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A HEART BETWEEN TEETH

Kerstin Hall
Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:00am 3 comments 22 Favorites [+]

A new novelette set in the realms of Kerstin Hall’s acclaimed The Mkalis Cycle
series. The 813th realm of Mkalis has fallen to a cruel and mercurial god, but
Tahmais, its would-be successor, finds an unlikely ally in her quest to reclaim
it at any cost…

Sneak a peek at the cover for Kerstin Hall’s new standalone fantasy novel
ASUNDER, coming August 2024 from Tordotcom!

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 * Original Fiction


SOME WAYS TO RETELL A FAIRY TALE

Kathleen Jennings
Wed Nov 8, 2023 9:00am 2 comments 15 Favorites [+]

There’s more to “once upon a time” than meets the eye…

A version of this story appeared in TEXT.

 

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 * Original Fiction


THE CANADIAN MIRACLE

Cory Doctorow
Wed Nov 1, 2023 9:00am 4 comments 15 Favorites [+]

A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery
workers’ efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi.

This story is set in the same future as The Lost Cause, Cory Doctorow’s new
novel, available everywhere on November 14, 2023.

 

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 * Original Fiction


ON THE FOX ROADS

Nghi Vo
Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:00am 7 comments 26 Favorites [+]

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway
discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight
lines when you run the fox roads…

 

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 * Original Fiction


THE LOCKED COFFIN: A JUDGE DEE MYSTERY

Lavie Tidhar
Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:00am 10 comments 30 Favorites [+]

A new Judge Dee mystery!

While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge
Dee and Jonathan discover the only thing more menacing than a vampire child is
twin vampire children…

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 * Original Fiction


NOT THE MOST ROMANTIC THING

Carrie Vaughn
Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:00am 15 comments 25 Favorites [+]

On one of their earliest Visigoth assignments, Graff and Ell stumble into each
other’s secrets (and one significant surprise) while conducting a recovery
mission on a mining asteroid scheduled for imminent pulverization…

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 * Original Fiction


JACK O’DANDER

Priya Sharma
Wed Oct 4, 2023 9:00am 5 comments 17 Favorites [+]

The sister of an abducted child is haunted by a sinister figure who may or may
not be real. . .

 

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 * Movie Review


GODZILLA MINUS ONE WILL MAKE YOU BELIEVE IN GODZILLA

Leah Schnelbach
Mon Dec 4, 2023 1:00pm 8 comments 8 Favorites [+]

I think this has been the greatest movie year of my lifetime. I still have a
long list of films I want to see before New Year’s Day, but so far the pattern
has been: go to a movie, be astonished by it, worry that people are going to
think I’m a shill because all my reviews are positive. (I promise you, if I
think a film is crap I’ll tell you to save your precious money and far more
precious time.) But now here we are, today, with me saying that Godzilla Minus
One is one of the best movies of the year.

YES, this year, with all those other extraordinary movies in it.

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 * Epic Fantasy


EMILY WILSON’S ILIAD, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE SWORD

Kristen Patterson
Mon Dec 4, 2023 12:00pm 27 comments 27 Favorites [+]

There’s a fight a-brewin’: On September 26th, Emily Wilson’s translation of the
ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad was released (published by W.W. Norton), the
natural follow-up to her 2018 translation of the Odyssey. That initial project
garnered a great deal of attention as being the first published translation of
the Odyssey done by a woman—into English. Wilson, for her part, prefers to
emphasize her work’s more immediate qualities than her own metahistorical
first-ness.

The marketing campaign for Wilson’s Odyssey was very successful, however, due in
whatever proportion to usage of the reliable “first woman to ____” narrative,
and the book received popular acclaim as well as positive scholarly reviews. To
some people, it was their first introduction to the Homeric epic. For others, it
was the first time that they really connected to the story, freshly delivered to
them in more idiomatically accessible language. In either case, I have
anecdotally heard several people say that they first developed a deep personal
connection to Homeric poetry and to Odysseus’ story through Wilson’s
translation.

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12 MALE ROLE MODELS FROM SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

Charlie Jane Anders
Tue Dec 5, 2023 12:00pm 30 comments 7 Favorites [+]

Lately I feel like everyone is talking about masculinity and what it means to be
a good dude. Last month, I was on a panel at the Pride on the Page book
festival with Jacob Tobia (Sissy) who was saying that we’ve spent decades
expanding gender roles for women in mainstream society—and women finally won the
right to wear pants in the workplace (for now)—but meanwhile, too many guys men
remain trapped, unable to express healthy emotions or process all of their
trauma.

As someone who was so successful at being a man that I actually graduated, I
want to help!

So it’s a really good thing that science fiction and fantasy offer us so many
excellent examples of guys who are secure in their masculinity and ready to do
the right thing, even when it’s tough.

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 * news


NEW MARVEL ANIMATED SERIES, EYES OF WAKANDA, IS HEADING TO DISNEY+

Vanessa Armstrong
Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:24pm 1 Favorite [+]

Marvel is working on a few animated projects in addition to the second (and
third) season of What If…? And at a screening last night, the studio shared a
sizzle reel highlighting three of them, including the first look at Eyes of
Wakanda.

