Blog Archive
February 2017
Tue Feb 28
The Best Locked-Room Mystery in Space You’ll Read All Year
by Alasdair Stuart
Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Fourteen
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Sleeps With Monsters: Lovecraftian Cruelty and Kindness
by Liz Bourke
Open Thread: Books That Punched Us in Our Tear Ducts
by Stubby the Rocket
The Right Stories to Topple Dangerous Regimes: Announcing The Last Queens of Nuryevet by Alexandra Rowland
by Tor.com
On the Cosmic Scale: Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
by Lee Mandelo
Mon Feb 27
New York Burning: Five Books About the Collapse of New York City
by Corey J. White
Pandora’s Post-Apocalypse: The Girl With All the Gifts
by Karin L Kross
An A.I. That Loves Cat Pictures: Hugo-Winning Short Story Becomes YA Novel
by Tor.com
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cetaganda, Chapters 4-9
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Darkly Dreaming: 5 Essential Reads from Caitlín R. Kiernan
by Theresa DeLucci
Realism, Honesty, and Joy: Remembering Bill Paxton
by Alasdair Stuart
Spaceships and Magic: Andre Norton’s Moon of Three Rings
by Judith Tarr
See Cory Doctorow and Edward Snowden Discuss Walkaway at NYPL!
by Stubby the Rocket
Science vs. The Expanse: Is It Possible to Colonize Our Solar System?
by Swapna Krishna
Chalk
by Paul Cornell
Fri Feb 24
V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic Is Changing Direction, Now Headed to the Big Screen!
by Stubby the Rocket
Holy Rewatch Batman! “Louie’s Lethal Lilac Time”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Cold Counsel
by Chris Sharp
Let’s Join a Cult! The Brainwashing Pulps of the ’70s and ’80s
by Grady Hendrix
Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Forge of Darkness, Chapter One
by Bill Capossere
Shared Worlds is Now Open for Registration!
by Stubby the Rocket
An Enthusiastic Carnival of Horrors: Dr. Potter’s Medicine Show
by Arianne Thompson
Klingons Drug Everyone: David Dvorkin’s Timetrap
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Karen Memory Will Return in…Stone Mad, a New Novella by Elizabeth Bear
by Carl Engle-Laird
In the Time of Antoine Volodine: Unlikely Fables, Literary Dystopias, and Strange Futures
by Tobias Carroll
Thu Feb 23
“Nobody ever gives up magic because everything’s peachy.” The Magicians, “Cheat Day”
by Molly Templeton
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Love in the Time of Robots (Full Spoilers!)
by Alan Brown
A Closed and Common Orbit
by Becky Chambers
Insects and Corporate Infighting: A Bug’s Life
by Mari Ness
Announcing the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards Nominees
by Tor.com
Caterpillars and Butterflies: The Expanse: “Home”
by Leah Schnelbach
Five Amazing Women Warriors of the Middle Ages
by Michael Livingston
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 19
by Alice Arneson
Join the Crew for a Last Supper in the Alien: Covenant Prologue
by Stubby the Rocket
Rereading The Handmaid’s Tale: Parts V-VI
by Natalie Zutter
Storytelling Through Costume: The Allure of the Red Dress
by Sarah Gailey
A New Novel Written Entirely in Verse: Announcing Jane Yolen’s Finding Baba Yaga
by Carl Engle-Laird
From Vampires to Space Battles: Where to Start with Chuck Wendig
by Alex Brown
Neko Mads-sume!
by Stubby the Rocket
Wed Feb 22
Reunion Tour: Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
by Niall Alexander
Five Books About Trolls
by Chris Sharp
Urban Legends of Ancient Egypt: Gene Wolfe’s “Lord of the Land”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Astronomers Find 7 Earth-Sized Exoplanets Orbiting One Star
by Swapna Krishna
Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Forge of Darkness, Prelude
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
The Grisha Trilogy Reread: Ruin and Rising, Part Three
by Sylas K Barrett
Catch a FIYAH: Notes on Building a Black Speculative Fiction Revolution
by P. Djèlí Clark and Troy L. Wiggins
Losing Heart Among the Tall
by A.M. Dellamonica
A Peculiar Coat, Four Years Later
by Stubby the Rocket
Tue Feb 21
Congratulations to Our 2016 Nebula Award Nominees!
by Katharine Duckett
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Supergirl, “Mr. and Mrs. Mxyzptlk”
by Natalie Zutter
Revealing The Cocktail Guide to the Galaxy
by Tor.com
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “The Time Trap”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Spymaster
by Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes
The Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Fires of Heaven, Part 1
by Leigh Butler
Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Thirteen
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Sleeps With Monsters: Queens of Ice and Fire
by Liz Bourke
Announcing the 2016 Aurealis Award Finalists
by Tor.com
Belle Sings of Her Provincial Life in a New Clip from Beauty and the Beast!
