Blog Archive
June 2019
Sat Jun 29
Announcing the 2019 Locus Award Winners
by Tor.com
Fri Jun 28
A Round-Up of Every Dark Crystal-Related Thing Arriving This Year
by Stubby the Rocket
All the New Genre Bending Books Coming in July!
by Tor.com
Read an Excerpt from Nnedi Okorafor’s New Graphic Novel LaGuardia
by Gabriella Tutino
Men in Blah—R.I.P.D.
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Chocobos Promised in Newly Announced Final Fantasy XIV Live-Action TV Adaptation
by Stubby the Rocket
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: June 2019
by Alex Brown
Kat Cho Recommends Korean Dramas for YA Readers
by Kat Cho
Thu Jun 27
Movie Adaptation of Epic Fantasy Series Mouse Guard Cancelled, Stunning Demo Reel Released [Updated]
by Gabriella Tutino
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Coming in July!
by Tor.com
Michael Chabon Will Be the Showrunner of Star Trek: Picard
by Stubby the Rocket
Ken Liu’s “The Message” to get Big Screen Treatment from Arrival Team
by Gabriella Tutino
The Deeper You Go, the Bigger the Worlds Get: Karl Schroeder’s Stealing Worlds
by Paul Weimer
Marvel TV Turned Down Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602 Pitch
by Stubby the Rocket
The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Wolfe’s Holy Trinity
by Fabio Fernandes
5 Questions from Star Trek The Original Series That Only a Captain Pike Show Could Explore
by Ryan Britt
Watch the First Trailer for the New Charlie’s Angels Movie
by Stubby the Rocket
Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Legolas, a Radical Warrior
by Megan N. Fontenot
Used Sporks in the Hands of an Angry God: Toy Story 4, The Good Place, and What it Means to Be Trash
by Leah Schnelbach
Oathbringer Reread: Chapters Eighty-Five and Eighty-Six
by Alice Arneson and Lyndsey Luther
Wed Jun 26
Old Gods and Older: Premee Mohamed’s “Us and Ours”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Love, Hate, and Everything Between: Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
by Alex Brown
Here’s How Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Connects to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
by Stubby the Rocket
Now and Forever: Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee
by Lee Mandelo
Annabelle Comes Home Could Be the Avengers: Endgame of Horror
by Joe George
All the New Science Fiction Books Coming in July!
by Tor.com
Genre Fiction Can’t Stop Destroying Venice For Some Reason
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Joe Hill Heads New Horror Comics Line for DC Comics, Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, and More
by Stubby the Rocket
Queer Transformations in Enigma by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo
by Charlie Jane Anders
A Forest, or A Tree
by Tegan Moore
Tue Jun 25
Stan Lee’s First Novel for Adult Readers, A Trick of Light, Announced for September
by Gabriella Tutino
Sleeps With Monsters: Science Fiction Old and New
by Liz Bourke
The Iron Dragon’s Mother Is Michael Swanwick’s Triumphant Return to Faerie
by Matthew Keeley
Read an Excerpt from Denver Moon: The Saint of Mars
by Joshua Viola and Warren Hammond
All The New Fantasy Books Coming in July!
by Tor.com
Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 44 and 45
by Leigh Butler
Fraught With Destiny: Queering L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Shirley and Diana Barry
by Cori McCarthy
Creating the Cover for Brian D. Anderson’s The Bard’s Blade
by Tor.com
Download a Free Ebook of The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson Before June 29, 2019!
by Tor.com
Reading the Wheel of Time: Darkhounds, the Forsaken, and Fireworks in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time (Part 18)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Jun 24
Taika Waititi Tapped For Upcoming Animated Flash Gordon Film
by Stubby the Rocket
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Epilogue
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Worldbuilding Your Horse Breeds
by Judith Tarr
Number One and Spock Will Return for a Star Trek: Short Trek
by Stubby the Rocket
Murderbot’s Guide to Building a Personal Identity; or, Reading All Systems Red as a Trans Woman
by Anya Johanna DeNiro
Everything We Learned So Far from Philip Pullman’s The Secret Commonwealth Excerpts
by Stubby the Rocket
Traveling Between Genders in V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic
by Christina Orlando
The Expert’s Guide to Writing Book Recommendation Lists
by James Davis Nicoll
Fri Jun 21
The Star Wars Universe Is Somehow Big Enough for Eight Kloo Horn Players
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Producers Behind The Wandering Earth Want to Bring Cixin Liu’s Three-Body Problem to TV
by Stubby the Rocket
“Thought everything was supposed to be bigger in America” — Kingsman: The Golden Circle
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
This AskReddit Thread Invites Fans to Pick Their Literary Fighter
by Stubby the Rocket
Toy Story 4 Will Love the Humanity Right Into You
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Netflix Releases the Final Trailer for Stranger Things Season 3
by Stubby the Rocket
We’re Both Thinking of Telepathy: ESP in Genre Fiction
by Vylar Kaftan
Our Book Picks to Ring in the Summer Solstice!
