Blog Archive
June 2020
Tue Jun 30
Read an Excerpt From Obliteration, the Final Novel in the Awakened Series
by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth
Adam Christopher is Writing a Mandalorian Novel
by Andrew Liptak
Intriguing SFF Works Awaiting English Translations
by James Davis Nicoll
Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Most Powerful Thing a Story Can Do Is Show How People Change
by Charlie Jane Anders
The Lady of the Lake Leads a Rebellion in the First Full Trailer for Netflix’s Cursed
by Stubby the Rocket
Five Books That Feel Like a Feverdream
by Rory Power
5 Marvel Fiction Podcasts and Audiobooks to Fill the MCU-Sized Hole in Your Life
by Natalie Zutter
Mon Jun 29
Writing Horses: The Nuances of Horse-Riding
by Judith Tarr
Download the May/June 2020 Tor.com Short Fiction Newsletter
by Tor.com
When Futurism Meets With Disaster: Max Brooks’ Devolution
by Tobias Carroll
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “The Chute”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Wizards of the Coast Takes Steps Towards Changing Racist Dungeons & Dragons Content
by Stubby the Rocket
Growing up With Percy Jackson
by AM Gelberg
A New Sneak Peek of Pixar’s Soul Introduces Us to Its Main Character, Joe
by Stubby the Rocket
Read To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini: Chapter 3: “Extenuating Circumstances”
by Christopher Paolini
The Princess Bride Is Getting a Star-Studded Quarantine Parody On Quibi
by Stubby the Rocket
The Best Climate SF Novel You Might Have Missed: Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough’s Powers That Be
by Nicole Brinkley
Revealing Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Expert System’s Champion
by Tor.com
Sat Jun 27
Announcing the 2020 Locus Awards Winners
by Andrew Liptak
Syfy Has Canceled Vagrant Queen After A Single Season
by Andrew Liptak
Disney is Setting Up A Female-Fronted Pirates of the Caribbean Film with Bird of Prey’s Margot Robbie
by Andrew Liptak
Season 2 of Amazon’s The Boys Will Premiere on September 4th
by Andrew Liptak
Fri Jun 26
“Just an outbreak of chaos” — Faust: Love of the Damned
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
We Are the Panopticon: Tracy O’Neill’s Quotients
by Tobias Carroll
Dodgson, We’ve Got Dodgson Here, Says Jurassic World 3
by Stubby the Rocket
Society Comes Apart in the First Full Trailer for Peacock’s Brave New World
by Andrew Liptak
Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Colour of Magic, Part II
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Thu Jun 25
History and Magic Combine in A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Julie Murphy’s Faith: Taking Flight
by Julie Murphy
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Flashback”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
You’re Not Stressed Out Enough, So Here’s a Trailer For Gerard Butler’s New Comet Apocalypse Movie
by Stubby the Rocket
A Few of Our Favorite Angels in Fantasy Fiction
by Leah Schnelbach
Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Sam Gamgee, Hero and Servant
by Megan N. Fontenot
The Wheel of Time Reveals Six New Cast Members
by Stubby the Rocket
Folk Heroes and the Doctor: Doctor Who’s “Mythological Celebrity” Stories
by Max Kashevsky
Sign up for the Tor.com Short Fiction Newsletter!
by Tor.com
Everything We Know About Worldhoppers on Roshar
by Drew McCaffrey
Wed Jun 24
Love in the Time of Parasitic Breeding Strategies: Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Destiny and Discovery in Lori M. Lee’s Forest of Souls
by Genine Tyson
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Reread — Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game
by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Read an Excerpt From Elizabeth Lim’s YA Fantasy Unravel the Dusk
by Elizabeth Lim
The First Teaser for Season 4 of The Handmaid’s Tale Shows Off A Growing Rebellion
by Andrew Liptak
Five Books With Fantasy Worlds Inspired by India
by Swati Teerdhala
Lana Condor Will Star in HBO Max’s Moonshot, a Sci-Fi Rom-Com Produced By Greg Berlanti
by Stubby the Rocket
Fantasy K-Drama Series Hotel del Luna Is Getting a Remake from Altered Carbon Showrunner Alison Schapker
by Stubby the Rocket
The Silver Chair: The Lady of the Green Kirtle, Fake News, and Enchantment
by Matt Mikalatos
Berkley Announces Two New Horror Novels by Grady Hendrix
by Stubby the Rocket
Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2020—So Far
by Tor.com
After the Anomaly: Revealing A Broken Darkness by Premee Mohamed, Sequel to Beneath the Rising!
