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It only has partial content, so you'll need to click through for the full post or story. http://www.tor.com/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:51:44 +0000 Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management en-gb http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/0RFZ7lqPCAo/review-the-blue-blazes-chuck-wendig <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/the-blue-blazes-chuck-wendig/9d821993-fc44-49ed-ac10-0a4823a9a4b7" target="_blank"><img alt="Review The Blue Blazes Chuck Wendig" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/The-Blue-Blazes.jpg" style="height: 303px; width: 200px;" /></a>If, like me, you were introduced to the wonderful and somewhat insane world of Chuck Wendig via <em>Blackbirds</em>, eagerly lapped up its sequel <em>Mockingbird</em>, and then found yourself desperately looking for more, well, there&rsquo;s good news and bad news.</p><p>The bad news&mdash;I&rsquo;m just going to go ahead and say it&mdash;is that <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/the-blue-blazes-chuck-wendig/9d821993-fc44-49ed-ac10-0a4823a9a4b7" target="_blank"><em>The Blue Blazes</em></a> is <em>not </em>the new Miriam Black novel. That would be <em>Cormorant</em>, due out at the end of this year from Angry Robot.</p><p>The good news is that, if you liked the Miriam Black novels (which I reviewed <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/short-sharp-awesome-blackbirds-by-chuck-wendig" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/09/a-shocking-twisting-beast-of-a-book-mockingbird-by-chuck-wendig" target="_blank">here</a>), <em>The Blue Blazes</em> should be right up your alley: a dark contemporary fantasy that somehow manages to be fun and unnerving at the same time. (Bonus good news: another gorgeous cover by Joey Hi-Fi!)</p><p>[Below the mine shaft roads, it will all unfold]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-blue-blazes-chuck-wendig">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RFZ7lqPCAo:Yj3yNrfdk9k:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/0RFZ7lqPCAo" height="1" width="1"/> Stefan Raets Published Tue, 21 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-blue-blazes-chuck-wendig http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-blue-blazes-chuck-wendig http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/Ccva7QyU680/review-the-gist-michael-marshall-smith <p><a href="http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/the_gist" target="_blank"><img alt="Review The Gist" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/the-gist.jpg" /></a>And reviewed by yours truly.</p><p><a href="http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/the_gist" target="_blank"><em>The Gist</em></a>, a novelette by Michael Marshall Smith, is the latest offering from Subterranean Press&rsquo;s limited but honourable catalogue. To say it is <em>by </em>Marshall Smith&mdash;or at least, by Marshall Smith alone&mdash;is, however, something of a misnomer. Between <em>The Gist</em>&rsquo;s covers are three novelettes and one novelette: Marshall Smith&rsquo;s original, translated once into the French by Beno&icirc;t Domis, translated again (without access to the original text) back into the English by Nicholas Royle. Two further recensions of the first text: three recensions of a single work.</p><p>Yes, I&rsquo;m of the school that holds every translation to be a fresh recension. Every translation contains the translator&rsquo;s idea of the text as well as the original author&rsquo;s. If you&rsquo;ve ever read translations of, say, the Greek classics from the 19th century and then compared them to a modern translation, the otherwise-invisible person of the translator becomes visible.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-gist-michael-marshall-smith">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ccva7QyU680:Bm9FzHWeRGE:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/Ccva7QyU680" height="1" width="1"/> Liz Bourke Published Tue, 21 May 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-gist-michael-marshall-smith http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-gist-michael-marshall-smith http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/GUcXBsJJvFo/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-the-passenger <p><img alt="Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch on Tor.com: The Passenger" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/thepassenger1.jpg" /><strong>&ldquo;The Passenger&rdquo;</strong><br />Written by Morgan Gendel and Robert Hewitt Wolfe &amp; Michael Piller<br />Directed by Paul Lynch<br /><strong>Season 1, Episode 8</strong><br />Production episode 40511-409<br />Original air date: February 21, 1993<br />Stardate: unknown</p><p><strong>Station log:</strong> Kira and Bashir are returning from a medical mission in a runabout. Kira makes the mistake of complimenting Bashir on his work, which leads to Bashir saying he can&rsquo;t hear Kira over the sound of how awesome he is. Kira&rsquo;s snotty reply is cut off by a distress call. They respond to it and find a woman unconscious. Bashir revives her; she says that the pilot&rsquo;s dead. She&rsquo;s transporting a prisoner, who sabotaged the ship. Bashir tries to treat him, but he dies&mdash;after grabbing Bashir&rsquo;s throat and saying, &ldquo;Make me live.&rdquo;</p><p>They return to Deep Space 9, where Bashir treats the woman, who identifies herself as Ty Kajada from Kobliad security, and the dead prisoner as Rao Vantika. She insists on checking the corpse, as Vantika has faked his own death more than once. Even after examining the body herself, she then stabs it in the heart, just to be sure. She&rsquo;s been chasing him for twenty years, and she is cynical to say the least.</p><p>[Tricorders...very accurate with living people, not so accurate with dead ones.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-the-passenger">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GUcXBsJJvFo:0ImqtM7IJHE:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/GUcXBsJJvFo" height="1" width="1"/> Keith DeCandido Published Tue, 21 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-the-passenger http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-the-passenger http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/trSSA3lftn4/short-fiction-spotlight-the-family-fantastic <p><img alt="Short Fiction Spotlight The Family Fantastic" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/nebulashowcase.jpg" style="width: 250px; height: 377px;" /></p><p>Welcome back to the <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/short-fiction-spotlight" target="_blank">Short Fiction Spotlight</a>, a weekly column co-curated by myself and the inestimable <a href="http://www.tor.com/brit-mandelo" target="_blank">Brit Mandelo</a>, and dedicated to doing exactly what it says in the header: shining a light on the some of the best and most relevant fiction of the aforementioned form.</p><p>Last time I directed the Short Fiction Spotlight, we discussed two terrific novelettes in which image was everything. Both were nominated for a Nebula. By now, the winners of that award&mdash;and all the others on the roster, obviously&mdash;will have been announced, and much as I might have liked to look at those this week, these columns aren&rsquo;t researched, written, submitted, formatted and edited all on the morning of.</p><p>So what I thought I&rsquo;d do, in the spirit of keeping the Nebula news alive a little longer, was turn to a pair of tales whose authors were honoured in 2012 instead. To wit, we&rsquo;ll touch on &ldquo;What We Found&rdquo; by Geoff Ryman in short order, but let&rsquo;s begin this edition of the Short Fiction Spotlight with a review of &ldquo;<a href="http://io9.com/5958919/read-ken-lius-amazing-story-that-swept-the-hugo-nebula-and-world-fantasy-awards" target="_blank">The Paper Menagerie</a>&rdquo; by Ken Liu.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/short-fiction-spotlight-the-family-fantastic">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=trSSA3lftn4:cbRuZw9uyMM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/trSSA3lftn4" height="1" width="1"/> Niall Alexander Published Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/short-fiction-spotlight-the-family-fantastic http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/short-fiction-spotlight-the-family-fantastic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/SxxXV5RNJoQ/batman-animated-series-rewatch-read-my-lips-the-worry-men <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Batman The Animated Series Rewatch Read My Lips &amp; The Worry Men" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/Batman/00-59.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 356px;" /></p><p><strong>&ldquo;</strong><strong>Read My Lips&rdquo;</strong><br />Story by Alan Burnett, Michael Reaves<br />Teleplay by Joe R. Lansdale<br />Directed by Boyd Kirkland<br /><strong>Episode #064</strong><br />Music Composed by Shirley Walker<br />Animation by Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co.<br /><strong>Original Airdate&mdash;May 10^th, 1992</strong></p><p><strong>Plot: </strong>Batman discovers the mastermind behind a string of perfectly planned heists is a ventriloquism dummy, Scarface</p><p>[Evil doll and evil dolls]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/batman-animated-series-rewatch-read-my-lips-the-worry-men">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=SxxXV5RNJoQ:wa3mMSOqxsU:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/SxxXV5RNJoQ" height="1" width="1"/> Steven Padnick Published Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/batman-animated-series-rewatch-read-my-lips-the-worry-men http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/batman-animated-series-rewatch-read-my-lips-the-worry-men http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/GmUpYWvPyr4/to-tell-the-truth-the-oathbreakers-shadow-by-amy-mcculloch <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/the-oathbreaker-s-shadow-amy-mcculloch/5a6e4c3c-7f77-4330-b490-b70ea07243a5" target="_blank"><img alt="Review The Oathbreaker's Shadow Amy McCulloch" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/oathbreakersshadow.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 300px;" /></a></p><p>I&rsquo;m going to let you in on a little secret: promises are made to be broken. In truth, trust exists to be tested.</p><p>We&rsquo;re often called upon to give our word, for what it&rsquo;s worth, but keeping it is never so simple. Of course it can be done, and indeed, we should endeavour to honour as many of the bonds we form as possible. But sometimes, circumstances arise; unavoidable, inescapable circumstances that require us to behave badly in service of the greater good. To do something we have sworn not to, or say what someone else would rather we wouldn&rsquo;t.</p><p>I&rsquo;m sure I sound like someone with a guilty conscience, and perhaps I am. I&rsquo;d argue that we all are, to a greater or lesser extent. Thankfully, the consequences of betraying a vow in our world are in nothing compared to what we&rsquo;d face if we came from Kharein, the capital city of Darhan.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/to-tell-the-truth-the-oathbreakers-shadow-by-amy-mcculloch">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GmUpYWvPyr4:h2YArAnyNSY:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/GmUpYWvPyr4" height="1" width="1"/> Niall Alexander Published Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/to-tell-the-truth-the-oathbreakers-shadow-by-amy-mcculloch http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/to-tell-the-truth-the-oathbreakers-shadow-by-amy-mcculloch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/ZsNxwP2Z0QU/first-second-books-bea-schedule-paul-pope <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2oPJTcxTYhc" width="475"></iframe></p><p>In the lead-up to this year&rsquo;s BookExpo America, BEA is publishing a series of author inteviews called &ldquo;BEA In Your Space." We&rsquo;re excited to reveal that one of the first ones is an interview with notable comics creator Paul Pope, author of the upcoming <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/battling-boy-paul-pope/853cfdb9-01d2-492e-9d39-188e7172a60b" target="_blank">First Second graphic novel <em>Battling Boy</em></a>.</p><p>Paul Pope will be autographing and speaking at BEA courtesy of First Second Books. Check out when and where, and see what other creators from the MacKids stable will appear! You can find them at Macmillan&rsquo;s booth #1557.</p><p>[MacKids BEA schedule]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/first-second-books-bea-schedule-paul-pope">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZsNxwP2Z0QU:yBmRbXwpo4g:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/ZsNxwP2Z0QU" height="1" width="1"/> Tor.com Published Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/first-second-books-bea-schedule-paul-pope http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/first-second-books-bea-schedule-paul-pope http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/MmbonRmPEv0/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-memory-of-light-part-14 <p><img alt="The Wheel Of Time Re-read: A Memory of Light, Part 14" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/WOT_Images/AMOL-cover.jpg" />The power of the Wheel of Time Re-read compels you! Hopefully!</p><p>Today&rsquo;s entry covers Chapter 14 of <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/a-memory-of-light-robert-jordan/f3827af5-f653-4167-8398-cd938d9034ff" target="_blank"><em>A Memory of Light</em></a>, which features unexpected villainesses, unsolicited movie reviews, and surprisingly lethal applications of standard cartoon gags.