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Reorganization at Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck
Stefan von Holtzbrinck announced today a reorganization of the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. Effective July 2nd, the group will now be composed of three divisions: Global Trade, Global Science...
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Morning Roundup: Liu Yang Becomes China’s First Woman in Space
Over the weekend, China launched i’s first woman into space. Her name is Liu Yang and she is a taikonaut (the chinese term for astronaut)! There’s also been word from an old space probe friend named...
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Queering SFF — Pride Month Extravaganza: The Bending the Landscape Series
In the late nineties, Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel produced a landmark series of anthologies collecting gay and lesbian speculative fiction: the Bending the Landscape books, published by Overlook...
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Christopher Meloni Gets Fangs: True Blood, “Authority Always Wins”
This week’s episode of HBO’s True Blood gives us our first look at vampire Chrsitopher Meloni. I never watched him on SVU, but I enjoyed him on Scrubs and the bits of Oz I peeked at when I wasn’t...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wizard and Glass, “Susan,”...
“Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin.”—Blaine the Mono, to Roland and the Ka-Tet, at the end of The Waste LandsWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series....
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For Love of Art and the Education of A Critic: Ratatouille
It took me a moment to figure out exactly what made Ratatouille my favorite Pixar film. Sure, the conceit of an anthropomorphic rat whose great desire is to be a Parisian gourmet chef is darling, and I...
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Announcing the 2012 Chesley Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2012 Chesley Awards, celebrating science fiction and fantasy art, have been announced. The Chesleys are given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists each year....
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Real Vampy Love Bitches of Sunnydale
(Apologies for posting this out of order, everyone. I’m not entirely sure what happened, but as I was on the road and down with a cold a couple weeks ago, the odds seem good that whatever it was, it’s...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: 1963
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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The New Lara Croft, Now With 100% More Torture!
A woman hangs upside down from the ceiling of a creepy cave. She awakens, groggy, next to what looks like a caccooned corpse and, terrified, fights her way free. The cave is full of candles and a...
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One Small Step: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
It seems like there’s been an uptick in parallel world tales of late. Perhaps outer space holds less appeal as a new frontier for science fiction; alternate earths, instead, are where the greener...
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On Our Radar: Hoverboard Lightstaber Portal Gun Fight!
Hoverboard lightsaber portal gun fight! Hoverboard lightsaber portal gun fight! It’s fun to say but maybe not so fun to do, as evidenced by this College Humor video. (NSFW language.)Read the full article
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Morning Roundup: Hard-Boiled Blade Runner
Tuesday’s collection of offsite links is coming at you from an alternate universe where Blade Runner was originally a film that was adapted by a time-traveling hard-boiled 1940s writer, which was...
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The Wonders of Wonderland
Last night as part of the Montreal Fringe Festival I went to see a dramatic version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It was very well done, very true to the book, with clever...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Australian Author Karen Miller Answers Five Questions
The writing career of prolific Australian author Karen Miller kicked off in 2005, with the publication of her first novel, The Innocent Mage, an epic fantasy in the traditional mould. Since then, she’s...
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First Picture of Angelina Jolie as the Evil Maleficent
Don’t touch the spinning wheel: Maleficent is here! The first picture from the forthcoming live-action film of the same name has arrived. Check out Jolie in her all her creepy glory. (News via io9)Read...
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Wall-E: Pixar’s Lasting Tribute to the Power of Art
Wall-E is generally referred to as a children’s film, and I’m not going to argue: it’s an excellent children’s film—a classic, absolutely. I also happen to think that it’s an even better movie for...
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5 Contemporary Literary Novels That Would Make Killer Sci-Fi Movies
Despite the ubiquitous complaints that film adaptations into novels are worse than their literary forebearers, many of us still rabidly look forward to the translation of beloved books to the big...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 6
Close the beaches and open the drive-in, kids, ‘cause it’s a Wheel of Time Re-read, coming soon to a blog near YOU!Today’s entry covers Chapters 6 and 7 of Towers of Midnight, in which there is tea and...
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What’s Gothic Now?
What with the popularity of vampires on television, Dark Shadows and The Raven in movie theaters, and a new paranormal romance paperback coming out every day, you might think that Gothic was more...
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