Blog Archive

July 2019

Mon Jul 15

io9 Reveals the First Look at the New Star Wars Book Thrawn: Treason by Stubby the Rocket

Heartless: Andre Norton’s Dread Companion by Judith Tarr

Read an Excerpt from The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda

5 Questions About the New 007 and the Future of the Bond Franchise by Emily Asher-Perrin

Drop What You’re Doing and Watch DefunctTV’s Jim Henson Special by Stubby the Rocket

3 Possible Star Trek: Picard Storylines that Are too Depressing to Contemplate by Ryan Britt

The MCU’s Spidey Is a Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man that Looks Like His Neighborhood by Keith R.A. DeCandido

The First Trailer for The King’s Man Is Here by Stubby the Rocket

The Tao of Sir Terry: Pratchett and Political Philosophy by J.R.H. Lawless

Great Lost Civilizations of Science Fiction and Fantasy by James Davis Nicoll

Fri Jul 12

War, Betrayal, and Dark Secrets in This Summer’s Upcoming Young Adult Speculative Fiction by Alex Brown

Is Godzilla Technically a Dragon? The Discourse Unfolds on Twitter by Stubby the Rocket

“Get off my plains!” — Cowboys & Aliens by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Paper Girls Comic Series Picked Up by Amazon Studios by Stubby the Rocket

Ranking the Very Best Dogs of Star Trek by Ryan Britt

5 Unexpected Continuations of Beloved Stories by Stubby the Rocket

Thu Jul 11

George R. R. Martin Has a Theater Full of Signed SFF Books and They’re Up For Grabs by Stubby the Rocket

Tor.com’s Guide to Literary Panels at San Diego Comic Con 2019! by Gabriella Tutino

17 Factual and Fictional Stories About Space Exploration by Leah Schnelbach

Peace: Wolfe’s Masterful Rumination on Nostalgia, Memory, and Uncertainty by Fabio Fernandes

In Her Skin: Sealed by Naomi Booth by Mahvesh Murad

Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Maedhros Maitimo, Foe of Morgoth and Doomed Hero by Megan N. Fontenot

Heinlein’s Juveniles vs. Andre Norton’s Young Adult Novels by James Davis Nicoll

Oathbringer Reread: Chapter Eighty-Seven by Alice Arneson, Lyndsey Luther and Aubree Pham

Wed Jul 10

Jobs From Hell Would Be An Improvement: David Liss’s “The Doors that Never Close and the Doors that Are Always Open” by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys

Read an Excerpt from The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith

Announcing Night of the Mannequins, a New Horror Novella from Stephen Graham Jones by Tor.com

There’s a Heartwarming Story Behind This New Star Trek: Picard Poster by Stubby the Rocket

The Adventure Zone Creators Travis McElroy, Clint McElroy, and Carey Pietsch on the Leap from Podcast to Graphic Novel by Martin Cahill

The Jack London Novel that Influenced a Century of Dystopian Fiction by Matthew Raese

New Details on Game of Thrones Prequel Tease the Timeline of the Show by Stubby the Rocket

Five SFF Books That Demand a Soundtrack by Meghan Ball

Cosmere Cuisine: Colorful Dishes Inspired by Sanderson’s Warbreaker by Deana Whitney

For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll

Tue Jul 9

How Dragonlance Launched My Lifelong Love of Fantasy by Jeremy Finley

The Toll by Cherie Priest Is the Southern Gothic Horror Novel of the Summer by Alex Brown

Rereading The Ruin of Kings: Chapters 46 and 47 by Leigh Butler

Check Out the Artwork for a New Edition of Frank Herbert’s Dune by Tor.com

Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2019—So Far by Tor.com

Stranger Things Season 3: The Good, the Bad, and the Body Horror by Emily Asher-Perrin

Linguistics in Arrival: Heptapods, Whiteboards, and Nonlinear Time by CD Covington

Announcing The City Under the Stars by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick by Tor.com

Reading the Wheel of Time: Of Herbs and Luck in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 20) by Sylas K Barrett

Mon Jul 8

SFF Equines Looks at America’s All-Purpose Horse by Judith Tarr

What’s Next for this Year’s Locus Award Winners by Gabriella Tutino

Read an Excerpt from Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

5 Sweltering Southern Gothic Horror Novels for the Heat of Summer by Emily Hughes

Can the Marvel Cinematic Universe Actually Support a Multiverse? by Emily Asher-Perrin

A Medievalist’s Guide to Godzilla & Friends by Gabriella Tutino

Through Doorways: Portal Fantasies as a Means of Queer Escape and Queer Hope by A.J. Hackwith