</p><p>Previous re-read entries are <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/wot-reread" target="_blank">here</a>. The Wheel of Time Master Index is <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/wheel-of-time-master-index" target="_blank">here</a>, which has links to news, reviews, interviews, and all manner of information about the Wheel of Time in general. The index for all things specifically related to the final novel in the series, <em>A Memory of Light,</em> is <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/a-memory-of-light" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Also, for maximum coolness, the Wheel of Time Re-read is also <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/03/the-wheel-of-time-reread-collected-ebooks-have-arrived" target="_blank">now available as e-books,</a> from your preferred e-book retailer!</p><p>This re-read post, and all posts henceforth, contain spoilers for the entire Wheel of Time series<strong>.</strong> If you haven&rsquo;t read, read at your own risk.</p><p>And now, the post!</p><p>[&ldquo;Behind every wall, every window. The world behind the world, and we&rsquo;re smack in the middle.&rdquo;]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-memory-of-light-part-14">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MmbonRmPEv0:TQXfO4dBYrk:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/MmbonRmPEv0" height="1" width="1"/> Leigh Butler Published Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-memory-of-light-part-14 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-memory-of-light-part-14 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/zMhaIruOAFw/man-of-steel-superman-prequel-comic <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Man of Steel Superman prequel comic" class="blog-pic-middle-align enlarge " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/man-of-steel-prequel-comic.jpg" style="height: 307px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>DC Comics recently debuted a prequel comic for the new Superman movie <em>Man of Steel</em>, in theaters on June 14, which focuses on Krpytonian society and its efforts to explore the galaxy and better itself as a species. It also offers some overt and thematic hints about what we might ultimately see in <em>Man of Steel</em>.</p><p>[<em>Man of Steel</em> prequel comic]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/man-of-steel-superman-prequel-comic">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zMhaIruOAFw:e45GWzwW5is:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/zMhaIruOAFw" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Lough Published Tue, 21 May 2013 16:15:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/man-of-steel-superman-prequel-comic http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/man-of-steel-superman-prequel-comic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/pC0slDySNUY/unfettered-kevin-hearne-the-chapel-perilous <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Unfettered Kevin Hearne The Chapel Perilous Shawn Speakman" class="blog-pic-middle-align caption" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/unfettered.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 308px;" title="Art by Todd Lockwood" /></p><p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>A special five story preview of <a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank">Shawn Speakman&rsquo;s epic fantasy anthology </a></em><a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank">Unfettered</a><em> will be released at Phoenix Comicon this Memorial Day weekend. This week, <a href="http://www.tor.com/tags/Unfettered" target="_blank">we&rsquo;re taking a look at all five stories</a>, many featuring new glimpses of our favorite fantasy worlds.</em></span></span></p><p>There&rsquo;s something incredibly engaging about the Arthurian story of the knight-errant. I always perk up when I know that a knight is leaving court, the location of his target unknown, with the commandment to quest, to do right, to slay evil and maintain his honor. I grew up on T.H. White&rsquo;s <em>The Once and Future King</em>, and have long loved the mystique of the isolated knight questing through less civilized lands. That&rsquo;s the structure Kevin Hearne chose for &ldquo;The Chapel Perilous,&rdquo; his new short story in the <em>Unfettered</em> anthology. Although it stars Atticus O&rsquo;Sullivan, the star of Hearne&rsquo;s urban fantasy Iron Druid Chronicles, &ldquo;The Chapel Perilous&rdquo; sees O&rsquo;Sullivan looking back on days long gone in Britain, days when there were more knights, and more druids, too. Indeed, he looks back to the most Arthurian tale of all, the quest for the Holy Grail. Apparently that was O&rsquo;Sullivan&rsquo;s quest, he&rsquo;s the one who found the thing. Who knew?</p><p>[Read more. Some spoilers for the story below.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-kevin-hearne-the-chapel-perilous">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=pC0slDySNUY:sHhdcosD54I:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/pC0slDySNUY" height="1" width="1"/> Carl Engle-Laird Published Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-kevin-hearne-the-chapel-perilous http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-kevin-hearne-the-chapel-perilous http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/jHo_kFoyotk/sleeps-with-monsters-recentish-hard-sf-by-women <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Sleeps With Monsters Recent Hard SF By Women" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/sleeps-with-monsters-hard-sf.jpg" /></p><p>It occurs to me that this year I&rsquo;ve spent plenty of time on fantasy, while neglecting science fiction. A trend likely to continue until 2014 at least....</p><p>So for today, let&rsquo;s spend a little time redressing the balance, and talk about hard SF by women.</p><p>Defining hard science fiction, rather like defining epic fantasy, is a tricksy business. (Or hobbit.) The <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/" target="_blank">Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</a> itself acknowledges the potential impossibility of any rigorous definition, concluding only:</p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:14px;">&ldquo;[T]the most important thing about it is, not that it should include real science in any great detail, but that it should respect the scientific spirit; it should seek to provide natural rather than supernatural or transcendental explanations for the events and phenomena it describes.&rdquo; [<a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hard_sf" target="_blank">Link</a>.]</span></p></blockquote><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/sleeps-with-monsters-recentish-hard-sf-by-women">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jHo_kFoyotk:iv-_wGUJtqg:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/jHo_kFoyotk" height="1" width="1"/> Liz Bourke Published Tue, 21 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/sleeps-with-monsters-recentish-hard-sf-by-women http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/sleeps-with-monsters-recentish-hard-sf-by-women http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/C4Q7ZssvHFk/the-wolverine-trailer <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Wolverine trailer Silver Samurai" class="blog-pic-middle-align enlarge caption" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/the-wolverine-silver-samurai.jpg" style="height: 222px; width: 475px;" title="Super Shredder! You survived the events of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze!" /></p><p>Good news! The new trailer for <em>The Wolverine</em>, which hits theaters on July 26, is all about being driven insane by your own life while having to fight huge samurai robots and snake women anyway. In fact, we hear that the working title for this movie was <em>Wolverine: Goin&rsquo; Crackers</em>.</p><p>Seriously, the premise is that <em>X-Men: The Last Stand</em> was so bad that it drove him crazy, which actually sounds like a pretty solid premise. Check out the trailer below.</p><p>[New trailer for <em>The Wolverine</em>]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wolverine-trailer">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=C4Q7ZssvHFk:I95A3-cdZl4:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/C4Q7ZssvHFk" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Tue, 21 May 2013 14:25:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wolverine-trailer http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wolverine-trailer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/gd6rKvgPJbE/neil-gaiman-bromances <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Neil Gaiman Harlan Ellison" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Harlan and Gaiman.jpg" style="height: 221px; width: 251px;" /></p><p>Tor.com&rsquo;s ongoing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey-esque attempt to define Neil Gaiman and/or his work has read his most well-known epic, made a mixtape out of another, and looked at his habit of creating his own world inside of the worlds of others. Now, we look at his penchant for constant collaboration with other artists, writers, and musicians. Collaborations that more often than not end up further honing the author&rsquo;s unique style.</p><p>They say that behind every great writer, is that writer&rsquo;s bro. And by &ldquo;bro,&rdquo; we mean an artistic equal whose work brings new definition to yours and a friend who otherwise has your back. A bro can be any gender and the bonds between you can feel like they were always meant to be. Neil Gaiman has a lot of bromances, and though we love the man and his writing, where would he be without these seven essential bros?</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/neil-gaiman-bromances">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gd6rKvgPJbE:VNMrNH0pmL0:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/gd6rKvgPJbE" height="1" width="1"/> Ryan Britt Published Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/neil-gaiman-bromances http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/neil-gaiman-bromances http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/w9HEp_tp7Rg/skin-like-porcelain-death <p><img alt="Skin Like Porcelain Death Daniel Jose Older" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/danieljoseoldercover.jpg" /><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Enjoy this reprint of Daniel Jos&eacute; Older&rsquo;s &ldquo;Skin Like Porcelain Death,&rdquo; a short story that was originally published in his collection Salsa Nocturna by Crossed Genres Publications, available </em></span></span><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><a href="http://crossedgenres.com/titles/salsa-nocturna/"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">here</span></a></em></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>In &ldquo;Skin Like Porcelain Death&rdquo; a half-resurrected cleanup man for the bureaucracy of death confronts a sorcerous collection of chipped porcelain dolls in an attempt to save the soul of a horny young man who chose the wrong girlfriend.</em></span></span></p><p>[Read &ldquo;Skin Like Porcelain Death&rdquo; by Daniel Jos&eacute; Older]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/skin-like-porcelain-death">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w9HEp_tp7Rg:Q_UnEb0CSvc:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/w9HEp_tp7Rg" height="1" width="1"/> Daniel Jose Older Reprints Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/skin-like-porcelain-death http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/skin-like-porcelain-death http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/tx3Rba7pT8I/morning-roundup-sherlock-into-darkness <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align caption" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Sherlock Into Darkness.jpg" style="height: 267px; width: 475px;" title="Wherever Cumberbatch goes...he...must...have...a long coat." /></p><p style="text-align: left; ">Is there anything Sherlock wouldn&rsquo;t do...for...a new...violin? The above image was of course inevitable, and may somehow spoil <em>Sherlock</em> and <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em>, and maybe is also your future nightmares.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left; ">Your daily collection of offsite links contains stuff you may or may not want to know about your favorite fictional worlds. Oh, whatever. The summer has been spoiled!</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-sherlock-into-darkness">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=tx3Rba7pT8I:73Gp4q-UfLU:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/tx3Rba7pT8I" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-sherlock-into-darkness http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-sherlock-into-darkness http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/Rqh-FijNFzA/the-wheel-of-time-unfettered-river-of-souls <p><img alt="Unfettered Wheel of Time River of Souls" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/unfettered-cover.jpg" />Hi-ho, Tor.com! Leigh Butler here, of <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/wot-reread">The Wheel of Time Re-read</a>!</p><p>As dictated by my accidental semi-cornering of the hilariously specific niche market of Commenter on All Things Wheel of Time, it is my pleasure to bring you a spoiler-free advance review of &ldquo;River of Souls&rdquo;, Brandon Sanderson&rsquo;s (and Robert Jordan&rsquo;s) contribution to the epic fantasy anthology <a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank"><em>Unfettered</em></a>, due out this month.