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 * Excerpts


READ AN EXCERPT FROM PILLAR OF ASH

H.M. Long
Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:00pm Post a comment Favorite This

Yske, daughter of the legendary warrior priestess Hessa, has dedicated her life
to medicine and pacifism in service to Aita, the Great Healer.

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Pillar of Ash, the fourth and final book
in H.M. Long’s Hall of Smoke epic fantasy series—out from Titan Books on January
16th.

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 * news


SEASON 2 OF MARVEL’S WHAT IF…? WILL HAVE MORE MULTIVERSE STORIES (AND MORE
COSPLAY OPPORTUNITIES)

Vanessa Armstrong
Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:52pm Favorite This


The second season of Marvel’s What If…?, the animated anthology series that
tells stories in different realties in the multiverse, is headed our way this
holiday season. I had the chance to attend a screening of two of those episodes
as well as attend a Q&A with the series’ writers and director, and while the
three were unsurprisingly tight-lipped about what’s in store for viewers, they
did tease some things about what we’ll see in the upcoming episodes—not only in
season two, but the already-greenlit season three as well.

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 * book review
 * Nicola Griffith


“THE PATTERN OF LIFE, AND BUILT TO A PURPOSE”: MENEWOOD, NICOLA GRIFFITH’S
LATEST MASTERPIECE

Liz Bourke
Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:30pm Post a comment Favorite This

Menewood is the sequel to Nicola Griffith’s magisterial novel of 7th-century
Northumbria, the critically-acclaimed Hild. Like Hild, it focuses on part of the
life of Hilda (the eponymous Hild) of Whitby. Unlike Hild‘s decade-plus sweep of
childhood to young womanhood, Menewood covers only three years, 632 to 635, and
begins very nearly exactly where Hild left off. It is, as all historical fiction
must be, a fantasy of what might have been, but Griffith roots her novel so
closely and so tightly in the rhythms of that antique world, its sounds and
smells, its textures, its necessities and its uncertainties, that it begins to
seem more real than any other truth.

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 * Front Lines and Frontiers


OF SPIES AND PSYCHICS: NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D.: EMPYRE BY WILL MURRAY

Alan Brown
Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:00pm Post a comment Favorite This

In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books,
Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about
soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers.
Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”:
battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement.

Novels that tie into other forms of entertainment don’t always have the best
reputation. They are generally written by authors who are working for hire, and
their quality can certainly vary. But back around the turn of the century, when
I saw a book featuring one of my favorite comic book characters, Nick Fury,
Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., I couldn’t pass it up. Plus, it was written by an author
I was familiar with from his work on the venerable Doc Savage adventure
series—and the fact that it had an eye-catching cover by Joe Jusko didn’t hurt
either. You might wonder why I chose to review this book during the holiday
season, but it turns out the fictional terrorists schedule their attack for
Christmas Eve. So, like the movie Die Hard, this book is a Christmas tale. Read
More »

 * trailers


PAUL ATREIDES SEES A NARROW WAY THROUGH IN A NEW TRAILER FOR DUNE: PART TWO

Molly Templeton
Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:27pm Favorite This


The sandworms are coming. Not until March, sure, but Warner Bros. doesn’t want
you to forget: they’re coming. And so is a whole lot of war, and the “psychotic”
Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler), and Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), and everything
else the first half of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune didn’t have time for.

Read More »

 * movie reviews


A DISASTER OF A VACATION: LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

Molly Templeton
Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:00pm 1 comment 1 Favorite [+]
Image: Netflix

In a beautiful bedroom in Brooklyn, a woman packs a suitcase. The bedroom is
blue and large; the people who sleep in it, Amanda (Julia Roberts) and Clay
(Ethan Hawke), obviously don’t do too poorly for themselves. But neither are
they the kind of wealthy that results in those pristine, spare, Pottery
Barn-like spaces where everything personal is hidden away.

With their two kids, Amanda and Clay depart the city for a Long Island getaway.
The house they pull up to is the space of the obviously wealthy: elegant, sleek,
but still with hints of warmth. There’s a pool; there’s an even bigger bedroom
with a moody piece of art on the wall behind the bed. Teenage Archie (Charlie
Evans) just wants to know how far it is to the town where a girl he likes is
staying. Young Rose (Farrah Mackenzie) just wants to keep watching Friends on
her iPad.

And then, gradually, the world falls apart.

Read More »

 * trailers


THE DOCTOR MEETS HIS NEW COMPANION IN THE TEASER FOR THIS YEAR’S DOCTOR WHO
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Molly Templeton
Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:30pm 1 Favorite [+]


Are you ready to meet some new friends? There’s a teeny little teaser for this
year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, in which Ncuti Gatwa makes his full
post-regeneration debut as the Fifteenth Doctor—and Millie Gibson arrives as the
new companion, Ruby Sunday.

