January 2017

Tue Jan 31

Human Error: Supergirl, “We Can Be Heroes” by Natalie Zutter

Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “Once Upon a Planet” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Clones in a Locked Room Murder Mystery in Spaaaaace! Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty by Robert H. Bedford

The Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

Fiction Affliction: February Releases in Science Fiction by Tor.com

Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Ten by Emily Asher-Perrin

Seanan McGuire Signs Up for Three More Novellas by Lee Harris

Sleeps With Monsters: Spring Space Opera Medley by Liz Bourke

Watch the Final Beauty and the Beast Trailer by Natalie Zutter

Can You Ever Go Home Again? 9 Stories That Continue After the Adventure by Stubby the Rocket

Travelling in an Archipelago of Character: The Castings Trilogy by Pamela Freeman by Thoraiya Dyer

Han Would Never Throw Away His Shot by Stubby the Rocket

Mon Jan 30

Peter Capaldi is Leaving Doctor Who This Christmas by Emily Asher-Perrin

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Casts Tandy and Tyrone by Natalie Zutter

Rereading Katherine Kurtz: It’s a Wrap! by Judith Tarr

Fiction Affliction: February Releases in Fantasy by Tor.com

Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cetaganda, Chapter 1 by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer

Hearken to The Mountain Goats’ Terrifying Ode to The Last Jedi by Stubby the Rocket

Game of Shadows by Erika Lewis

Six SFF Series in Translation by Rachel Cordasco

Magic and Other Weird Bollocks: The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch by Liz Bourke

A Life in the Day: Revealing Release by Patrick Ness by Niall Alexander

Here There Be Dragons: Revealing the Cover for Steven Brust’s Vallista by Tor.com

The Author’s Guide to No-Show Events by Lish McBride

We’re Through the Looking Glass, People by Stubby the Rocket

Lloyd Alexander’s Parents Never Read Books by Emily Asher-Perrin

Fri Jan 27

Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Londinium Larcenies” / “The Foggiest Notion” / “The Bloody Tower” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

This Week in the Arrowverse: Save Star Wars, Save the Timeline by Molly Templeton

Gene Luen Yang Launches Annual Reading Without Walls Program for Young Readers by Stubby the Rocket

Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Wrapping Up Assail by Bill Capossere

No One Likes a Brainchild by Grady Hendrix

Archiekins Gets a Sexy Upgrade in Riverdale by Alex Brown

Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan

This Morning in Publishing: January 27, 2017 by Stubby the Rocket

Five Roger Zelazny Books that Changed My Life by Being Awesome by Steven Brust

Thu Jan 26

Literary Constellations Transforms First Sentences Into Star Charts by Natalie Zutter

The Pixar Rewatch: Breaking New Ground with Toy Story by Mari Ness

Medieval Matters: The 13th Warrior and Language Barriers by Michael Livingston

Kings, Queens, Tricksters, Fools: The Magicians, “Knight of Crowns” by Molly Templeton

Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 15 by Alice Arneson

Never Discount the Farmboy: The Labor of Food by Joe M. McDermott

Love Actually: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough by Niall Alexander

Winter 2017 Anime Preview: Jean the Cigarette Peddler by Kelly Quinn Chiu

The Craft of the Uncanny: Lessons in Storytelling from Percy, Gaiman, and Delany by Tobias Carroll

Wed Jan 25

Two Lives in Several Genres: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark by Matthew Keeley

Ice Is Also Great: Holly Phillips’s “Cold Water Survival” by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys

Amberlough: Chapter 3 by Lara Elena Donnelly

Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Epilogue by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere

Gina Prince-Bythewood to Direct Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger Pilot by Natalie Zutter

The Grisha Trilogy Reread: Siege and Storm, Part One by Sylas K Barrett

Revealing the US and UK Editions of Vic James’ Tarnished City by Tor.com

Leave Your Heart in San Francisco with 10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories! by Leah Schnelbach

