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Look Good in Virtual Reality: Cyberpunk Fashion
Does cyberpunk have it’s own sense of fashion? What defines it? Most genres and sub genres come with vague rules about how their characters must dress—fantasy has a lot of tunics and laces and leather,...
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Words of Radiance Reread: Chapter 84
Welcome back to the Words of Radiance Reread on Tor.com! Last week, Shallan located the Oathgate, Adolin made good use of a slain rock, and Kaladin struggled to stand between Elhokar and Moash. This...
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A Few Words From Roger Zelazny: Travels and Close Calls
Roger Zelazny’s biographer and friend, Ted Krulik, is sharing insights and anecdotes from the author. In our first installment, Zelazny spoke about his own writing style; and in the second, Krulik...
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The Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia: Willow
Hellooooo, Tor.com! And welcome to the first official entry in my Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia! Huzzah! As I told you last week, our inaugural bout of sentimental longing and/or wistful affection...
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Last Night, A Superhero Saved My Life Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of Last Night a Superhero Saved My Life, edited by Liesa Mignogna and available now from Thomas Dunne Books! As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with...
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The Evolution of Virtual Realities in Cyberpunk and the Real World
Since its inception in the early 1980s, cyberpunk has established two distinct kinds of worlds. There’s the post-industrial dystopian cityscape, like modern Japan on crack but shaded with enough...
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The Stars Askew
Rjurik Davidson’s The Stars Askew—available July 12th from Tor Books—continues the story that began with Unwrapped Sky. With the seditionists in power, Caeli-Amur has begun a new age. Or has it? The...
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Forbidden Desire and Locked Doors: “Rapunzel”
Stories of maidens locked into towers or behind walls litter European folklore, appearing in fairy tales, saints’ lives, and dubious histories and chronicles. In part, these tales echoed the real life...
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OK, Google: Ken Liu’s “The Perfect Match”
Our cyberpunk near-future has a voice in my head, and it’s Ken Liu’s fault. My phone, the black-mirrored device that connects me to everything and everyone at all times, sent a digital file through the...
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The Political Arts: Democracy by Paul Cartledge
The subject of democracy is very much a live topic of debate. Many—most—of us Anglophones live in various kinds of democracies (and have varied opinions on how well those democracies work in practice)....
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Rewatching the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Film
Arriving at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 2 was awful because it really felt like the end of everything. The books were complete, the films were soon to be over. There was a lot riding on...
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Ron Howard and Brian Grazer to Adapt Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves for Film
Director-producer duo Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are reteaming with Apollo 13 screenwriter Bill Broyles to adapt Neal Stephenson’s doorstopper of a generation ship novel, Seveneves. This ambitious...
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Hard Concepts, Passionate Things: The Sublime Art of Maurice Sendak
On June 10th, 1928, Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, and the world of children’s literature gained one of its greatest artists (although it would take a few more years before that fact...
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Spock Hanging Out with his Sweet Ride is the Best Toy Ever
Usually if you think about Hot Wheels you think about playing with actual moving cars, right? Racing them around on the linoleum in the kitchen so they can get up some speed before they get stuck under...
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Risk, Reward, and Narrative in the Great Outdoors
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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Ranking the Cyber Cinema of the 1990s!
Ah, the ’90s. A time when the internet exploded up from its underground world of ARPANet and BBS, and became a thing everyone was expected to use. Like all new media, the net was subject to a lot of...
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Rocket Talk Episode 78: Netflix’s Voltron Remake
Welcome back to the Rocket Talk podcast! We’ve got an exciting episode this week as we’re joined by Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim dos Santos—the co-showrunners of the new Netflix show Voltron Legendary...
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Everything Belongs to the Future
Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day’s food and shelter. What kind of world have we made,...
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Malka Older and Daniel José Older Discuss Infomocracy, Cyberpunk, and the...
There was already a nice crowd gathered for the concatenation of Olders at Greenlight Bookstore, and by the time the reading began, the seats were full, and many people already had copies of Malka...
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The Dragonlance Chronicles Reread: Dragons of Spring Dawning Part 2, Chapters...
Welcome back to the Dragonlance Reread! Last week, we saw Laurana trapped, Soth… do Soth things, and #TeamTanis chase a red ghost in the lost city of Istar. Tough to top, right? Well, let’s see… “I...
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