Blog Archive
December 2009
Thu Dec 31
Ken Hite on Lovecraft and Everything
by Bruce Baugh
Imprisoned Intelligence: Thomas M. Disch’s Camp Concentration
by Jo Walton
12 Days of Cthulhumas: Day 7
by Torie Atkinson
Backing Into Lovecraft
by Jonathan L. Howard
12 Days of Lovecraft: At The Mountains of Madness
by Seamus Cooper
Wandering in Fairyland: The Lost Princess of Oz
by Mari Ness
Tor.com Story Podcast 003 – “Farewell Performance” by Nick Mamatas
by Mur Lafferty
Farewell Performance
by Nick Mamatas
Wed Dec 30
Ann VanderMeer’s Fried Cthulhu
by Stephen H. Segal
Lovecraft Fresh: “The Color Out of Space” and “The Call of Cthulhu”
by S.J. Chambers
12 Days of Cthulhumas: Day 6
by Torie Atkinson
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath”
by Seamus Cooper
The Baker Street Irregulars: Portrayals of Sherlock Holmes
by Genevieve Valentine
There is now…
by Jo Walton
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 77 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Dec 29
LotR re-read: Two Towers IV.9, “Shelob’s Lair”
by Kate Nepveu
12 Days of Cthulhumas: Day 5
by Torie Atkinson
12 Days of Lovecraft: “From Beyond”
by Seamus Cooper
Sensible grown-ups and the battle of Waterloo: Georgette Heyer’s A Civil Contract
by Jo Walton
I’m Glad I Waited, by a Sacrificial Virgin
by Reina Hardy
Mon Dec 28
“Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond all imagining”: Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising
by Jo Walton
12 Days of Cthulhumas: Day 4
by Torie Atkinson
H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, Part Two
by Pablo Defendini
I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?
by Neil Gaiman
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 76 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Sun Dec 27
12 Days of Cthulhumas: Day 3
by Torie Atkinson
In keeping with the long tradition of Americans putting on British accents in Guy Ritchie movies: Sherlock Holmes
by Elizabeth Bear
Sat Dec 26
12 Days of Cthulhumas: Day 2
by Torie Atkinson
Quakers in Space: Molly Gloss’s The Dazzle of Day
by Jo Walton
Fri Dec 25
12 Days of Cthulhumas: Day 1
by Torie Atkinson
Year’s Best Fantasy 9, Part six
by Pablo Defendini
Cthulhu Month Wallpaper: Marc Simonetti’s R’lyeh
by Irene Gallo
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 75 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Thu Dec 24
Patrick Lee’s debut novel, The Breach
by Mark Graham
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Music of Erich Zann”
by Seamus Cooper
Notes From an Emergency Meeting of the Institute for the Study of Cephalopod Progress
by Matt Staggs, Felix Gilman, Matthew Dyer and Jesse Bullington
Wed Dec 23
J.C. Hutchins’s SF novel 7th Son: Descent serialized, Part 10
by Tor.com
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Dreams in the Witch House”
by Seamus Cooper
What books do you buy to give to other people?
by Jo Walton
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 74 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Dec 22
Makers Tile Game, now embeddable!
by Pablo Defendini
A Cthulhu Christmas, some gift suggestionspart three
by Ellen Datlow
Tor.com Story Podcast 002 – “Overtime” by Charles Stross
by Mur Lafferty
The Fright Before Christmas
by GD Falksen
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Shadow Out of Time”
by Seamus Cooper
Fantasy vs. science fiction: James Cameron’s Avatar
by Jon Evans
Overtime
by Charles Stross
Mon Dec 21
H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast
by Pablo Defendini
Magical Realist Mars: Ian McDonald’s Desolation Road
by Jo Walton
I Speak Fluent Giraffe: The Accursed Waning Ossuary
by Jason Henninger
Spreading the Love: An Interview with Innsmouth Free Press
by S.J. Chambers
John Langan’s debut novel, House of Windows
by Mark Graham
Ancient Rockets: A Christmas Past
by Kage Baker
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 73 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Fri Dec 18
The Wheel of Time Re-read: A Crown of Swords, Part 4
by Leigh Butler
“Quiet iorich won’t forget”: Steven Brust’s Iorich
by Jo Walton
Hi Burst!