The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island by Julianna Baggott

Tue Jan 24

Resist Voldemort With the “Benedict Cumberbatch Name Game” by Stubby the Rocket

So… What Does “The Last Jedi” Mean Anyway? by Emily Asher-Perrin

Not the Redshirt: Supergirl, “Supergirl Lives” by Natalie Zutter

Five Books That Make Living and Working in Space Seem Ordinary by Carrie Vaughn

The Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Shadow Rising, Part 12 by Leigh Butler

Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Nine by Emily Asher-Perrin

Can James Cameron Save the Terminator Saga by Ending It? by Alasdair Stuart

Queer/Historical Magic: Passing Strange by Ellen Klages by Brit Mandelo

Sleeps With Monsters: Magical Secrets in The Witch Who Came In From The Cold by Liz Bourke

Arrival and Hidden Figures Are Nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards by Stubby the Rocket

Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

This Morning in Publishing: January 24, 2017 by Stubby the Rocket

If You’re Ready, We Might Go Along Then: Authors and Artists Celebrate Richard Adams and Watership Down by Seanan McGuire

Mon Jan 23

How a Mathematician Created the Interstellar Travel in Arrival in One Night by Natalie Zutter

Superheroes with Substance: Dreadnought by April Daniels by Liz Bourke

Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapter 30 and Epilogue by Judith Tarr

Pull List: The Best of Marvel’s New Female Superheroes by Alex Brown

Turtles All the Way Down: Beauty and Brutality in The Red Turtle by Leah Schnelbach

Samurai Jack Announces Premiere Date for Season Five! by Stubby the Rocket

Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cetaganda by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer

Fanzines, Cover Art, and the Best Vorkosigan Planet: An Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer

Magical Miscalculations: Revealing the Cover for Margaret Killjoy’s The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Tor.com

Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway Wins the Alex Award! by Katharine Duckett

Star Wars Episode VIII Title Revealed: The Last Jedi by Emily Asher-Perrin

What Can We Learn from Star Trek’s Jake Sisko, Writer? by Jerome Stueart

Woody Harrelson’s Character in Han Solo Film is Already Known to Star Wars Readers by Emily Asher-Perrin

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

The Morning in Publishing: Monday, January 23, 2017 by Leah Schnelbach

Gaming Vicariously: Rolling the Dice with Critical Role by Martin Cahill

Sir Ian McKellen Marches with a Friend by Stubby the Rocket

Fri Jan 20

Jon Hamm is Becoming a Hologram–Literally by Natalie Zutter

Holy Rewatch Batman! “Surf’s Up! Joker’s Under!” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Old-Fashioned SciFi: Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn by Liz Bourke

Can’t Hardly Bear It: Malachy McCoy’s Kodiak! by Grady Hendrix

Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Chapter Fifteen by Bill Capossere

The One Book That Introduced Me to Internet Fandom and Coincidentally Led to True Love by Jen Williams

See Ellen Klages and Celebrate Passing Strange This Spring! by Katharine Duckett

Five Books About Espionage by Charles Stross

Here Comes the General! by Stubby the Rocket

Go Behind the Scenes of Law Enforcement with Myke Cole and CBS’s Hunted by Myke Cole

The Weirdest Worlds: (Another) Introduction to R.A. Lafferty by Matthew Keeley

Television’s Moonlight: Casting a Reflection on 21st-Century Vampire Culture by Theodore Krulik

Still Life, With Gourds and Hammer by Stubby the Rocket

Thu Jan 19

The Skill of Our Hands by Steven Brust and Skyler White

Challenging Gender Norms: The Brothers Grimm and The Twelve Huntsmen by Mari Ness

