating:...
View ArticleA Risky Adaptation: Syfy’s The Expanse
Google is an amazing resource. For example, searching “define adaptation” quickly yields: a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment....
View ArticleI’m Too Sexy for This City: “The Quest of Iranon”
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 “The Quest of Iranon,” written in February 1921...
View ArticleSyfy’s Childhood’s End Updates a Classic to Ask Big Questions
Childhood’s End is coming to Syfy as a three-night event beginning December 14th and starring Mike Vogel, Charles Dance, and Colm Meaney. I was fortunate enough to see an early screening of the first...
View ArticleThe Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Dragon Reborn, Part 1
Season’s Greetings, Tor.com! Please take a moment from your increasingly-panicked holiday shopping to peruse the Wheel of Time Reread Redux, today embarking on a brand new book! Today’s Redux post will...
View ArticleNnedi Okorafor’s The Camel Racer to Be Developed By Disney’s Triggerfish...
The Triggerfish Story Lab, a program sponsored in part by the Walt Disney Company, has selected eight African feature film and television projects for development—including a feature film by Binti...
View ArticlePull List: The Top Comic Books of 2015, Part 1
It’s that time of year again… time to bust out the year-end “best of” lists. Between DC and Marvel, big indies, small presses, and the World Wide Web, thousands of comics made their way to your hands...
View ArticleNow That’s How You Reveal a Secret Identity!
What if you could have a platonic version of the Spider-Man/Mary Jane upside-down kiss from the first Spider-Man movie, that carried the same emotional weight as Spider-Man saving that subway train...
View ArticleThere is One Decent Moment in The Star Wars Holiday Special, But We’re Still...
Okay, internet. Leah and Emily have a gift for you this spritely season. They have achieved the impossible. They watched the Star Wars Holiday Special. Full disclosure: both of us had watched the...
View ArticleStar Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “The Changeling”
“The Changeling” Written by John Meredyth Lucas Directed by Marc Daniels Season 2, Episode 8 Production episode 60337 Original air date: September 29, 1967 Stardate: 3541.9 Captain’s log. The...
View ArticleMidnight Taxi Tango
Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York’s ghostlier problems. This time it’s a string of gruesome...
View ArticleThe Brainery Workshop is Offering Writing Classes with Tor Authors and Editors!
The Brainery Workshop, a series of online writing classes devoted to honing speculative fiction, just released its spring 2016 schedule—and almost every class features by Tor Books and Tor.com authors...
View ArticleCelebrating Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey
Today we mark what would have been the 97th birthday of the great Arthur C. Clarke. Often credited with making fantastic predictions in his science fiction that actually came true, Clarke is among the...
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