Blog Archive
May 2018
Thu May 31
Whispers Will Bring the Walls Down on The Handmaid’s Tale: “After”
by Natalie Zutter
Ghosts, Bombs, and Rings! The Expanse: “It Reaches Out”
by Leah Schnelbach and Molly Templeton
Nightflyers Proves George R.R. Martin’s Best Stories Are Weird-Ass Sci-Fi
by Erik Henriksen
The Demanding, Essential Work of Samuel Delany: The Atheist in the Attic
by Matthew Keeley
The Dangers of Propaganda, Flattery, and Violence Towards Cats: “Prince Desir and Princess Mignone”
by Mari Ness
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Ship of Theseus Problem Reveals A Lot About SciFi
by Corey J. White
Oathbringer Reread: Chapters Twenty-One and Twenty-Two
by Lyndsey Luther and Alice Arneson
Wed May 30
“I Was Brought Into this World to be Abandoned” — Mary Shelley Gives Us the Heroine She Was
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Wolverine vs. Sabertooth vs. Dracula: John Langan’s “Wide Carnivorous Sky”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Travel to Fantasy Kingdoms, Robotic Cities, or the Edge of the Universe with Barnes & Noble Booksellers Picks for June
by Tor.com
Fifty-One Portals to the Future, in Story Form: Gigantic Worlds
by Leah Schnelbach
Bookburners: Season 4, Episode 1
by Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, Andrea Phillips and Brian Francis Slattery
I Wish Solo’s Female Characters Could Find Better Escape Routes
by Natalie Zutter
Extraordinary ExtraOrdinaries: Vicious by V.E. Schwab
by Alex Brown
Playing Favorites with the Clarke Award Shortlists, 1987-2018
by Alasdair Stuart
QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: The Woman Who Loved the Moon by Elizabeth A. Lynn
by Bogi Takács
Black Friday
by Alex Irvine
Tue May 29
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: A Civil Campaign, Chapter 16
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Revealing The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
by Tor.com
Worlds Beside Themselves: Andre Norton’s Star Gate
by Judith Tarr
Vicious
by V.E. Schwab
Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part VII
by James Davis Nicoll
Westworld: Season 2, Episode 6 “Phase Space”
by Theresa DeLucci
Sleeps With Monsters: The Intriguing World of Ilana C. Myer’s Fire Dance
by Liz Bourke
Reading the Wheel of Time: Almost Everything Finally Gets Explained in Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World (Part 15)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon May 28
Our 17 Favorite Easter Eggs in Solo: A Star Wars Story
by Stubby the Rocket
Gardner Dozois, 1947 – 2018
by Tor.com
Sat May 26
The Roci will Fly Again! The Expanse Picked Up by Amazon
by Stubby the Rocket
Fri May 25
Don’t Underestimate the Genius of “The Deep” on This Year’s Hugo Ballot
by Alasdair Stuart
Solo: A Star Wars Story is Charming If a Bit Lazy — Just Like Han Himself
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Purr-fectly Mediocre — Catwoman
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Boba Fett Standalone Star Wars Movie in the Works
by Stubby the Rocket
The 12 Most Gratuitous Robot Deaths in Sci-Fi
by Stubby the Rocket
Five Overworked Fantasy Characters Who Could Use a Vacation
by Jeremy Shipp
Thu May 24
Interstellar Ring Cycle — The Expanse: “Delta V”
by Leah Schnelbach
Disconnect the Dots: 84K by Claire North
by Niall Alexander
How Do You Measure A Resistance? The Handmaid’s Tale: “First Blood”
by Natalie Zutter
Fairy Tale Towers and False Brides: “Maid Maleen”
by Mari Ness
Upright Women Wanted: Announcing a New Sarah Gailey Novella
by Ruoxi Chen
Not the Way I Remembered It: Raiders from the Rings by Alan E. Nourse
by Alan Brown
On the Origins of Modern Biology and the Fantastic: Part 3 — Aldous Huxley and Thomas Hunt Morgan
by Kelly Lagor
Oathbringer Reread: Chapters Nineteen and Twenty
by Alice Arneson and Lyndsey Luther
Wed May 23
Warner Bros. Animation to Adapt George R.R. Martin’s The Ice Dragon
by Stubby the Rocket
The Secret Life of Abdul Al-Hazred: Reza Negarestani’s “Dust Enforcer”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
The Uncanny Melancholies of Rita Bullwinkel
by Tobias Carroll
Pull List, Spooky Edition: Ghostbusters and Archival Quality
by Alex Brown
If the Deadpool Movies Don’t Want Me to Think That Deadpool is Queer, They’re Doing a Terrible Job
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five Unforgettable Prisons in Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Corey J. White
The Journey Is Over: Revealing Vultures by Chuck Wendig
by Tor.com
An Affair To Long Remember: Beren the Mortal and Lúthien the Elfmaid
by Jeff LaSala
Seanan McGuire is Sending Kitty Pryde to Summer Camp!