by Stubby the Rocket
Thu Jun 20
Winning Isn’t Everything, it’s the Only Thing: Welcome to The Gameshouse
by Jared Shurin
8 Sweet, Funny, Thrilling Queer Fiction Podcasts
by Natalie Zutter
Noelle Stevenson’s Latest on She-Ra Season 3
by Stubby the Rocket
Irene Gallo Promoted to Vice President, Publisher of Tor.com
by Tor.com
On the Origins of Modern Biology and the Fantastic: Part 12 — Philip K. Dick and Sydney Brenner
by Kelly Lagor
The First Trailer Is Out for AMC’s The Terror: Infamy
by Stubby the Rocket
Something With Teeth: Finding My Identity in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles
by K.M. Szpara
Marvel’s Spider-Man Countdown Reveals a New Spider-Man Comic by J.J. Abrams and His Son
by Stubby the Rocket
Robert E. Howard’s First (and Best?) Barbarian: Kull: The Fabulous Warrior King
by Alan Brown
Five (Somewhat) Forgotten Books Featuring F/F Relationships
by K.A. Doore
Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Eighty-Four
by Lyndsey Luther and Alice Arneson
Wed Jun 19
Bad Ideas 101: David Barr Kirtley’s “The Disciple”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
The Way of Thorn and Thunder by Daniel Heath Justice (Part 3)
by Bogi Takács
Rosamund Pike to Star as Moiraine in Amazon’s Wheel of Time Adaptation
by Stubby the Rocket
Single Star System Space Opera; or, Those Pesky Belters, Revisited
by James Davis Nicoll
Finding Role Models in Madeleine L’Engle’s A House Like a Lotus
by Leah Schnelbach
A Decidedly Privileged Hero: The White Dragon, Part One
by Mari Ness
White Bears in Sugar Land: Juneteenth, Cages, and Afrofuturism
by Tochi Onyebuchi
The New Prometheus
by Michael Swanwick
Tue Jun 18
Wastelands 3: The New Apocalypse Presents a Distinctly American Perspective on the End of the World
by Jared Shurin
I Made Her From Clay: Broken Places & Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
by Lee Mandelo
Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 42 and 43
by Leigh Butler
5 Little Kid Fan Theories I Had About Star Trek: TNG’s “Best of Both Worlds” in the Summer of 1990
by Ryan Britt
Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
by CD Covington
Five Horror Novels that Move Beyond the ‘Bury Your Gays’ Trope
by Elizabeth Hirst
Reading The Wheel of Time: Is it Luck or Ta’veren Power in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn? (Part 17)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Jun 17
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Chapter 17
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
What’s Wrong With Me? Finding the Cure in Jake Wolff’s The History of Living Forever
by Em Nordling
Swan Song: Andre Norton’s A Taste of Magic
by Judith Tarr
When Everyone’s a Monster, No One Is: The Ugly Everyday in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
by Em Nordling
Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments Books Didn’t Give Me Validation — But They Did Give Me Permission
by Sam J. Miller
The Dead Don’t Die Is the Perfect Zombie Movie for Our Times
by Leah Schnelbach
Suzanne Collins is Writing A Hunger Games Prequel
by Stubby the Rocket
From the Jedi Order to the Torturers’ Guild: Science Fiction’s Preoccupation with Monks in Space
by Max Gladstone
Our Favorite LGBTQ+ Reads of the Past Year
by Stubby the Rocket
Fri Jun 14
Celebrating 10 Great Parents from Young Adult SFF
by Alex Brown
Listen to an Audio Excerpt from Nottingham, a New Retelling of Robin Hood
by Tor.com
“This ain’t that kind of movie” — Kingsman: The Secret Service
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Men in Black: International Is Uninspired, But Still Cute and Fun
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Liu Cixin’s The Wandering Earth Is Now a Striking SF Film on Netflix
by Matthew Keeley
7 Mothers, Mentors, and Matriarchs of SFF Who Are Probably Very Disappointed With Us Right Now
by Stubby the Rocket
Thu Jun 13
Danny Torrance Revisits His Past in First Trailer For The Shining Sequel, Doctor Sleep
by Stubby the Rocket
Listen to an Audio Excerpt from The Sol Majestic
by Tor.com
5 SFF Books Set In Contemporary African Locales
by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Serial Box is Bringing Orphan Black Back With Tatiana Maslany
by Stubby the Rocket
Introducing the Gene Wolfe Reread on Tor.com: The Reader in the Mist
by Fabio Fernandes
All Else We Left Behind: Air Logic by Laurie J. Marks
by Lee Mandelo
Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Legolas, Prince of Mirkwood and Environmental Intercessor
by Megan N. Fontenot
Babylon 5 Is the Greatest, Most Terrible SF Series
