Happy Thursday! Ready for your offsite Tor.com links of doom? We thought so. Here’s what we’ve got cooked up.
1.) Pondering if we’ve just coined the term “cybersteam” on accident
2.) Checking in on the foreign language SFF translations awards
3.) Wondering exactly what to call Torchwood: Web of Lies
4.) Prepping for the new season True Blood with recap videos.
And more!
- Tor.com Urban Fantasy: Get caught up on True Blood before the new season premiere!
- Tor.com Steampunk: Is it cyberpunk? Steam-ish-punk? Cybersteam? Either way, this old PC house is really neat.
- Tor.com Wheel of Time: The Bookaholic reviews the whole Wheel of Time series thus far.
- Tor.com Fantasy: On speculative autobiographies
- Tor.com Art Department: Nifty screen-printed robots by Carl Wiens
From the “Of interest” sidebar
- Apparently Torchwood: Web of Lies is a motion comic that is also a game in which Eliza Dushku is a cartoon. (Pictured above)
- The awards for the best SFF translations have been announced. Check them out here.
- Peter Parker is dead! Long live Peter Parker!
Stubby the Rocket is the voice and mascot of Tor.com. In the hypothetical cartoon web series about Stubby, Stubby will be voiced in some episodes by Sean Connery, and other episodes by Catherine Tate.
