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Shuffle: The Next Geek Holiday Classic
The holidays are upon us, and we can safely expect reruns of our favorite classic Hollywood films on television between now and Christmas. Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Story, It’s a Wonderful...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: V for Vendetta, Part 1
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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Whedon-Penned The Cabin in the Woods Trailer Hits
Long delayed, this Joss Whedon-written, Drew Goddard-directed horror project is finally coming! We all know who Whedon is, but Drew Goodard’s pedigree includes writing for Buffy, Angle, the film...
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The Galileo Seven is Down! IDW’s Star Trek #3
The reimagining of classic Star Trek episodes continues in comic book form with this classic Spock-centric episode “The Galileo Seven.” In 1966, the story featured a wonderful, if hard-to-swallow...
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Tor Books Announces Sisterhood of Dune Tour!
Coming up next month, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson will be touring to promote their new Dune novel, Sisterhood of Dune! Don’t miss out on a chance to see one of the authors in a bookstore near...
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T-Rex With A Lightsaber Vs. Normal Guy Who Also Has a Lightsaber
There is a belief out there that perhaps the Internet is overly lousy with lightsabers. And maybe there’s a bit of overkill on the whole goofy Dinosaur thing too. However, sometimes the execution of...
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Live Action Fan Films: Voltron, Portal, and Sailor Moon
So, a while ago I wrote about Serenity: Redemption, a feature length live action fan film that continued the Firefly universe. I thought it was pretty neat, if obviously a fan tribute, but also fairly...
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Darrell K. Sweet, 1934-2011
It is with tremendous sadness that I report that Darrell K. Sweet passed away this morning. Since the mid 1970s, Darrell’s illustrations defined many of fantasy’s most beloved series—including Robert...
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Morning Roundup: Dr. Ellie Sattler Is a Work of Art
Tuesday has docked with your starbase without getting any kind of clearance from your central command/operations center situation. But you know what? There’s nothing you can do about it because you’re...
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Benicio Will Not Boldly Go But Khan Seems Definite (UPDATED)
Previously on Star Trek: Casting Rumors: Benicio Del Toro was in talks with J.J. Abrams and company to appear in the next Star Trek film, but it turns out now that he won’t beam up after all. Vulture...
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American Horror Story — What the Hell is Happening, and Why Haven’t They...
By far the most fascinating new genre show this season is American Horror Story. I’m still not sure exactly what’s happening all the time, or what the rules of the world are here, but in terms of...
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A Compliment to Fantasy: Archon: The Book of Raziel
Angela Mathers lives in a gritty and merciless world.Raised in an atmosphere of extreme physical and emotional abuse, she has taken the shocking route of attempted suicide in order to unite with a...
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First 5 Chapters of Cinder Now Available for Free Download!
Marissa Meyer’s debut novel Cinder will release on January 3rd (check out an introductory story here on the site!), but the first five chapters are available for free download right now! Here’s more on...
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“Tell no one where you’re bound” — being a review of Tamora Pierce’s Mastiff
Mastiff is the highly-anticipated third, and final, instalment of Tamora Pierce’s Beka Cooper novels, after 2006’s Terrier and 2009’s Bloodhound.* Three years have passed since the events of...
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More Game of Thrones Behind the Scenes Video Showcase Arya Stark’s...
The ongoing official production diary for season 2 of Game of Thrones recently posted a behind-the-scenes video featuring Arya Stark’s further adventures past the first series. Check it out:[All this...
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We Are Brains Before Beauty: Girls, Science and Confronting Society’s Blind Eye
Harvard has a series of Implicit Association Tests for anyone to try online. One of these tests is there to determine how you associate gender and science. To start, you are asked what your opinion is...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Gathering Storm, Part 11
With great vengeance and furrrrious anger, it’s a Wheel of Time Re-read! Today’s entry covers Chapters 19 and 20 of The Gathering Storm, in which I am Unthrilled, a lot, and tell you why. At...
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Genre in the Mainstream: How A Christmas Carol Invented Time Travel
In the afterward to a 1988 edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Jane Yolen points out this was not the only attempt at a yuletide tale from the famous author. She mentions the four others:...
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Doctor Who Christmas Special Prequel is Here!
It’s here! The mini-prequel to the forthcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special “The Doctor, The Widow, and The Wardrobe.” We think this looks super good, in a dramatic, what-the-heck-is-going-on kind of...
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Reading Joanna Russ: The Zanzibar Cat (1983)
Released within the same year as How to Suppress Women’s Writing, The Zanzibar Cat is Joanna Russ’s first short story collection. (I’m not counting The Adventures of Alyx because it forms a mosaic...
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