by Stubby the Rocket
India’s Love Affair with Archie Comics
by Reneysh Vittal
Yiwu
by Lavie Tidhar
Tue May 22
HBO’s “Remixed” Watchmen TV Adaptation Will Be Set in the Present
by Stubby the Rocket
Announcing the 2018 Eugie Award Nominees
by Tor.com
Meet Tor and Tor.com Publishing Authors at Phoenix Comic Fest!
by Tor.com
Conspiracies, Heists, and Dragonshit: The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn by Tyler Whitesides
by Liz Bourke
The Surprisingly Intricate Plot of G.I. Joe: “The M.A.S.S. Device”
by A.D. Jameson
No End to the Universe: The Outsider by Stephen King
by Niall Alexander
Bill, Ted, and the End of History
by Kate Heartfield
Sleeps With Monsters: The Atmospheric Fantasy of Melissa Scott’s Astreiant Novels
by Liz Bourke
The Guile
by Ian McDonald
Reading the Wheel of Time: Two Rivers or Aielman in Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World (Part 14)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon May 21
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: A Civil Campaign, Chapters 13-15
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season Five Finale: Where’s the Kaboom?
by Alan Brown
King of the Horse Books: Marguerite Henry’s King of the Wind
by Judith Tarr
Visit Tor/Forge & Tor.com Publishing at BEA and BookCon!
by Tor.com
Westworld Season 2, Episode 5: “Akane No Mai”
by Theresa DeLucci
On Deadpool 2 and the “Art” of Fridging
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Fahrenheit 451: We Are All Made Bored in the Fire
by Theresa DeLucci
Tugging on Superman’s Cape: Simple Suggestions for Avoiding World-Destroying Disaster. Or Not.
by James Davis Nicoll
Returning to Twin Peaks: The Return One Year Later
by Joe George
Sat May 19
Announcing the 2017 Nebula Awards Winners!
by Tor.com
Fri May 18
What Stories Could An Aragorn-Driven Amazon Series Tell?
by Jeff LaSala
Into Hell Itself: Armed In Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield
by Liz Bourke
Deadpool 2 is a Breakneck Action Comedy About Found Families
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
More Bland Girl Than Bad Girl—Witchblade
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Tor.com Publishing & Tor Books’ Nebula Finalist Sweepstakes!
by Tor.com
11 Sitcoms With Delightfully Nerdy Characters
by Stubby the Rocket
The Perfect Chaotic Worlds of Diane Duane
by Elizabeth Bear
Thu May 17
I’m Your Venus, I’m Your Fire—The Expanse: “Immolation”
by Leah Schnelbach and Molly Templeton
It’s a Nice Day for a White Wedding on The Handmaid’s Tale
by Natalie Zutter
Outcasts of Order
by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
A Tale of Artistry and Unfairness: Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling”
by Mari Ness
Announcing The Test, a New Novella from Sylvain Neuvel
by Lee Harris
Fishing for Love: The Mysteries of The Pisces
by Tobias Carroll
It’s Time to Talk About Marvel’s Gamora Problem
by Brandon O'Brien
Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Eighteen
by Lyndsey Luther and Alice Arneson
Wed May 16
What’s Going On with Legion Season 2’s Strange, Circuitous Journey?
