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A Burden Shared
What we do for one another is a mystery. Penny woke on Tuesday morning and cautiously assessed the level of pain. If she didn’t move at all, there was nothing but the familiar bone-deep ache in all...
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Expanded Course in the History of Black Science Fiction: Samuel R. Delany’s...
Over a year ago, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination published an essay by me called A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction. Since then I’ve been asked to write individual essays on...
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The “True Nature of the Force” is Way More Complicated Than You Think
This is an updated version of an article that ran in 2012. It started off pretty simple—there was a young man who wanted to become an agent of good, like his father before him. He would use a mystical...
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When You Wish Upon Yog Sothoth: Martha Wells’s “The Dark Gates”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. Today we’re...
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This Exoplanet May Have an Atmosphere; Could It Support Life?
It seems as though we’ve been finding exoplanets left and right—from Proxima b to the TRAPPIST-1 system’s multiple Earth-sized planets—but what we’ve really been looking for is a planet with an...
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Military SF Without the Space Battles: Cold Welcome by Elizabeth Moon
It’s even odds whether Elizabeth Moon is better known for her fantasy novels or her military science fiction. Cold Welcome is an entry on the science fiction side of the ledger. In it, Moon returns to...
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From Robby to Roomba: Robots, AIs, and the Minds of Tomorrow
In honor of Earth Day, Harper Voyager authors are sharing their scientific knowledge in the form of the virtual science fair—follow the conversation on Twitter at #HVsciencefair. Artificial...
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Marvel Picks Directing Duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck to Helm Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel has found its director—well, directors—and Marvel has kept its promise that the studio’s first female-led superhero film would have a female director… sort of. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck,...
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Refuge for Masterminds
It’s 1814. Napoleon has escaped his imprisonment on Elba. Britain is at war on four fronts. And at Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, five young ladies are secretly being trained for a world of...
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New Tor Mini Hardcovers Includes: Brandon Sanderson’s Edgedancer, Charlie...
Miniature books! With miniature pages! And perfect miniature fingers and toes! Okay, not the latter, but we’re delighted to announce a fistful of small-format 4×6 paper-over-board hardcovers selected...
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Glaciologist Creates Bot That Assembles Fantasy Maps By the Hour
Martin O’Leary, a glacier scientist, has created a remarkable program that you can find under the Twitter account Uncharted Atlas. This program allows for the creation of intricate maps that would look...
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Watch the First Trailer for Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger
Marvel Studios has released the first trailer for Cloak & Dagger, the television series coming to Freeform about the two teenagers who will become the eponymous crimefighting duo. But for now...
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Let’s Stop Overlooking SFF in Translation
You’ve seen the list of the finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards, and it’s a good selection, this year. What excited me the most about it? The fact that for the third year in a row, a work of speculative...
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The Wheel of Time TV Series Moving Forward at Sony Pictures Television with...
Variety reports that Sony Pictures Television will produce the TV adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series. The news comes just about a year after Harriet McDougal, wife of the late...
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Getting the Most Out of Life: Revisiting Television’s Forever
Join us for a series of essays about science fiction TV series that, while popular with viewers, were cancelled early on by the networks. Some of the programs to be covered include Threshold (2005),...
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Fahrenheit 451 Coming to HBO with Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon
Fahrenheit 451 is coming to the screen. Variety reports that HBO is developing a TV film of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, starring Michael B. Jordan as Montag, the young fireman who has a crisis of...
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Casting Ideas for the New Wheel of Time TV Series
Well, whaddaya know. It’s happening after all. (Update: And now it’s heading to television with a showrunner attached.) As you know, Tor.com Bob (especially if you just clicked that link), the...
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Warbreaker Reread: Chapters 27 and 28
Welcome back to the Warbreaker reread! Last week, Lightsong continued his murder investigation, with increasing curiosity about his previous life. This week, Siri seeks new sources of information,...
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Trickery, Social Climbing, and Possibly Fish: Puss in Boots
Some folktale heroes must climb mountains of glass, or reach the ends of the world, or fly upon the back of the west wind to obtain their happiness and good fortunes. Others just need to inherit a cat....
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Actor Bruce Langley on Playing American Gods’ Technical Boy
I am extremely excited for American Gods. I’m also firmly in the “Bryan Fuller is a perfect person who should get to do whatever he wants on TV” camp, so learning that he would be combining his talents...
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