by Stubby the Rocket
Collecting Philip K. Dick: Science Fiction’s Most Powerful Gateway Drug
by Joshua Sky
Announcing George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards: The Reread!
by Tor.com
Mon Feb 20
The Unlikely Philosophy of Joe Versus the Volcano
by Leah Schnelbach
Passing for Human: Nowhere Near You by Leah Thomas
by Em Nordling
Finding the Right Book at the Right Time
by Caitlyn Paxson
The Joy of Being a Nerd: What Real Genius Reminds Us About Geek Culture
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Announcing the 2016 Nebula Awards Nominees
by Tor.com
The SFF Equine: Troublesome Tropes About Horses
by Judith Tarr
Ten Authors on the ‘Hard’ vs. ‘Soft’ Science Fiction Debate
by Fran Wilde
Fri Feb 17
Try A Short Fiction Tasting Flight with Nerds of a Feather’s Monthly Round!
by Stubby the Rocket
Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Funny Feline Felonies” / “The Joke’s on Catwoman”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Time Museum
by Matthew Loux
Doom and Gloom Metal: The Stigma
by Grady Hendrix
Neil Gaiman’s Next Novel Will Be a Sequel to Neverwhere
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
5 SFF Love Stories About Overcoming a Language Barrier
by Stubby the Rocket
This American Afterlife: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
by Leah Schnelbach
Nigerian Production Company Fiery Film Options Nnedi Okorafor’s Short Story “Hello, Moto”
by Stubby the Rocket
Beyond Han and Chewie: Cassian Andor, Sacrifice, and Redemption
by Alasdair Stuart
The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction Seeks to Encourage and Honor Pakistani SFF
by Stubby the Rocket
Thu Feb 16
Here Are the Most Notable Kloo Horn Players in Star Wars, Don’t Argue With Me
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Now We’re Just Grownups: The Magicians, “The Flying Forest”
by Molly Templeton
Doctors Without Space Borders — The Expanse: “Godspeed”
by Leah Schnelbach
Geek Week Presents: N. K. Jemisin, Daniel Jose Older, and More at Housing Works!
by Stubby the Rocket
Rereading The Handmaid’s Tale: Parts III-IV
by Natalie Zutter
“Make Love, Not War” in Cheesy Sci-fi Form: Barbarella
by Leigh Butler
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 18
by Alice Arneson
Help Refugees Through Science Fiction!
by Ada Palmer
Pull List: Goldie Vance and Ladycastle Turn Tropes into Treats
by Alex Brown
The Collapsing Empire: Chapter Three
by John Scalzi
Witness Mater
by Stubby the Rocket
Wed Feb 15
Tips for Resistance in Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough
by Em Nordling
Escher Meets Noir: Revealing Jeff Noon’s A Man of Shadows
by Tor.com
On National Hippo Day, Sci-Fi Author Reminds Us Why We Don’t Just Eat All the Hippos
by Stubby the Rocket
India Launches a Record-Breaking 104 Satellites on One Rocket
by Swapna Krishna
Matt Wallace’s Sin du Jour Series: Delectable, Delightfully Deranged Urban Fantasy
by Alasdair Stuart
Ia! I’ll Show Them All! Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro’s “The Electric Executioner”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Expanded Course in the History of Black Science Fiction: Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
by Nisi Shawl
Tor.com Acquires the Third Centenal Cycle Novel from Malka Older
by Carl Engle-Laird
The Grisha Trilogy Reread: Ruin and Rising, Part Two
by Sylas K Barrett
The Collapsing Empire: Chapter Two
by John Scalzi
Not a Prequel, Or a Sequel, But an Equel: Philip Pullman Announces The Book of Dust
by Niall Alexander
Extracurricular Activities
by Yoon Ha Lee
David Tennant Reacts to Finding Out Everyone Loves David Tennant
by Stubby the Rocket
Tue Feb 14
She Said, She Said: Supergirl, “Luthors”
by Natalie Zutter
Victor LaValle Combines Frankenstein with Cyborgs and Political Consciousness in New Comic, Destroyer
by Leah Schnelbach
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “The Terratin Incident”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Enter to Win One of Three Tablets Loaded With eBooks From Tor.com and The Portalist!
