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A HEART BETWEEN TEETH

Kerstin Hall
Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:00am 2 comments 12 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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SOME WAYS TO RETELL A FAIRY TALE

Kathleen Jennings
Wed Nov 8, 2023 9:00am 2 comments 13 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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THE CANADIAN MIRACLE

Cory Doctorow
Wed Nov 1, 2023 9:00am 4 comments 14 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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ON THE FOX ROADS

Nghi Vo
Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:00am 5 comments 20 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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THE LOCKED COFFIN: A JUDGE DEE MYSTERY

Lavie Tidhar
Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:00am 10 comments 25 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 23 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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JACK O’DANDER

Priya Sharma
Wed Oct 4, 2023 9:00am 5 comments 15 Favorites [+]

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

 

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HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE BECKETT MARINER

Jaime Babb
Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:00am 23 comments 16 Favorites [+]

If there is one ironclad law of Star Trek, it is this: Each new series, no
matter how good it ends up being, will be received like a declaration of holy
war by a certain extremely vocal subset of the fandom. When The Next Generation
came out, they complained that it lacked Kirk and Spock; when Deep Space Nine
came out, they moaned that the station didn’t go anywhere. They pilloried
Discovery for being too action-heavy and Picard for being too sedate. But the
furor was seldom more intense than it was when it was announced that the
franchise’s ninth series would be an adult animated comedy.

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 * Science Fiction


FIVE MUST-READ SF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2023

James Davis Nicoll
Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:00am 28 comments 4 Favorites [+]

When I totaled up my monthly review stats way back in September, I realized that
I had lost focus on recent science fiction. Of the 174 works I had reviewed thus
far in 2023, only six or seven were science fiction books published in 2023.
This despite the fact that science fiction is my favourite flavor of speculative
fiction. I blame Communism, Senator Proxmire, and the Thor Power Tool Decision
the distraction of older works and the long-running dominance of fantasy.

In case other readers are similarly retro-focused and interested in finding some
newer material, I can suggest the following five 2023 science fiction works that
are well worth reading.

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THE LESSON THAT SUPERHERO TV SHOWS KEEP LEARNING

Charlie Jane Anders
Wed Nov 15, 2023 12:00pm 9 comments 3 Favorites [+]

Two pieces of news struck me recently.

First, Superman and Lois is ending with its upcoming fourth season. This bums me
out, because I love that show. Tyler Hoechlin is the best live-action Superman
since Christopher Reeve, and this show zeroes in on exactly who Superman really
is: a nurturing father figure, and an actual family man. I’m a little nervous
about the final season, because this show’s excellent supporting cast has been
downgraded from regulars to “possibly making appearances,” purely due to
budgetary constraints. Overall, I’m sad to see this wonderful show disappear.

Meanwhile, Marvel will put a new banner called “Marvel Spotlight” on its
upcoming TV show Echo. This label signifies that Echo has only loose connections
to the increasingly byzantine continuity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and
you don’t need to have watched a thousand hours of live-action Marvel content to
understand what’s going on. I’m not entirely clear as to what this really means:
is Echo canon in the MCU, or not? I guess we’ll find out.

The thing that unites these two pieces of news is the issue of whether TV shows
should be tied into sprawling multimedia universes.

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THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES ADDS ONE MORE TO THE ANNALS
OF UNNECESSARY PREQUELS

Emmet Asher-Perrin
Fri Nov 17, 2023 12:00pm 5 comments 2 Favorites [+]
Screenshot: Lionsgate

In the annals of dystopian YA, perhaps none defined the subgenre so well as The
Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The films were largely successful by
adaptation standards, being an effective rendering of the material that largely
stuck to the messages Collins meant to get across regarding war,
desensitization, and violence. 2020 saw the release of a prequel to the
trilogy—The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes—featuring the 10th annual Hunger
Games, where it turns out that one tribute was mentored by the future Panem
President Snow.

Which forces us to collectively ask… is the backstory of Coriolanus Snow
something that the world really needed to reckon with? And it’s a question we
can now ask twice, with the release of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in
theaters.

[Minor spoilers for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes]

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THE CHAOTIC DELIGHTS OF HARLEY QUINN WILL CONTINUE FOR A FIFTH SEASON

Molly Templeton
Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:02am 1 Favorite [+]
Screenshot: HBO Max

The DC Comics universe may be in a time of upheaval, but one thing is staying
constant: The delightfully foul-mouthed, loving, chaotic, disastrous world of
the animated Harley Quinn series on Max. The streamer has announced that
Harley—and, of course, her beloved Ivy—will return to screens for a fifth
season.

