Blog Archive
May 2022
Tue May 31
The Art of Revenge: The Time Traveler’s Wife, “Episode Three”
by Natalie Zutter
Five Works of Cannon SF
by James Davis Nicoll
Read an Excerpt From Becky Chambers’ A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
by Becky Chambers
Mac and Me (and Me)
by Henry Hoke
Reading The Wheel of Time: The Whitecloaks Scheme in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 20)
by Sylas K Barrett
Lost Cities, Demonic Possession, and Talking Dolls: The Fantastical Story Arcs of Soap Opera
by Randee Dawn
Prepare for the Multidimensional Ride of Your Life in Wild Massive by Scotto Moore
by Tor.com
Fri May 27
Obi-Wan Kenobi Brings the Hurt in Its Two-Part Premiere
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Announcing the Shortlist for the 2022 Nommo Awards
by Tor.com
Vincent Price: Horror’s Original Evil Genius
by Joe George
Jude Law Joins Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
by Molly Templeton
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Maskerade, Part III
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Teaser for Willow, the Sequel to Willow, Goes Into the Unknown
by Molly Templeton
Thu May 26
The Rebellion Is Growing in Ominous New Trailer for Andor
by Leah Schnelbach
Read an Excerpt From Rosaria Munda’s Furysong
by Rosaria Munda
Giant Gas Cloud of Death — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Memento Mori”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Hal Clement at 100: Five Favorites From a Master of SF
by James Davis Nicoll
A Horizon Zero Dawn Series Is in the Works at Netflix
by Molly Templeton
Revealing The Lost Metal, a Mistborn Novel From Brandon Sanderson
by Tor.com
Travel and Reading: A Vacation in Pages
by Molly Templeton
Speed Racer Is Getting the Live-Action Treatment Again—This Time as a Series
by Molly Templeton
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Eighty
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
An Intrepid A.I. Reporter: Announcing Aimee Ogden’s Emergent Properties
by Tor.com
Wed May 25
Amphibious Vampires: J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (Part 8)
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Scorched With Great Heat: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
by Alan Brown
Arbitrium
by Anjali Sachdeva
Tue May 24
Finn Wolfhard Guessed Idea for Stranger Things Spinoff, Though Duffer Brothers Claim “No One Else Knows!”
by Vanessa Armstrong
Five SF Books Featuring Flights Into Exile
by James Davis Nicoll
Of Gods and Queens: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
by Mahvesh Murad
A World Filled With Demons: Satanic Panic in The X-Files’ “Die Hand Die Verletzt”
by Liz Harmer
Arrival Wonders What We’d Do If Life Came with Spoilers
by Dan Persons
Reading The Wheel of Time: Nynaeve Makes a Discovery in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 19)
by Sylas K Barrett
5 Horror Books That Will Forever Change How You Look at Everyday Objects
by Nina Nesseth
Thor’s Not Like the Other Gods in the Trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder
by Molly Templeton
Revealing a New Edition of Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
by Tor.com
Mon May 23
Andor Aims to Recontextualize Legacy Characters That Star Wars Fans (Think They) Know
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Zoe Hana Mikuta’s Godslayers
by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Peter S. Beagle Returns to the World of The Last Unicorn With The Way Home
by Molly Templeton
Not Dead Yet: The Time Traveler’s Wife, “Episode Two”
by Natalie Zutter
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: First Season Overview
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Here’s One Last Trailer for Stranger Things Season 4
by Molly Templeton
Love and Piracy: On the Importance of Queer Romantic Fantasy
by Samara Breger
Tom Cruise Is Endlessly On the Move in the First Trailer for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
by Molly Templeton
A Museum in Space and Time: Adrienne Celt’s End of the World House
by Tobias Carroll
Five Fictional Texts With Dark or Mysterious Implications
by Cole Rush
Sat May 21
Here Are the Winners of the 2021 Nebula Awards!