by Pablo Defendini
So Long, and Thanks for All the Giveaways!
by Megan Messinger
I Speak Fluent Giraffe: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Night-Gaunt
by Jason Henninger
Year’s Best Fantasy 9, Part five
by Pablo Defendini
Lovecraft Fresh: “The Hound”
by S.J. Chambers
Review: Dracula the Un-Dead, by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
by Bruce Baugh
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 72 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Thu Dec 17
Hutch’s Free Holiday Sampler
by Pablo Defendini
Sucker Love: Celebrating the naughty tentacle
by Amanda Gannon
J.C. Hutchins’s SF novel 7th Son: Descent serialized, Part 9
by Tor.com
“Jhegaala shifts as moments pass”: Steven Brust’s Jhegaala
by Jo Walton
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Haunter of the Dark”
by Seamus Cooper
Sailing Through Magical Seas: Rinkitink in Oz
by Mari Ness
King of an Endless Sky, Part 19
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Wed Dec 16
Why Lovecraft Works
by Bennett Lovett-Graff
The Golden Age of Fantasy Illustration
by Lou Anders
LotR re-read: Two Towers IV.8, “The Stairs of Cirith Ungol”
by Kate Nepveu
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Thing on the Doorstep”
by Seamus Cooper
Lights in the sky over Norway; or, Mi-go, go home!
by GD Falksen
Robin Hood Trailer: Robin and the 300 Gladiators?
by Genevieve Valentine
The Tempest Wakens
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 71 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Dec 15
“Dzur stalks and blends with night”: Steven Brust’s Dzur
by Jo Walton
A Cthulhu Christmas, some gift suggestions—part two
by Ellen Datlow
Audiobook Giveaway: R.A. Salvatore’s The Dame
by Tor.com
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Colour Out of Space”
by Seamus Cooper
The Dragon Reborn ebook now available for sale
by Jennifer Liang
Foolproof Holiday Gift Books
by Jo Walton
Tor.com Story Podcast 001 – “After the Coup” by John Scalzi
by Mur Lafferty
Mon Dec 14
“The time about which I have the honor to write”: Steven Brust’s The Viscount of Adrilankha
by Jo Walton
I Speak Fluent Giraffe: Rudolph, the Pink-Skinned Deep One
by Jason Henninger
Look at What Wilson Did!
by Bennett Lovett-Graff
Tor.com Podcasts
by Tor.com
Ancient Rockets: Silent Carols
by Kage Baker
The Wheel of Time Re-read: A Crown of Swords, Part 3
by Leigh Butler
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 70 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Sun Dec 13
Sense, Sensibility, Sea Monsters: Rendered Insensible
by Jaymee Goh
Fri Dec 11
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction, Part 4
by Ava Jarvis
J.C. Hutchins’s SF novel 7th Son: Descent serialized, Part 8
by Tor.com
The Wheel of Time Re-read: A Crown of Swords, Part 2
by Leigh Butler
The Giveaway at the End of the Universe
by Megan Messinger
I Speak Fluent Giraffe: At the Libs of Madness
by Jason Henninger
Year’s Best Fantasy 9, Part four
by Pablo Defendini
The eldritch roots of Victorian squeampunk
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Happy 80th anniversary, SF fandom
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 69 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Thu Dec 10
Cthulhu in a jar
by Jason Henninger
From Wonderland with Love: Spy-fi and Mod themes in Syfy’s Alice
by GD Falksen
Book Giveaway: J.C. Hutchins’ 7th Son: Descent
by Tor.com
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Dunwich Horror”
by Seamus Cooper
Adventuring into Fairyland: The Scarecrow of Oz
by Mari Ness
Archive of Features on Tor.com
by Tor.com
King of an Endless Sky, Part 18
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Wed Dec 9
What has gone before?
