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Philip K. Dick Scanned Our Brains, Darkly
In his afterword to a 1977 paperback collection called The Best of Philip K. Dick, PKD writes about the notion of questioning reality. At one point, Dick says the world made “sense” to him: “I used to...
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Ten Questions with Alexander Gordon Smith
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a recurring series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors, artists, and others! Today we’re joined...
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Where to Start with Diana Wynne Jones
So you want to read Diana Wynne Jones. Congratulations! An excellent decision, if I do say so myself. But now what? For an author who produced a book a year for forty years, figuring out which book to...
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I Am Catwoman, Hear Me Roar
Batman Returns has become a perennial Christmas favorite of mine. It serves as a yearly shot of pure, sex-positive, unapologetic feminism, and it goes great with spiked nog. This year as I looked back...
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The Expanse: “The Big Empty” Focuses on Character Rather than Action
Sophomore slump normally applies to entire works of art—when a wunderkind releases an amazing debut novel/movie/album, and then their second project, even if it’s great on its own merits, can’t live up...
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We’re Ready To Call the New Ghostbusters!
Gaze into the first official image of the new Ghostbusters! This image was posted to Twitter by @protoncharging, and to say we’re excited about this shot is to understate significantly. We are filled...
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Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Crack’d Pot Trail Wrap Up
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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Jimmy Fallon and The Roots Create Ultimate Star Wars Medley With the Force...
Everyone loves a good Star Wars medley, but what about a vocal one? With the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in it? And The Roots providing all the important parts? It’s so good, it makes us kinda...
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Syfy’s Childhood’s End Cares Too Much About Its Characters
I hate to say it, but Syfy’s adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End floundered quite a bit during Night 2 of 3. I want so badly for this adaptation to do well; Clarke’s classic is both...
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Rereading The Elfstones of Shannara, Chapters 48 and 49
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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Get Ready for Our Phantasy Star II Replay!
Dig out those old Sega cartridges, gamers! (Or Playstation/XBox Store files, or emulator ROMs, or bookmarked Sega archive sites, or…) Starting on Monday, December 21st, author Peter Tieryas will be...
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Sounds of Star Wars: The Audio Dramas
A long time ago in a world far, far different from our world today, there was more than music and talk on the radio. There were dramatic adventures; soap operas, science fiction, westerns, mysteries...
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Robert Jackson Bennett Prize Pack Sweepstakes!
Robert Jackson Bennett’s new book, City of Blades, comes out January 26th from Crown—and we want to send you an advance copy of it, along with a copy of City of Stairs! A generation ago, the city of...
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Pull List: The Top Comic Books of 2015, Part 2
And we’re back with part two of the 2015’s best comic books! If you missed part one, head over here. This time ‘round let’s get into the nitty gritty subcategories. Hit up the comments to with your top...
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Profound Indifference: Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan
I read short fiction seldom, which makes me an odd choice to review an anthology of it. Let me get that caveat out there before everything else: although I know what I like, my ignorance of the form is...
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Towering “Khaleesi” Building Planned for New York City
Not satisfied with her seat at the top of Meereen, Daenerys “Stormborn” Targaryen, Khaleesi to Khal Drogo, has her sights set on conquering a new land: New York City. In early December, architect Mark...
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Applied Kant: The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
At an Antarctic research station in the 1980s, two men at their end of their respective tethers, alone in this lovely if unlovable land but for one another and a copy of Emmanuel Kant’s Critique of...
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Wizards and Politics: Fantastic Thrillers
I read a lot of thrillers as a teenager, in part because I liked them, but also simply because they were conveniently littered around my childhood home, at a time when I was burning through three...
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Let’s See Some Magic: Syfy’s The Magicians
Lev Grossman’s The Magicians is the first of a trilogy that gets better and better with each book. It’s smart, referential fantasy for and about readers, with a main character who’s as obsessed with a...
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Words of Radiance Reread: Chapter 64
Welcome back to the Words of Radiance Reread on Tor.com! Last week, Shallan played hide-and-seek with the Ghostbloods and a Herald. This week, she hides from Amaram while Kaladin hides from depression....
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