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Five Books About Fantastical Islands
I love the sea, but panic in deep water, and so find a happy medium on shorelines, where I can walk in land and water all at once. I’m drawn to threshold places, to landscapes in flux, to anywhere that...
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A Song for No Man’s Land
He signed up to fight with visions of honour and glory, of fighting for king and country, of making his family proud at long last. But on a battlefield during the Great War, Robert Jones is shot, and...
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Mark Your Calendars: Daredevil Returns on March 18
Matt Murdock has a a city to save–so he’s returning to your television on March 18 to get the job done. Daredevil season 2 approaches! Ready for the new trailer and poster? The official trailer doesn’t...
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Archaeologists Discover an Amazingly Preserved 300-Year-Old Ship
In Old Town Alexandria (Virginia), archaeologists have uncovered a 50-foot remnant of the hull belonging to a ship that sank in the 1700s… completely by accident. The discovery occurred at the...
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Words of Radiance Reread: Chapter 65
Welcome back to the Words of Radiance Reread on Tor.com! Last time, Kaladin seemed to be fighting depression, Shallan hid in the darkness while Amaram attempted to interview Talenel, and as a result of...
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Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for January
For nearly two decades, 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...
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Level Up Your Life Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of Steve Kamb’s Level Up Your Life, available January 12th from Rodale! For the past five years, Steve Kamb has transformed himself from wanna-be daydreamer into a real-life...
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Magic on the High Seas: Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
Safiya is a Truthwitch—she can tell between lies and the truth, and there hasn’t been a witch with her ability in a century or more in the Witchlands. She’s kept her ability hidden from most, aware...
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Join V.E. Schwab on Her A Gathering of Shadows Tour!
Only four months after the events of A Darker Shade of Magic, Red London prepares itself for the pageantry of the Elemental Games, while Black London threatens to rise again, throwing magic out of...
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Marriage Can Be Monstrous, or Wondrous: The Origins of “Beauty and the Beast”
Technically speaking, Beauty and the Beast is not quite a tale as old as time—time, after all, more or less got going right after the Big Bang, well before anyone was telling any fairy tales at all....
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Rewatching the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Film
This may be the only Potter film that I hadn’t watched since its release in theaters. And that’s because I was distinctly unhappy about it. Having been over six years, I was trying to recall what...
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Kylo Ren Explores Starkiller Base With His Imaginary Friend!
Artist Brian Kesinger taps into a whole other vein of nostalgia with his The Force Awakens fan art in the style of Calvin & Hobbes! We’ve already seen some touching Kylo Ren and Darth Vader art,...
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Stephen Hawking Is a Perpetual Beacon of Hope
If you know even little bit about Stephen Hawking, then you know that you’re dealing with someone so extraordinary that his life and work might seem to be fashioned from the pages of science fiction....
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The Mad Science of Car Repair: Actually, Frankenstein was the Mechanic
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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Susan Dennard Talks Video Game Romances and How Airbending Inspired...
In her popular writing advice newsletter, author Susan Dennard is painfully honest (her own words) about the ups and downs of the writing life. Not surprisingly, that same candor translated well to her...
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Relateable Mythology: The Wicked + the Divine
Whenever I encounter a piece of fiction with characters straight out of mythology, I pause. Half of me craves it—the part of me that’s a raging geek for all things mythological, from Olympian gods to...
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Fascinating and Unexpected Insights from NASA’s Female Astronaut Mars Hopefuls
While a manned mission to Mars is at least 15 years away, NASA is currently partnering with SpaceX to train the astronauts who will hopefully touch down on the red planet within a generation from now....
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All the Birds in the Sky Sweepstakes!
We found one last stack of galleys of Charlie Jane Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky—out January 26th from Tor—and we want to send one to you! Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead...
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For David Bowie’s Birthday, Here Are Some of Your Favorite Characters As...
Everybody loves David Bowie’s iconic Aladdin Sane album cover–it’s such a simple depiction of other-worldliness, a perfect encapsulation of the hold Bowie has on pop culture. That’s why it’s such fun...
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Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Ring of Wax” / “Give ’em the Axe”
“The Ring of Wax” / “Give ’em the Axe” Written by Jack Paritz and Bob Rodgers Directed by James B. Clark Season 1, Episodes 23 and 24 Production code 8725 Original air dates: March 30 and 31, 1966 The...
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