But is it possible she’s met him before?

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 * Best of 2023


SOME OF TOR.COM’S BEST ARTICLES ABOUT FICTION, READING, AND WRITING IN 2023

Tor.com
Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:00pm 1 comment 8 Favorites [+]

Once again, it’s time to look back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles
from the past year! Below, we’ve rounded up many of our favorite essays about
books, reading, writing, and storytelling—there will be a separate list of
articles discussing TV, movies, and other media coming soon.

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 * book review


RETURN TO OZ: GREGORY MAGUIRE’S THE WITCH OF MARACOOR

Molly Templeton
Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:30am Post a comment Favorite This

In the second book of Gregoy Maguire’s Another Day trilogy, young (and somewhat
amnesiac) Rain says, “I’m learning there’s never a way home, only a way forward.
So let’s take it.” The green granddaughter of Elphaba Thropp, Rain spends the
first two books of her story far from home. In the wake of a very upsetting
event, she departed for distant shores, taking Elphie’s broom and her powerful
book, the Grimmerie, which Rain dropped in the sea. 

But—as even twentysomething witches eventually learn—you can’t leave your past
behind. (It’s also quite hard to get rid of a magical tome that would prefer not
to be drowned, thank you.) Having made unexpected new friends, traveled across a
strange land, and accidentally uncovered a family secret, Rain now has her own
future ahead of her (and a good deal of her memory back). She is—almost—on her
way back to Oz.

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 * The Wheel of Time


READING THE WHEEL OF TIME: FAILE FACES A SNOWSTORM AND THREE DEADLY SNARES IN
WINTER’S HEART (PART 5)

Sylas K Barrett
Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:00am 9 comments 2 Favorites [+]

It’s chilly today as I’m writing this post for Reading The Wheel of Time, but
not nearly as cold as it is in chapter three of Winter’s Heart, as Faile,
Morgase, and Alliandre—along with fellow captives Bain and Chiad, Lacile and
Arrela—try to survive their first few hours as prisoners of the Shaido. Being
naked in a snowstorm is nothing to sneeze at, even for a Saldaean.

Read More »


SERIES: READING THE WHEEL OF TIME

 * Science Fiction


FIVE BOOKS FEATURING CLOSED BOUNDARIES AND HERMIT KINGDOMS

James Davis Nicoll
Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:00am 9 comments 4 Favorites [+]

Photo: Lisa Bresler [via Unsplash]

Noted philosophers Edward and Tulip “Tubbs” Tattsyrup, featured in the
documentary The League of Gentlemen, have pondered the problems inherent in
contact with the outside world. Outsiders follow unfamiliar ways. Outsiders ask
uncomfortable questions. Outsiders are impudently judgmental about
long-established custom. Shop owners Edward and Tubbs reject undue contact with
the unfamiliar, rebuking new customers with shrieks of “This is a local shop,
for local people; there’s nothing for you here!”

Many cultures have followed the same chain of logic as the Tattsyrups, closing
their borders to disruptive outside elements. Here are five works about
communities that try their very best to apply the rules of  “local shops for
local people,” however misguided.

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 * news


DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL INCLUDES A BABY-EATING MUSICAL NUMBER

Vanessa Armstrong
Mon Dec 11, 2023 3:30pm Favorite This


After the goodness that was the last of three specials featuring the return of
David Tennant and Catherine Tate as the DoctorDonna, we’ve finally got our first
good look at the Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa. We’ll see more of
Gatwa, of course—in just a few weeks his first special comes out. But in the
meantime, BBC Studios released a delicious musical number that we’ll see in that
episode. Read More »

 * Jo Walton Reads


JO WALTON’S READING LIST: NOVEMBER 2023

Jo Walton
Mon Dec 11, 2023 3:00pm 14 comments 7 Favorites [+]

November was a dark cold month spent entirely at home, reading and trying to
write. Whose idea was this? Oh all right, mine, but having the clocks go back
wasn’t my idea. Anyway, I read 26 books in November, and some of them were great
and some of them were interesting, and one or two I hated, but they’re very
varied.

Read More »

 * in remembrance


MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR DAVID DRAKE, PASSES AWAY AT AGE 78

Vanessa Armstrong
Mon Dec 11, 2023 2:35pm 22 comments 6 Favorites [+]
Credit: Karen Zimmerman

David Drake, the author or co-author of over 80 science fiction and fantasy
books, passed away on December 10, 2023 in Silk Hope, North Carolina. Drake, a
Vietnam veteran and lawyer, turned to writing full-time in 1981, a few years
after his first book was published.

Drake was born on September 24, 1945. He studied at Duke Law School and was
drafted into the army in 1970, where he was assigned to the 11th Cavalry
Regiment (a.k.a. the Blackhorse), where he, via tank, spent the war in Vietnam
and Cambodia. He finished law school after he returned and became Chapel Hill,
North Carolina’s Assistant Town Attorney. He turned to writing to help him
grapple with his army experiences, and his first book, the short story
collection Hammer’s Slammers came out in 1979.

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