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 * Original Fiction


THE CANADIAN MIRACLE

Cory Doctorow
Wed Nov 1, 2023 9:00am 4 comments 11 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 3 comments 14 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 8 comments 24 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 22 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. . .

Read More »

 * Original Fiction


JACK O’DANDER

Priya Sharma
Wed Oct 4, 2023 9:00am 5 comments 14 Favorites [+]

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

 

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 * Original Fiction


FORM 8774-D

Alex Irvine
Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:00am 12 comments 40 Favorites [+]

It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult
Affairs until an employee for the government agency begins to wonder if work is
following her home. . .

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 * Original Fiction


THE TALE OF CLANCY THE SCRIVENER

Ramsey Shehadeh
Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:00am 6 comments 21 Favorites [+]

After a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to
cataloging ephemera from the “old world” times finds his life upended by an
orphaned girl. . .

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BLOG

 * Science Fiction


FIVE SF STORIES SET IN HIGH-RISES, TOWER BLOCKS, AND BUILDINGS OF UNUSUAL SIZE

James Davis Nicoll
Fri Nov 3, 2023 10:00am 49 comments 7 Favorites [+]

Given the opportunity, many people would prefer to live in a self-sufficient
fortress within a skull-shaped mountain that’s:

 * powered by a semi-active volcano,
 * surrounded by a verdant tropical wilderness,
 * the wilderness populated by carnivorous plants and genetically engineered
   terror-birds,
 * ringed by a border charmingly decorated with the imaginatively bedazzled
   skulls of trespassers.

Sadly, this is not always practical. Sometimes one has to optimize land use by
maximizing the number of people per unit area. Since humans are made of
incompressible water, the most practical way to accomplish this is to build up
(or down). A tower block or its equivalent can house a thousand people on the
same footprint as a few freestanding homes. Its larger cousin, the arcology,
uses land even more efficiently.

While living surrounded by legions of people may not be to everyone’s taste,
such a setting is attractive to authors. Plot, after all, benefits from human
interaction. If there’s one thing a building housing hundreds, thousands, or
hundreds of thousands of people offers, it’s human interaction. Don’t believe
me? Consider these five works.

Read More »

 * gender issues


WHAT MAKES A KNIGHT: THE CONTINUING INFLUENCE OF ALANNA OF TREBOND

Esme Symes-Smith
Mon Nov 6, 2023 12:00pm Post a comment 2 Favorites [+]

Like most children of the ’90s, I loved nothing more than running around and
hitting things with sticks. I also loved pretending that my bike was a horse,
and I spent many hours charging up and down my grandparents’ driveway jousting,
aka knocking a bucket off a wall with a bamboo cane.

I was what was widely misinterpreted as a tomboy.

Except I wasn’t.

Read More »

 * Harry Harrison


MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! FOR HARRY HARRISON!

Anthony Aycock
Mon Nov 6, 2023 10:00am 9 comments 4 Favorites [+]

A lot of people know the science fiction legend Harry Harrison without knowing
they know him. For example, Charlton Heston fans. In 1973, Heston starred in
Soylent Green, a movie about a murder investigation set in a futuristic New York
City, where overpopulation and pollution have ravaged the world’s food supplies.
While the rich are largely unaffected, the masses are forced to eat processed
wafers of several varieties: Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow, and the titular
Soylent Green, which—spoiler alert—turns out to be recycled human remains (thus,
the movie’s haunting and very famous final line: “Soylent Green . . . is . . .
people!”). It is a surprisingly enduring movie, likely due to its all-star cast,
which also included Joseph Cotten, Chuck Connors (of TV’s The Rifleman), and, in
the last of his 101 (!) film roles, Edward G. Robinson. The movie won a Nebula
Award for Best Film Script and a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.

Where does Harry Harrison come in? Soylent Green is based on his novel Make
Room! Make Room!, which is more didactic, doesn’t involve an evil corporation,
and whose ending lacks the movie’s gruesome twist. The idea for the book
originated, in Harrison’s words, from an Indian gentleman he met in 1946 who
told him about the dangers of overpopulation and then said, “Want to make a lot
of money, Harry? You have to import rubber contraceptives to India.”

The literary world—and, for all I know, the condom industry—should be grateful
that Harrison didn’t follow this advice.

