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Sir Patrick Stewart Will Return as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in New Star Trek...
The rumored reboot of Star Trek: The Next Generation that was first hinted at in June has been confirmed as a brand-new Star Trek television series starring Sir Patrick Stewart, reprising his role as...
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Reunite with Vampire Hunters, Elephantine Aliens, and Murderbots in Barnes &...
For two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated...
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The Darkest Minds is a Grab-Bag YA Dystopia That Manages to Say Nothing Original
It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment that YA dystopia The Darkest Minds feels the most derivative. Honestly, my ennui starts in the first minutes of the movie, with the mysterious disease that...
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Should the New Picard Star Trek TV Series Be Set on a Starship?
On Saturday, at the 2018 Las Vegas Star Trek Convention, Sir Patrick Stewart revealed that he will star in a new Star Trek series centered on the life of Captain Picard, set 20 years after the events...
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I Have A Lot of Feelings About Christopher Robin
With the success of the Paddington films, it seems as though certain parts of Hollywood have recognized that we could all do with more films that are the equivalent of hugs and hot chocolate and warm...
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Worlds Beside Worlds: Andre Norton’s The Crossroads of Time
Somehow in my head I seem to have conflated this novel and its sequel with any number of Doctor Who episodes. It’s not what I would call time travel, it’s parallel worlds—kind of a stripped-down...
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Ghosts of Future Wastelands: Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Latchkey
What do you call a ghost story that doesn’t feel remotely like a ghost story? Nicole Kornher-Stace’s novel Archivist Wasp brought together a host of seemingly disparate elements that would normally...
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Wild Cards Authors Pit Their Characters Against Classic Superheroes
One thing that makes George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series a unique superhero tale is that its superpowered heroes and villains all share the same origin story: when an alien virus fell from the skies...
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AMC Developing Animated Sci-Fi Series Pantheon Based on Ken Liu’s Short Stories
Since 2002, author and translator Ken Liu has published over 100 science fiction and fantasy short stories. Now, at least some of them will form the basis for Pantheon, a new animated science fiction...
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Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Diplomatic Immunity, Chapter 5
It’s been a little while since we’ve been reminded of just how brutal Barrayar can be. It’s working on its anti-mutant prejudices! People don’t make signs against the evil eye when they see Miles in...
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New “Deleted” Wheel of Time Novella to Appear in Unfettered III in 2019
When Shawn Speakman and Grim Oak Press released the first Unfettered anthology in 2013, the epic fantasy collection included “River of Souls,” a deleted scene from Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Dragons and Amyrlins in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Welcome to Week Two of The Great Hunt. We get some good world building this week, and a lot of running around Fal Dara. I enjoyed the way that these chapters did a lot of world building for Fal Dara,...
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Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1980s, Part I
The number of women active in SF continued to grow in the 1980s, despite pushback that ranged from angry tirades to attempts to erase women from SF history. One can get a sense of the trend by...
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Paper Girls is Good and You Should Read It
When Paper Girls debuted in the halcyon days of 2015, it was justly well received, earning high praise from reviewers, a Hugo nomination for best Graphic Story, and a couple of Eisner awards. However,...
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Announcing Three New Novels From Annalee Newitz
Tor Books has acquired two novels from Annalee Newitz, Lambda Award-winning author of Autonomous, in addition to another novel slated for Fall 2019. The Future of Another Timeline, publishing in Fall...
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Reading V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic (Part 8)
Well, it’s time to make a bargain and gain an adventure buddy! You knew that was coming, I assume. Here is a link to the series index, for your convenience. Go there for previous entries! Eight: An...
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The Empathetic Murderbot: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
“…I went from being told what to do and having every action monitored to being able to do whatever I wanted, and somewhere along the way my impulse control went to hell.” Rogue Protocol is the third...
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State Tectonics
The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Books Inspired by History and Historical Literature
Elizabeth Bear and Katherine Addison have a new joint effort out this September. You might recognise Katherine Addison as the author of The Goblin Emperor, and you might also remember that she’s also...
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The Book as Archive: An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton
Collecting the column series that ran from 2010-2013 on Tor.com, An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000 contains Jo Walton’s original year-by-year...
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