</p><p>Pretty cool, eh? Why, yes, yes it is. Click the jump to find out what I thought of the story in particular, and why this anthology is awesome in general. Hooray!</p><p>[DO EEEET]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-unfettered-river-of-souls">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Rqh-FijNFzA:8S9lJIUkscw:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/Rqh-FijNFzA" height="1" width="1"/> Leigh Butler Published Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-unfettered-river-of-souls http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-unfettered-river-of-souls http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/wdtU2-Pgl2c/the-millionaire-and-the-mummies-excerpt <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/mummies.jpg" style="width: 209px; height: 318px;" /><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Perfect for fans of archaeology and Egyptian discoveries, take a look at </em><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/c5a969d2-b778-49f3-837c-7579d09eb376" target="_blank">The Millionaire and the Mummies</a><em> by John M. Adams, out on June 25:</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Egypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world; his career turned tomb-robbing and treasure-hunting into a science. Using six of Davis&rsquo;s most important discoveries&mdash;from the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut&rsquo;s sarcophagus to the exquisite shabti statuettes looted from the Egyptian Museum not too long ago&mdash;as a lens around which to focus his quintessentially American rags-to-riches tale, Adams chronicles the dizzying rise of a poor country preacher&rsquo;s son who, through corruption and fraud, amassed tremendous wealth in Gilded Age New York and then atoned for his ruthless career by inventing new standards for systematic excavation. Davis found a record eighteen tombs in the Valley and, breaking with custom, gave all the spoils of his discoveries to museums.&nbsp;A confederate of Boss Tweed, friend of Teddy Roosevelt, and rival of J. P. Morgan, the colorful &ldquo;American Lord Carnarvon&rdquo; shared his Newport mansion with his Rembrandts, his wife, </em>and<em> his mistress.&nbsp;The only reason Davis has been forgotten by history to a large extent is probably the fact that he stopped just short of King Tutankhamen&rsquo;s tomb, the discovery of which propelled Howard Carter (Davis&rsquo;s erstwhile employee) to worldwide fame just a few short years later.</em></span></span></p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-millionaire-and-the-mummies-excerpt">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wdtU2-Pgl2c:aBj211xxQdM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/wdtU2-Pgl2c" height="1" width="1"/> John M Adams Excerpts Mon, 20 May 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-millionaire-and-the-mummies-excerpt http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-millionaire-and-the-mummies-excerpt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/f2lquXrcS9Y/doctor-who-river-song-timeline <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Doctor Who River Song timeline" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/river-timeline.jpg" /></p><p>It would seem that River Song&rsquo;s arc on <em>Doctor Who</em> has come to an end in &ldquo;<a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-the-name-of-the-doctor" target="_blank">The Name of the Doctor</a>&rdquo; (Although as always that will remain to be seen.) so <a href="http://news.drwho-online.co.uk/Infographic-River-Songs-Timeline.aspx" target="_blank">Doctor Who Online&rsquo;s senior art editor Will Brooks</a> put together this nifty infographic that illustrates how her twisty timeline matches up with the Doctor&rsquo;s. The full hi-res version is up on Photobucket (it&rsquo;s gigantic, so <a href="http://s191.photobucket.com/user/Willbrooks1989/media/RiverTimelineDWO-01_zpsba67c99c.jpg.html" target="_blank">follow the linky-link</a> to see the whole chart) but we&rsquo;re not sure we&rsquo;re convinced yet. Does this timeline work for you? Can we ever be certain if we don&rsquo;t get direct confirmation from the characters? After all, those season 6 &ldquo;First Night / Last Night&rdquo; minisodes were never given precise dates....</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-river-song-timeline">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f2lquXrcS9Y:pBM2LJqYyUE:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/f2lquXrcS9Y" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Mon, 20 May 2013 19:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-river-song-timeline http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-river-song-timeline http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/XnWemmNiZcQ/review-the-lowest-heaven-anne-c-perry-jared-shurin <p><a href="http://www.pandemonium-fiction.com/lowest-heaven.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Review The Lowest Heaven Anne C Perry Jared Shurin" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/lowestheaven.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 303px;" /></a></p><p>Space.</p><p>The final frontier?</p><p>For now, that searching question stands an unfortunate fact. We want to know more, of course, but there is no clear need for the revelations we may or may not gain from our desired endeavours, or none that we can easily see.</p><p>And so we wait, painfully aware that&mdash;even if the Powers That Be see reason&mdash;we are lamentably unlikely to see a man on Mars in our lifetimes.</p><p>Maybe our children will. I want that for them.</p><p>But neither you nor I nor they, in their day, will find out what awaits on the other side of the interstellar space NASA&rsquo;s lonely Voyager probe is on track to chart; the odds are simply not in our favour, I&rsquo;m afraid. But we can wonder, can&rsquo;t we? We can imagine. We can read and write and damn it, we can dream.</p><p>So for the foreseeable future, space may indeed be the final frontier in fact, but fiction, by its very definition, need not be held back by what is. Instead, its pioneers ask: what if? And occasionally, incredibly, what if <em>is </em>what is.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-lowest-heaven-anne-c-perry-jared-shurin">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=XnWemmNiZcQ:OYoavqO3G6A:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/XnWemmNiZcQ" height="1" width="1"/> Niall Alexander Published Mon, 20 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-lowest-heaven-anne-c-perry-jared-shurin http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-lowest-heaven-anne-c-perry-jared-shurin http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/ALHUoAasqxk/review-antiagon-fire-l-e-modesitt-jr <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/antiagon-fire-l-e-modesitt/ab1d3d19-1905-41fc-a48e-1f085c619566" target="_blank"><img alt="Review Antiagon Fire L.E. Modesitt Jr." class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_03/antiagon-fire.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 301px;" /></a>My standard spoiler warning for this series: <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/antiagon-fire-l-e-modesitt/ab1d3d19-1905-41fc-a48e-1f085c619566" target="_blank"><em>Antiagon Fire</em></a> is the seventh novel in L.E. Modesitt, Jr.&rsquo;s Imager Portfolio series, and the fourth one following the adventures of Quaeryt Rytersyn. The first three novels in the series had a different protagonist and were set in the same fictional world but several centuries after the events portrayed in the Quaeryt novels.</p><p>In other words, you may want to stop reading this review if you haven&rsquo;t at least read the first three Quaeryt novels: <em>Scholar</em>, <em>Princeps</em> and <em>Imager&rsquo;s Battalion</em>. If you&rsquo;d like a refresher, you can find my reviews of those novels <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/a-review-of-scholar-by-le-modesitt-jr" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/quaeryt-comes-into-his-own-princeps-by-le-modesitt-jr" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/01/review-imagers-battalion-l-e-modesitt-jr" target="_blank">here</a>. (You can also find my look at the initial Imager trilogy <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/a-look-back-at-the-imager-portfolio-series-by-le-modesitt-jr" target="_blank">here</a>.)</p><p>So, in summary: if you&rsquo;re not familiar with this series yet, please check it out because it&rsquo;s excellent&mdash;but stop reading this review here to avoid spoilers.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-antiagon-fire-l-e-modesitt-jr">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ALHUoAasqxk:gUTQeJwMFJA:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/ALHUoAasqxk" height="1" width="1"/> Stefan Raets Published Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-antiagon-fire-l-e-modesitt-jr http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-antiagon-fire-l-e-modesitt-jr http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/jEcw8a4-EVk/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-rewatch-weve-got-company-and-they-brought-a-crusade <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spiral, Scoobies" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/btvs-spiral4.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 356px;" /></p><p>&ldquo;Spiral,&rdquo; by Steven S. DeKnight</p><p>&ldquo;Spiral&rdquo; is one of those episodes that starts right where its predecessor left off. Dawn&rsquo;s secret has been exposed, and so Buffy scoops her up and runs like a terrified antelope. It shouldn&rsquo;t work, but Willow slows Glory briefly. Then, after running at super-blurry cheetah speed to catch up with them, she foolishly pauses for the traditional pre-victory exchange of taunts... in the middle of a busy road.</p><p>This turns out badly for Glory when a big truck smashes right into her, and very well indeed for Buffy when the impact then causes Ben to take over custody of the shared BenGlorious bod. It&rsquo;s nice for us because we get Ben in a dress again. There are worse things, though it&rsquo;s not a fabulous dress.</p><p>[Read More...]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-rewatch-weve-got-company-and-they-brought-a-crusade">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jEcw8a4-EVk:o3h2BFZwI3k:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/jEcw8a4-EVk" height="1" width="1"/> Alyx Dellamonica Published Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-rewatch-weve-got-company-and-they-brought-a-crusade http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-rewatch-weve-got-company-and-they-brought-a-crusade http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/jocSH9DT9ko/terry-brooks-imaginary-friends-unfettered-shawn-speakman <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Unfettered anthology Shawn Speakman Terry Brooks Imaginary Friends preorder" class="blog-pic-middle-align caption" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/unfettered.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 308px;" title="Art by Todd Lockwood" /></p><p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>A special five story preview of <a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank">Shawn Speakman&rsquo;s epic fantasy anthology </a></em><a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank">Unfettered</a><em> will be released at Phoenix Comicon this Memorial Day weekend. This week, <a href="http://www.tor.com/tags/Unfettered" target="_blank">we&rsquo;re taking a spoiler-free look at all five stories</a>, many featuring new glimpses of our favorite fantasy worlds.</em></span></span></p><p>I read Terry Brooks&rsquo;s Shannara trilogy when I was pretty young, and if I&rsquo;m being honest, I don&rsquo;t remember them all that well. But I do remember how much I enjoyed reading them. I remember liking Allanon best and imagining that he would appear at my house one day and tell me that I was descended from a magical line of elves. I remember being inspired by the idea that a magical world could be our distant future, rather than a mythic past, and using colored beads as my elfstones.</p><p>I wish I had gotten my hands on Terry Brooks&#39; short story &ldquo;Imaginary Friends&rdquo; back then, too, because I would have adored it.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/terry-brooks-imaginary-friends-unfettered-shawn-speakman">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jocSH9DT9ko:K7OsAo7YqSM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/jocSH9DT9ko" height="1" width="1"/> Kelsey Ann Barrett Published Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/terry-brooks-imaginary-friends-unfettered-shawn-speakman http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/terry-brooks-imaginary-friends-unfettered-shawn-speakman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/iuT8dzlu9H8/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoilers <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Star Trek Into Darkness spoiler review" class="blog-pic-middle-align enlarge " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/star-trek-into-darkness-spoilers.jpg" style="height: 295px; width: 476px;" /></p><p>Before we start I want to say this about <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em>: I&rsquo;ve seen it in both 3D and 2D, and I urge you not to waste your money on a 3D ticket. Seriously, there is nothing in this movie that requires 3D, and it does bupkuss to enhance the experience.</p><p>Mind you, this movie is a visual feast, but 3D doesn&rsquo;t really add anything to the feast except for maybe that piece of parsley that is used as a garnish that you throw away and never eat.