by Tor.com
The Night Soil Salvagers
by Gregory Norman Bossert
Tue Jun 23
Netflix’s Over The Moon Looks Like An Adorable Sci-Fi Adventure
by Andrew Liptak
Sleeps With Monsters: Celebrate Queer Pride by Reading Books
by Liz Bourke
The Smart, Specific Magic of Zen Cho’s The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
by Maya Gittelman
8 Questions I Have About a Potential Animorphs Movie
by Natalie Zutter
Read an Excerpt From Melissa Bashardoust’s Girl, Serpent, Thorn
by Melissa Bashardoust
George R.R. Martin Gives Quick Update on Winds of Winter Progress
by Andrew Liptak
Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Secret to Storytelling? Just One Good Scene, and Then Another, and Another
by Charlie Jane Anders
Sherlock, but Make Him Likable and Also an Angel: The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
by Em Nordling
Netflix Has Renewed Lucifer for a Sixth Season
by Andrew Liptak
Reading The Wheel of Time: There Are No Customs To Cover the Dragon Reborn in Robert Jordan’s The Shadow Rising (Part 34)
by Sylas K Barrett
Patrick Rothfuss Partners With One Shot Podcast For New Kingkiller Chronicles Story
by Andrew Liptak
Searching for Body Positivity in Fantasy
by Rosamund Lannin
Revealing the New Paperback Edition of Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea
by Tor.com
Download a Free eBook of The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal Before June 27!
by Tor.com
Mon Jun 22
Peter Jackson, Tom Skerrit, and More Remember Ian Holm
by Andrew Liptak
A New Podcast Will Take a Deep Dive Into Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels
by Andrew Liptak
Michael Keaton Will Reportedly Return as Batman for The Flash, Further Tying the DC Expanded Universe Together
by Andrew Liptak
The First Look At Apple TV +’s Foundation Teases an Epic Space Opera
by Andrew Liptak
Alien Collaboration: Andre Norton’s Star Ka’ats and the Plant People
by Judith Tarr
Read Highlights From TorCon’s “A Whole Universe in Pages” Worldbuilding Panel
by Stubby the Rocket
“Mind records are the one true forever”: Translation and Dead Languages in Marie Brennan’s Turning Darkness Into Light
by CD Covington
Return to the Hollows: American Demon by Kim Harrison
by Lee Mandelo
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Basics, Part II”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Anxiety, Empathy, and Making Sense of the Senseless Through Storytelling
by Kali Wallace
Lucifer’s Fifth Season Will Debut on Netflix on August 21st
by Andrew Liptak
Read To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini: Chapter 2: “Reliquary”
by Christopher Paolini
The Witcher Season 2 Will Start Filming Again August 17
by Stubby the Rocket
Five SFF Stories That Prove You Can Never Go Home Again
by James Davis Nicoll
Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant Judged a Doctor Who Lockdown Cosplay Competition
by Stubby the Rocket
Fairytale Past Meets Science Fiction Future in Aimee Ogden’s Debut Novella Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters
by Tor.com
What Katherine Addison Is Reading Right Now
by Katherine Addison
Fri Jun 19
Watch the Juneteenth Book Festival, Celebrating Black American Stories, Starting at 10 AM ET Today!