We Are All Eleanor: Affirming Life After Death in The Good Place by Ashley Wells

Adored with Cheerful Unreason: D.A.R.Y.L. by Leigh Butler

Good Omens Series Will Come to Amazon and the BBC in 2018 by Emily Asher-Perrin

Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 14 by Alice Arneson

Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

See Bryan Cranston as Zordon in the New Power Rangers Trailer by Natalie Zutter

How to Run a (Successful) Reading Series by Matthew Kressel

Watch the Very Poignant and Very Meta Final Logan Trailer by Natalie Zutter

5 Space Stations at the Edge of Space and Time by Natalie Zutter

The Morning in Publishing: January 19, 2017 by Stubby the Rocket

Graphic Geometry: The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter by Niall Alexander

Edgar Allan Poe and the Cult of the Unusual by Matthew Mercier

Wed Jan 18

Disney All But Confirms Shared-Universe Fan Theories With Pixar Easter Eggs Video by Natalie Zutter

Five Video Games With Sudden But Inevitable Betrayals by Joe M. McDermott

Revealing the Cover for Elizabeth Bear’s The Stone in the Skull by Tor.com

It’s a Small Mythos After All: Fritz Leiber’s “The Terror From the Depths” by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth

Share a Nightcap at the Cabaret with Excerpts from Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough by Diana Pho

Amberlough: Chapters 1 and 2 by Lara Elena Donnelly

Can Anything Save the DC Extended Universe From Itself? by Alex Brown

Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Chapter Fourteen (Part Two) by Bill Capossere

Revealing the Cover for Starfire: A Red Peace by Tor.com

The Grisha Trilogy Reread: Shadow and Bone, Part Two by Sylas K Barrett

A Metropolis for the Recently Deceased: Revealing Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi by Niall Alexander

Sherlock and the Problem with Plot Twists by A.J. Hartley

The Morning in Publishing: January 18, 2017 by Stubby the Rocket

The Atonement Tango by Stephen Leigh

Tue Jan 17

Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Eight by Emily Asher-Perrin

Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “The Magicks of Megas-Tu” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem and Other Meaningful Books by Stubby the Rocket

The Fortress at the End of Time by Joe M. McDermott

Draco Malfoy and the Fight Against Racism by Monique Jones

This Morning in Publishing: January 17, 2017 by Stubby the Rocket

Iain M. Banks’ Use of Weapons and an Extreme Sense of Wonder by Carrie Vaughn

With Blood Upon the Sand by Brad Beaulieu

Sleeps With Monsters: Magical Girl(Friends) by Liz Bourke

Timeless and Time Travel: Is It Possible? by Swapna Krishna

6 Books to Tide You Over Until Star Wars: Episode VIII by Michael Moreci

Mon Jan 16

Emotional Context. Sherlock: “The Final Problem” by Emily Asher-Perrin

Gingerbread Bricks, Cherry-Eating Cats, and Other Culinary Disasters by Patricia A. McKillip

The Films of Tim Burton All Occur in the Same Fictional Universe by Emily Asher-Perrin

Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 28-29 by Judith Tarr

Fabulous Forbidden Ferocity: In Defense of Villainesses by Sarah Gailey

How Gardeners Save a Small Piece of the World by Ursula Vernon

Heroic Vulnerability, Not Action, Defines the Star Wars Series by Leah Schnelbach

16 Tempestuous Tales of Weather Magic by Stubby the Rocket

Fri Jan 13

Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Ogg and I” / “How to Hatch a Dinosaur” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Malevolent Lurkers: Revealing the Cover for Victor LaValle’s The Changeling by Tor.com

Remembering William Peter Blatty, 1928-2017 by Grady Hendrix

Ghost Town: Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire by Liz Bourke

High-Tech Wizardry: C> The Shadow Man by Grady Hendrix

Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Chapter Fourteen (Part One) by Bill Capossere

Winter Tide: Chapter 5 by Ruthanna Emrys

Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti is WIRED Book Club’s Pick for January by Stubby the Rocket

Jyn Erso, Bodhi Rook, and the True Birth of the Rebel Alliance by Alasdair Stuart

