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 Emily 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 Emily 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 Emily 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 Emily 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 Emily 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 Emily 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 Emily 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 Emily 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 Emily 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