by Stubby the Rocket
Thu Jun 18
We’re Getting an Animorphs Movie
by Andrew Liptak
Read an Excerpt From The Kingdom of Liars
by Nick Martell
Announcing the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
by Andrew Liptak
Books Within Reach: Building an SFF Bookshelf For My Child
by K.A. Doore
V.E. Schwab Reads an Excerpt From The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Tor.com
Candyman Director Nia DaCosta Shares the Film’s Haunting Animated Trailer
by Stubby the Rocket
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: Second Season Overview
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
In Honor of Juneteenth, Watchmen Will Stream on HBO for Free This Weekend
by Stubby the Rocket
Empathy Machines: Nine Deeply Humanist Science Fiction Films
by Robert Repino
Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Colour of Magic, Part I
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Subterranean Press Announces Special Edition of Baoshu’s The Redemption of Time
by Andrew Liptak
A Smorgasbord of Classic SF: Three Times Infinity
by Alan Brown
Laras, Keille, and the Judgment of Bodies in The Shadow Rising
by Sylas K Barrett
The First Trailer for Netflix’s Cursed Features a Young Lady of the Lake
by Stubby the Rocket
Check Out the Gorgeous Art From the Illustrated Edition of Robin Hobb’s Royal Assassin
by Tor.com
Everything We Know About Secret Societies on Roshar
by Alice Arneson and Megan Kanne
Wed Jun 17
Neukom Institute Announces 2020 Literary Arts Awards Shortlist
by Andrew Liptak
Legendary Picks Up Option to Adapt Max Brooks’ Sasquatch Romp Devolution
by Andrew Liptak
Maybe I Wouldn’t Have These Scars From the Octopus Deity: Autumn Christian’s “Shadow Machine”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Queering SFF: The Weird, Wild Fun of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula
by Lee Mandelo
L.L. McKinney and Saraciea Fennell Launch Juneteenth Book Festival to Celebrate Black American Stories
by Stubby the Rocket
Read an Excerpt From Sarah Henning’s The Princess Will Save You
by Sarah Henning
Palm Springs Looks Like Groundhog Day With a Twist
by Andrew Liptak
Netflix Releases First Look at The Umbrella Academy Season 2, Plus a Synopsis
by Stubby the Rocket
Jango: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
by John Manuel Arias
The Silver Chair: War Against the Powers of Darkness
by Matt Mikalatos
Le Guin’s Planet of Exile: Anthropological Speculations on Cultural Difference and Loss
by Sean Guynes
The Role Publishing Plays in the Commodification of Black Pain
by L.L. McKinney
Two Truths and a Lie
by Sarah Pinsker
Tue Jun 16
Undead Camels, Angry Spirits, and Prickly Protagonists: The Unconquered City by K.A. Doore
by Liz Bourke
Read an Excerpt From The Relentless Moon, a New Lady Astronaut Novel From Mary Robinette Kowal
by Mary Robinette Kowal
Read Highlights From Cory Doctorow and Nnedi Okorafor In Conversation at TorCon!
by Andrew Liptak
5 Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Stories by African Authors
by Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
Tade Thompson and Adrian Tchaikovsky Nominated for the 2020 Prix Utopiales
by Stubby the Rocket
Tessa Thompson Will Play a Lucid-Dreaming Fencer In Her Next Movie
by Stubby the Rocket
Never Say You Can’t Survive: Don’t Be Afraid to Go on Lots of First Dates With Story Ideas
by Charlie Jane Anders
Introducing the Terry Pratchett Book Club!
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The 25 Most Anticipated SFF Books for the Rest of 2020
by Christina Orlando
Trouble with Time: Low Chicago (Wild Cards XXV) and The Tarot Sequence
by Katie Rask
Grady Hendrix’s Horrorstör Is Going to Be a Movie
by Stubby the Rocket
Reading The Wheel of Time: A Coup, a Rescue, and Some Thoughts About Pants in Robert Jordan’s The Shadow Rising (Part 33)
by Sylas K Barrett
Mon Jun 15
Authors Revealed for New Anthology Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars With 40 Stories
by Stubby the Rocket
Artemis Fowl Is a CGI Candy-Coated Waste of Time
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Writing Horses: What To Do When the Experts Disagree
by Judith Tarr
Watch Mary Robinette Kowal Narrate The Entirety of Her New Book The Relentless Moon Over 8 Days
by Andrew Liptak
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: May 2020
by Alex Brown
Watch the Trailer for Star Wars Squadrons
by Stubby the Rocket
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Basics, Part I”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Read Highlights From TorCon’s “Chaos and Cosmos” Panel!
