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The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons: Chapter 9
Debut author Jenn Lyons has created one of the funniest, most engrossing new epic fantasy novels of the 21st century in The Ruin of Kings. An eyebrow-raising cross between the intricacy of Brandon...
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Reading The Ruin of Kings: Chapter 9
Hello, Tor.com! Enjoying yourself this fine December Tuesday? Heard your 11111th rendition of Jingle Bells yet? Ready to murder something yet? Well, don’t do that; instead, come read about something...
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The Chosen Children of Portal Fantasies
Let’s talk about doors for a moment, you and I. Let’s talk about the power of something closed, whether or not it’s been forbidden; the mystery of the trapdoor that leads up into the attic, the...
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How Animorphs and ReBoot Used Cheesiness to Get Away With Telling Important...
Even today, even in the era of mainstream geekdom and publicly embracing guilty pleasures, I still cannot recommend two formative pieces of genre work from my childhood (the mid-’90s to early ’00s)...
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Designing the Future: Deconstructing Five Sci-Fi Book Covers
I’ve spent the last two years studying the typography and design of science fiction movies for Typeset in the Future, available in all good bookstores now from the lovely folks at Abrams. My studies...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Jumping Into C.J. Cherryh’s Alliance-Union Books
A little while ago, I received an ARC of Alliance Rising, C.J. Cherryh’s collaboration with her spouse Jane Fancher, set in Cherryh’s Alliance-Union continuity—the universe of Cherryh’s acclaimed...
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The City in the Middle of the Night Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a galley copy of Charlie Jane Anders’ The City in the Middle of the Night, available February 12 from Tor Books! “If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams… And from...
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Download a Free Ebook of Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald Before December 15,...
Each month, the Tor.com eBook Club gives away a free sci-fi/fantasy ebook to club subscribers. We’re excited to announce that the pick for December 2018 is Ian McDonald’s Luna: New Moon, the first book...
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Read Brandon Sanderson’s New Magic: The Gathering Novella Free on December 12!
All year, Brandon Sanderson fans have wondered what the prolific author’s “secret project” could be, but today’s announcement from io9 has answered that question: Sanderson, a longtime fan of Magic:...
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Revealing The Ascent to Godhood, Book 4 in JY Yang’s Tensorate Series
We’re excited to share the cover for The Ascent to Godhood, the fourth book in JY Yang’s silkpunk Tensorate series—forthcoming from Tor.com Publishing in July 2019. The Protector is dead. For fifty...
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Sam Weller’s The Bradbury Chronicles: A Portrait of the Artist That Every...
I’ll admit that, after combing through the Tor.com archives (shamelessly searching for ideas for more articles), when I discovered no one had written about Sam Weller’s biography of Ray Bradbury, my...
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Han Solo is the Galaxy’s Goodest Dog
Some Star Wars theories make too much sense not to be true. Such as the very sensible idea that, to Chewbacca, Han is a badly behaved puppy. You might have stumbled across this theory on Twitter about...
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Pull List: Best Comics of 2018
This was a pretty decent year new comics, especially for indies and miniseries. Marvel’s constant behind-the-scenes chaos isn’t making it any easier to keep its readers in the face of DC’s post-Rebirth...
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Why You Should Add AD/BC: A Rock Opera to Your Holiday Movie List
Every year, people who get paid to write on the internet celebrate a very strange ritual: we try to dig up obscure Christmas specials, or find new angles on popular ones. Thus, we receive epic...
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The Trouble with Terraforming
My foray through Lois McMaster Bujold’s backlist on my site—a foray nowhere near as detailed as Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer’s ongoing reread—reached Komarr recently. One of the elements of the setting...
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Tom Holland and Chris Pratt to Play Elf Brothers in New Disney•Pixar Fantasy...
Disney•Pixar has announced Onward, a new animated adventure starring Star-Lord and Peter Parker Chris Pratt and Tom Holland as elf brothers searching for lost magic in a “suburban fantasy” world. Julia...
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Just Being Nosy: China Miéville’s “Details”
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. This week, we’re...
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We Want to Join Spider-Man’s Book Club!
Are you seeing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse this weekend? (You should, because if the opening half hour shown at New York Comic-Con is any indication, this will be The Greatest Spider-Movie.)...
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Oathbringer Reread: Interlude Five—Taravangian
Calling all conspiracy theorists! You’re wanted on the Oathbringer Reread this week! We have secret societies, deception among the leadership, calls for murder, charges of idiocy… Yes, if you couldn’t...
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The Speculative Worlds of William Shakespeare
There’s a weird moment near the end of Shakespeare’s most realist and domestic comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, when the plot to expose Falstaff’s failed sexual exploits gets all “Midsummer Nights”...
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