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Republic City is Burning: The Legend of Korra: “Turning the Tides”
The Legend of Korra seems to be entering the endgame and it looks like Amon is calling the shots. I was sort of dubious when Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko claimed that each season would have a...
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Morning Roundup: Planet of the Apes as Lego
This is a FULL SCALE LEGO recreation of the final scene of Planet of the Apes. It’s not actually full scale. We’re just kidding about that. But it’s awesome. We always say this with fan-made Lego...
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Space Music: Joel Hodgson Talks Riffing, MST3K and Film Scores
If you’re a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan, your fondest memories probably revolve around classic film riffs and the show’s surprisingly believable cast of humans, robots, apes, aliens and mole...
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Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World Is A Road-Trip Rom-Com That Really...
Here’s a curious notion: With the release of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World this Friday, movie theaters will play host to not one, but two, road-trip romantic comedies whose premises hinge...
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Write Like a Metamorph
You know how teachers tell writers to “consider the audience” and business trainers tell writers to think about “what’s appropriate for a given writing situation”? Well, it occurred to me the other day...
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Robert Downey Jr. is a Napoleonic General Now
Robert Downey Jr. looks amazing decked out in Napoleonic regalia, doesn’t he? Really classes the place up. The same style of portrait has also been created using William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Ian...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Memento Mori”
Season 4, Episode 14: “Memento Mori”Original Airdate: February 9, 1997Scully has cancer, and Scully is stoic. We wouldn’t expect anything less from her, anything less than a long shot of her studying...
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First Judge Dredd Trailer Hits
Debuting on Attack of the Show, here’s the first trailer for the new Judge Dredd! No word yet on Rob Schneider reprising his role as that one guy.Read the full article
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J.A. Pitts & A.M. Dellamonica Talk Dragons, Volcanoes, and the Loss Behind...
As a tie-in to this month’s Queering SFF Pride posts on Tor.com, A.M. Dellamonica and J.A. Pitts, the authors of Blue Magic and Forged in Fire respectively, interviewed each other about the personal...
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Toy Story 3: The Steadfast Plastic Cowboy
But what fascinated Ermengarde most was [Sara’s] fancy about the dolls who walked and talked, and who could do anything they chose when the human beings were out of the room, but who must keep their...
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Last Rite (Excerpt)
Enjoy this excerpt from the last book of Lisa Desrochers Personal Demons series, Last Rite, out now:In this final installment of the thrilling, edgy Personal Demons series, the battle between Heaven...
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Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary 11: Te Rhintae?
My insanely detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles is over, but the speculation goes on. I’m going to post the occasional speculative summary of cool things posted since last time....
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: All Axe Fights, Somehow Not Enough.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a movie filled with awesome axe fights from start to finish and yet... there somehow aren’t enough.This logically inconsistent feeling the movie leaves you with is...
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Gaming Roundup: Microsoft Xbox 720 Plans Leak Online
Microsoft both giveth and taketh away the biggest gaming news story of the week, as leaked Xbox 720 documents found their way online briefly before being quickly pulled earlier this week. However, as...
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Announcing the Girls’ Nightmare Out Tour Schedule
The new collective of female YA writers—Girls’ Nightmare Out—is hitting the road late this summer. After a kicking off with the #TorChat on August 15, the authors will hit the road for the month of...
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Post-War Transformations: Freddy and the Popinjay
As World War II finally drew to a close, Walter Brooks found himself pondering the question of whether or not friends and enemies could indeed change, or be changed, and how. So although so far, none...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Pathfinder’s Advanced Race Guide
Advanced Race Guide is a catalogue of bits and pieces, odds and ends, and that makes it a resource that anyone who likes getting into the guts of the game should appreciate. The game master who has...
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Treading Water: Of Poseidon by Anna Banks
There are days when I despair with regards to the increasing predictability of the paranormal YA genre. Girl meets Boy, Girl discovers Boy is really some sort of mysterious supernatural being, Girl...
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This Bus Stop Is Having a Weird Day
We can’t put our finger on it, but there’s something just a bit off about this bus stop just outside Buckingham Palace Gardens.[Picture of Totoro from Tokyo Times]Read the full article
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Girls’ Nightmare Out on TorChat
The Tor/Forge blog is back to chat! Their monthly Twitter Chat series is set for this coming Wednesday, August 15 from 4-5 PM under the hashtag #torchat. This time Tor Books is chatting with the...
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