by Stubby the Rocket
Creating a Queer Hopepunk Canon: Lady Gaga, Janelle Monae, Lil Nas X, and the Visual Narration of Joyful Queer Futurism
by Christina Orlando
Read To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini: Chapter 1: “Dreams”
by Christopher Paolini
Rebecca Root Will Play Doctor Who’s First Trans Companion
by Stubby the Rocket
Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book: Classic SF About Pandemics Explores Faith in Both Science and Spirituality
by Lydia Laurenson
Immigrant, Socialite, Magician: Announcing Nghi Vo’s Gatsby-Inspired Novel-Length Debut
by Tor.com
What Could Disney Salvage From the Star Wars Expanded Universe?
by Andrew Liptak
Sun Jun 14
Reminder! Join Cory Doctorow and Nnedi Okorafor in Conversation at 7 PM ET
by Tor.com
Reminder! Join TorCon2020 for Chaos & Cosmos at 4 PM ET Today
by Tor.com
Jump in Now to the TorCon 2020 “Books & Brunch” Panel with Authors Jenn Lyons & Nathan Makaryk
by Tor.com
Read Highlights from Neil Gaiman and V.E. Schwab In Conversation at TorCon!
by Andrew Liptak
Sat Jun 13
TorCon2020: A Whole Universe in Pages – Worldbuilding for SFF
by Tor.com
Reminder! Join TorCon for Chaotic Communal Storytime at 5 PM ET
by Tor.com
Jump in Now for TorCon2020’s “Books & Brunch” Facebook Live Reading Series Featuring Mary Robinette Kowal
by Stubby the Rocket
Warner Bros. Shifts Release Dates For Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984, Matrix 4, and More
by Andrew Liptak
Fri Jun 12
The First Trailer for Archive Teases a Ex Machina-Like Thriller
by Andrew Liptak
Read Highlights from Christopher Paolini and Brandon Sanderson In Conversation at TorCon!
by Stubby the Rocket
Sarah Pinsker’s Nebula Award-Winning A Song For A New Day Optioned for TV
by Andrew Liptak
Goodbye Puddin’, Hello Sandwich — Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
An Interview With Matt Griffin, Illustrator of The Folio Society’s Rendezvous With Rama
by Andrew Liptak
Spider-Man: Miles Morales Is Coming to PS5
by Stubby the Rocket
Reminder: Catch Neil Gaiman and V.E. Schwab In Conversation Today at TorCon 2020
by Tor.com
Sweltering Southern Gothic Horror Novels for the Heat of Summer
by Emily Hughes
Vampires Never Left: A History of Vampires in Young Adult Fiction
by Zoraida Córdova
Thu Jun 11
An Open Letter to J.K. Rowling
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Read an Excerpt From Seasons of the Storm
by Elle Cosimano
Fighting a Losing Battle, and Choosing to Fight Anyway: Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova
by Leticia Urieta
This Is How Batwoman Will Address Ruby Rose’s Exit
by Stubby the Rocket
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Resolutions”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Reminder: Watch Christopher Paolini & Brandon Sanderson In Conversation at 7 PM ET Today
by Tor.com
Five Books by Latinx Authors Featuring Mythical Creatures
by Amparo Ortiz
Does Allegory Prevent Star Wars From Being Anti-Racist?
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Get Ready for TorCon, a Virtual Books Convention!
by Tor.com
Edgar Wright Reaches the World’s End
by Noah Berlatsky
The Fires We Feed: Tordotcom Publishing Acquires Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger
by Tor.com
A Cosmere Primer: What’s Going on in the Background of Sanderson’s Fictional Universe?
