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Finally, A Star Wars Book That Really Gets Us
Golden Books is releasing a series of completely adorable Star Wars books, but we’re particularly enamored of this title, I Am A Sith. Of course, if you’d rather tell people you’re a Jedi or a pilot,...
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The Bands of Mourning: Chapter Five
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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The Different Faces of Sherlock Holmes
When people are asked why they like Sherlock Holmes, they provide a whole spectrum of replies. Some readers talk about his intelligence, or his integrity. Others read the stories for the adventure...
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Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Deryni Rising, Chapters 1-3
Welcome to the weekly reread of Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni Rising! I’m reading from the original edition, so if you’re following along with the later, revised version, there may be some differences...
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Big Ideas in a Slim Package: This Census-Taker by China Miéville
With his last release, the short story collection Three Moments of an Explosion, barely six months behind him, China Miéville starts off the year with a brand-new novella. Don’t be deceived by the...
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Stubby Wins (Another) Stabby!
Stubby has won another Stabby! Reddit’s “r/fantasy” forum has announced their readers’ choice awards for 2015, and we are pleased to announce that Tor.com has won a “Stabby” award for Best Fantasy...
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Tor.com Publishing’s Fiction from 2015
2015 was a big year for Tor.com Publishing. On top of our long-established, award-winning short fiction program, Tor.com launched a new initiative to publish novellas and short novels. We’d like to...
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Self-Discovery Through Rock Mythology — David Bowie, The Patron Saint of...
“I have something to tell you,” my wife says this morning, “and it’s going to make you sad. But I want to make sure I tell you before you hear it from somewhere else.” “Okay.” “David Bowie is dead.”...
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Short Fiction Spotlight: Queers Destroy Fantasy!
Welcome back to the Short Fiction Spotlight, a space for conversation about recent and not-so-recent short stories. For December, I talked about The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015...
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Charley Davidson Prize Pack Sweepstakes!
Darynda Jones’s ninth Charley Davidson book, The Dirt on Ninth Grave, is out January 12th from St. Martin’s Press—and we want to send you a prize pack of the whole series! Charley sees dead people....
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David Bowie’s Book Recommendations — As If His Music, Acting, and...
I haven’t been able to think far beyond grief today, but one thing struck me as I attempted to get some work done on the internet: everyone’s Bowie is so different. Each person posting a tribute or a...
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Neil Gaiman Gives David Bowie a Proper Origin Story in “The Return of the...
Over the years, David Bowie’s work and personae have inspired extraordinary art: Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Starman, The Venture Brothers, and the greatest of all of Wes Anderson’s...
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We’re Glad You Fell To Earth
Author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka gave us our favorite tribute to David Bowie.
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Two’s Company
Lost in the wide and barren North, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp, runs into Cracknut Whirrun on a bridge far too narrow for the expansive egos of either. With the King of the Northmen and the High...
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Tor.com Novellas are Now Available in Bundles!
Tor.com Publishing decided to focus on novellas because we believe there is a huge variety of stories that can be best told at that length. We want to help readers try new things and discover fantastic...
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MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles is a Modern Take on an Old Classic
It might have taken decades for Shannara fans to finally get their hands on a screen adaptation of Terry Brooks’ classic fantasy series, but it took only a few hours for them to devour the first four...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Catching the Stragglers from 2015
How many months will it take to get used to writing “2016” instead of “2015”? The annual complaint, adjusted for the year: as a child, I always wondered how the characters of the various Star Treks...
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It Was All a Dream… No It Wasn’t… Yes It Was… No, Wait: “Polaris” and “Memory”
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 two early stories: “Memory,” written in 1919 and...
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The Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Dragon Reborn, Part 4
A Wheel of Time Reread Redux, you say? Must be Tuesday! Today’s Redux post will cover Chapters 5 and 6 of The Dragon Reborn, originally reread in this post. All original posts are listed in The Wheel...
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The Bands of Mourning Sweepstakes!
Brandon Sanderson’s The Bands of Mourning is almost here—it comes out January 26th from Tor Books—and we want to send you a copy! With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised...
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