Watch The Avengers Get a Firefly Intro
Oh god we want this TV show right now. YouTube user Hud1313 has mashed together the Joss Whedon Avengers film into Firefly-style credits and let us tell you... Chris Hemsworth and mournful fiddle just...
View Article10 Movies That Really Need Robots
Sometimes a movie fails to inspire. Maybe it’s too slow, or the dialogue is flat. Maybe the characters spend too much time looking at the horizon, knitting their alabaster brows, feeling things so...
View ArticleAn Ode To NY In the Key of War: Brian Wood’s DMZ
In February of 2012, the comic book series DMZ ran its 72nd and final issue. After nearly six and a half years and twelve graphic novels, Brian Wood’s tale of war in a near future New York City rolled...
View ArticleGet the First Audio Chapter of Princeps Free!
June is Audiobook Month, and Tantor is celebrating all month long. Visit the site for a free first chapter download of Princeps, an exclusive interview with L.E. Modesitt, Jr., and our annual 50%-off...
View ArticleWatch Blade Runner in Watercolor
Already over 3,285 paintings, swedish artist Anders Samsell plans to eventually render all of Blade Runner. This is 12 minute video is just the preview. (via BuzzFeed)[Full video below the cut]Read the...
View ArticleWeird Spaces and Familiar Faces: The Devil’s Nebula by Eric Brown
Riding high on the contrails of The Kings of Eternity, perhaps his most excellent effort to date, as well as his least conventional, Eric Brown returns to known space in The Devil’s Nebula, to revisit...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Help Us Name Anakin’s Dog
Anakin is so lame, he doesn’t even use Jedi mindtricks to get the money he needs. The more important question here is: what is the name of Anakin’s dog? We think it should be either Rasputin, Qui-Gon...
View ArticleLoco
You can’t just morph a federal scientist into a giant invertebrate that catches fire. That’s not an acceptable protocol. And the feds aren’t going to fund you anymore. Not when your boss is a...
View ArticleGet a Sneak Peek at Monsters, Inc. 2!
Oh Pixar, you shouldn’t have! Is this because we’re rewatching all of your fantastic films? Or just because you love us?Just days before the release of Pixar’s latest movie Brave, this teaser trailer...
View ArticlePicturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration
It’s the longest day of the year and I, for one, love all the hours of warm daylight. Following up on Picturing Winter and Picturing Spring, I asked a bunch of artist friends to send me the paintings...
View ArticleThey’re Finally the Same Temperature! Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Trailer...
Good news, Twilight fans! A full trailer for Breaking Dawn, Part 2 has finally arrived. Get your fill of Volturi vs. vampire action, Bella fighting, and that creepy creepy Renesmee child.(PSA for...
View ArticleFinding What Was Lost: Up
Pixar movies are generally an easy sell for me. They push all the right buttons. Monsters? They’ve got them. Superheroes? That, too. Science fictional robots? Yup. But it wasn’t until they got to...
View ArticleEnder’s Game Filming News Roundup
This week, principle photography on the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game officially wrapped, moving the long awaited project ever closer to actually coming out. This is exciting news...
View ArticleCover Reveal for New YA Novel The Nightmare Affair
I’m thrilled to reveal the cover for Mindee Arnett’s debut YA novel, The Nightmare Affair. Finding the right cover was quite an involved process, so we thought we’d share a little bit about how we...
View ArticleIn Defense of Bronies — The Quest For Gender Equality in Fandom
Way back in the 80s, when He-Man and Voltron graced us with their presence on television, when Thundercats roamed the TV landscape and Jem was truly outrageous, there was no end to the cartoons a child...
View ArticleDownload Free Wallpaper from the The Path of Daggers Ebook
As part of the run up to the final book in the Wheel of Time series, Tor.com will be releasing free wallpapers of all available ebook art!This week we’re featuring the ebook art for The Path of...
View ArticleFarscape Rewatch: “A Bug’s Life”
A Bug’s LifeStory by Doug Heyes, Jnr., teleplay by Rockne S. O’Bannon (as Steven Rae), directed by Tony TilseSeason 1, Episode 181st US Transmission Date: 17 September 19991st UK Transmission Date: 17...
View ArticleOne Week Left for $2.99 First in YA
There’s just one week left to snag these first in YA series ebooks for a great price. If you’re into YA with a touch of the fantastic, we’ve got a solution: get an ebook of the first in three diffrent...
View ArticleBuffy Season 9: Dark Horse Lets Buffy Grow Up
I’m 32 going on 33. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer film (starring Kristy Swanson as the titular heroine, and the dreamy Luke Perry, riding high on his Dylan McKay fame) came out when I was thirteen; when...
View ArticleShine Shine Shine (Excerpt)
Check out this excerpt from Lydia Netzer’s upcoming novel Shine Shine Shine, out on July 17th (and don’t miss her post about movies that should have robots in them!):When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven...
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