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Fri May 20
George Miller Presents His “Anti-Mad Max” in Three Thousand Years of Longing Trailer
by Vanessa Armstrong
First Trailer for The Winchesters Introduces Us to Young John and Mary (and Their Monster-Hunting Friends)
by Vanessa Armstrong
Charlie Cox’s Daredevil Is Reportedly Getting His Own Disney+ Series
by Vanessa Armstrong
Revealing TJ Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets
by Tor.com
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Maskerade, Part II
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five SFF Road Trip Stories to Feed Your Wanderlust
by R.W.W. Greene
Thu May 19
Hunger — Fickle and Radical: Claire Kohda’s Woman, Eating
by Trisha Low
Evil Season Three Trailer Reveals That Things Are Still Batsh*t In The Best Way Possible
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From The Knave of Secrets
by Alex Livingston
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Is Getting Rebooted at Hulu
by Vanessa Armstrong
Secrets and Lies — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Ghosts of Illyria”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
There Are Too Many Siblings and Not Enough Timeline in Umbrella Academy 3 Trailer
by Vanessa Armstrong
Wilderness and Survival in R.L. Stine’s The Overnight and Carol Ellis’s Camp Fear
by Alissa Burger
Vivid and Erratic Storytelling: All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
by Alexis Ong
Five Stories in Which Aliens Attempt to Reshape the Earth
by James Davis Nicoll
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Seventy-Nine
by Lyndsey Luther and Paige Vest
Wed May 18
Hunger Games Prequel Adaptation Has Found Its Young Coriolanus in Actor Tom Blyth
by Vanessa Armstrong
Giants in the Sky: Clive Barker’s “In the Hills, the Cities”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Waking Life: The Between by Tananarive Due
by Leah Schnelbach
Five Characters Who Make the Most of Minor Superpowers
by James Davis Nicoll
The Library of Glome: Literary Allusion in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces
by Matt Mikalatos
She-Hulk Knows That Channeling Rage Isn’t the Ticket in First Trailer
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five Life Lessons From Ella Enchanted on the Novel’s 25th Anniversary
by Diane Callahan
Hearts of Stone
by Emma Newman
Download the March/April 2022 Tor.com Short Fiction Newsletter
by Tor.com
Tue May 17
“They Loved Each Other”: Director Deborah Chow Reveals Why Vader Was Brought Back in Obi-Wan Show
by Vanessa Armstrong
Epic Fantasy to Get Lost In: The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
by Vanessa Armstrong
11 Unique SF Tales Involving the Education of Clones
by Stubby the Rocket
Sophomore Slump — Star Trek: Picard Second Season Overview
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Boys Season 3 Trailer Shows There’s Something Wrong With Homelander (and Everyone Else, Really)
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Language of Chinese Dreams Is Science Fiction — And Sometimes They’re Nightmares
by Michael O’Krent
Please Adapt: Darcie Little Badger’s Elatsoe
by Cole Rush
Congratulations to the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards Winners!
by Vanessa Armstrong
Five Dark (But Not Hopeless) SF Movies
by Ashley Biancuzzo
We’ve Got a First Look at Pixar’s Elemental!
by Vanessa Armstrong
Revealing Kay Chronister’s Debut Novel, Desert Creatures
by Tor.com
Mon May 16
The Messy and Complicated Fairy Tale of Horse Racing
by Judith Tarr
It’s a Multiverse(?) of Exciting News! Yasmin Finney Joins Doctor Who as Rose
by Vanessa Armstrong
Meet Your New Favorite Odd Couple in This Brian and Charles Trailer
by Vanessa Armstrong
They’re Back! David Tennant and Catherine Tate Return to Doctor Who
by Vanessa Armstrong
Crow Gods and Sun Priestesses in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Fevered Star
by Angela Maria Spring
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Shockwave”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Empathy for the Devil: Villains, Antiheroes, and Origin Stories
by Stina Leicht
The Time Traveler’s Wife Is Steven Moffat at His Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Best
by Natalie Zutter
5 Books That Get Demon Summoning Right
by Lana Harper
Love, Sacrifice, and Family: Revealing Kelly Barnhill’s The Crane Husband
by Tor.com
Fri May 13
The CW Greenlights Supernatural Prequel, Gotham Knights, While Cancelling More Shows
by Vanessa Armstrong
How I Learned to Give in to Anime
by Kali Wallace
Five Fantasies With Prophesied Chosen Ones
by Kelley Grant
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Maskerade, Part I
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Five Series Made Up of Standalone Novels
by James Davis Nicoll
Thu May 12
The Orville: New Horizons Crew Bring Their A-Game in a New Trailer!
