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Women of Harry Potter: Ginny Weasley Is Not Impressed
Six brothers. That’s how many brothers it takes to make a Ginny Weasley. That’s how much familial finally-a-daughter pressure is required to make a Ginny Weasley. That’s the weight of hand-me-down...
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The Lost Child of Lychford
It’s December in the English village of Lychford—the first Christmas since an evil conglomerate tried to force open the borders between our world and… another. Which means it’s Lizzie’s first Christmas...
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Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: The Vor Game, Chapter 1
Last week, the reread finished off The Warrior’s Apprentice with Miles’s acquittal on charges of high treason and his subsequent enrollment in the Imperial Military Academy. This week, we follow Miles...
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The Weaver Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of Emmi Itaranta’s The Weaver, available November 1st from Harper Voyager! Read the first chapter here. The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with...
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5 Funny Books About Very Bad Witches
The best thing about writing about wicked witches is that they can be awful. Delightfully, relentlessly awful. I love stories that treat serious subjects with a dash of humor, and writing about people...
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Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 6-7
Welcome to the weekly reread of Camber the Heretic! Last time, Cinhil saw his last sunset, while Tavis got drugged and mindwiped. This week, Camber and company oversee a royal sacrifice and work the...
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It’s Picture Day at Hogwarts!
Designer Marc Mancuso shared this childhood portrait of Hogwarts professor Minerva McGonagall, taken when she was only 8 years old.
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Spin by Robert Charles Wilson is the Tor.com Ebook Club Pick for November!
Around the 1st of each month the Tor.com eBook Club gives away a free sci-fi/fantasy ebook to club subscribers. We’re happy to announce that the pick for November 2016 is: SPIN, the first book in...
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This Morning in Publishing: November 1, 2016
Happy Halloween! @maxgladstone did I do Tara justice with my #craftsequence #cosplay? pic.twitter.com/K3XoAx84Vc — Stephanie Ray Glass (@stephanierayg) October 31, 2016 Actor Stephanie Ray Glass just...
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Dune: Red Plague
An all-new Tale of the Great Schools of Dune — written to accompany Navigators of Dune by the same authors (Tor, September 2016). Even in his dreams, he could still hear the long-ago cheering and...
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19 Positive Approaches to Religion in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Of all the genres, science fiction and fantasy are the ones where humans can tackle their deepest societal problems and thought experiments. Because of this, it’s a natural place for people to explore...
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No Fear, No Doubt, Just Writing: The Real Value of NaNoWriMo
“Finding the courage to write fiction sometimes means finding the courage to fully admit the staggering range of your doubts and fears, and to see them for what they are: an expression of a part of...
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Holy Rewatch Batman! Extra: The Return of the Caped Crusaders
The Return of the Caped Crusaders Written by Michael Jelenic & James Tucker Directed by Rick Morales Original release date: November 1, 2016 The Bat-signal: At stately Wayne Manor, Dick is...
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100 African Writers of SFF — Part Two: Writers in the U.K.
In Part Two, you’ll meet: a crime writer whose grandfather was a king—one who made a Western artist a priestess in the Ogun religion. A white South African anti-apartheid activist whose sister was...
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Arcanum Unbounded Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of Brandon Sanderson’s Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, available November 22nd from Tor Books! Check out the table of contents here. An all-new 40,000-word...
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The Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Shadow Rising, Part 7
Happy All Souls’ Day, Tor.com! I hope everyone’s Halloween was fabulous, and I hope this offering of a Wheel of Time Reread Redux may help assuage your hungover and post-sugar-crash doldrums! Today’s...
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How Halloween Brings On the Christmas Spirit
I associate the holiday season with two grand concepts: having a special space and time within which to write, and the gathering approach of the numinous. As you might imagine, those concepts...
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Invisible Planets / Invisible Frameworks — Assembling an Anthology of...
I jumped on Twitter the other day to ask my followers what they wanted to see in a blog post about Invisible Planets, the first English-language anthology of contemporary Chinese SF. All sorts of...
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Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “All Our Yesterdays”
“All Our Yesterdays” Written by Jean Lisette Aroeste Directed by Marvin Chomsky Season 3, Episode 23 Production episode 60043-78 Original air date: March 14, 1969 Stardate: 5943.7 Captain’s log. The...
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Apes and Angels
Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of...
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