Maleficent Meets the Family in New Trailer for Mistress of Evil by Stubby the Rocket

Star Trek: Picard — Ranking the 25 Most Likely Next Gen Cameos by Ryan Britt

This Producer’s Cameo in Spider-Man: Far From Home Is Actually Part of a Long-Running MCU Gag by Stubby the Rocket

Announcing a Debut Novel and Two New Novellas from P. Djèlí Clark by Tor.com

Fri Jul 5

Almost Every SFF/Horror/Comic Book Adaptation in the Works! by Stubby the Rocket

Slide Rules and Nuclear Apocalypse by James Davis Nicoll

7 Lingering Questions We Have After Spider-Man: Far From Home by Stubby the Rocket

Jo Walton’s Reading List: June 2019 by Jo Walton

Thu Jul 4

Happy Fourth of July from Tor.com! by Stubby the Rocket

Quantum Leap Traveled into the Past to Give Us America’s Best Future by Leah Schnelbach

Wed Jul 3

The Spirit of the Century: Fritz Leiber’s “Smoke Ghost” by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth

Making Valdemar Work: Mercedes Lackey’s Eye Spy by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer

Neil Gaiman Says Season One of Sandman Will Follow “Preludes & Nocturnes, And a Little Bit More” by Stubby the Rocket

When Even a Delightful Dragon Can’t Quite Cover Up the Misogyny: The White Dragon, Part Two by Mari Ness

The Wheel of Time on Amazon: 5 Answers About Rosamund Pike’s Moiraine by Stubby the Rocket

Don’t Cry Because it’s Over, Smile Because it Happened: Ari Aster’s Midsommar by Natalie Zutter

Here are the 100 Most Discussed Fantasy Books on Reddit by Gabriella Tutino

Netflix Releases Trailer for New Frankenstein Spoof by Gabriella Tutino

Clones Are For Educating: 12 Times SFF Characters Trained Their Own Duplicates by Stubby the Rocket

4 SF Works Featuring a Far-Future U.S.A. by James Davis Nicoll

The Walking Dead Comics Just Ended Without Warning by Stubby the Rocket

Sam J. Miller and Annalee Newitz Win the 2019 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards! by Tor.com

20 Things We Loved (and 6 Things We Didn’t) About Spider-Man: Far From Home by Stubby the Rocket

Greed as a Universal Constant: Trader to the Stars by Poul Anderson by Alan Brown

Tue Jul 2

Read an Excerpt from Marko Kloos’ New SF Novel Aftershocks by Marko Kloos

Five SFF Books by Puerto Rican Authors by Ann Dávila Cardinal

On the Road Again: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig by Alex Brown

The Star Wars Novel Tracy Townsend Wants to Write, Plus More from Her AMA by Stubby the Rocket

First Trailer for Rian Johnson’s Knives Out Gives Us Serious Clue Vibes by Stubby the Rocket

Ten Favorite Flawed Books That Are Always Worth Rereading by James Davis Nicoll

Chuck Wendig’s Wanderers Is Out, and io9 Has an Excerpt by Tor.com

What THAT Far From Home Cameo Says About a Spider-Man Multiverse by Stubby the Rocket

Listen to an Excerpt of Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of Light Narrated by Yara Shahidi! by Tor.com

11 Unique Uses of Telepathy in SFF by Stubby the Rocket

Reading the Wheel of Time: Climbing Adventures with Matrim Cauthon in Robert Jordan’s The Dragon Reborn (Part 19) by Sylas K Barrett

Mon Jul 1

Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for July by Tor.com

Read a New Brooke Bolander Story: “Op-Ed From the Future” in the New York Times by Stubby the Rocket

Surviving an Apocalypse: Andre Norton’s Dark Piper by Judith Tarr

So How Many Swords Does Geralt REALLY Carry in The Witcher? by Stubby the Rocket

HIghlight’s from Max Gladstone’s Reddit AMA by Stubby the Rocket

Was 1999 the Year Nerd Culture Began to Take Over the World? by Emily Asher-Perrin

The First Trailer for Jumanji: The Next Level Is Here by Stubby the Rocket

Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Reportedly Gets Epic, Straight-to-Series Order from Netflix by Leah Schnelbach

Announcing Over the Woodward Wall, a New Fantasy Series from Seanan McGuire by Tor.com

A Firefighter’s Guide to Battling a Phoenix by Sean Grigsby

Multi-Dimensional Swashbuckling and Infinite IKEAs: Revealing Nino Cipri’s Finna by Tor.com

Questioning Defaults in David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself by S.L. Huang