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Sci-Fi Actors Wearing Steampunk Clothes Designed By Prada
High end fashion line Prada has just unveiled photos and video of actors Willem “Green Goblin” Dafoe, Gary “Commissioner Sirius Black” Oldman, Garrett “Sam Flynn” Hedlund, and Jamie “TinTin Billy...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Attack of the Sugar Plum Fairy Tale
Things in the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer build to the events of “The Wish” and then fall off, just a bit, giving us a breather before we drop into Buffy’s latest horrific birthday, the...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: WildC.A.T.s
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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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Has Made Charlize Theron Sad and She Needs Our Help
We thought it was odd how no one was commenting on how Charlize Theron ruled June’s headlining movies with her star turns in fantasy film Snow White and the Huntsman and the science fiction flick...
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Toughen Up, Tara: True Blood, “Whatever I Am, You Made Me”
True Blood, please stop teasing me with promises of Russell Edgington and not delivering. You need to give it up to get my premium cable subscription money, hookers. If he doesn’t show up by July 15th,...
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A Young Thief and Her God: False Covenant by Ari Marmell
In the mood for some fun YA fantasy? Meet Widdershins, formerly known as Adrienne Satti: a young woman who grew up as an orphan on the streets of Davillon, escaped poverty to join the city’s powerful...
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Fiction Affliction: July Releases in Fantasy
Elves and fae, vampires and… Peter Pan? Fantasy hits the fantastical in July (must be the heat). Look for new series titles from Wen Spencer, Gav Thorpe, Paula Brandon, and Yasmine Galenorn, while Alex...
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How Toy Story 2 Nearly Vanished
Count on Pixar to make a small animated short about how they almost lost Toy Story 2 while it was in production. Watch the video to see how three characters punched into a computer — only three...
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Three Short Novels by Connie Willis
Uncharted Territory (1994), Remake (1995) and Bellwether (1996) are all short novels. The three of them together barely make up the same thickness as Doomsday Book. Remake and Bellwether won the Locus...
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Morning Roundup: Why is the Cast of Babylon 5 Giving Us the Finger?
We spotted this beautiful Vampire Hunter infographic over on Digg, though it looks like it originates from the Cheezburger sites. Not only does it pit two different Van Helsing’s skills against each...
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5 Ways Not to Screw Up Jurassic Park 4
The track record of screenwriters assigned to pen new installments of beloved franchises can often let fans know which way the wind is blowing in their favorite fictional universes. In the case of the...
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A Bit of Derring-Do and Name Dropping: The Black Moth
Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, at the age of 17, largely to entertain a sickly young brother. It has derring do, a Robin Hood type figure who even names himself as such, an Evil...
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Welcome to the Georgette Heyer Reread
Very few authors can say, with confidence, that they developed an entire subgenre, spawning hundreds of imitators and creating a line of novels still immensely profitable today, or boast of never being...
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Brother from Another Planet: Reassessing the Alien Franchise After Prometheus
Prometheus introduces the concept of the Engineers to the Alien franchise; an alien race of “ancient astronauts” that made mankind over thirty thousand years ago, then abandoned humanity for...
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Returning to Pern: Sky Dragons by Anne and Todd McCaffrey
This will be the last book to bear Anne McCaffrey’s imprimature. Her death fell between its writing and its publication, and so I must admit that my response to Sky Dragons, during my reading, was...
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Introducing Stubby the Rocket Keychains by RockLove Jewelry!
Allison Hourcade, of RockLove Jewelry, has created brass keychains and silver necklaces of our very own Stubby, the Rocket Tor.com logo! To sport your own starfleet, please visit the RockLove...
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A Shimmer of the Unexpected: Why The Age of Miracles Delivers
Julia—the narrator of The Age of Miracles—is 11 years old when the world changes forever. It’s October, and time suddenly becomes elastic. One day, for no apparent reason, a day is suddenly 25 hours...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 7
Well, it’s 100 degrees Fahrenheit and my air conditioning is broken, but the Wheel of Time Re-read marches on, because that’s how much I love you, my peeps. For reals.Today’s entry covers Chapters 8...
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24 Hours Left for $2.99 First in YA
There’s just 24 hours 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...
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Of Rogues and Gadabouts: The Hammer and the Blade by Paul S. Kemp
Some of you might know Paul S. Kemp from his Star Wars expanded universe fiction. Some of you might even know him from his Chronicles of Erevis Cale. I didn’t know him at all until an ARC of his latest...
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