</p><p>Enough of the tortured food metaphor. I went into <em>STID</em> with very low expectations. <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/04/star-trek-first-contact-rewatch" target="_blank">As I&rsquo;ve said in the past</a>, <em>Star Trek</em> is not at its best in movie format, especially in our post-<em>Star Wars</em> world where science fiction movie must equal BIG-ASS &rsquo;SPLOSIONS! in order make its box office requirements. At its best, <em>Trek</em> is about the exploration of the human condition, something not remotely on display in either of J.J. Abrams&rsquo;s films. I figured we&rsquo;d get <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2009/05/star-trek-for-dummies" target="_blank">what we got four years ago</a>: a visual feast (as long as you don&rsquo;t mind lens flares), excellent acting, and a script that doesn&rsquo;t hold together upon scrutiny. My expectations were, sadly, met.</p><p>If you want a spoiler-free review, <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoiler-free" target="_blank">Tor.com&rsquo;s own Chris Lough wrote an excellent one here</a>. For this review <strong>THERE BE SPOILERS HERE!!!! LOTS OF &rsquo;EM!</strong></p><p>[I was only gone for one day!]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoilers">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=iuT8dzlu9H8:ucMRfJ4_1jc:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/iuT8dzlu9H8" height="1" width="1"/> Keith DeCandido Published Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoilers http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoilers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/sOiVTV97bSE/star-wars-rebels-debuting-2014 <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Star Wars Rebels animated show" class="blog-pic-middle-align caption" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/star-wars-rebels.jpg" title="We're in the what now?" /></p><p>After the conclusion of <em>The Clone Wars</em>, and the general&nbsp;restructuring of Lucasfilm under Disney, the future of Star Wars animation was in question. Until now! <a href="http://starwars.com/news/new-animated-series-star-wars-rebels-coming-fall-2014.html" target="_blank">Star Wars.com</a> has just revealed that a new series called <em>Rebels </em>will air beginning in 2014. Focusing on the years between Episode III and Episode IV,<em> Rebels</em> will (shockingly) deal with how the rebels got their groove on as the Empire was rising. Below is a video from Star Wars.com featuring some of the creators talking about the project.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-wars-rebels-debuting-2014">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=sOiVTV97bSE:N-ujy9_-Fy0:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/sOiVTV97bSE" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Mon, 20 May 2013 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-wars-rebels-debuting-2014 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-wars-rebels-debuting-2014 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/v_akWM3bby8/a-read-of-the-dark-tower-constant-reader-tackles-wolves-of-the-calla-part-3-chapter-6-qbefore-the-stormq <p><img alt="A Read of the Dark Tower on Tor.com: Constant Reader Tackles Wolves of the Calla, Part 3 Chapter 6 Before the Storm" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/12_11/dark-tower5.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 308px;" title="" /></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>&ldquo;First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.&rdquo;</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>&mdash;Roland Deschain, of Gilead</em></span></p></blockquote><p>Welcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series. Join me each week as I, Constant Reader, tackle the magnum opus of Stephen King&rsquo;s career for the first time. If you want to discuss in general terms or talk about these first sections, join me by commenting here.</p><p>We last left our story with the town meeting our ka-tet holds with the folken of Calla Bryn Sturgis, setting up Ben Slightman and slowly doing the prep-work for whatever Roland has planned. &nbsp;</p><p>[Read this week&rsquo;s post]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-read-of-the-dark-tower-constant-reader-tackles-wolves-of-the-calla-part-3-chapter-6-qbefore-the-stormq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=v_akWM3bby8:teWPqY4s1Qw:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/v_akWM3bby8" height="1" width="1"/> Suzanne Johnson Published Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-read-of-the-dark-tower-constant-reader-tackles-wolves-of-the-calla-part-3-chapter-6-qbefore-the-stormq http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-read-of-the-dark-tower-constant-reader-tackles-wolves-of-the-calla-part-3-chapter-6-qbefore-the-stormq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/GoaE5QtTg9I/game-of-thrones-season-3-ep-8-second-sons <p><img alt="Game of Thrones Season 3 Episode 8 Second Sons" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/daario_TV.png" style="height: 264px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>Why, hello, Daario.</p><p>&ldquo;Second Sons&rdquo; is fine for a title, but it doesn&rsquo;t leave much room for the women of <em>Game of Thrones</em>, many of whom also had a difficult time performing their duties this week. So much duty this week. And boobs. And leeches and lechers.</p><p>Gendry bled, Tyrion wed, Davos read, and... Samwell got to <em>not</em> be a big fat stupid for about five minutes.</p><p>Note: episode reviews are largely spoiler-free for the books, but spoilers are fair game in the comments. Be warned.</p><p>[Do not trust men who fight for gold. Unless they have killer cheekbones...]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/game-of-thrones-season-3-ep-8-second-sons">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GoaE5QtTg9I:pw2aYn3qXx8:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/GoaE5QtTg9I" height="1" width="1"/> Theresa DeLucci Published Mon, 20 May 2013 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/game-of-thrones-season-3-ep-8-second-sons http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/game-of-thrones-season-3-ep-8-second-sons http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/VDd2fXbIAKk/hbo-may-reveal-game-of-thrones-ending <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Game of Thrones ending seven seasons" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/game-of-thrones-finish-before-books.jpg" /></p><p>Even before <em>Game of Thrones</em> first season debut, fans of George R. R. Martin&rsquo;s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series have quietly wondered if the author could have the final two books out by the time the HBO television adaptation caught up with him. <a href="http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-13/game-of-thrones-producer-well-probably-get-through-to-seven-series" target="_blank">Recent statements from HBO producers at this past weekend&rsquo;s BAFTA Awards</a> reveal that there is now a defnite timeline they&rsquo;re expecting the story finished by, leaving us to wonder... will <em>Game of Thrones</em> reveal the ending of the series before it&rsquo;s actually ended?</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/hbo-may-reveal-game-of-thrones-ending">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VDd2fXbIAKk:oea6vU5uCVM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/VDd2fXbIAKk" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Lough Published Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/hbo-may-reveal-game-of-thrones-ending http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/hbo-may-reveal-game-of-thrones-ending http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/af6E7LBoW7o/the-black-company-reread-a-revised-schedule-and-primer <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Black Company by Glen Cook reread on Tor.com" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/series/blackcompany_seriestop.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 178px;" /></p><p>Thanks, all, for joining me on this trip to Khatovar. Those of you who have made this trip before know what&rsquo;s coming and are probably as excited as I am about travelling to familiar locales and meeting old friends (and enemies...) once again. Those of you who are making the trip for the first time... Well, keep your eyes open and you should be fine. Just be wary of the talking menhirs, they like to play tricks on unwitting travellers.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s the thing though. We&rsquo;re not going to set off just yet.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-black-company-reread-a-revised-schedule-and-primer">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=af6E7LBoW7o:PGnjNhALQQI:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/af6E7LBoW7o" height="1" width="1"/> Graeme Flory Published Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-black-company-reread-a-revised-schedule-and-primer http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-black-company-reread-a-revised-schedule-and-primer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/G5c6GjWFYHM/morning-roundup-babylon-5-is-our-last-best-hope-for-lego <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align caption enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Babylon 5 Lego.jpg" style="height: 228px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>It apparently took a gentleman named <a href="http://www.blastr.com/2013-5-16/guy-spent-over-half-year-building-babylon-5-out-legos" target="_blank">Vassal </a>about a year and half to make <em>Babylon 5</em> out of LEGO. Apparently he had to figure out some balance issues, but with a little bit of help from the Vorlons, it all worked out. No word on what happened to LEGO Babylons 1-4. (Though we imagine the first three were&nbsp;sabotaged and the fourth&nbsp;disappeared without a trace.) More<a href="http://www.blastr.com/2013-5-16/guy-spent-over-half-year-building-babylon-5-out-legos" target="_blank"> pics here.</a></p><p>Your collection daily offsite links can sometimes be a dangerous place, but they&rsquo;re the last, best hope, for killing boredome/wasting some time.&nbsp;</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-babylon-5-is-our-last-best-hope-for-lego">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G5c6GjWFYHM:4iUtrvThuWM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/G5c6GjWFYHM" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-babylon-5-is-our-last-best-hope-for-lego http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-babylon-5-is-our-last-best-hope-for-lego http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/t29i1cwEMbY/unfettered-shawn-speakman <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tor.com/grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank"><img alt="Unfettered Shawn Speakman fantasy anthology preorder" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/unfettered-color.jpg" /></a></p><p><a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank"><em>Unfettered</em></a> is coming, a masterful anthology of epic fantasy edited by author Shawn Speakman, featuring unfamiliar stories set in familiar worlds. A sneak peek of <em>Unfettered</em> will debut at this year&rsquo;s Phoenix Comicon, which runs through Memorial Day weekend, and all this week Tor.com will be discussing the stories included in that sampler: including new tales from the worlds of Terry Brooks, the Vault of Heaven, and what may possibly be the last glimpse we&rsquo;ll get from inside the world of Robert Jordan&rsquo;s Wheel of Time.</p><p><em>Unfettered</em> is more than just an anthology, however.</p><p>[More about <em>Unfettered</em>, its stories, and how to obtain it]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-shawn-speakman">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=t29i1cwEMbY:bgiRIJk4Suc:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/t29i1cwEMbY" height="1" width="1"/> Tor.com Published Sun, 19 May 2013 18:00:01 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-shawn-speakman http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-shawn-speakman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/EL_RxwbYjhs/unfettered-the-unfettered-knight-shawn-speakman <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Unfettered anthology Shawn Speakman epic fantasy" class="blog-pic-middle-align caption" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/unfettered.jpg" title="Art by Todd Lockwood" /></p><p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>A special five story preview of <a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank">Shawn Speakman&rsquo;s epic fantasy anthology </a></em><a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank">Unfettered</a><em> will be released at Phoenix Comicon this Memorial Day weekend. This week, <a href="http://www.tor.com/tags/Unfettered" target="_blank">we&rsquo;re taking a look at all five stories</a>, many featuring new glimpses of our favorite fantasy worlds.</em></span></span></p><p>When Tor.com asked me to write an appreciation of Shawn Speakman&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Unfettered Knight&rdquo;&mdash;Shawn&rsquo;s&nbsp;own story in&nbsp;<a href="http://grimoakpress.com/2012/08/unfettered-edited-by-shawn-speakman/" target="_blank">the anthology he&rsquo;s editing and publishing</a>&mdash;I said yes. Not for any of the obvious reasons. Not because this is one of the stories in the awesome, forthcoming fantasy anthology Unfettered. Not&nbsp;even because&nbsp;the book is Shawn&rsquo;s effort&nbsp;to pay medical bills resulting from his recent bout with cancer. No, none of that. I said yes because I liked the story.