This Morning in Publishing: January 13, 2017 by Stubby the Rocket

Jumbled Writing Isn’t Necessarily Bad Writing by Susan Dennard

Thu Jan 12

Historical Magic: Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale by Caitlyn Paxson

FX Shares Updates on Y: The Last Man TV Series by Natalie Zutter

Shifting Dimensions: Revealing the Cover for Stephen Graham Jones’ Mapping the Interior by Tor.com

The One Book That Piqued My Creative Fury by Laura Anne Gilman

Winter Tide: Chapter 4 by Ruthanna Emrys

Fairy Passages: Madame d’Aulnoy by Mari Ness

Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 13 by Alice Arneson

Stubby Takes Home Another Stabby! by Stubby the Rocket

7 Representations of the Deadly Sins in Fiction by Stubby the Rocket

A Way Out: Defender by G. X. Todd by Niall Alexander

Man-Eating Mayhem: Revealing the Cover for Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth by Tor.com

Roundtable on Speculative Fiction in Translation: Past, Present, Future by Rachel Cordasco

Wed Jan 11

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: I’m Not Bad, I’m Just Manufactured That Way by Alan Brown

Horatio Hornblower in Space: Revealing the Cover for Richard Baker’s Valiant Dust by Tor.com

Idle Ingredients by Matt Wallace

When the Devil Comes Knocking: The Last Harvest by Kim Liggett by Alex Brown

Bilious and Beautiful: Damien Angelica Walters’s “Black Stars on Canvas, a Reproduction in Acrylic” by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys

George R.R. Martin Says The Winds of Winter Might Be Published in 2017 by Natalie Zutter

Five Books About Surviving Surveillance by Stephen W. Potts

Woody Harrelson Joins Han Solo Standalone Film by Natalie Zutter

Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Chapter Thirteen by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere

The Future of Democracy is About to Implode: Revealing the Cover for Malka Older’s Null States by Tor.com

Winter Tide: Chapter 3 by Ruthanna Emrys

The Grisha Trilogy Reread: Shadow and Bone, Part One by Sylas K Barrett

This Morning in Publishing: January 11, 2017 by Stubby the Rocket

Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story by S.B. Divya

We’re Not Sure San Would Approve of This? by Stubby the Rocket

Tue Jan 10

The Aimless West: Laura Anne Gilman’s The Cold Eye by Liz Bourke

Falling for Rock Climbing by Katherine Arden

Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “The Infinite Vulcan” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Barack Obama: Champion of Science and Science Fiction by Natalie Zutter

Orbit Acquires Three Books by N. K. Jemisin Including a Contemporary Fantasy by Natalie Zutter

Devote Yourself to Cthulhu with Five Days of Winter Tide by Carl Engle-Laird

The Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Shadow Rising, Part 11 by Leigh Butler

Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Seven by Emily Asher-Perrin

Grounded: Revealing the Cover for Fran Wilde’s Horizon by Tor.com

Marlon James to Write Fantasy Trilogy Inspired by Lord of the Rings and African Mythology by Natalie Zutter

Sleeps With Monsters: Certain Things Are Dark, Like Winter by Liz Bourke

Ghosts, Rivals, Pirates, Friends: 9 Recent SFF Books Starring Sisters by Molly Templeton

Free eBook Giveaway of Some of the Best of Tor.com 2016 Edition by Tor.com

Winter Tide: Chapter 2 by Ruthanna Emrys

Mon Jan 9

Fires, Werewolves, and More Fires: The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman by Liz Bourke

Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 26-27 by Judith Tarr

It Is What It Is. Sherlock: “The Lying Detective” by Emily Asher-Perrin

Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: The Vor Game, Chapter 17 by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer

Dark, But Not Quite Weird Enough: NBC’s Emerald City by Mari Ness

Looking Back at Princess Mononoke After 20 Years by Leah Schnelbach

Emma Watson Sings in New Beauty and the Beast Trailer by Natalie Zutter

Expanded Course in the History of Black Science Fiction: “The Goophered Grapevine” by Charles W. Chesnutt by Nisi Shawl