by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Writing Games to Test the Waters of My Identity
by Ajit George
Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Eighty-Three
by Lyndsey Luther and Alice Arneson
Wed Jun 12
New Words to Wordless Songs: Nibedita Sen’s “We Sang You As Ours”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
The Intellectual Horrors of Brian Evenson: Song for the Unraveling of the World
by Tobias Carroll
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
by Nisi Shawl
Not All Heroes Wear Capes: C. B. Lee’s Sidekick Squad Series
by Alex Brown
A Final, Welcome Return to the Malazan Empire’s Early Days
by Bill Capossere
Artist Justin Gerard on Tolkien, Golden Age Illustration, Noble Crocodiles, and Balrog Wings
by Jeff LaSala
SFF Stories Of Revenge and Forbearance (But Mostly Revenge)
by James Davis Nicoll
Russian Doll is Getting A Second Season!
by Stubby the Rocket
Skinner Box
by Carole Johnstone
Tue Jun 11
Sleeps With Monsters: Very Different, Very Good Books
by Liz Bourke
Family, Food, and Futures in The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz
by Martin Cahill
Tad Williams Complicates a Perfect Fantasy Ending With a Reminder That Nothing Ever Truly Ends
by Samuel Chapman
Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 40 and 41
by Leigh Butler
When is a Myth Not a Myth: The Origins of the Green Man
by Emily Tesh
Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Will Be An Animated Film
by Stubby the Rocket
“All Knowledge Is Worth Having”: Quotidian Queerness in Kushiel’s Dart
by Natalie Zutter
Dune: The Sisterhood Series in the Works For WarnerMedia’s New Streaming Service
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Read an Excerpt from Cixin Liu’s Supernova Era
by Cixin Liu
The Redemption of Time and the Untold Story of the Brain We Sent Into Space
by Baoshu
The New Trailer for Frozen 2 is Surprisingly Epic
by Stubby the Rocket
Reading The Wheel of Time: Lost Queens and Exiled Aiel in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 16)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Jun 10
Jessica Jones: Hero or Fraud? Watch the Trailer For Season 3 to Find Out
by Stubby the Rocket
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Chapter 16
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
SFF Horse Breeds: The Heavy Horse
by Judith Tarr
10 Details You Might Miss in Good Omens if You Haven’t Read the Book
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Game of Thrones’ Complex Relationship to Racism and Colonialism
by Tyler Dean
Read the First Three Chapters from The Nightjar
by Deborah Hewitt
Check Out Elden Ring, A New Collaboration Between George R.R. Martin and Dark Souls Creator Hidetaka Miyazaki
by Stubby the Rocket
The 1983 Book Ian McEwan (and Everyone Else Who Craves Thoughtful SciFi) Should Be Reading
by Rebecca Diem
Here Be Dragons: Revealing Black Leviathan
by Tor.com
Read Chapters 1-3 of Lauren Shippen’s The Infinite Noise
by Lauren Shippen
Fri Jun 7
Assassins, Pirates, or Dragons: Where to Start With the Work of Robin Hobb
by Molly Templeton
Even the Losers Get Unlucky — The Losers
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Continue Jin Yong’s Kung Fu Wuxia Epic A Hero Born: “The Seven Freaks of the South” (Part 5)
by Jin Yong
5 Super-Competent Sci-Fi Ensembles We’d Trust to Get Us Through Space
by Stubby the Rocket
Thu Jun 6
Listen to Duncan M. Hamilton’s Dragonslayer
by Tor.com
Read an Excerpt from FKA USA, the Debut Novel from Reed King
by Reed King
QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: The Way of Thorn and Thunder by Daniel Heath Justice (Part 2)
by Bogi Takács
To Make Ethical Decisions, Be An Ethical Person: Water Logic by Laurie J. Marks
by Lee Mandelo
Frederik Pohl’s Masterpiece: Gateway
by Alan Brown
Bill & Ted’s Daughters Will be Joining Them for an Excellent New Adventure
by Leah Schnelbach
Continue Jin Yong’s Kung Fu Wuxia Epic A Hero Born: “The Seven Freaks of the South” (Part 4)
by Jin Yong
Revealing John Scalzi’s The Last Emperox
by Tor.com
Oathbringer Reread: Chapters Eighty-One and Eighty-Two
by Alice Arneson and Lyndsey Luther
Wed Jun 5
Black Mirror Season 5’s Standout Episode Addresses Black Male Queerness Through Virtual Reality
by Natalie Zutter
Still the Worst Color: Anya Martin’s “Old Tsah-Hov”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Puerto Rican Mythology Comes Alive in Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal
by Adriana Martínez Figueroa
Jo Walton’s Reading List: May 2019
by Jo Walton
Avengers: Endgame — The Character Assassination of Steve Rogers?