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 * Science Fiction


ADVENTURES IN IMPRACTICAL SF: FIVE STORIES FEATURING SPACE TRAVEL USING CONSTANT
ACCELERATION

James Davis Nicoll
Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:00am 50 comments 7 Favorites [+]
Image Credit: NASA / JPL

I just happened to be looking at the August 1975 issue of Galaxy Magazine when
my attention was caught by an essay: Jim Baen’s “The Myth of the Light-Barrier.”
Was this yet another example of what we will polite call “relativity
skepticism,” perhaps an early look at Petr Beckmann’s Galilean Electrodynamics?
In short, no. Instead Baen celebrated the fact that a rocket capable of
sustaining a one-gravity acceleration indefinitely can travel astonishing
distances in a very short time from the perspective of the traveler. Of course,
the stay-at-home will experience a lot more time, but Baen sees this as a plus:

> And that’s the point. Given a one-gravity, constant-acceleration space-vehicle
> plus a complete indifference to point of origin, you can go anywhere and do
> anything. You can even be free. Because anybody who might have an inclination
> to tamper with your liberty (unless you were foolish enough to bring him
> along) will have been dust long before you arrive at your destination. Blue
> meanies included. Freedom!

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JO WALTON’S READING LIST: OCTOBER 2023

Jo Walton
Fri Nov 17, 2023 10:00am 9 comments 7 Favorites [+]

I was in Chicago for the first few weeks of October and then home in Montreal
for the last week. I read eighteen books. I’m sorry this is late, but some of
these were surprisingly difficult to talk about.

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DOWNLOAD THE TOR.COM SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023 SHORT FICTION BUNDLE

Tor.com
Fri Nov 17, 2023 8:30am 2 Favorites [+]

Welcome, readers! For our September/October 2023 bundle, we’ve got stories about
a struggling artist, a post-apocalyptic archivist, an office worker at an
unusual government agency, a dark entity with a long memory, a recovery mission
with a romantic twist, and the latest Judge Dee mystery! Click the link to
download the Tor.com Short Fiction September/October 2023 Bundle and check out
all the amazing original fiction we’ve published recently!

Download here!

In our next issue we’ve got stories from Nghi Vo, Cory Doctorow, Kathleen
Jennings, Kerstin Hall, Nisi Shawl, Lyndsie Manusos, and more! As always, thank
you for your continued support!

If you haven’t subscribed yet, be sure to sign up for the Tor.com Short Fiction
Newsletter to get Tor.com’s seasonal short fictions bundles delivered directly
to your inbox!

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READ AN EXCERPT FROM DARK HEIR

C.S. Pacat
Thu Nov 16, 2023 3:00pm 1 comment Favorite This

A new threat from the past is rising, and only a handful of heroes remain to
fight…

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Dark Heir , the second volume in C.S.
Pacat’s YA fantasy Dark Rise series—out now from Quill Tree Books.

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 * book review


ROMANCE IN A WORLD OF GHOSTS: DARK MOON, SHALLOW SEA BY DAVID R. SLAYTON

Charles Bonkowsky
Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:30pm Post a comment Favorite This

Dark Moon, Shallow Sea by David R. Slayton opens with a world in crisis. Phoebe,
goddess of the moon, has been killed and her followers outcast as heretics by
the knights of the sun god Hyperion, for the alleged crime of consorting with
demons. The tides have stopped, the sky is dark, and the souls of the dead are
no longer taken to the underworld as they should be, but instead linger on as
bloodthirsty ghosts. And things are only getting worse.

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 * Star Trek


THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SPECTACULARLY NERDY — STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS FOURTH
SEASON OVERVIEW

Keith R.A. DeCandido
Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:00pm 52 comments 4 Favorites [+]
Image: CBS / Paramount+

The fourth season of Lower Decks sees the lower-deckers being less lower-decky,
as our four main characters (as well as one of our recurring regulars) all get
promoted to lieutenant junior-grade. Having previously covered the good, the
bad, and the ugly of the horribly uneven season one; the good, the bad, and the
awesome for the much better season two; and the good, the bad, and the
interesting for the more complex season three; this time around we cover the
good, the bad, and the spectacularly nerdy, because LD is both at its best and
its worst when it’s being nerdy….

