Blog Archive
October 2017
Tue Oct 31
Celebrating Sincerity with It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
by Leah Schnelbach
Five Books About Running Away From One’s Problems to Join a Space Pirate Crew
by R.E. Stearns
Unearthing the Perfect Horror Movies for Halloween
by Alasdair Stuart
Engineering Mysteries! Murderous AIs! Pirates! Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns
by Liz Bourke
Mime from Hell — The Crow, The Crow: City of Angels, The Crow: Salvation, and The Crow: Wicked Prayer
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Candy of Friendship: When Kids Befriend the Unknown With Treats
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Absinthe with the Devil: “Enoch Soames” is the Best Story You’ve Never Read
by Austin Grossman
Bitter Grounds
by Neil Gaiman
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson: Chapters 28-30
by Brandon Sanderson
Mon Oct 30
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Memory, Chapters 13 and 14
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Stranger Things Season 2 More Than Lives Up to Its Predecessor
by Leah Schnelbach
Better Fiction Through Technology: Reconstructing the Lost City of Petra
by Michael Livingston
What Was the First Movie That Scared You?
by Stubby the Rocket
Steal the Stars Will Literally Stop You In Your Tracks (In A Good Way!)
by Alasdair Stuart
Tough Mudder — Star Trek Discovery’s “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
9 Terrifying Books That Aren’t Shelved as Horror
by Stubby the Rocket
Cosplaying the Stormlight Archive: Szeth, Hoid, Veil, and Shardplate
by Lyndsey Luther
Fri Oct 27
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Five Books Featuring Psychological Hauntings
by Sarah Porter
Take a Look at the Harry Potter Synopsis That Most Publishers Turned Down
by Stubby the Rocket
Beetlejuice: A Ghostly, Gothed-Out 80s Fairy Tale for the Ages
by Bridget McGovern
Have a Peculiar Halloween with 8 Quirky Horror Stories
by Natalie Zutter
First Draft of the MCU — The Incredible Hulk Returns, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, and The Death of the Incredible Hulk
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Shelter Sorts Dogs Into Hogwarts Houses, Leading to More Adoptions
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Thu Oct 26
Revealed: The Full Endpapers From Brandon Sanderson’s Oathbringer!
by Tor.com
Revisiting Gene Wilder’s Classic Horror-Comedy Haunted Honeymoon
by Jeff LaSala
Five Mythical Monsters From the Edges of the Map
by Joe M. McDermott
The Date I Witnessed Between Wolf Girl and James Spader’s Lonely Doppelganger
by Sarah Gailey
Worth a Thousand Words: Above the Timberline by Gregory Manchess
by Aidan Moher
Jason Momoa Meets Robert E. Howard: Conan the Barbarian (2011 Remake)
by Michael Livingston
Check Out the Runaways’ Superpowered Inheritance in New Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
Edgedancer Reread: Chapters 17 and 18
by Lyndsey Luther and Alice Arneson
We Can Safely Say That Sarek of Vulcan is Sci-fi’s Worst Dad
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Revolutionary Whimsy: Where to Start Reading Frances Hardinge
by Molly Templeton
The Little Series That Could: Agent of Change by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
by Alan Brown
Wed Oct 25
Great Instances of Sci-Fi/Fantasy Characters in Halloween Costumes
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Michel Mauvais and the Sorcerer’s Stone: H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Alchemist”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Renegades
by Marissa Meyer
Improper Magic: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
by Mahvesh Murad
Storm Systems
by Joe Hill
Necessary Whimsy: Vampire Bunnies and Other Weird-But-Fun Halloween Reads
by Lish McBride
Where to Start with the Haunting Work of Joe Hill
by Alex Brown
Listen to Steal the Stars Episode 13: “Matt-25”
by Tor.com
Storm Warning: a Treatise on Rosharan Atmospheric Anomalies
by Ross Newberry
Meet Warriors, Ghosts, and Time Travelers in Tor.com Publishing’s Winter 2018 Lineup!
by Tor.com
Tue Oct 24
Mandelbrot the Magnificent
by Liz Ziemska
Venetian Fantasy: The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso
by Liz Bourke
Super Mario Brothers: Fantasy or Science Fiction?
by Peter Tieryas
The Exorcist TV Series Subverts Its Own Troubled Franchise
by Leah Schnelbach
Sleeps With Monsters: The Steppes, The Steppes Are Calling
by Liz Bourke
The Horror of the Suburbs
by Melissa F. Olson
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson: Chapters 25-27
by Brandon Sanderson
Mon Oct 23
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Memory, Chapter 12
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Good Retcons and Bad B-Plots — Star Trek Discovery’s “Lethe”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Star Trek: Discovery is Renewed for Season Two!