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Read an Excerpt from S.L. Huang’s Null Set
by S.L. Huang
A Return to Environmentalism: Dragonquest, Part Four
by Mari Ness
Continue Jin Yong’s Kung Fu Wuxia Epic A Hero Born: “The Seven Freaks of the South” (Part 3)
by Jin Yong
Watch Brad Pitt Go Into Space in First Trailer For Ad Astra
by Stubby the Rocket
Revealing The Glass Magician, a Romantic Fantasy from Caroline Stevermer
by Tor.com
Dark Phoenix Brings the X-Men Saga to A Close With A Quiet Fizzle
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Any Way the Wind Blows
by Seanan McGuire
Tue Jun 4
Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for June
by Tor.com
It’s All Relative: Five Books (and One Movie) That Prove Portal Narratives and Time Travel Are Connected
by Fran Wilde
We all have choices, don’t we? Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
by Lee Mandelo
Congratulations to the 2019 Neukom Institute Awards Winners!
by Tor.com
“Dani and Bryce are the Abbi and Ilana of Crescent City”: Sarah J. Maas Talks About Her Adult Debut
by Christina Orlando
Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 38 and 39
by Leigh Butler
Continue Jin Yong’s Kung Fu Wuxia Epic A Hero Born: “The Seven Freaks of the South” (Part 2)
by Jin Yong
The Good Omens Miniseries is a Love Story, and I Will Never Recover From It
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Read the First Chapter From The Monster of Elendhaven
by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Reading the Wheel of Time: A Falcon That Doesn’t Fly and a Wolf that Does in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 15)
by Sylas K Barrett
Happy Pride Month! Download These 4 Free LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novellas Before June 8!
by Tor.com
Mon Jun 3
Be Terrified by the First Trailer for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!
by Leah Schnelbach
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Chapters 14 and 15
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Amping Up the Weird in Andre Norton’s Wind in the Stone
by Judith Tarr
What Will It Take to Overthrow Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3?
by Natalie Zutter
Reading the Edited Version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Somehow Made Me More Queer
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Read Chapter One from K.A. Doore’s The Impossible Contract
by K.A. Doore
Light Sails in Science and Fiction
by James Davis Nicoll
Read Jin Yong’s Kung Fu Wuxia Epic A Hero Born: “The Seven Freaks of the South” (Part 1)
by Jin Yong
Sun Jun 2
Magic x Mayhem for Tor Authors: Loving Jerks, Centering Women’s Voices, and Tossing Safety Nets
by Natalie Zutter
Rebecca Roanhorse and N.K. Jemisin on Writing Themselves into Speculative Fiction
by Natalie Zutter
N.K. Jemisin, Joe Hill, Marissa Meyer, and Marie Lu Talk Worldbuilding at BookCon
by Natalie Zutter
What Makes a Story Epic? YA Authors Connect Across Genres at BookCon
by Natalie Zutter
Geeking Out About Fanfiction with Tor.com Publishing Authors at BookCon!
by Natalie Zutter
Rainbow Rowell Talks Wayward Son Headcanons and Harry Potter at BookCon
by Natalie Zutter