by Alex Brown
Have No Fear, Or Else: Francis Stevens’s “Unseen – Unfeared”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Equal Parts Glamour and Desperation: Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly
by Liz Bourke
Coping With Aliens and the Unknown Through Pop Culture
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Witchmark
by C.L. Polk
Post-Apocalyptic Roadtrip to Nowhere: Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny’s Deus Irae
by Leah Schnelbach
Revealing A Memory Called Empire, a New Space Opera From Arkady Martine
by Tor.com
QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories by Craig Laurance Gidney
by Bogi Takács
Grace’s Family
by James Patrick Kelly
Tue May 15
Five Books With Kickass Moms
by Aidan Moher
Empires Clash: Revealing the Cover for The Sword and the Dagger
by Tor.com
Military Steampunk with a Dark Bite: By Fire Above by Robyn Bennis
by Liz Bourke
Here’s What Characters’ Favorite Toys Tell Us About the Star Wars Universe
by Jonathan Alexandratos
Download a Free Ebook of The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Before May 19th, 2018
by Tor.com
Sleeps With Monsters: The Spaceborn Communities of Becky Chambers
by Liz Bourke
Vanity, Patriarchy, and Futility: Death Becomes Her
by Sarah Gailey
Reading the Wheel of Time: The Bonds of Wolves and Warders in Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World (Part 13)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon May 14
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: A Civil Campaign, Chapters 11 and 12
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Stories to Live Within: The Gone Away Place by Christopher Barzak
by Lee Mandelo
Surviving the Nuclear Holocaust: Andre Norton’s Sea Siege
by Judith Tarr
Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part VI
by James Davis Nicoll
Westworld Season 2, Episode 4: “The Riddle of the Sphinx”
by Theresa DeLucci
Freed From Its Programming, Martha Wells’ Murderbot Just Wants Some Space
by Liz Bourke
Revealing Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
by Tor.com
Fri May 11
Building Nerdy Common Ground with Tie-In Fiction
by Sam Sykes
“You’re in love, have a beer” — Hellboy II: The Golden Army
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
A New Space Opera Trilogy is Coming From James S.A. Corey!
by Stubby the Rocket
The Wachowski’s Speed Racer is a Candy-Colored Whirlwind That’s Good Enough to Eat
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Revealing US and UK Covers for Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
by Tor.com
Ship It is the Fandom Book I Wish Had Existed When I Was a Teenager
by Natalie Zutter
Syfy Spaces The Expanse; Show May Find New Network
by Stubby the Rocket
5 Potentially Amazing SFF Adaptations That Need To Happen
by Foz Meadows
Thu May 10
When Do You Decide to Give Up on The Handmaid’s Tale?
by Natalie Zutter
Always Beta Test Your Mutiny! The Expanse: “Triple Point”
by Leah Schnelbach and Molly Templeton
Ensemble Fantasy: Born to the Blade by Marie Brennan, Malka Older, Cassandra Khaw, and Michael R. Underwood
by Liz Bourke
Low Chicago
by John Joseph Miller
Check Out the Cover for Brandon Sanderson’s New Novel Skyward
by Stubby the Rocket
Fairy Tales of Magical Abductions and Sudden Coups: “The Blue Light” and “The Tinderbox”
by Mari Ness
The 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees have been Announced
by Stubby the Rocket
Watch the First Teaser for Shane Black’s The Predator
by Stubby the Rocket
Sailing to Bygone Days: S.M. Stirling’s Island in the Sea of Time
by Alan Brown
Deep Roots, Deep Wounds: Dealing With the Unavoidable Lovecraft
by Seanan McGuire
Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Seventeen
by Alice Arneson and Lyndsey Luther
Wed May 9
Worse Than an Evil Twin: Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
New Challenges for Murderbot: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
by Liz Bourke
What Mister Rogers Can Teach Us About Storytelling
by Robert Repino
Morgoth’s Revenge; or, the Battle of Sudden But Inevitable Flame (#FirstAgeProblems)
by Jeff LaSala
Why the Animorphs Are Overdue for a Revival
by Meghan Ball
5 Books About Learning to Communicate with Alien Species
by Martha Wells
Tue May 8
Listen to LeVar Burton Read Charlie Jane Anders’ Story “As Good As New”
by Stubby the Rocket
A Change in Hostilities: Afterwar by Lilith Saintcrow
by Liz Bourke
The Culture Reread: Eschatologist (Consider Phlebas, Part 6)
by Karin L Kross
Heads I Win, Tails YOU DIE: Thanos’ Plan is Even Worse Than You Know
by Michael Carlisle
Sleeps With Monsters: So Much Genre TV, So Little Time
by Liz Bourke
SFF Archaeology: Excavating the Superhero World of the Wild Card Series
by Katie Rask
Reading the Wheel of Time: Can You Lucid Dream in Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World? (Part 12)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon May 7
Begin at the Beginning: The Great Opening Sentences of Gene Wolfe
by Matthew Keeley
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: A Civil Campaign, Chapter 10
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Ghosts of the Past: Makiia Lucier’s Isle of Blood and Stone
by Alex Brown
Max Gladstone Conjures a Grizzly Bear Skeleton in His Reddit AMA!