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Let It Go: Strange Weather by Joe Hill
by Niall Alexander
The 13th Doctor Might Have Three New Companions!
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Pull List: The Unholy Horror of Sabrina and Redlands
by Alex Brown
Farewell to the Witch World: Norton and Crispin’s Songsmith
by Judith Tarr
Primal Fears and Haunted Paths: The Thin Line Between Fairy Tales and Horror Stories
by Tobias Carroll
Travel Along with Mad Max: Fury Road in an Illustrated Map
by Tor.com
Fri Oct 20
Check Out the Stunning Endpapers in Brandon Sanderson’s Oathbringer
by Tor.com
SFF Authors Share How Star Wars Inspired Them “A Long Time Ago”
by Stubby the Rocket
Tor Teen Acquires “Coming of Age in Outer Space” Trilogy from Charlie Jane Anders
by Tor.com
Crafting a Shardblade for Brandon Sanderson
by Val C Alston
Deadhouse Landing
by Ian Cameron Esslemont
The Best and Worst of the ’90s Teen Horror Movie Craze
by Alex Brown
Exclusive Fan Art from the New Collector’s Edition of V. E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic
by Miriam Weinberg
Thu Oct 19
The City of Brass
by S. A. Chakraborty
“Bonjour, Je Veux Mon Livre”: Hocus Pocus
by Leigh Butler
Edgedancer Reread: Chapters 15 and 16
by Alice Arneson
Star Trek, Harry Mudd, and the Power of Personal Narrative
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Netflix Reveals New The Punisher Trailer and Premiere Date
by Stubby the Rocket
Pastoral Apocalypse: Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow
by Jo Walton
Wed Oct 18
Cory Doctorow’s Books Get a Brand New Look!
by Tor.com
Gardens at the End of the World: John Langan’s “The Shallows”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Barbary Station
by R.E. Stearns
Come Listen To Infomocracy’s Musical Genre of The Future, Gronkytonk!
by Stubby the Rocket
The Great Stephen King Reread Final Analysis
by Grady Hendrix
5 Things That Obi-Wan Kenobi Should Have Told Luke Skywalker (Instead of LIES)
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Download a Free eBook of Lovecraftian Saga Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys
by Tor.com
Meet the Valar! (And the Foundations of Middle-earth)
by Jeff LaSala
Listen to Steal the Stars Episode 12: “All That Sky”
by Tor.com
Season of the Witch: 5 Horror Reads for Fall
by Theresa DeLucci
The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter
by Sam J. Miller
Tue Oct 17
Not Just Another Fantasy Assassin: the Vlad Taltos Novels by Steven Brust
by Stefan Raets
Tor.com Publishing Wants to Tell You About the Last Survivors of Innsmouth
by Tor.com
“There Is Juju in This Book”: Exploring Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch series
by Alex Brown
Sleeps With Monsters: My Year In Queer
by Liz Bourke
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson: Chapters 22-24
by Brandon Sanderson
Mon Oct 16
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View is the Mashup You’ve Been Looking For
by Em Nordling
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Memory, Chapters 10-11
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Writing SFF Horses: Notes on Breeds and Riding
by Judith Tarr
“This is so f***ing cool!” — Star Trek Discovery’s “Choose Your Pain”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Shaun Tan, Armand Baltazar, and Gregory Manchess on Artists Becoming Authors and the Future of Graphic Storytelling
by John Picacio
Wakanda Forever! Watch the First Trailer for Black Panther
by Stubby the Rocket
The Power of Princesses: Robin McKinley’s The Door in the Hedge
by Jo Walton
Fri Oct 13
“You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry” — The Incredible Hulk (1977) and The Return of the Incredible Hulk
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Make Mini-Swords From Nails For All Your Favorite Redwall Characters!