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 * news


JAMES GUNN’S SUPERMAN: LEGACY CASTS AN UNEXPECTED ANTAGONIST

Molly Templeton
Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:30pm Favorite This

James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy—still on track for its 2025 release date—has a new
addition to the cast, and it’s probably not anyone you think it is. According to
Deadline, María Gabriela de Faría (Deadly Class) has signed on to play Angela
Spica, who is also known as The Engineer.

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A DIFFERENT KIND OF BAD BOY: MONSTER AND THE STRANGER 

Alissa Burger
Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:00pm Post a comment Favorite This

Teen horror’s female protagonists are regularly drawn to boys they have been
warned away from: alluring bad boys. Sometimes these guys have just moved to
town and no one knows where they’ve come from or what their lives were like
before, and this mystery breeds speculation and gossip. Sometimes they have bad
tempers or a rumored history of violence. Sometimes they come from the “wrong
side of the tracks” and offer few details of their lives at home because they
feel ashamed of their family’s lack. In most cases, the female character
discovers that her bad boy isn’t really all that bad, just intensely private,
traumatized by some past horror, or he’s a misunderstood loner waiting for the
right girl to come along and understand him (an unsettling and potentially
dangerous message for teen readers to be soaking in, to be sure).

But every now and again, the bad boy is actually an inhuman monster capable of
death and destruction, like in Christopher Pike’s Monster (1992) and Caroline B.
Cooney’s The Stranger (1998). 

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 * Short Fiction Spotlight


MUST READ SHORT SPECULATIVE FICTION: OCTOBER 2023

Alex Brown
Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:00pm Post a comment 1 Favorite [+]

From ghosts to magic schools to demons to Queen Elizabeth to arachnoid hive
minds, here are ten of my favorite short science fiction, fantasy, and horror
stories that I read in October 2023.

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 * trailers


PERCY DEFINITELY NEEDS A SWORD IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR PERCY JACKSON AND THE
OLYMPIANS

Molly Templeton
Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:31am 1 Favorite [+]


It’s a rare and delightful thing when each trailer for an upcoming adaptation is
even more appealing than the last. This third look at Disney’s Percy Jackson and
the Olympians has the most action (and the most monsters) we’ve seen so far—but
it’s also a great introduction to Percy (Walker Scobell) himself. He’s a
seemingly ordinary kid who just discovered he’s the son of Poseidon (Toby
Stephens). Things are really, really, really weird.

And yeah: He’s gonna need a sword.

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 * Mark as Read


THE BOOKS THAT KEEP US COMPANY FOR DECADES

Molly Templeton
Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:00am 2 comments 5 Favorites [+]
Art by Constantin Hansen (1826)

When I realized I was 60 pages from the end of Gregory Maguire’s The Witch of
Maracoor, I kind of didn’t know what to do with myself. I put the book down and
walked away. I didn’t pick up anything else. I wasn’t trying to replace it. I
just… needed a minute.

It took me a few days to figure out why this was—why I kept getting teary at
innocuous moments; why I was sometimes in a hurry to get to the end and then,
suddenly, dreading the ending. Why was this book, this book at this moment,
doing such things to me, emotionally?

That’s when I remembered: I’ve been reading about Elphaba Thropp and her family,
off and on, for close to 30 years. Decades! Do you know what it’s like to find
yourself spending time with characters you met when you were practically a whole
different person?

You probably do. You probably have a series—or more than one—that you’ve been
reading that long, too.

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 * news


PEDRO PASCAL IS DEFINITELY REED RICHARDS, MAYBE

Molly Templeton
Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:46am Favorite This
Screenshot: HBO

Has Pedro Pascal found his next daddy role? Maybe. Very possibly. Some say
definitely. Entertainment Weekly says “might.” Pedro Pascal might be Marvel’s
next Reed Richards. Perhaps. At the very least, all the other casting rumors
about Fantastic Four’s fearless leader (Adam Driver, Jake Gyllenhaal) seem to
have faded away, leaving only this one: The Mandalorian might get real stretchy
real soon.

Read More »

 * book review


A HAUNTING HISTORY IN TANANARIVE DUE’S THE REFORMATORY

Tobias Carroll
Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:30am Post a comment 1 Favorite [+]

Tananarive Due’s fiction abounds with restless spirits, frustrated immortals,
and the boundary territories situated between life and death. In that way, Due
has situated herself in a familiar tradition of writers dealing with horror and
the uncanny. But there’s another component to Due’s work that helps to explain
why her fiction has found such a receptive audience over the years: a
deep-rooted concern with the ethical dilemmas that her characters face, and the
moral implications of them.

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