by Drew McCaffrey
Undine Love
by Kathleen Jennings
Wed Jun 10
The First Trailer for Doom Patrol’s Second Season Reintroduces the Team
by Andrew Liptak
Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
by Andrew Liptak
Read an Excerpt From Sisters of Sword and Song
by Rebecca Ross
Unfavourable Odds: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
by Mahvesh Murad
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Reread — The Never-Ending Sacrifice
by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
How What We Do in the Shadows Became the Funniest Show on Television
by Tyler Dean
Five SFF Works Inspired by RPGs
by James Davis Nicoll
Rocannon’s World: Where the Hainish Cycle Begins
by Sean Guynes
In Steven Universe Future, Healing From Abuse Is an Ongoing Process
by Leticia Urieta
Love in a Burning City: Revealing the Cover for C. L. Polk’s Soulstar
by Tor.com
We’re Here, We’re Here
by K.M. Szpara
Tue Jun 9
Kids Save the World in Andre Norton’s Star Ka’at World
by Judith Tarr
Lovecraft’s Model? Robert Barbour Johnson’s “Far Below”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
We Have Always Lived in a Horror Movie: Shirley
by Leah Schnelbach
Reading The Wheel of Time: Ladies Seek Answers and so does a Seeker in Robert Jordan’s The Shadow Rising (Part 32)
by Sylas K Barrett
Honor, Life, and Jade: Cultural Resonance in Fonda Lee’s Jade City
by Phoebe Low
Production Starts on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2
by Stubby the Rocket
Never Say You Can’t Survive: Everything Is Broken! What Should I Write About?
by Charlie Jane Anders
Here Are The 2019 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees
by Andrew Liptak
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Tuvix”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Daniel Radcliffe Speaks Out Against J.K. Rowling’s Transphobic Tweets
by Stubby the Rocket
Three Filipinx Authors Rocking Epic Fantasy
by Maya Gittelman
The First Trailer for Bill & Ted Face the Music Is Here
by Stubby the Rocket
Mon Jun 8
Read P. Djeli Clark’s “A Dead Djinn in Cairo”
by P. Djèlí Clark
Raise Your Voice: Bethany C. Morrow’s A Song Below Water
by Alex Brown
The Thing With Wings: Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
by Nisi Shawl
Not Until We Get a Turn: Retellings, Tropes, and Who Gets To Tell Stories
by Kalynn Bayron
Fri Jun 5
Read C.L. Polk’s “St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid”
by C.L. Polk
Stalled Out on Diesel — Bloodshot
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
All the New Genre-Bending Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
Uncle Hugo’s Bookshop Works to Rebuild After Minneapolis Unrest
by Andrew Liptak
An Ode to Black Science-Fiction & Fantasy Writers
by Rita Woods
Jo Walton’s Reading List: May 2020
by Jo Walton
Thu Jun 4
Read an Excerpt From Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud
by Somaiya Daud
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in June
by Tor.com
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “The Thaw”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
John Boyega Delivered a Powerful Speech at a Black Lives Matter Protest in London
by Stubby the Rocket
“All Edible, Except the Squeal”: Language and Power in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
by S. Qiouyi Lu
Space Force Betrays Its Premise in the Very First Episode
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
More Action, More Science, More Thrills: Gray Lensman by E. E. “Doc” Smith
by Alan Brown
Nature, Horror, and the Inherent Darkness of the Human Condition
by Alexis Henderson
Everything We Know About Fabrials
by Alice Arneson
Wed Jun 3
Read Rivers Solomon’s “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”
by Rivers Solomon
Where Are Our Black Boys on Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel Covers?
by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Tue Jun 2
Read Kai Ashante Wilson’s “The Devil in America”
by Kai Ashante Wilson
The Revolution Will Be Dramatized
by Bethany C. Morrow
The Blacksmith’s Axe, the Aiel’s Spear, and the Tinker’s Sword: When Pacifism is No Longer Enough
by Sylas K Barrett
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
In Our Own Worlds: Download 4 Free LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novellas Before June 6
by Tor.com
Mon Jun 1
This Year’s World Fantasy Convention Is Moving Online
by Andrew Liptak
Learning Empathy From Horse Training
by Judith Tarr
Read an Excerpt From Ann Dávila Cardinal’s Category Five
by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Announcing TorCon, A Virtual Books Convention!
by Tor.com
“That’s why it’s called fantasy”: An Interview With Mercedes Lackey
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Innocence”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest
by Tochi Onyebuchi
All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in June!
by Tor.com
Planets on the Move: SF Stories Featuring World-Ships
by James Davis Nicoll
Witches on Strike: Revealing The Factory Witches of Lowell
by Tor.com