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
It’s Judgment Day in the Final Stranger Things Season 2 Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
Seeking Transcendence: Five Books About the Human and the Divine
by Karen Lord
X-Men Meets All the Horror Tropes in The New Mutants Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
“Fantasy is the Realm of Idealism”: Tamora Pierce in Conversation with the Female Fantasy Authors She Inspired
by Natalie Zutter
The Fear and Joy of Watching Your Book Get Made Into a Movie
by Dan Wells
Thu Oct 12
The Gods of War: Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi
by Mahvesh Murad
Seventh Decimate
by Stephen R. Donaldson
Cracking Open the Nutcracker: Gregory Maguire’s Hiddensee
by Mari Ness
Edgedancer Reread: Chapters 13 and 14
by Alice Arneson and Lyndsey Luther
Dirk Gently, Sherlock, and the Power of Consequences
by Leah Schnelbach
Radio Waves and Miracles: All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
by Lee Mandelo
Revisiting the Recently Rediscovered 1956 Hugo Awards Ballot
by Jo Walton
Honor, Duty, and Space Navies at War: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell
by Alan Brown
Wed Oct 11
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
by John Crowley
Living Sensibly With the Dead: E.F. Benson’s “How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Lotus Petals: The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear
by Lee Mandelo
The Great Stephen King Reread: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
by Grady Hendrix
Meet the Scientist Witches from the Short Film Adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s “Hello, Moto”
by Stubby the Rocket
On Context, Clones, and the Unknown: Tade Thompson’s The Murders of Molly Southbourne
by Tobias Carroll
Targets: Horror Movies in the Age of Mass Shootings
by Joe George
Listen to Steal the Stars Episode 11: “Checkpoints”
by Tor.com
Expanded Course in the History of Black Science Fiction: Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
by Nisi Shawl
ZeroS
by Peter Watts
Tue Oct 10
Enemies of Man: The Power by Naomi Alderman
by Niall Alexander
Internationalism, Surrealism, Futurism: The Novels of Deji Bryce Olukotun
by Tobias Carroll
Raising a Dragonslayer
by Peter V Brett
Worldbuilding and the Promise of SF: The Enemy Stars by Poul Anderson
by James Davis Nicoll
Tolkien’s Map and the Perplexing River Systems of Middle-earth
by Alex Acks
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Steampunk, or All at Once: Where to Start with the Work of Elizabeth Bear
by Liz Bourke
Sleeps With Monsters: Power Ballads and Professionals
by Liz Bourke
Lovecraft in Downing Street: Revealing Charles Stross’ The Labyrinth Index
by Tor.com
Our Final 4 Theories On Who Rey’s Parents Are
by Stubby the Rocket
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson: Chapters 19-21
by Brandon Sanderson
Mon Oct 9
The Final Trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Landed
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
N.K. Jemisin and Ann Leckie on What Makes a Classic Work of SFF and New Classics
by Natalie Zutter
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Memory, Chapters 7-9
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
The Un-discovered Islands
by Malachy Tallack
At Labyrinth Screening 30 Years Ago, David Bowie Helps a Little Boy With His “Invisible Mask”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five Alternate Histories that Embrace Diversity
by Ginn Hale
What Nichelle Nichols Said to Sonequa Martin-Green at the Star Trek: Discovery Premiere
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Cast No Shadow
by Nick Tapalansky
Coming of Age in a New World: Andre Norton’s Horn Crown
by Judith Tarr
Revisiting Patricia A. McKillip’s The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
by Molly Templeton
Blade Runner 2049: The Secret Lives of Replicants
by Theresa DeLucci
The Spores Must Flow — Star Trek Discovery’s “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
What It Means to Be Human: Five Works of Fiction That Explore Blade Runner’s Core Themes
by Matthew Kressel
Understanding Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere
by Martin Cahill
Sun Oct 8
Watch the First Trailer for Stephen King’s Castle Rock Anthology Series
by Natalie Zutter
Black Mirror Season 4 is Chock Full of Easter Eggs and Other Tidbits From NYCC
by Natalie Zutter
The Justice League Learns to Be a Team in New “Heroes” Trailer
by Natalie Zutter
Sat Oct 7
Captain Georgiou Threatens Captain Lorca at Star Trek: Discovery Panel If He Doesn’t Take Care of Her Michael
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Most Likely to Succeed: Marvel’s Runaways
by Natalie Zutter
The Tick Announces Return Date; Premieres Trailer; Promises More Hugs
by Leah Schnelbach
Punk Meets Aliens in the How to Talk to Girls at Parties Trailer
by Natalie Zutter
Fri Oct 6
Watch the First Trailer for Hulu and Marvel’s Runaways!
by Stubby the Rocket
“The Enemy is Fascism.” The Man in the High Castle Explores the Multiverse in Season 3 Clip and NYCC Panel
by Leah Schnelbach
Aurora Australis: The Future Looks Bright for Children’s Lit
by Tehani Croft
Epic Fantasy in an Old-fashioned Mold: The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan
by Liz Bourke
Watch the First Trailer for Pacific Rim: Uprising!
by Stubby the Rocket
Check Out the Hypnotic First Trailer for Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
by Leah Schnelbach
Peter Capaldi Found Out That Jodie Whittaker Was Playing the Doctor When They Asked For His Trousers
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Modern Literary Witches Go Beyond Maiden, Mother, and Crone
by Natalie Zutter
“Chicks dig the car” — Batman Forever and Batman & Robin
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Ta-Nehesi Coates and Jason Reynolds Talk Black Panther and Miles Morales
by Leah Schnelbach
Five Books That Taste Great
by Cassandra Khaw
Thu Oct 5
Keanu Reeves’ Love (And Cloning Tech) is Stronger than Death in Replicas!
