Blog Archive
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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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 Emmet Asher-Perrin
Can James Cameron Save the Terminator Saga by Ending It?
by Alasdair Stuart
Queer/Historical Magic: Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
by Lee 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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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 M. 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 Emmet 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 Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Films of Tim Burton All Occur in the Same Fictional Universe
by Emmet 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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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 Lee 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 Emmet 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