by Tor.com
Birth, Death, Rebirth: The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley
by Lee Mandelo
Enter The Flow With Excerpts from John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire
by Tor.com
Kiss Me, Quick: How Code Name Verity Pulls the Rug Out from Under its Readers
by Jacqueline Carey
Thor Won’t Pay His Rent in Team Thor: Part 2
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Value of Romance in Sci-Fi & Fantasy
by Natalie Zutter
Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Twelve
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Sleeps With Monsters: War and Revolution and Hope
by Liz Bourke
Check Out Tor.com Publishing’s Upcoming Titles
by Tor.com
The Morning in Publishing: February 14, 2017
by Leah Schnelbach
The Collapsing Empire: Chapter One
by John Scalzi
Mon Feb 13
Where Literary Meets Fabulist: Juan Martinez’s Best Worst American
by Alyx Dellamonica
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cetaganda, Chapters 2-3 (Redux)
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Standard Hollywood Depravity
by Adam Christopher
Everything About The LEGO Batman Movie Is Awesome
by Alasdair Stuart
Join N.K. Jemisin at the Franklin Park Reading Series!
by Stubby the Rocket
The Andre Norton Reread Begins: Andre and Me
by Judith Tarr
Read Two Free SFF Love Stories on Tor.com!
by Stubby the Rocket
Okay, Bring Back Firefly…But Not the Crew of The Serenity
by Chris Lough
This Morning in Publishing: February 13, 2017
by Stubby the Rocket
5 Books to Read If You Loved Hidden Figures
by Swapna Krishna
Sat Feb 11
8 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books Sexier Than Fifty Shades
by Natalie Zutter and Leah Schnelbach
Fri Feb 10
Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Ogg Couple”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
This Week in the Arrowverse: Racing, Russia, and Revolution
by Molly Templeton
Decelerate Blue
by Adam Rapp and Mike Cavallaro
Terrorist Toys: William Hallahan’s Keeper of the Children
by Grady Hendrix
From Alice to Zombies: Rewatching the Resident Evil Movies
by Alasdair Stuart
This Morning in Publishing: February 10, 2017
by Stubby the Rocket
The Vampire Diaries’ 10 Greatest Moments
by Ashley Wells
Thu Feb 9
Emma Watson is Her Best Self in the New Trailer for The Circle
by Natalie Zutter
The Regicide is the Fun Part: The Magicians, “Divine Elimination”
by Molly Templeton
Here’s Your First Look at Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley
by Natalie Zutter
The Beast is an Animal
by Peternelle van Arsdale
Charlie Jane Anders Wins the 2017 Crawford Award for All the Birds in the Sky
by Stubby the Rocket
Rereading The Handmaid’s Tale: Parts I-II
by Natalie Zutter
Goodnight, Moon. The Expanse: “Static”
by Leah Schnelbach
M.R. Carey Reads the First Chapter from The Girl With All the Gifts Prequel The Boy on the Bridge
by Natalie Zutter
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 17
by Alice Arneson
The One Book That Changed Everything
by Lindsay Smith
Never Out of Date: The Past as Fantasy, and Our Fantasies of the Past
by Lara Elena Donnelly
The First Trailer for Bill Nye Saves the World Brings Science and Joy
by Natalie Zutter
The Death of Sandman: A Psychiatric Reading
by Tade Thompson
Wed Feb 8
Confronting the Horror of Time: Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
by Leah Schnelbach
Psst, Kid, Wanna Buy an Apocalyptic Sweater? Amelia Gorman’s “Bring the Moon to Me”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Seven Surrenders
by Ada Palmer
Who Owns the Stars? Creating a Space Opera Universe
by Kameron Hurley
The Moral Compass of Battlestar Galactica: Remembering Richard Hatch
by Alasdair Stuart
The Grisha Trilogy Reread: Ruin and Rising, Part One
by Sylas K Barrett
Jules Verne’s Love of Adventure Took Us From the Center of the Earth to the Surface of the Moon
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Starship Troopers: Paul Verhoeven’s Manic, Misunderstood Satire
by Michael Moreci
The Old Dispensation
by Lavie Tidhar
Tue Feb 7
Join John Scalzi on His The Collapsing Empire Tour!