</p><p>[Read on]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-the-unfettered-knight-shawn-speakman">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EL_RxwbYjhs:Txe0eJWTRMo:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/EL_RxwbYjhs" height="1" width="1"/> Peter Orullian Published Sun, 19 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-the-unfettered-knight-shawn-speakman http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/unfettered-the-unfettered-knight-shawn-speakman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/GWS1z4lhESc/doctor-who-the-name-of-the-doctor <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Doctor Who The Name of the Doctor spoilers review" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/nameofthedoctor1.jpg" /></p><p>&ldquo;The Name of the Doctor&rdquo; is not a good episode of television, but it is a fascinating episode of <em>Doctor Who</em>.</p><p>The season seven finale re-frames the Eleventh Doctor&rsquo;s adventures from the last two seasons as a journey that has always been leading to this point, and although the plot is shakier than a game of bar Jenga &ldquo;The Name of the Doctor&rdquo; nevertheless pulls this off successfully. This is mostly due in part to show runner and episode writer Steven Moffat putting the Doctor and his companions in situations that challenge the truth of their characters, even when some of those characters are anything but.</p><p>[The name you choose is more important. Spoilers ahead!]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-the-name-of-the-doctor">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GWS1z4lhESc:WRYZSCWCXXc:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/GWS1z4lhESc" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Lough Published Sun, 19 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-the-name-of-the-doctor http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-the-name-of-the-doctor http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/35qwEolZfpk/nebula-winners-2012 <p><img alt="2012 Nebula Award Winners Announced" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_02/nebula-awards.jpg" title="2012 Nebula Award Finalists Announced" />The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (<a href="http://www.sfwa.org/" target="_blank">SFWA</a>) have announced the winners of the 2012 Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award, and the Andre Norton Award.</p><p>Tor.com was eye-wideningly honored to be represented so heavily in the Novelette department by Brit Mandelo for &ldquo;<a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/12/the-finite-canvas" target="_blank">The Finite Canvas</a>,&rdquo; Meghan McCarron for &ldquo;<a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/01/swift-brutal-retaliation" target="_blank">Swift, Brutal Retaliation</a>,&rdquo; and Rachel Swirsky for &ldquo;<a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/08/portrait-of-lisane-de-patagnia" target="_blank">Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia</a>.&rdquo; All three novelettes can be read for free in the above links. Tor Books was thrilled to have two nominees in the Novel division, Tina Connolly&rsquo;s <em><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ironskin-tina-connolly/1109152276?ean=9780765330598">Ironskin</a></em> and Mary Robinette Kowal&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/glamour-in-glass-mary-robinette-kowal/1104154876?ean=9780765325617"><em>Glamour in Glass</em></a>.</p><p>Congratulations to the winners and all the honorees!</p><p>[The 2012 Nebula Award Winners]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/nebula-winners-2012">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=35qwEolZfpk:zlDL5lfz66U:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/35qwEolZfpk" height="1" width="1"/> Tor.com Published Sun, 19 May 2013 03:55:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/nebula-winners-2012 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/nebula-winners-2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/MxJjcXgF-Qc/announcing-the-2013-spectrum-fantastic-art-awards <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Spectrum-arnie-cathy-fenner.jpg" /></p><p>The 20th <a href="http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com">Spectrum Fantastic Art</a> Awards were announced this evening at the awards ceremony at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/spectrumfantasticartlive/">Spectrum Live</a>, a weekend long celebration of fantastic art, in Kansas City. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!</p><p>[The winners are...]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-2013-spectrum-fantastic-art-awards">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MxJjcXgF-Qc:YQ17OntrCic:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/MxJjcXgF-Qc" height="1" width="1"/> Irene Gallo Published Sun, 19 May 2013 02:03:37 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-2013-spectrum-fantastic-art-awards http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-2013-spectrum-fantastic-art-awards http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/YTx_kmpLTyA/review-vintage-tomorrows-james-h-carrott-brian-david-johnson <p><img alt="Review Vintage Tomorrows James H carrott Brian David Johnson" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Vintage%20Tomorrows%20book%20cover.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 301px;" />Recently, everyone and their grandmother are trying to place steampunk in the grander scope of things. Most of pop culture has poked at it at this point. Many in the SF/F community gives the subculture a passing nod (or are slowly edging away, since, being early adapters by nature, quite a few in sci-fi are tired of it already).</p><p>Still, questions about steampunk have set people in pursuit of the deeper meanings behind the aesthetic movement. Two years ago, Intel&rsquo;s futurist Brian David Johnson wanted to answer the biggest one about steampunk&rsquo;s rise: &ldquo;Why now?&rdquo; He was joined by a cultural historian James Carrott and they filmed a documentary, and also wrote a book by the same name: <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026631.do" target="_blank">Vintage Tomorrows</a> (or two books, actually. <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/category/get/vintage-tomorrows.do?cmp=ex-make-ebooks-steampunking-our-future&amp;cmp=ex-make-ebooks-byrd-vt" target="_blank">Steampunking Our Future: An Embedded Historian&rsquo;s Notebook</a> is the free e-book companion you can get online).</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-vintage-tomorrows-james-h-carrott-brian-david-johnson">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=YTx_kmpLTyA:LrUASTuXJzo:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/YTx_kmpLTyA" height="1" width="1"/> Ay-leen the Peacemaker Published Fri, 17 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-vintage-tomorrows-james-h-carrott-brian-david-johnson http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-vintage-tomorrows-james-h-carrott-brian-david-johnson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/gbnyMu0IMH8/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-plankton <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Rise of the Planet of the Plankton Scientific American" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/plankton1.jpg" style="height: 292px; width: 475px;" title="" /></p><p>People tend to pay attention to big animals when they go to the zoo or museum. They go to see the gorillas, or the tigers, or the dinosaur bones. I get it; dinosaurs <em>are</em> awesome. The problem is that charismatic megafauna tell only a very narrow story about evolution and biology. Again, admittedly an awesome one&mdash;dinosaurs!&mdash;but there are plenty of other neat stories that smaller critters can tell. The lives of rodents, or the humble honey bee, of fungi who infect ants and drive them to literal lunacy. Focusing on all <em>those </em>oddball forms of life, big or small, can lead people to overlook the unsung heroes of the ecosystem. June&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.tor.com/tags/scientific%20american" target="_blank"><em>Scientific American</em></a> doesn&rsquo;t fall into that trap, with its article on the &ldquo;Tiny Plants That Once Ruled the Seas&rdquo; being a bit of a love letter to...plankton. In particular, that the rise of modern sea life, in the wake of the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, can be traced to phytoplankton, which literally fueled the bloom of diversity in the Mesozoic (that&rsquo;s dinosaur times!) and Cenozoic (that&rsquo;s now). In doing so, the authors Ronald Martin and Antoinetta Quigg also tie the rise of phytoplankton into the threat of climate change.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-plankton">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gbnyMu0IMH8:TF6-PU5jZL8:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/gbnyMu0IMH8" height="1" width="1"/> Mordicai Knode Published Fri, 17 May 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-plankton http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-plankton http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/wxsGnXXUTp0/spectrum-fantastic-art-changes-publishers <p><img alt="Spectrum, Cathie and Arnie Fenner" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Spectrum_Art.jpg" style="height: 321px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>For the past twenty years, the <em>Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual</em> has been the gold-standard of fantasy and science fiction art. Cathie and Arnie Fenner created <em>Spectrum</em> as means to celebrate genre art in an era when it was largely overlooked by the mainstream illustration industry. Since then it has grown to become the most widely distributed and anticipated annual publication of contemporary illustration on the shelves.</p><p>Today, at the second annual Spectrum Live convention, the Fenners announced that it was time hand the reins over to another publisher.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/spectrum-fantastic-art-changes-publishers">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wxsGnXXUTp0:UM1BPh34EP4:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/wxsGnXXUTp0" height="1" width="1"/> Irene Gallo Published Fri, 17 May 2013 19:45:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/spectrum-fantastic-art-changes-publishers http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/spectrum-fantastic-art-changes-publishers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/aYgx5SY9GrA/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-dax <p><strong><img alt="Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Dax rewatch terry farrell trill" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Supersadtruelovedax.jpg" />&ldquo;Dax&rdquo;</strong><br />Written by Peter Allan Fields and D.C. Fontana<br />Directed by David Carson<br /><strong>Season 1, Episode 7</strong><br />Production episode 40511-408<br />Original air date: February 14, 1993<br />Stardate: 46910.1</p><p><strong>Station log:</strong> Dax and Bashir are having dinner. Bashir is flirting aggressively, and Dax is studiously ignoring his advances. Dax excuses herself; Bashir offers to walk her to her quarters, which she says isn&rsquo;t necessary. After she goes off, Bashir grins and rationalizes that not necessary means not forbidden, either, thus cementing his skills as a stalker.</p><p>He turns a corner to see Dax struggling with two thugs in hoods. Rather than call security, Bashir instead wades in, clubbing the thugs&rsquo; boss in the jaw and then getting his ass kicked by those same thugs. Dax does try to struggle free, and also tries to call for help, but it&rsquo;s for naught. By the time Bashir comes to and it finally occurs to him to use the combadge that&rsquo;s right there on his chest, Dax and the kidnappers are gone.</p><p>[Which not only compromises Bajoran security, but also... annoys us.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-dax">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=aYgx5SY9GrA:Md1ItRJ2AU8:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/aYgx5SY9GrA" height="1" width="1"/> Keith DeCandido Published Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-dax http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-dax http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/wMxcYDBAhpw/talking-with-tom-a-conversation-between-tom-doherty-and-gregory-benford <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Talking With Tom Doherty Greg Benford" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Benford-Greg.jpg" /></p><p>Who better to interview a living legend than another living legend? &ldquo;Talking with Tom&rdquo; is the <a href="http://www.tor.com/tags/talking%20with%20tom" target="_blank">third installment of a Tor.com series</a> in which Tor publisher Tom Doherty chats with one of the many authors and industry icons whose careers he influenced. Previous installments covered conversations with <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/12/talking-with-tom-a-conversation-between-tom-doherty-and-le-modesitt-jr" target="_blank">L.E. Modesitt Jr.</a>and <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/03/talking-with-tom-a-conversation-between-tom-doherty-and-harriet-mcdougal" target="_blank">Harriet McDougal</a>.</p><p>Please enjoy this fascinating and wide-ranging conversation between Tom Doherty and award-winning science fiction author Gregory Benford.