by Vanessa Armstrong
Five SFF Books About Warring Families
by Chloe Gong
Christopher Walken Will Play the Emperor in Dune: Part Two Because We Deserve Nice Things Sometimes
by Vanessa Armstrong
First Kill Trailer Gives Us High School Angst Blended With Vampiric Romance (And Fighting)
by Vanessa Armstrong
Everything Versus the Void: Premee Mohamed’s The Void Ascendant
by Tobias Carroll
“We’ve got a planet to save before breakfast” — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Children of the Comet”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
What Byzantine Literary Culture Can Tell Us About Fanfiction
by Arkady Martine
Five Small Books Packed With Big Ideas
by Cole Rush
“The Proper Pronoun for When One Shares One’s Body With One’s New Friend”: A Transgender Reading of Star Trek: Picard
by Jaime Babb
A Vision From the City of Lies: Revealing Moses Ose Utomi’s The Lies of the Ajungo
by Tor.com
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Seventy-Eight
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed May 11
Here Are the Finalists for the 2022 Locus Awards
by Vanessa Armstrong
The V-Word At Last: J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (Part 7)
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
The Great American Alternate Reality Road Trip: Last Exit by Max Gladstone
by Martin Cahill
World Fantasy Award Winner Patricia A. McKillip Has Passed Away
by Vanessa Armstrong
Read an Excerpt From Alix E. Harrow’s A Mirror Mended
by Alix E. Harrow
John M. Ford’s Aspects Is an Unfinished Masterpiece
by Matthew Keeley
On Tolkien, Translation, Linguistics, and the Languages of Middle-earth
by CD Covington
Dance, Transcendence, and the Unknown: Spider and Jeanne Robinson’s Stardance
by Alan Brown
The Brilliant Ambiguity of Conan the Barbarian’s “Riddle of Steel”
by Robert Repino
Revealing Lost in the Moment and Found, a New Wayward Children Novella From Seanan McGuire
by Tor.com
Tue May 10
Rekindling Awe in V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic
by Brad Beaulieu
There’s A Firestarter Reboot Coming Out Friday — Check Out The Lead Starting Some Fires
by Vanessa Armstrong
Westworld Trailer Suggests Things Won’t Be So Perfect For Sentient Life in Season Four
by Vanessa Armstrong
Who Belongs in Doggy Heaven? The Religious Subversion of Our Flag Means Death
by Leah Schnelbach
Five SF Works About Fighting Crime in Space
by James Davis Nicoll
Shocking, Intimate Fantasy: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
by Alex Brown
Death Note Is the Perfect Beginner’s Guide to Hard Magic Systems
by Cole Rush
The Flowers See Everything: Revealing Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah
by Tor.com
Mon May 9
Read an Excerpt From The Blind King’s Wrath
by Ashok K. Banker
The Netherworld Next Door: Holly Black’s Book of Night
by Molly Templeton
Avatar: The Way of Water Trailer Shows Us That Water Is the Way (Maybe?)
by Vanessa Armstrong
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Two Days and Two Nights”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Doctor Strange 2 Needs More Madness in Its Multiverse
by Leah Schnelbach
Stranger Than Sci-Fi: How Science Nudges Fiction Into New Frontiers
by Adam Oyebanji
Doctor Who Casts Ncuti Gatwa as the Fourteenth Doctor
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Fifth Element Is One of the Best/Worst Sci-Fi Films Ever
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
New Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for May & June 2022
by Alex Brown
Fri May 6
A Whole Bunch of Star Trek: Picard Characters Won’t Be Around for Season Three
by Vanessa Armstrong
AMC’s Mayfair Witches Adaptation Finds Its Lasher
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Trailer for Crimes of the Future Goes Full Cronenberg
by Molly Templeton
Post-Human Connections and Dystopian Dating: Kate Folk’s Out There
by Tobias Carroll
All the New Horror and Genre-Bending Books Arriving in May!