by Tor.com
This Skin Is Beautiful: Supergirl, “The Martian Chronicles”
by Natalie Zutter
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “Mudd’s Passion”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Inventing a Theme: Brunching in the Pickle Palace
by Lara Elena Donnelly
“And the Master-Poet painted…”: Neil Gaiman Revisits Old Gods in Norse Mythology
by Alex Brown
The Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Shadow Rising, Part 13
by Leigh Butler
A Well-Worn Story: Examining Iconic SFF Costumes
by Sarah Gailey
Danny Rand Treks Through City Barefoot in Iron Fist Trailer
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Eleven
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Sleeps With Monsters: Fascism Tomorrow But Cabaret Today
by Liz Bourke
Walk Beneath the Canopy of These 8 Fictional Forests
by Thoraiya Dyer
A Room of Our Own: On Writing Collaboratively
by Max Gladstone
Mon Feb 6
Watch The Doctor Regenerate Through Space and Time in This Charming Fan Animation
by Stubby the Rocket
Small Lives, Epic Scope: Alan Moore’s Jerusalem
by Joe M. McDermott
Gather Her Round
by Alex Bledsoe
Samurai Jack Returns in a Dark and Violent Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Cetaganda, Chapters 2-3
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Rekindling Awe: V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic
by Brad Beaulieu
Join Caitlín R. Kiernan to Celebrate Agents of Dreamland!
by Katharine Duckett
Genre Runs on Horsepower: Introducing The SFF Equine
by Judith Tarr
The Return to Osten Ard: Revealing The Witchwood Crown
by Tad Williams
Beware the Retrofuture: Elan Mastai and Jack Womack Navigate the Problems of SciFi Nostalgia
by Tobias Carroll
Watch the Newest Teaser for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
by Stubby the Rocket
Check Out the New Trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2!
by Stubby the Rocket
Irresistible Books: Small Presses in Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Matthew Keeley
Stranger Things: Season 2 Releases a Creepy New Teaser, Announces Halloween Premiere!
by Stubby the Rocket
Fri Feb 3
Patrick Rothfuss Announces The Name of the Wind Tenth Anniversary Edition and Shares Updates on The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 3
by Stubby the Rocket
An Atlanta High School and Trader Joe’s Celebrate SFF Authors for Black History Month
by Natalie Zutter
This Week in the Arrowverse: New Faces, Old Problems
by Molly Templeton
Holy Rewatch Batman! “Catwoman’s Dressed to Kill”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Meet the Rogues Gallery in Latest LEGO Batman Teaser!
by Natalie Zutter
The Clairvoyants
by Karen Brown
Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for February
by Tor.com
The Tree of Life and Death: Crossroads of Canopy by Thoraiya Dyer
by Alex Brown
What Even?! Teen Wolf Mid-Season Recap
by Jenn Northington
Watch the Super Bowl Trailer for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
by Natalie Zutter
The One Book That Unstuck My Writing
by Juan Martinez
Grow up to Dream Again: Reading Every Heart a Doorway as a Parent
by Alex Bledsoe
Thu Feb 2
Marvel Casts Its Runaways!
by Natalie Zutter
Aurora Australis: Some Darkness, and Some Hope
by Alexandra Pierce
Agricultural Tales and New Tats: The Magicians, “Hotel Spa Potions”
by Molly Templeton
Here’s Who the Internet is Choosing (So Far) as the Next Star of Doctor Who
by Stubby the Rocket
The Expanse Returns with a Two-Hour Season Premiere: “Safe” and “Doors and Corners”
by Leah Schnelbach
A Fairy Tale Warning: Little Red Riding Hood
by Mari Ness
Revealing A Plague of Giants
by Tor.com
A Love Letter to Ray Harryhausen: Clash of the Titans
by Leigh Butler
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 16
by Alice Arneson
Living in a House on Fire: A New Katherine Vaz Novella for Tor.com
by Lee Harris
Isla de los Sueños: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
by Niall Alexander
Breaking Barriers: Against Restoring Monarchy in Epic Fantasy
by Thoraiya Dyer
Groundhog Day Breaks the Rules of Every Genre
by Leah Schnelbach
The One Book That Made Me Move to Japan
by Vic James
Goals!
by Stubby the Rocket
Wed Feb 1
Fiction Affliction: Genre-Benders for February
by Tor.com
The Discipline of Dance: Where the Words Stop
by Skyler White
Assembly Line Adventures: On a Torn-Away World by Roy Rockwood
by Alan Brown
The Horror of Cocktail Parties: F. Marion Crawford’s “The Upper Berth”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Win One of Three Tablets Loaded With Books From Tor.com and The Portalist!
by Tor.com
Amberlough: Chapter 4
by Lara Elena Donnelly
It’s Time for Doctor Who to Change Television History for the Better
by Alasdair Stuart
Revealing the Cover for April Daniels’ Sovereign
by Tor.com
The Grisha Trilogy Reread: Siege and Storm, Part Two
by Sylas K Barrett
Announcing Acadie by Dave Hutchinson
by Lee Harris
The 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List
by Stubby the Rocket
Arrival Director Tapped to Helm Dune Remake
by Stubby the Rocket
The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross is the Tor.com eBook Club Pick for February!
by Tor.com
The Greenest Gecko
by Ploy Pirapokin