by Tor.com
Outbreak
by Melissa F. Olson
When Aliens Join Your Horse Fantasy: Walter Farley’s The Island Stallion Races
by Judith Tarr
Luke Cage is Misty Knight’s Sidekick in Season 2 Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
Westworld Season 2, Episode 3: “Virtù e Fortuna”
by Theresa DeLucci
Mightier than the Gun: Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
by Nisi Shawl
Art of SFF: Escapism and Adventure with Jenn Ravenna
by Aidan Moher
Fri May 4
All the New Genre-Bending Books Coming Out in May
by Tor.com
I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing Audio Excerpt
by Tor.com
Deep Space Revenge: Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport
by Liz Bourke
5 Books Set On Extreme Worlds
by Michael Johnston
“Aw, crap!” — Hellboy
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Podraces, Porgs, and Prop Replicas: Our Favorite Star Wars Stuff
by Stubby the Rocket
Doctor Strange Spent a Year Fighting the Infinity War and No One Noticed
by Michael Carlisle
Thu May 3
Aftermath in SPAAAACE! The Expanse: “Reload”
by Leah Schnelbach and Molly Templeton
You Break It, You Buy It: Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
by Niall Alexander
Five Mystery Series with Awesome Detectives
by Emily Devenport
The Handmaid’s Tale Checks “Baggage” on the Underground Femaleroad
by Natalie Zutter
Dinosaurs, Westerns, and Cars Don’t Mix: Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur
by Mari Ness
Assassin’s Creed Origins Makes Cleopatra’s Egypt Real
by Michael Livingston
Revealing Sarah Pinsker’s New Short Fiction Collection
by Tor.com
All The Voices of The Odyssey: Emily Wilson On Language, Translation, and Culture
by Fran Wilde
Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Sixteen
by Lyndsey Luther and Alice Arneson
Wed May 2
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Shoggoth: Howard Waldrop & Steven Utley’s “Black as the Pit, From Pole to Pole”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
All the New Science Fiction Books Coming Out in May
by Tor.com
A Light in the Grimdark: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
by Liz Bourke
MEM
by Bethany C. Morrow
Unstuck in Time: Andrew Sean Greer’s The Confessions of Max Tivoli
by Leah Schnelbach
Five East Asian SFF Novels by East Asian Authors
by R.F. Kuang
Cosplay Spotlight from JordanCon X
by Lyndsey Luther
The Flight of Morpho Girl
by Caroline Spector and Bradley Denton
Announcing the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
by Alasdair Stuart
Tue May 1
All the New Fantasy Books Coming Out in May
by Tor.com
Anybody Could Write a True Story: Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan
by Lee Mandelo
Seth Dickinson’s Baru Cormorant Series Gets A Fourth Novel
by Tor.com
Five Books About Fandom
by Britta Lundin
Avengers: Infinity War is a Reminder that Pop Culture Won’t Save Us
by Leah Schnelbach
Sleeps With Monsters: Marriages and Monsters
by Liz Bourke
It Takes Two in the New Trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp
by Stubby the Rocket
QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter
by Bogi Takács
Announcing Green Like Dying, A New Novella from Catherynne M. Valente
by Ruoxi Chen
Reading the Wheel of Time: In Caemlyn You Can Be a New Man in Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World (Part 11)
by Sylas K Barrett