Watch the Disturbing First Teaser for The Handmaid’s Tale by Natalie Zutter

Five Authors with Magical Worldbuilding Skills by David Weber

Winter Tide: Chapter 1 by Ruthanna Emrys

If Any Writer Deserves an Action Figure, It’s Carrie Fisher by Stubby the Rocket

Fri Jan 6

Mermaids, Murder, and Music all Converge in The Lure! by Stubby the Rocket

Holy Rewatch Batman! “Louie, the Lilac” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

The People’s Police by Norman Spinrad

Your Movie Set Isn’t Haunted — The Local Teens Are Messing With You by Emily Asher-Perrin

All Orphans Are Terrifying: Frank Lauria’s The Foundling by Grady Hendrix

Fiction Affliction: Genre-Benders for January by Tor.com

8 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Titles Inspired by Poetry by Natalie Zutter

The Morning in Publishing: January 6, 2017 by Leah Schnelbach

Thu Jan 5

Adam Savage Tours a Weta Workshop Sculptor’s Mini Labyrinth Maze! by Leah Schnelbach

Altered Bodies, Familiar Histories: Kiini Ibura Salaam’s When the World Wounds by Tobias Carroll

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

Remembering George Michael: Pop Icon and Possible DC Deity by Alasdair Stuart

Alexis Bledel Joins The Handmaid’s Tale as Ofglen by Natalie Zutter

Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 12 by Alice Arneson

Tor.com Publishing Acquires Witchmark and a Sequel from C. L. Polk by Carl Engle-Laird

Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for January by Tor.com

Wrapping Up the Disney Read-Watch by Mari Ness

How to Fix Rogue One with the Least Amount of Effort by Max Gladstone

Wed Jan 4

Aurora Australis: Looking Ahead to the New Year by Alexandra Pierce

Mark Gatiss Responds to “Sherlock Bond” Critic in Rhyming Verse by Natalie Zutter

Fiction Affliction: January Releases in Science Fiction by Tor.com

You Must Be Asking Yourself, “Why Mu?”: Colin Wilson’s “Return of the Lloigor” by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys

SNL Korea’s Doctor Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme of Street Magic by Emily Asher-Perrin

Crossroads of Canopy by Thoraiya Dyer

Diego Luna Shares Touching Fan Story About His Rogue One Accent by Natalie Zutter

War Without Glory: The Forlorn Hope by David Drake by Alan Brown

Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber is the Tor.com Ebook Club Pick for January! by Tor.com

The Morning in Publishing: January 4, 2017 by Stubby the Rocket

A Human Stain by Kelly Robson

Tue Jan 3

Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “The Survivor” by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Stories from the World of Recluce: “The Forest Girl” by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Feminist Fiction in Translation: Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff by Brit Mandelo

Fiction Affliction: January Releases in Fantasy by Tor.com

Sleeps With Monsters: Superhero Hope by Liz Bourke

Women of Harry Potter: Minerva McGonagall, Bright and Burning by Sarah Gailey

Fascinating and Confounding: Netlix’s The OA by Alasdair Stuart

Mon Jan 2

For Mary Shelley, Creating a Monster was Only the Beginning by Theodore Krulik

Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 24-25 by Judith Tarr

What Are Your Reading Goals for 2017? by Stubby the Rocket

Save John Watson? Sherlock: “The Six Thatchers” by Emily Asher-Perrin

Snow Crash, Infinite Jest, and Our Cyberpunk Present by Leah Schnelbach

All Hail the Defiant Science Fictional Weirdness of Queen! by Robert Repino

Anime Year in Review: The Ten Best Shows of 2016 by Kelly Quinn Chiu

Asimov Reads Again by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Five Fantasy Books That Ignore Genre Boundaries! by Michael Swanwick