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Patchwerk
Fleeing the city on the TransContinental airship, Dran Florrian is traveling with the Palimpsest—the ultimate proof of a lifetime of scientific theorizing. When a rogue organization attempts to steal...
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Feast your Eyes and Ears on the Audio Map for The Drowning Eyes
Today marks the hurricane-force debut of Emily Foster with the publication of The Drowning Eyes, which is available in ebook, trade paperback, and audiobook wherever books are sold. In her first...
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Star Trek The Original Series: “I, Mudd”
“I, Mudd” Written by Stephen Kandel Directed by Marc Daniels Season 2, Episode 12 Production episode 60341 Original air date: November 3, 1967 Stardate: 4513.3 Captain’s log. McCoy and Spock discuss a...
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Pure Primal Joy: Crying As Han Solo Flies Out of the Sun
I remember the first time it happened. It was my sixth birthday, and for the one and only time, I was the coolest kid in school. Because for my party we were going to watch Star Wars—at home. Seems...
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Chewbacca Watches Kylo Ren Grow Up
Tyson Murphy, the Lead Character artist at Blizzard Entertainment, decided to break all of our hearts over the weekend when he posted this bittersweet comic on his Tumblr. It tells the story of Kylo...
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Terry Pratchett Fans Sign Petition to Name Element 117 After Discworld’s...
In early January, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced the discovery of four new elements to be added to the periodic table. But first, elements 113, 115, 117, and...
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‘Cause the Wookiees Gonna Raarghh! Raarghh! Raarghh! Raarghh! Raarghh!
Star Wars mashups are among our favorite things in the galaxy, and these album covers are some of the best, most detailed mashups we’ve ever seen! Princess Leia’s homage to T. Swift gets the top spot,...
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Finnegan’s Field
“Finnegan’s Field” by Angela Slatter is a dark fantasy novelette about a six year old child who mysteriously disappears for three years, only to return home just as mysteriously — but not quite the...
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Tor.com Publishing’s The Best of 2015 Round-Up!
Tor.com Publishing launched in September 2015 with Kai Ashante Wilson’s acclaimed novella The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, and we’re thrilled to see the enthusiastic response our new line has gotten in...
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Star Wars: The Fandom Awakens
I didn’t expect to rediscover my love of Star Wars. It had been so long that I’d forgotten how much I once enjoyed endlessly quoting “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” and making that cornball Han...
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How Could The Winds of Winter Be Published In Only Three Months?
If publishing a book takes one year, then why do George R. R. Martin’s publishers only need three months? Learn how blockbuster novels can change the book production process. George R. R. Martin’s New...
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There’s a Storm Brewin’ in These Fantastical Tales of Weather Magic!
Red sky at night, readers’ delight. Red sky at morning, readers take warning… The instability of the weather makes for a great metaphor in fantasy stories about characters learning to harness their own...
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Honesty Pays and Conspiracy Comes to Light in The Expanse: “Rock Bottom”
Well, it had to happen eventually. We finally had the first fairly clunky episode of The Expanse. There were still a lot of good moments, though! Plus, we got to see the true birth of the Rocinante,...
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A Barsk Reader Made This Amazing Character Sculpture!
Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen’s haunting novel about truth, memory and anthropomorphic animals, had such an impact on one reader that they created a powerful tribute: a sculpture...
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Dragon Hunters
Once a year on Dragon Day the fabled Dragon Gate is raised to let a sea dragon pass from the Southern Wastes into the Sabian Sea. There, it will be hunted by the Storm Lords, a fellowship of powerful...
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The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome Sweepstakes!
On January 19th, Melville House is releasing an English translation of Serge Brussolo’s The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome—and we want to send you a copy! In The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome, lucid dreamers...
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Rereading The Elfstones of Shannara, Chapters 53 and 54
Welcome, readers of Shady Vale, to the final installment in our reread of Terry Brooks’ classic epic fantasy, The Elfstones of Shannara. If you’re unfamiliar with Elfstones, Brooks, or this reread, be...
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Creating the Map for The Drowning Eyes
I was excited to be hired to create Tor.com Publishing’s very first fantasy world map, especially since the novella, The Drowning Eyes, that the map illuminates isn’t a traditional fantasy setting of...
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Susan Dennard’s Truthwitch Debuts at #4 on the New York Times Bestseller List
Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It is a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. Iseult, a Threadwitch,...
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Good, But Needs More Pouches
As many of you probably know, on Sunday night Jon Hamm won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama, for Mad Men. Among the many people watching the fascinating trainwreck that was...
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