by Leah Schnelbach
Learn the Creepy History of Robert the Doll in New Lore Footage
by Natalie Zutter
All the New Genre-Bending Books Coming Out in October
by Tor.com
The Universal Translator is Real Now, Get Ready to Make Alien Friends
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Sometimes, Horror is the Only Fiction That Understands You
by Leah Schnelbach
Heed the Call of Cthulhu with Five Chapters of Winter Tide
by Ruthanna Emrys
Tackling the Real Horror of Lovecraft Head-on
by Tobias Carroll
Explore the Modern Mythos in Reimagining Lovecraft, a New Tor.com Publishing Anthology!
by Tor.com
Edgedancer Reread: Chapters 11 and 12
by Lyndsey Luther and Alice Arneson
Ghostbusters is a Surprising Antidote to Lovecraft’s Dismal Worldview
by Max Gladstone
Kazuo Ishiguro Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
by Stubby the Rocket
Wrestling with Tentacles: Cassandra Khaw and Victor LaValle Take on H.P. Lovecraft
by Leah Schnelbach
A Song for Quiet
by Cassandra Khaw
The Ballad of Black Tom
by Victor LaValle
Beyond Jump Scares: True Storytelling in Horror
by Greg Ruth
Wed Oct 4
All the New Science Fiction Books Coming Out in October
by Tor.com
Terrible Pickup Lines of the Dead: Mary Rickert’s “Journey Into the Kingdom”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Introversion in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
by Tade Thompson
The Great Stephen King Reread: Revival
by Grady Hendrix
8 Chilling Reads From Around the World
by Rachel Cordasco
Revealing The Atrocities and The Barrow Will Send What it May
by Tor.com
The Atrocities
by Jeremy Shipp
Listen to Steal the Stars Episode 10: “Protocol”
by Tor.com
On Horror, Disability, and Loving Both at Once
by Lee Foster
Her Body, Her Self: Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties
by Leah Schnelbach
The Silmarillion Primer: The Creation of Life, Eä, and Everything
by Jeff LaSala
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
by Tade Thompson
Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View — “The Luckless Rodian”
by Renee Ahdieh
It Came from Within: 5 Great Body Horror Films
by Theresa DeLucci
Crispin’s Model
by Max Gladstone
Tue Oct 3
Nnedi Okorafor to Write New Black Panther Storyline for Marvel Comics
by Stubby the Rocket
All the New Fantasy Books Coming Out in October
by Tor.com
Keep to the Path: Horror Fiction and Little Red Riding Hood
by Stephen Graham Jones
A Long Day in Lychford
by Paul Cornell
How Modern Horror Franchises Have Embraced Creepypasta to Stay Relevant
by Natalie Zutter
The Masterful Unraveling of Shirley Jackson’s Merricat Blackwood
by Angela Slatter
Visit Snowy Wastelands, Mysterious Desert Towns, and a Galaxy Far, Far Away in Barnes & Noble Booksellers Picks for October
by Tor.com
This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017
by Sarah Gailey
A Queer Love Story Across Time: Revealing Ian McDonald’s Time Was
by Tor.com
Sleeps With Monsters: The Cold Blade’s Finger
by Liz Bourke
The Haunted Houses and Haunted Psyches of Shirley Jackson
by Leah Schnelbach
The Peril of Being Disbelieved: Horror Fiction and Women’s Intuition
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson: Chapters 16-18
by Brandon Sanderson
Mon Oct 2
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Memory, Chapters 5 and 6
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Terrorist Toys: The Pulp Horror of William Hallahan’s Keeper of the Children
by Grady Hendrix
Fantasy Equines: Where There’s a Form, There’d Better Be a Function
by Judith Tarr
Switchback
by Melissa F. Olson
Trick or Treat: In Search of Obscure Horror Fiction
by Jeffrey Ford
Peter V. Brett’s Demon Cycle Almost Became a Game Instead of a Fantasy Book Series
by Peter V Brett
The Twilight Pariah
by Jeffrey Ford
Writing Your Fear: Stephen King’s The Shining
by Grady Hendrix
“You helped start a war, don’t you want to help me end it?” — Star Trek Discovery’s “Context is for Kings”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Download Fall of Fear, a Sampler of Forthcoming Horror from Tor.com Publishing!
by Tor.com
Horror is Good For You (and Even Better for Your Kids)
by Greg Ruth
Sun Oct 1
Announcing the 2017 British Fantasy Award Winners
by Tor.com