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Artist Takes Tourists for a Ride with the Staten Island Ferry Octopus...
It was close to 4am on the quiet morning of November 22, 1963 when the Steam Ferry Cornelius G. Kolff vanished without a trace. On its way with nearly 400 hundred people, mostly on their way to work,...
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Remembrance of Earth’s Past and Humanity’s Future: Reflections on the...
Note: Some spoilers for the series. I know, that’s a pretty ambitious title for this lil’ old essay, but Cixin Liu insists that we think seriously about such questions as humanity’s future in the...
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She’ll Kill You With Her Mind: Announcing Two Killing Gravity Novellas by...
I’m proud to announce the acquisition of two novellas by debut author Corey J. White. Killing Gravity and its sequel follow Mars Xi, an experimental psychic supersoldier who escaped the MEPHISTO labs...
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Colorful Heroes: The Origins of Marvel’s Iron Fist and Luke Cage
Remember the days when every comic book captured your imagination, and took you to new and exciting places? When you didn’t apologize for loving the comic books and creators that gave you bliss? In...
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Every Heart a Doorway Prize Pack Sweepstakes!
Next year, Tor.com Publishing brings you Down Among the Sticks and Bones, the second of Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children books. Haven’t read the first book, Every Heart a Doorway, yet? Well, we want...
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Everyone Loves Superman in the Supergirl Season 2 Trailer
In what I can only hope is a self-aware move, every character on Supergirl seems starstruck (superstruck?) by Kara Danvers’ cousin—both as Superman at the DEO and as Clark Kent at CatCo. I’m talking,...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Different Kinds of Death
I’m being a little bit cranky about my reading material lately. I want more from it—even while I don’t feel up to any emotionally scouring reads. Clearly, it’s possible for me to hold two contradictory...
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Brent Weeks Gives Dates for Blood Mirror Book Tour!
Brent Weeks’s The Blood Mirror will be released on October 25th in the US! To welcome the fourth book of his Lightbringer series in style, Weeks will be on tour in late October and early November....
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The Tick has Survived to Bring Us Mighty Blue Justice in a Whole Season on...
Are you prepared for an entire season of The Tick? After premiering pilots for The Tick, I Love Dick, and Jean-Claude Van Johnson, Amazon has decided to order a full series of all three shows! (But I’m...
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Infomocracy: Chapter 7
Whether or not you watched last night’s presidential debate, you’ve probably noticed how much the set-up and tone have shifted over the past few decades since Nixon first squared off with Kennedy. Now...
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Fiction Affliction: October Releases in Fantasy
Fifty fantasy books fly onto the shelves this month, including a new entry in Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom; the 20th anniversary edition of A Game of Thrones; Ken Liu’s The Wall of Storms; and Kai Ashante...
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Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “The Lights of Zetar”
“The Lights of Zetar” Written by Jeremy Tarcher & Shari Lewis Directed by Herb Kenwith Season 3, Episode 18 Production episode 60043-73 Original air date: January 31, 1969 Stardate: 5725.3...
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Visit First Second at New York Comic-Con 2016!
First Second Books will be exhibiting at New York Comic-Con and BookCon October 6-9, 2016 at Booth #2239! But that’s not all—they also have a great group of authors, illustrators, and comics...
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Rereading Kage Baker’s Company Series: Mendoza in Hollywood, Chapters 25-29
Welcome back to the Kage Baker Company Series Reread! Can you believe we’re already finishing up another novel this week? In today’s post, we’ll cover the final five chapters of Mendoza in Hollywood,...
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“Mister Doctor?”“It’s Strange.” Watch the New Doctor Strange TV Spot!
“Maybe, who am I to judge?” Mads Mikkelsen’s fabulous-looking villain Kaecilius snarks at the end of this minute-long Doctor Strange teaser. It’s the first bit of humor—awkward, at that—we’ve seen from...
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This Jawa will Protect Your Lawn from Trespassers
Thinkgeek has struck again! Now if you need to make sure all of your neighbors know you love Star Wars, you can add a terrifying solar-powered Jawa to your lawn. It will charge under the rays of the...
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The City Born Great
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year’s Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes. Like all great...
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These Agatha Christie Stamps Are Guaranteed to Bring Out the Sleuth in You
Over in the UK, the Royal Mail has issued a set of gorgeous stamps to honor Agatha Christie–it’s been 100 years since she finished writing her very first book, and these stamps are the perfect sort of...
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Lev Grossman to Write Post-Camelot Novel The Bright Sword
Viking Books announced today the new novel from Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians trilogy: The Bright Sword, set after the fall of Camelot, which “will tell of the knights following in the wake of...
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Innumerable Voices: The Short Fiction of Charlotte Ashley
Innumerable Voices is a monthly column profiling short fiction writers and exploring speculative fiction themes in their many permutations. The column will discuss stellar genre work from both fresh...
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