Read More »


 * SFF Bestiary


TAKING THE MERMAID TALE ABOVE AND BEYOND: RIVERS SOLOMON’S THE DEEP

Judith Tarr
Mon Nov 6, 2023 3:00pm 2 comments Favorite This

Rivers Solomon’s The Deep is the prose portion of a collaboration with the band
clipping, which in turn took its inspiration from another band, Drexciya. All of
the collaborators openly acknowledge their debt to the ones who came
before—which in its way is an echo of the song/novella itself. While the novella
is a powerful piece on its own, it’s even more so in its full context.

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 * trailers


THE VELVETEEN RABBIT TRAILER GIVES US UNCONDITIONAL LOVE VIA LIVE-ACTION AND
ANIMATION

Vanessa Armstrong
Mon Nov 6, 2023 2:42pm Favorite This


The classic children’s tale by Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit, has
gotten at least two screen adaptations before, including the 2009 film starring
Jane Seymour. There’s a new live-action/animated hybrid version coming our way
this Thanksgiving, however, courtesy of Apple TV+.

Read More »

 * Star Trek: Enterprise


STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE REWATCH: “THE AENAR”

Keith R.A. DeCandido
Mon Nov 6, 2023 2:00pm 14 comments 3 Favorites [+]
Screenshot: CBS

“The Aenar”
Written by Manny Coto and André Bormanis
Directed by Mike Vejar
Season 4, Episode 14
Production episode 090
Original air date: February 11, 2005
Date: unknown

Captain’s star log. After getting the highlights of “Babel One” and “United,” we
go to Romulus, where Vrax is tearing Valdore a new asshole for his mission
achieving the exact opposite of the effect intended. Valdore is hilariously
obtuse in this conversation, insisting that it’s just a setback, not a disaster,
and all he has to do is have the drone ship destroy Enterprise and everything
will be fine, and the alliance will fall apart and Vrax will become First
Consul. Vrax thinks it’s far more likely that he’ll be executed…

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SERIES: STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE REWATCH

 * Excerpts


READ THE THIRD CHAPTER OF SYSTEM COLLAPSE BY MARTHA WELLS

Martha Wells
Mon Nov 6, 2023 1:00pm 3 comments 4 Favorites [+]

Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse…

Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in System Collapse, the next
installment in Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries series—out from Tordotcom
Publishing on November 14th. Read the third chapter below—and if you missed the
first chapter, you can catch up here!

Read More »

 * gender issues


WHAT MAKES A KNIGHT: THE CONTINUING INFLUENCE OF ALANNA OF TREBOND

Esme Symes-Smith
Mon Nov 6, 2023 12:00pm Post a comment 2 Favorites [+]

Like most children of the ’90s, I loved nothing more than running around and
hitting things with sticks. I also loved pretending that my bike was a horse,
and I spent many hours charging up and down my grandparents’ driveway jousting,
aka knocking a bucket off a wall with a bamboo cane.

I was what was widely misinterpreted as a tomboy.

Except I wasn’t.

Read More »

 * news


THE CONSTANTINE SEQUEL IS STILL COMING, DIRECTOR FRANCIS LAWRENCE SAYS

Molly Templeton
Mon Nov 6, 2023 11:35am 1 Favorite [+]

It’s only been a year since Constantine 2 was announced—practically no time at
all in Hollywood. But things out of even John Constantine’s control have held up
the sequel, including the writers’ strike and the kind of rights issues that
often crop up where characters owned by corporations are involved. But the
movie, says director Francis Lawrence, is coming: “We have control.”

Read More »

 * new releases


ALL THE NEW SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS ARRIVING IN NOVEMBER!

Tor.com
Mon Nov 6, 2023 11:30am 1 Favorite [+]

Head below for the full list of science fiction titles heading your way in
November!

Read More »

 * new releases


ALL THE NEW FANTASY BOOKS ARRIVING IN NOVEMBER!

Tor.com
Mon Nov 6, 2023 11:00am 1 Favorite [+]

Head below for the full list of fantasy titles heading your way in November!

Read More »

 * Harry Harrison


MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! FOR HARRY HARRISON!

Anthony Aycock
Mon Nov 6, 2023 10:00am 9 comments 4 Favorites [+]

A lot of people know the science fiction legend Harry Harrison without knowing
they know him. For example, Charlton Heston fans. In 1973, Heston starred in
Soylent Green, a movie about a murder investigation set in a futuristic New York
City, where overpopulation and pollution have ravaged the world’s food supplies.
While the rich are largely unaffected, the masses are forced to eat processed
wafers of several varieties: Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow, and the titular
Soylent Green, which—spoiler alert—turns out to be recycled human remains (thus,
the movie’s haunting and very famous final line: “Soylent Green . . . is . . .
people!”). It is a surprisingly enduring movie, likely due to its all-star cast,
which also included Joseph Cotten, Chuck Connors (of TV’s The Rifleman), and, in
the last of his 101 (!) film roles, Edward G. Robinson. The movie won a Nebula
Award for Best Film Script and a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.