</p><p>[The sound of time&rsquo;s sure falling]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/talking-with-tom-a-conversation-between-tom-doherty-and-gregory-benford">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wMxcYDBAhpw:mtAmaet317A:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/wMxcYDBAhpw" height="1" width="1"/> Stefan Raets Published Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/talking-with-tom-a-conversation-between-tom-doherty-and-gregory-benford http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/talking-with-tom-a-conversation-between-tom-doherty-and-gregory-benford http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/-dKrK5pcZzQ/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-29 <p><img alt="A Read of Ice and Fire Storm of Swords Part 29" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/ASOIAF_Images/ASOS-reread-cover.jpg" style="height: 306px; width: 200px;" />Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin&rsquo;s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.</p><p>Today&rsquo;s entry is Part 29 of <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/a-storm-of-swords-george-r-r-martin/2a678707-2007-452b-8dfe-2309cce06b10" target="_blank"><em>A Storm of Swords</em></a>, in which we cover Chapter 49 (&ldquo;Catelyn&rdquo;) and Chapter 50 (&ldquo;Arya&rdquo;).</p><p>Previous entries are located in the <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/a-read-of-ice-and-fire" target="_blank">Index</a>. The only spoilers in the post itself will be for the actual chapters covered and for the chapters previous to them. As for the comments, <strong>please note</strong> that <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/03/spoiler-thread-for-a-read-of-ice-and-fire-part-2" target="_blank">the Powers That Be have provided you a lovely spoiler thread</a> here on Tor.com. Any spoileriffic discussion should go there, where I won&rsquo;t see it. Non-spoiler comments go below, in the comments to the post itself.</p><p>And now, the post!</p><p>[Oh, what, &ldquo;tenterhookian&rdquo; is totally a word]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-29">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=-dKrK5pcZzQ:XhPQ4p_f3Iw:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/-dKrK5pcZzQ" height="1" width="1"/> Leigh Butler Published Fri, 17 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-29 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-storm-of-swords-part-29 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/MGEpbAdioiU/malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-toll-the-hounds-chapter-nine <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/toll-the-hounds-malazan-book-8-steven-erikson/5f578bb6-c201-4303-9438-1aa35b4207ed" target="_blank"><img alt="Malazan Re-read of the Fallen Toll The Hounds Steven Erikson" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/Toll-the-Hounds.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 307px;" /></a>Welcome to the <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/malazan-reread-of-the-fallen" target="_blank">Malazan Re-read of the Fallen</a>! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series, going first), and finally comments from Tor.com readers. In this article, we&rsquo;ll cover Chapter Nine of<em> <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/toll-the-hounds-malazan-book-8-steven-erikson/5f578bb6-c201-4303-9438-1aa35b4207ed" target="_blank">Toll the Hounds</a> (TtH)</em>.</p><p>A fair warning before we get started: We&rsquo;ll be discussing both novel and whole-series themes, narrative arcs that run across the entire series, and foreshadowing. <strong>Note:</strong> The summary of events will be free of major spoilers and we&rsquo;re going to try keeping the reader comments the same. <a href="http://blogs/2012/09/spoiler-thread-for-the-malazan-reread-of-the-fallen" target="_blank">A spoiler thread has been set up for outright Malazan spoiler discussion</a>.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-toll-the-hounds-chapter-nine">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=MGEpbAdioiU:9K3xeEECZos:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/MGEpbAdioiU" height="1" width="1"/> Amanda Rutter Published Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-toll-the-hounds-chapter-nine http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-toll-the-hounds-chapter-nine http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/jbojgCK2s68/the-folding-knife-chapter-nine-part-two <p><img alt="The Folding Knife Reread Chapter Nine Part Two" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/folding-knife-250.jpeg" style="height: 316px; width: 200px;" title="The Folding Knife" /></p><p>I don&rsquo;t know about you, but I&rsquo;m exhausted after last week&rsquo;s half-chapter. Breaking into the mint, breaking out of the mint, carrying 160,000 kilogrammes of gold back and forth&hellip; makes me nostalgic for quieter days of plague and assassination.</p><p>This week&mdash;and this half-chapter&mdash;the Vesani get their revenge. For our intrepid bank robbers have made a terrible mistake. There are only three real blunders, you see. Never get involved involved in a land war in Asia. Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line. And never, <em>ever</em> mess with Basso&rsquo;s money.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-folding-knife-chapter-nine-part-two">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jbojgCK2s68:dAnAWJfUpr4:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/jbojgCK2s68" height="1" width="1"/> Jared Shurin Published Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-folding-knife-chapter-nine-part-two http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-folding-knife-chapter-nine-part-two http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/qALv8QWLSao/supernaturals-dean-winchester-dismantled-his-own-machismo-and-thats-why-we-love-him <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Supernatural, Dean Winchester" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/spn-dean1.jpg" /></p><p>Whenever a television show makes it beyond four of five seasons, viewers have cause to be impressed, but commonly worried as well; often a series has played out their greatest themes by then, most of the arcs have come full circle, and whatever the narrative was trying to say has been shouted at you, or possibly sung as a libretto. It&rsquo;s done its thing, and now wants the three act play to become six or possibly twelve acts.</p><p><em>Supernatural</em> is on its way to a ninth season. And besides finding new, improbable ways to keep their universe fresh and untested, the show also seems to have realized the key to infusing the story with new life&mdash;by allowing its main characters, who started the show at ages 22 and 26, to grow up. And what that has meant for the eldest Winchester brother, Dean, is a glorious transformation from posturing, macho alpha dog to&hellip; well, something that is no longer capable of being pared down into a caricature. It&rsquo;s been an awesome ride.</p><p>[&ldquo;I&rsquo;m nesting. Eat your burger.&rdquo;]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/supernaturals-dean-winchester-dismantled-his-own-machismo-and-thats-why-we-love-him">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qALv8QWLSao:9peOaOBY_gA:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/qALv8QWLSao" height="1" width="1"/> Emily Asher-Perrin Published Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/supernaturals-dean-winchester-dismantled-his-own-machismo-and-thats-why-we-love-him http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/supernaturals-dean-winchester-dismantled-his-own-machismo-and-thats-why-we-love-him http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/KvWewypO9R0/welcome-to-scarfolk-hope-you-survive <p><img alt="Welcome to Scarfolk Hope You Survive" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/ScarfolkStegosaurus.jpg" style="height: 349px; width: 250px;" />There is some corner of England that will forever be a foreign field&mdash;creepily familiar but horrifyingly <em>other</em>. Welcome to <a href="http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Scarfolk</a>; you might even survive the experience.</p><p>Scarfolk is the latest stop on a psychogeographical tour of the United Kingdom that probably starts on the Summerisle of the original <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheWickerMan?from=Main.TheWickerMan" target="_blank">Wicker Man </a>movie and chugs off&mdash;watched by silent villagers in animal masks&mdash;towards the Royston Vasey of the <a href="http://www.leagueofgentlemen.co.uk/" target="_blank">League Of Gentlemen </a>TV series.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/welcome-to-scarfolk-hope-you-survive">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KvWewypO9R0:5TyNo_Y5TzU:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/KvWewypO9R0" height="1" width="1"/> David Barnett Published Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/welcome-to-scarfolk-hope-you-survive http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/welcome-to-scarfolk-hope-you-survive http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/8CbnVot5WGE/morning-roundup-learning-your-lines-aint-like-dusting-crops-boy <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Harrison%20Ford%20is%20learning%20his%20lines.jpg" /></p><p>Is Mark Hamill actually sleeping in this picture? Does Star Wars bore you sir? Do you have a problem with Star Wars? Fine, we&rsquo;re going to cast someone else as Luke Skywalker! Good day, sir!</p><p>Your collection of daily offsite links imagines a universe where Luke wakes up and was dreaming of all of us. Highlights include: The Wrath of Gonzo, Brad Bird dishes and more!</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-learning-your-lines-aint-like-dusting-crops-boy">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=8CbnVot5WGE:V-GB3UqAVik:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/8CbnVot5WGE" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-learning-your-lines-aint-like-dusting-crops-boy http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-learning-your-lines-aint-like-dusting-crops-boy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/gv0L5YK8QPI/the-god-machine-hints-at-the-world-of-darkness-future <p><a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/113340/World-of-Darkness%3A-The-God-Machine-Chronicle?src=s_pi" target="_blank"><img alt="The God-Machine World of Darkness review" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/gmc.jpg" style="height: 255px; width: 200px;" /></a></p><p>Beneath the skin of the world you know, a terrible machine grinds and gnashes its gears. Its cogs range in size from the flap of a butterfly&rsquo;s wings to the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. The God-Machine&rsquo;s tools are timeclocks and angels, crushing banality and outrageous supernatural intervention; these contradictions are unified in the alien-clockwork of its inevitability. Azathoth is not a screaming, pulsating tumor of chaos at the center of reality; it is rust and cold and wire, soldered together. The factory assembly line for the banality of evil. Darkseid&rsquo;s Anti-Life Equation, made from iron and clockwork and tesla coils. This is the premise behind <a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/113340/World-of-Darkness%3A-The-God-Machine-Chronicle?src=s_pi" target="_blank">The God-Machine Chronicle</a>, the newest major World of Darkness offering (and its attendent <a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/108003/God-Machine-Chronicle-Anthology?term=+The+God+Machine+Chronicle+Fiction+Anthology" target="_blank">short fiction anthology</a>). Based on the piece of flavor text that began the core <em>World of Darkness</em> book, The God Machine Chronicle also introduces a number of major rules updates.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-god-machine-hints-at-the-world-of-darkness-future">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=gv0L5YK8QPI:caWlWtfpSCo:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/gv0L5YK8QPI" height="1" width="1"/> Mordicai Knode Published Thu, 16 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-god-machine-hints-at-the-world-of-darkness-future http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-god-machine-hints-at-the-world-of-darkness-future http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/4fBTCHqhoEE/decoherent-histories-ghost-spin-by-chris-moriarty <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/ghost-spin-chris-moriarty/0f6d97e7-9ff7-495b-8860-99edb52d1583" target="_blank"><img alt="Queering SFF Ghost Spin Chris Moriarty" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/GhostSpin.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 300px;" /></a>The third and final installment of Chris Moriarty&rsquo;s Spin Trilogy, <em>Ghost Spin</em>, releases at the end of May&mdash;nearly seven years after the initial release of <em>Spin Control</em>, itself the brilliant follow-up to her debut novel, <em>Spin State</em>. In much the same way that the second book differed significantly from the first in tone, focus, and structure, <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/ghost-spin-chris-moriarty/0f6d97e7-9ff7-495b-8860-99edb52d1583" target="_blank"><em>Ghost Spin</em></a> is an ambitious attempt to once again provide a fresh angle on this universe and its problems&mdash;this time with space pirates, fractured AIs, and a desperate two-pronged search for answers to questions that are at first personal, but are ultimately the force that will shift the direction of the future.