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