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Travel Through Old, Magical New York City with the New Fantastic Beasts and...
“Mr. Scamander, do you know anything about the wizarding community in America? We don’t like things loose.” The Ellen Show has premiered the first look at the full trailer for Fantastic Beasts and...
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How Long Was the “Endless Summer” in The Wheel of Time?
One of the many ways the The Dark One attempts to unmake the world in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series is by influencing the weather. When the series begins an unnaturally long chill has pressed...
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The U.S. Postal Service Versus Shub-Niggurath: Robert Bloch’s “Notebook Found...
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. Today we’re...
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Five Can’t-Miss SFF Books by Diverse Authors
There’s so much amazing literature being written right now from so many rich, wonderful perspectives, and I’m going to talk about a few of them right here. Five, to be exact, but if Tor.com had a...
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World War Z Author Max Brooks to Write the First Minecraft Novel
With the Minecraft movie hitting theaters in 2019, it’s no surprise that the insanely popular video game has sparked another tie-in: books! Mojang, publisher of Minecraft, announced Minecraft: The...
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Fiction Affliction: October Releases in Science Fiction
Thirty-two books take us to space, the future, and beyond in October, including Laurie Penny’s novella Everything Belongs to the Future; E.K. Johnston’s Star Wars: Ahsoka, about the fan-favorite...
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Northmen Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of John Haywood’s Northmen: The Viking Saga AD 793-1241, available now from Thomas Dunne Books! In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they...
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Greg Rucka Confirms Wonder Woman is Queer
Comicosity’s Matt Santori-Griffith sat down with Greg Rucka, who is currently helming Wonder Woman along with artists Nicola Scott and Liam Sharp, and asked a big, oft-ducked question: is Wonder Woman...
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A Girl and Her Dragon
Artist Leesha Hannigan often delves into fantasy realms in her work, but we especially love this touching image of a girl holding her dragon. The piece, titled “The Quiet of a Beating Heart”, calls up...
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Fiction Affliction: Genre-Benders for October
Twenty-two new books sashay across genre lines this month, including three—three!—Ursula K. Le Guin collections. Connie Willis takes on modern technology; Margaret Atwood retells The Tempest; Jonathan...
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A Brief History of Luke Cage in the Comics
The early 1970s was the era of Soul Train on television and the rise of the Blaxploitation movement in the movie theatre, as well as the time of Ike & Tina Turner, Billy Preston, and Diana Ross,...
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George R.R. Martin and Apple Release Interactive Edition of A Game of Thrones
The Guardian is reporting that George R.R. Martin is taking a new step in expanding the world of the Seven Kingdoms, partnering with Apple to release an enhanced digital edition of A Game of Thrones....
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Midnight in Karachi Episode 65: Marie Brennan
Welcome back to Midnight in Karachi, a weekly podcast about writers, publishers, editors, illustrators, their books and the worlds they create, hosted by Mahvesh Murad. Author Marie Brennan is on the...
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ZNB Publishing Funds Three New Anthologies, Themes Include Robots, Water, and...
Boutique publisher Zombies Need Brains (or ZNB) have funded their third Kickstarter for a trio of anthologies with themes of Robots, Water, and Death. Contributors include Seanan McGuire, L.E. Modesitt...
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Just Your Average Disney Gothic YA Alien Ghost Mystery Thriller Thing: The...
Hello, Tor.com! Welcome back to the Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia! Today’s entry in the MRGN is 1980’s The Watcher in the Woods, one of my and my sisters’ biggest favorites of all the movies we’ve...
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When You See Yourself on a Book Cover
Actor Stephanie Ray Glass shared this delightful side-by-side comparison with the Craft Sequence’s badass necromancer Tara Abernathy! It’s good to know that there are real Max Gladstone characters...
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Experiments in Animation: Disney’s Fantasia 2000
World War II and subsequent budget cuts brought Walt Disney’s original plans to release the 1940 Fantasia every year as an evolving project to an abrupt end. Even after Cinderella brought the studio...
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Tetris: The Games People Play
It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you’ll see those brightly colored...
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The Black Guard Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of A.J. Smith’s The Black Guard, available now from Head of Zeus! The city of Ro Canarn burns. With their father’s blood fresh upon the headsman’s sword, Lord Bromvy and Lady...
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James S.A. Corey Has Started Drafting the 7th Volume of the Expanse Series
While fans eagerly await the sixth installment of The Expanse series–Babylon’s Ashes, which arrives in December–there is even more good news on the way. It turns out, the seventh book is already being...
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