</p><p>The story revolves primarily around Catherine Li and Cohen, with the addition of other narrators, including ex-Navy captain, now-pirate William Llewellyn. In the opening chapter, Cohen is trapped on a backwater planet recently taken over by the UN&mdash;and, as a security team closes in on him, he commits suicide. His component parts are auctioned off almost instantly, as is the usual procedure for decoherent AIs; however, he&rsquo;s left a trail of clues for Li, and the only hope for what he was trying to do, to save, is that she&rsquo;ll find and pursue them. Li herself, without Cohen&rsquo;s protection, is also in plenty of danger&mdash;from Nguyen, from the Syndicates demanding her extradition, and elsewhere. The question of what Cohen was up to, as well as how she can finish the job and put him back together, drives Li to make a series of dangerous and significant decisions that might alter the course of humanity&rsquo;s future.</p><p>[A review.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/decoherent-histories-ghost-spin-by-chris-moriarty">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4fBTCHqhoEE:RHC64vVP9DU:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/4fBTCHqhoEE" height="1" width="1"/> Brit Mandelo Published Thu, 16 May 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/decoherent-histories-ghost-spin-by-chris-moriarty http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/decoherent-histories-ghost-spin-by-chris-moriarty http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/RwUhgyQDT14/reopening-the-x-files-qessenceqqexistenceq <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Reopening The X-Files Essence Existence" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/EE99bright.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 271px;" /></p><p><strong>Season 8, Episodes 20 and 21: &ldquo;Essence&rdquo;/&ldquo;Existence&rdquo;</strong><br />Original Airdates: May 13 and May 20, 2001</p><p>If it seems like we keep ending eras, we do. We do keep ending eras. We&rsquo;ve said goodbye to the Consortium, and we&rsquo;ve said goodbye to regular appearances from Agent Mulder, and, well, you know. It&rsquo;s been a lot of change, a lot of goodbyes, and honestly I think we&rsquo;ve handled it pretty well! But you guys, I hate to break it to you, we&rsquo;ve got to do it again. We&rsquo;ve got to say goodbye to the show as we know it, to the show that&rsquo;s about Mulder and Scully solving cases together. This is it. This is the end of that. Are you ready? Better yet: is the show ready?</p><p>[I just felt a contraction.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/reopening-the-x-files-qessenceqqexistenceq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=RwUhgyQDT14:qG-zK_BTsuM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/RwUhgyQDT14" height="1" width="1"/> Meghan Deans Published Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/reopening-the-x-files-qessenceqqexistenceq http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/reopening-the-x-files-qessenceqqexistenceq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/auOYI5quxC0/robot-monsters-new-pacific-rim-trailer-has-us-oversugared <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Pacific Rim trailer" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/pacific-rim-trailer.jpg" style="height: 290px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>So the story is that there&rsquo;s an interdimensional portal under the sea and something&mdash;maybe us?&mdash;accidentally opened it and WE&rsquo;RE SORRY. WE DIDN&rsquo;T KNOW. And now monsters. To which the only logical solution is to build robots to punch them. We like this plan! We&rsquo;re excited to be a part of it!</p><p>Watch the new trailer for Guillermo Del Toro&rsquo;s thought-vacation<em> Pacific Rim</em>. Because it is <em>awesome</em>. See that guy in the picture up there? We have no idea who he is. And we don&rsquo;t care. Do you care? The monster is staring at him. That is what we care about.</p><p>[New trailer for <em>Pacific Rim</em>]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/robot-monsters-new-pacific-rim-trailer-has-us-oversugared">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=auOYI5quxC0:WDgtaZKs7jY:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/auOYI5quxC0" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Thu, 16 May 2013 18:07:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/robot-monsters-new-pacific-rim-trailer-has-us-oversugared http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/robot-monsters-new-pacific-rim-trailer-has-us-oversugared http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/Q2EHEPKOfZk/gaming-roundup-what-are-the-best-feuds-in-gaming <p style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img class="blog-pic-left-align "alt="Gaming Roundup Best Feuds in Gaming Mario Bowser" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Mario-vs-Bowser.jpg" /></p><p>A few weeks ago, IGN took a stab at highlighting a few of the <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/16/the-best-video-game-vendettas" target="_blank">best vendettas in video game history</a>. While a few inescapable classics will make almost any list largely based on tradition and recurrence (see: Nintendo and Sega&rsquo;s brand-defining characters), we decided to highlight a few of our own favorites this week and volunteer them into the discussion.</p><p>[Warning: potential decades-old spoilers ahead.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/gaming-roundup-what-are-the-best-feuds-in-gaming">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Q2EHEPKOfZk:SKGlOjcPe_M:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/Q2EHEPKOfZk" height="1" width="1"/> Pritpaul Bains Published Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/gaming-roundup-what-are-the-best-feuds-in-gaming http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/gaming-roundup-what-are-the-best-feuds-in-gaming http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/4a0HZ6RNe1c/the-sookie-stackhouse-reread-book-13 <p><img alt="The Sookie Stackhouse Reread Book 13 Dead Ever After Charlaine Harris" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Dead%20Ever%20After.jpg" />Well everyone, we&rsquo;ve completed our 12 book re-read of Charlaine Harris&rsquo; Sookie Stackhouse books. Thanks for sticking with me! But we can&rsquo;t end this journey without discussing the long-awaited conclusion, book thirteen&mdash;<a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/dead-ever-after-charlaine-harris/01083e33-e0bd-4328-afbe-b751140aaafe" target="_blank"><em>Dead Ever After</em></a>. Unfortunately, there were a number of spoilers released before the publication date, which I studiously avoided. After committing to thirteen books in this series, there was no way I would spoil the ending! But now that the book is out, permit me to spoil it now? I&rsquo;ll give a short recap and then let&rsquo;s discuss this potential HEA.</p><p>[Beware, Spoilers after the jump!]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-sookie-stackhouse-reread-book-13">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=4a0HZ6RNe1c:yPDwjCz-j7M:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/4a0HZ6RNe1c" height="1" width="1"/> Whitney Ross Published Thu, 16 May 2013 17:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-sookie-stackhouse-reread-book-13 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-sookie-stackhouse-reread-book-13 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/G1re7rMiZPU/doctor-who-best-eleventh-doctor-episodes <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Best Doctor Who episodes Eleventh Doctor" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/best-eleventh-doctor-episodes.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 267px;" /></p><p>The most recent season of <em>Doctor Who</em> has been one hell of a rollercoaster, dramatic within and without. First it was split in two, <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/09/doctor-who-qasylum-of-the-daleksq" target="_blank">then Clara showed up early</a>, then Amy and Rory left, then news about the 50th anniversary started overshadowing the season, then the show&rsquo;s producer abruptly quit, <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/04/matt-smith-david-tennant-doctor-who-50th-anniversary" target="_blank">then the Tenth Doctor came back</a>, then the Ninth Doctor didn&rsquo;t, then the final episode leaked early....</p><p>The quality of the episodes themselves has been markedly variable, <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/doctor-who-series-7" target="_blank">as reflected in our own reviews</a>, and it&rsquo;s getting harder and harder not to feel <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/04/breaking-up-with-doctor-who" target="_blank">so down about the show</a>. But <em>Doctor Who</em> is still the best damn sci-fi show on television, so before the season closes we thought we&rsquo;d get back in the spirit and comment on our favorite Eleventh Doctor episodes from the Moffat era.</p><p>[Come along, honorary Ponds]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-best-eleventh-doctor-episodes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=G1re7rMiZPU:tpkdbRWW1hw:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/G1re7rMiZPU" height="1" width="1"/> Emily Asher-Perrin Published Thu, 16 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-best-eleventh-doctor-episodes http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-best-eleventh-doctor-episodes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/rysrej1W6F4/the-way-of-kings-reread-chapter-11 <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/the-way-of-kings-brandon-sanderson/842a1bbd-3372-4201-865c-82a2a8f21e87" target="_blank"><img alt="The Way of Kings Reread Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Archive" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_03/the-way-of-kings.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 304px;" /></a>Welcome back to the <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/the-way-of-kings-reread-on-torcom" target="_blank"><em>Way of Kings</em> reread</a>! We&rsquo;ve reached Chapter 11, and with it the end of Part One. As such, I&rsquo;ll only be covering one chapter this week, but will also offer my impressions on the entirety of Part One. I&rsquo;ll discuss the characters introduced, how they developed, how the Part functions as a whole, and more.</p><p>In addition to that, I have stories from Brandon Sanderson&rsquo;s visit to Tor headquarters, a special (and incredibly limited) giveaway of <em>The Rithmatist</em>, and more, all below the cut.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-way-of-kings-reread-chapter-11">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=rysrej1W6F4:nBlEIhJLxNg:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/rysrej1W6F4" height="1" width="1"/> Carl Engle-Laird Published Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-way-of-kings-reread-chapter-11 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-way-of-kings-reread-chapter-11 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/LhtJ7jn7yhQ/star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire-comics <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Star Wars Shadows of the Empire" class="blog-pic-middle-align enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/shadows-of-the-empire.jpg" style="height: 275px; width: 476px;" /></p><p>I have a special emotional attachment to the comic book mini-series <em>Shadows of the Empire</em>. Issue #4 sports a beautifully painted Hugh Fleming cover featuring Leia and Chewie in their bounty hunter disguises but it ALSO contains, in the editorial section, a letter from a young fan complaining about stuff that happened in issue #1. This young fan felt like Rogue Squadron&rsquo;s dialogue was &ldquo;forced and unrealistic,&rdquo; and his name was Ryan Britt. (The Dark Horse people were nice enough to publish my letter, and I&rsquo;ve forever believed the <em>improved</em> dialogue in the <em>X-Wing: Rogue Squadron</em> series <em>must</em> have been a direct result of my complaining.)</p><p>But listen. The comic version of <em>Shadows of the Empire</em> was a town of space-crazy, populated by characters with insane names. What? You don&rsquo;t remember Big Gizz? Let&rsquo;s remember together.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire-comics">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=LhtJ7jn7yhQ:5hii1DhIYF4:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/LhtJ7jn7yhQ" height="1" width="1"/> Ryan Britt Published Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire-comics http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire-comics http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/QXVwzXPJ8vc/jeff-noon-and-his-cover-art-a-designers-perspective <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Jeff Noon Cover Art" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/jeffnooncovers1.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 285px;" /></p><p>Tor UK&rsquo;s 20th anniversary edition of Jeff Noon&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/jeffnoon/vurt" target="_blank"><em>Vurt</em></a> was published last month. And, as Jeff won the <a href="http://www.clarkeaward.com/" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke Award</a> for <em>Vurt</em> in 1994, last week&rsquo;s <a href="http://torbooks.co.uk/2013/05/03/arthur-c-clarke-awards-2013/" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke Award ceremony </a>was a great time to <a href="http://torbooks.co.uk/2013/04/30/the-arthur-c-clarke-award-past-winners-on-their-awards-nights/" target="_blank">look back</a>. But as they say you judge a book by its cover, we wanted to take a look at the huge amount of work that went into this new cover look for <a href="http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/jeffnoon/vurt" target="_blank"><em>Vurt, </em></a><a href="http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/jeffnoon/pollen" target="_blank"><em>Pollen</em> </a>and <a href="http://www.metamorphiction.com/" target="_blank">Jeff Noon&rsquo;s</a> entire backlist. <a href="http://www.mobiusengine.co.uk/" target="_blank">Curtis McFee</a> is one of Jeff&rsquo;s oldest fans and supporters, and has championed his work for years&mdash;immersing himself in Jeff&rsquo;s books, designing his website and even creating a<em> Vurt</em>-based role-playing game.