by Jo Walton
My aversion to versions
by Jon Evans
Book Giveaway: Megan Crewe’s Give Up the Ghost
by Tor.com
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
by Seamus Cooper
The Repository of Myth is You-Know-Where in Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence
by Megan Messinger
Short Fiction Announcements
by John Klima
Geeky Christmas crafts for the unexceptionally crafty
by Jason Henninger
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 68 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Dec 8
“Issola strikes from courtly bow”: Steven Brust’s Issola
by Jo Walton
Alice 2: The Confusening
by Genevieve Valentine
Greg Manchess “Above the Timberline” cards
by Irene Gallo
Ancient Rockets: The Flying House
by Kage Baker
12 Days of Lovecraft: “The Call of Cthulhu”
by Seamus Cooper
Visitors, get off my lawn! Oh wait. You’re actually cool. Never mind.
by J.C. Hutchins
The Horrid Glory of Its Wings
by Elizabeth Bear
Mon Dec 7
Lovecraft Fresh: “The Alchemist” and “The Outsider”
by S.J. Chambers
Go Ask Alice
by Genevieve Valentine
Win Free Books with the SFR Holiday Blitz!
by Heather Massey
I Speak Fluent Giraffe: The Other Other Gods
by Jason Henninger
The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Open Spoiler Thread, Part the Second!
by Tor.com
The Wheel of Time Re-read: A Crown of Swords, Part 1
by Leigh Butler
Sasha: Her Sword is Her Power
by Lou Anders
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 67 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Sun Dec 6
Dean Koontz leaves you…Breathless…
by Mark Graham
Fri Dec 4
It’s The Most Horrible Time of the Year! Solstice Music Review
by Mur Lafferty
Why We Still Write Lovecraft Pastiche
by Elizabeth Bear
LotR re-read: Two Towers IV.7, “Journey to the Cross-roads”
by Kate Nepveu
I Speak Fluent Giraffe: Nyarlathotep, I’m Breaking Up with You
by Jason Henninger
Year’s Best Fantasy 9, Part three
by Pablo Defendini
“Haughty dragon yearns to slay”: Steven Brust’s Dragon
by Jo Walton
Reading Stephen King may be hazardous to your health
by Mark Graham
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 66 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
I Speak Fluent Giraffe
by Jason Henninger
Thu Dec 3
Rejection rules! (The “7th Son” story, from podcast to print)
by J.C. Hutchins
JC Hutchins’s SF novel 7th Son: Descent serialized, Part 7
by Tor.com
Zombie Christmas Redux
by Liz Gorinsky
“Orca circles, hard and lean”: Steven Brust’s Orca
by Jo Walton
Show Us Your Tentacles: A Lovecraft Art Meme
by Irene Gallo
H. P. Lovecraft, Founding Father of SF Fandom
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Falling Though Plots: Tik-Tok of Oz
by Mari Ness
King of an Endless Sky, Part 17
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Wed Dec 2
Space and Time
by Tim Hamilton
Interview with John Joseph Adams
by John Klima
“What, is there more?”: Steven Brust’s Five Hundred Years After
by Jo Walton
Cthulhu Christmas Cards!
by Irene Gallo
Santoro on Starshipsofa for the Robinsons
by Pablo Defendini
12 Days of Lovecraft
by Seamus Cooper
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 65 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Dec 1
Announcing Discounted Books on the Tor Store for Cthulhu Month!
by Pablo Defendini
A Cthulhu Christmas, some gift suggestions—part one
by Ellen Datlow
Why the best sci-fi TV and movies don’t *feel* like sci-fi
by J.C. Hutchins
Introducing H.P. Lovecraft, from a 21st-Century Vantage
by Stephen H. Segal
The Dragon Reborn ebook cover by Donato Giancola
by Irene Gallo
Ancient Rockets: The Pet
by Kage Baker
60th Anniversary Issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
by John Klima