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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Spawn
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide commentary on...
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Growing Up: Sean Stewart’s Nobody’s Son
People sometimes ask why fantasy is about kings and queens and princes and princesses — is it some strange authoritarian desire? Why aren’t there many stories about fantasy republics? One of the...
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Tor/Forge Books Announces DRM-Free E-book Store
On April 24, 2012, Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor Books and Forge Books, announced that beginning in July, all of its e-books would be sold free of DRM.Now Tom Doherty Associates is pleased...
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Dead Reckoning (Excerpt)
Out tomorrow from Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers, take a look at Dead Reckoning by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill!:Jett is a girl disguised as a boy, living as a gambler in the old West as...
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Tor Books Announces E-book Store: Doctorow, Scalzi & Stross Talk DRM-Free
Today at BookExpo America in New York City, Fritz Foy, Macmillan EVP Digital Publishing and Technology, discussed the recent decision to sell the full catalog of Tor e-book titles DRM-free, along with...
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6 DRM-Free E-books Sweepstakes!
So, you might have heard that we are opening a DRM-Free e-book store! In honor of that, we’d like to give you a little treat that some of the BEA-goers got their hands on: a flashdrive with six...
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Morning Roundup: Sherlock LEGO!
We found these pictures of LEGO Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock over on Flickr. We are very thankful for this group for creating this. Everything is better as LEGO. We’re waiting for fan-made LEGO...
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How to Build an Android (Excerpt)
Out today, take a look at How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick’s Robotic Ressurrection:The stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious creation and loss of an artificially...
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Lev Grossman Explains Why No One Reads Books in Narnia
This past Tuesday, I had the good fortune of being in conversation with Lev Grossman in at Word Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York for the paperback launch of his novel, The Magician King. If anyone ever...
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Not Bad... For A Human: Aliens
On one hand, the republic would not have fallen if there had never been a sequel to Alien. Entire books could be written about how great—bordering very closely on perfect—Alien was as both science...
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I, Asimov: Your Picks for Robot Authors
After getting all excited over the robot Philip K. Dick in our latest excerpt, we asked all of you on Facebook and Twitter which other deceased authors should be turned into robots. Some answers...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 4
It’s a Wheel of Time Re-read! Everybody HIDE!Today’s entry covers Chapter 3 of Towers of Midnight, in which we discuss problems of perception, balance, and roadkill. Sort of.Previous re-read entries...
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Dead Reckoning Sweepstakes!
We know you want a copy of Dead Reckoning after that tormenting cliffhanger in the excerpt — and you’re in luck! We’ve got 5 copies for some lucky winners, and all you have to do is comment right...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Darmok”
“Darmok”Written by Phil LaZebnik and Joe MenoskyDirected by Winrich KolbeSeason 5, Episode 2Production episode 40275-202Original air date: September 30, 1991Stardate: 45047.2Captain’s log: The...
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LARP in Film: The Okay, the So-So, and the Horrifying
So here comes a confession: I am an avid, happy as a clam LARPer. That’s Live-Action Roleplay for those who don’t know the term. Lots of folks don’t understand it, even other geeks. Yet every weekend,...
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Galactic Family Mystery: Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is one of the Big Names in Science Fiction; he writes large scale far future novels many would place at the forefront of Space Opera. With Blue Remembered Earth, Reynolds launches a...
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On Our Radar: Puppies Assemble!
Sorry, we had to make the joke. But this might rival Cumberbatch otters in the resemblance department. We can’t pick which one of these is our favorite, but we’re pretty impressed by Hawkeye’s Boston...
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Morning Roundup: Ianto Jones Busted by Stormtroopers
Today’s wonderful top image comes to us from a Tumblr called Reality is Merely an Illusion. It’s of Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones of Torchwood) being hassled by the Empire at a convention. We’re not...
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The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale
There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls…or so the story goes. But it’s just possible that the danger may be a little bit closer to home. This story is a companion folk tale to Leigh...
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Fierce Reads Tour is On A Roll!
A collection of debut Young Adult authors from Mac Kids hit the road on the Fierce Reads joint tour in May and they’re still going!Fierce Reads consists of:Anna Banks (Of Poseidon)Leigh Bardugo (Shadow...
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