by Tor.com
Terry Pratchett Book Club: Interesting Times, Part IV
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Oh Boy! The Quantum Leap Sequel Series Is Coming to a Screen Near You
by Molly Templeton
Jo Walton’s Reading List: April 2022
by Jo Walton
Thu May 5
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in May!
by Tor.com
The Percy Jackson TV Adaptation Has Rounded Out Its Cast
by Vanessa Armstrong
“Welcome back and welcome aboard” — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Strange New Worlds”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Meet Rudra in an Excerpt From The City Inside by Samit Basu
by Samit Basu
Obi-Wan Kenobi Finally Has His Own John Williams Theme
by Molly Templeton
HBO Isn’t Hiding the Dragons in the Latest House of the Dragon Teaser
by Molly Templeton
The Broken Promises of Christopher Pike’s Last Vampire Series
by Alissa Burger
“Must it always have galactic import?” — Star Trek: Picard’s “Farewell”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for April 2022
by Alex Brown
Rhythm of War Reread: Chapter Seventy-Seven
by Alice Arneson and Paige Vest
Wed May 4
Strangers in Red: Crystal Sidell’s “The Truth About Doppelgangers”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Check Out Grogu Jammin’ With Robert Rodriguez on The Book of Boba Fett Set
by Vanessa Armstrong
This Serious Moon Knight Finale: “Gods and Monsters”
by Leah Schnelbach
Meet Joey in an Excerpt From The City Inside by Samit Basu
by Samit Basu
The Sheer, Unbridled Joy of Star Wars: A New Hope
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Viola Davis May Star in a Peacemaker Spinoff
by Molly Templeton
The Invisible Palace: Madness and Faith in Till We Have Faces
by Matt Mikalatos
Five Stories About Perilous Plant Life and High-Risk Gardening
by James Davis Nicoll
A Bleak Reunion Looms in the Obi-Wan Kenobi Trailer
by Molly Templeton
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in May!
by Tor.com
Tue May 3
Trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Showcases Daniel Radcliffe’s Appropriately Weird Al Yankovic Portrayal
by Vanessa Armstrong
Six Technothrillers About Digital Surveillance and Voyeurism
by Rabeea Saleem
Umbrella Academy Showrunner Has Endgame Planned for a Potential Fourth Season
by Vanessa Armstrong
The Galaxy-Rocking Romp of Charlie Jane Anders’ Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak
by Maya Gittelman
All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in May!
by Tor.com
Star Trek, Wah Chang, and the Ongoing Legacy of “Balance of Terror”
by Tim Ford
Reading The Wheel of Time: Rand Struggles to Understand in Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos (Part 18)
by Sylas K Barrett
Five Fantasy Games That Teach Valuable Lessons About Failure
by Cole Rush
Download a New Becky Chambers + A Classic Scalzi for Free Before May 7!
by Tor.com
Revealing Dead Flip by Sara Farizan
by Tor.com
Mon May 2
Writing in the Language of Horse People
by Judith Tarr
Crossbones and Nyssa al Ghul Will Fight Werewolves in Year 2
by Molly Templeton
So Damn Electric: Janelle Monáe’s The Memory Librarian & Other Stories of Dirty Computer
by Mahvesh Murad
Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Desert Crossing”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Best Nona the Ninth Fan Theories
by Natalie Zutter
The CW Cancels Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman
by Molly Templeton
Outlander’s Season 6 Finale Tells Too Much and Doesn’t Show Enough
by Natalie Zutter
After 10 Years, Gravity Falls Is Still as Funny and Heartfelt as Any Show on Television
by Lorna Wallace
Anti-Doorstoppers: 10 Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes
by Alex Brown