Where does Harry Harrison come in? Soylent Green is based on his novel Make
Room! Make Room!, which is more didactic, doesn’t involve an evil corporation,
and whose ending lacks the movie’s gruesome twist. The idea for the book
originated, in Harrison’s words, from an Indian gentleman he met in 1946 who
told him about the dangers of overpopulation and then said, “Want to make a lot
of money, Harry? You have to import rubber contraceptives to India.”

The literary world—and, for all I know, the condom industry—should be grateful
that Harrison didn’t follow this advice.

Read More »

 * cover reveal


WE CHOOSE OUR OWN GODS HERE: REVEALING KERSTIN HALL’S ASUNDER

Tor.com
Mon Nov 6, 2023 9:00am Post a comment 1 Favorite [+]
Photo credit: Sylvia Hall

We choose our own gods here.

We’re excited to share the cover for Kerstin Hall’s Asunder, a thrilling,
standalone dark fantasy novel that reads like For the Wolf meets Sabriel,
forthcoming in August 2024.

Read More »

 * trailers


MARVEL’S ECHO GETS A VIOLENT FIRST TRAILER — AND A NEW RELEASE DATE

Molly Templeton
Fri Nov 3, 2023 12:40pm Favorite This


The show is called Echo, but the trailer ought to be called Kingpin: The first
forty seconds of this less-than-two-minute trailer are mostly about Wilson Fisk
(Vincent D’Onofrio) and his violent tendencies. Any questions you may have about
why he’s beating up hot dog vendors outside a school will go unanswered.

Also, the show—like so many things—has been pushed back, and now arrives in
January.

Read More »

 * Excerpts


READ AN EXCERPT FROM JIM BUTCHER’S THE OLYMPIAN AFFAIR

Jim Butcher
Fri Nov 3, 2023 12:00pm 4 comments 2 Favorites [+]

For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the
deadly surface world.

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Olympian Affair, the second book in
Jim Butcher’s Cinder Spires series—publishing with Ace on November 7.

Read More »

 * Terry Pratchett Book Club


TERRY PRATCHETT BOOK CLUB: THUD! PART III

Emmet Asher-Perrin
Fri Nov 3, 2023 11:00am 17 comments 4 Favorites [+]

Which side do you want to play, dwarfs or trolls?

Read More »


SERIES: TERRY PRATCHETT BOOK CLUB

 * news


SUPERMAN & LOIS WILL FLY AWAY FOREVER AFTER THE FOURTH SEASON

Molly Templeton
Fri Nov 3, 2023 10:32am 1 Favorite [+]
Image: The CW

The demise of The CW as we knew it continues: The network’s last superhero show
standing, Superman & Lois, will come to an end after its upcoming fourth season.

Read More »

 * Science Fiction


FIVE SF STORIES SET IN HIGH-RISES, TOWER BLOCKS, AND BUILDINGS OF UNUSUAL SIZE

James Davis Nicoll
Fri Nov 3, 2023 10:00am 49 comments 7 Favorites [+]

Photo: Max van den Oetelaar [via Unsplash]

Given the opportunity, many people would prefer to live in a self-sufficient
fortress within a skull-shaped mountain that’s:

 * powered by a semi-active volcano,
 * surrounded by a verdant tropical wilderness,
 * the wilderness populated by carnivorous plants and genetically engineered
   terror-birds,
 * ringed by a border charmingly decorated with the imaginatively bedazzled
   skulls of trespassers.

Sadly, this is not always practical. Sometimes one has to optimize land use by
maximizing the number of people per unit area. Since humans are made of
incompressible water, the most practical way to accomplish this is to build up
(or down). A tower block or its equivalent can house a thousand people on the
same footprint as a few freestanding homes. Its larger cousin, the arcology,
uses land even more efficiently.

While living surrounded by legions of people may not be to everyone’s taste,
such a setting is attractive to authors. Plot, after all, benefits from human
interaction. If there’s one thing a building housing hundreds, thousands, or
hundreds of thousands of people offers, it’s human interaction. Don’t believe
me? Consider these five works.

Read More »

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