</p><p>Curtis McFee also put together a really fabulous <a href="http://torbooks.co.uk/2013/04/18/vurt-by-jeff-noon-the-trailer/" target="_blank">new <em>Vurt</em> trailer</a> for us. But here, we want to take a look at the new covers&mdash;look at the inspiration behind them, the creative process and various early drafts, plus what messages Curtis was trying to convey. We also wanted to find out how this creative duo met and forged the links that would lead us to this body of work today.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/jeff-noon-and-his-cover-art-a-designers-perspective">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=QXVwzXPJ8vc:ZDOaI9R_EMY:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/QXVwzXPJ8vc" height="1" width="1"/> Bella Pagan Published Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/jeff-noon-and-his-cover-art-a-designers-perspective http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/jeff-noon-and-his-cover-art-a-designers-perspective http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/qmg8ei6bo-8/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoiler-free <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Star Trek Into Darkness movie review spoiler-free" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/star-trek-into-darkness.jpg" /></p><p>Regardless of whether you&rsquo;re a casual summer blockbuster moviegoer or a long-time Star Trek fan, you&rsquo;ll find that <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em> pitches straight down the middle. You can jump into it not knowing anything about Trek and still fully enjoy the characters, environments, and story, although there are elements within that story that will resonate deeply with <em>Trek</em> fans.</p><p>But just because the gang&rsquo;s all here doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean that it&rsquo;s Star Trek.</p><p>[A spoiler-free review of <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em>]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoiler-free">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=qmg8ei6bo-8:wMBe0QItLjg:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/qmg8ei6bo-8" height="1" width="1"/> Chris Lough Published Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoiler-free http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review-spoiler-free http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/zVCsHocXWJU/morning-roundup-the-odds-of-napping-are-forever-in-catnisss-favor <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align caption enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Catniss%20park%20art.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 350px; " title="Catniss" />Artist Jenny Parks has done us all a solid and re-cast many super-popular characters as cats. Thank you, Jenny! We think our favorite was this <strike>Katniss</strike> Catniss painting. Also, would a cat version of Katniss hate her family&rsquo;s pet kat? Also, &ldquo;the Cat on Fire,&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t sound good at all.</p><p>(We saw this on <a href="http://www.themarysue.com/jenny-parks-avengers-cats/#6" target="_blank"><em>The Mary Sue</em></a>, <a href="http://www.jennyparks.com/" target="_blank">Jenny Park art here</a>.)&nbsp;</p><p>Your daily collection of offsite links features a giant J. Michael Straczynski, fake Robert Downey Jrs., and Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-the-odds-of-napping-are-forever-in-catnisss-favor">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zVCsHocXWJU:_uSdZ4vfZqQ:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/zVCsHocXWJU" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-the-odds-of-napping-are-forever-in-catnisss-favor http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-the-odds-of-napping-are-forever-in-catnisss-favor http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/jTZg0LeOWY8/scientific-americans-qarmor-against-prejudiceq-on-the-true-damage-a-stereotype-can-do <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Scientific American Armor against Prejudice" class="blog-pic-middle-align caption" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/sci-am-armor.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 314px;" title="Graphic by Jen Christiansen" /></p><p>A common defense made by anyone who is called out for advancing a stereotype is, &ldquo;Stereotypes exist for a reason,&rdquo; the implied message being that they are most often true. But what if by simply saying that, you were putting someone at a disadvantage? What if insisting on the accuracy of a stereotype was one of the very factors that perpetuated it?<em> Scientific American</em>&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/index.html" target="_blank">June issue</a> has some intriguing information in the article &ldquo;Armor against Prejudice&rdquo; by Ed Yong, on the perils of &ldquo;stereotype threat&rdquo; and the fascinating ways we can combat it to give future generations a better chance of success.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/scientific-americans-qarmor-against-prejudiceq-on-the-true-damage-a-stereotype-can-do">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=jTZg0LeOWY8:nmmwGYQZ12Q:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/jTZg0LeOWY8" height="1" width="1"/> Emily Asher-Perrin Published Wed, 15 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/scientific-americans-qarmor-against-prejudiceq-on-the-true-damage-a-stereotype-can-do http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/scientific-americans-qarmor-against-prejudiceq-on-the-true-damage-a-stereotype-can-do http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/bmMip1k64PY/a-conservation-of-shadows-sweepstakes <p><img alt="A Conservation of Shadows cover, Yoon Ha Lee" class="blog-pic-right-align enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/conservation-shadows.jpg" style="height: 232px; width: 150px;" />We&#39;ve got ten lovely copies of Yoon Ha Lee&#39;s <em><a href="http://www.prime-books.com/shop/print-books/conservation-of-shadows-by-yoon-ha-lee/" target="_blank">Conservation of Shadows</a></em>, out now from Prime Books. This debut collection of incredible short stories is sure to please any reader, so don&#39;t miss out&mdash;comment in the post to enter!</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px;">NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A purchase does not improve your chances of winning. Sweepstakes open to legal residents of fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia, who are 18 or older. To enter, comment on this post beginning at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on May 15, 2013. Sweepstakes ends at 12:00 p.m. ET May 20, 2013. Void outside of the 50 US, and DC where prohibited by law. Please see full details and official rules&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-conservation-of-shadows-sweepstakes-rules" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;Sponsor: Tor.com, 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-conservation-of-shadows-sweepstakes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=bmMip1k64PY:Ds1ZbIGYIG0:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/bmMip1k64PY" height="1" width="1"/> Sweepstakes Published Wed, 15 May 2013 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-conservation-of-shadows-sweepstakes http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/a-conservation-of-shadows-sweepstakes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/ydBCzTENEvk/review-the-shining-girls-lauren-beukes <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/the-shining-girls-lauren-beukes/58e27e57-de45-4aed-be94-65bec52e9756" target="_blank"><img alt="Review Lauren Beukes The Shining Girls" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/the-shining-girls.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 302px;" /></a>This is a novel about a time-travelling serial killer from the 1930s, his victims, the girl who survived him, and a burned-out murder-beat journalist. It&rsquo;s competently, even <em>excellently</em>, written, makes brilliant use of a non-linear narrative to create and build tension, wears its American Literature influences proudly on its sleeve&mdash;</p><p>And for me, despite its technical competence, <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/the-shining-girls-lauren-beukes/58e27e57-de45-4aed-be94-65bec52e9756" target="_blank"><em>The Shining Girls </em></a>is ultimately a frustrating mess of a novel, one whose climax falls apart under the weight of nested paradoxes.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-shining-girls-lauren-beukes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ydBCzTENEvk:q6O7N_5NMHc:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/ydBCzTENEvk" height="1" width="1"/> Liz Bourke Published Wed, 15 May 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-shining-girls-lauren-beukes http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-the-shining-girls-lauren-beukes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/q6guZ3fjdp0/riddick-first-trailer <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/katee_sackhoff.jpg" style="height: 200px; width: 478px; " /></p><p>Universal Pictures has just debuted the first trailer for <em>Riddick</em>, the upcoming epic action-adventure starring Vin Diesel, and it looks like everyone&rsquo;s favorite criminal is getting back to his alien-slaying roots.</p><p>[Watch the first trailer for Riddick]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/riddick-first-trailer">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=q6guZ3fjdp0:FMt9Y3PefLI:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/q6guZ3fjdp0" height="1" width="1"/> Theresa DeLucci Published Wed, 15 May 2013 19:45:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/riddick-first-trailer http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/riddick-first-trailer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/GInd0pWGQmc/farscape-rewatch-meltdown <p><img alt="Farscape, Meltdown, Crichton, Aeryn" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/fs-meltdown11.jpg" style="height: 192px; width: 250px;" /><strong><font color="#363636"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="2">Meltdown</font></font></font></strong><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Written by Matt Ford, directed by Ian Barry</span><br /><strong><font color="#363636"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="2">Season 3, Episode 12</font></font></font></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>1</b>^<b>st</b><b> US Transmission Date: </b>14 July 2001<br /><b>1</b>^<b>st</b><b> UK Transmission Date: </b>19 November 2001</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Guest Cast: </b>Sierjna (Susan Lyons), Mu-Quillus (Mark Mitchell), Xhalax (Linda Cropper)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>This episode features the crew of Talyn.</i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Synopsis:</b> The crew believes another Retrieval Squad will be dispatched; nonetheless they are trying, and failing, to contact Moya. Talyn is lured into a sun by radiation pulses generated by a being called Mu-Quillus. Talyn manages to resist, but only just, and the heat causes him to ooze Drexim mist that affects the crew&rsquo;s judgement. A woman called Sierjna manifests to Stark and he realises she is caught between life and death, held in limbo by Mu-Quillus. He bonds himself to Talyn in a vestigial Pilot&rsquo;s Den in order to save the ship. John and Aeryn locate Mu-Quillus&rsquo; power source and destroy it with Talyn&rsquo;s cannon, killing Mu-Quillus and releasing Sierjna so that Stark can help her cross over to death.</p><p>[&ldquo;I love it when you take control!&rdquo;]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/farscape-rewatch-meltdown">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GInd0pWGQmc:rvRO9mxMOAU:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/GInd0pWGQmc" height="1" width="1"/> Scott K. Andrews Published Wed, 15 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/farscape-rewatch-meltdown http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/farscape-rewatch-meltdown http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/zA2FnmKGv1A/tom-hiddleston-and-tilda-swinton-are-making-out-vampirically-in-only-lovers-left-alive-youre-welcome <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/only-lovers.jpg" /></p><p>Look, we have a thing that you want! At least, we sure wanted it, and were pretty pleased when it cropped up. It&#39;s the first two clips from <em>Only Lovers Left Alive</em>, starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as rock-savvy vampires. Basically, it&#39;s <em>The Hunger</em> for all us kids who wonder why more vampire movies today aren&#39;t exactly like <em>The Hunger</em>.</p><p>[Watch the clips!]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/tom-hiddleston-and-tilda-swinton-are-making-out-vampirically-in-only-lovers-left-alive-youre-welcome">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA2FnmKGv1A:FOmziuTzShM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/zA2FnmKGv1A" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Wed, 15 May 2013 18:55:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/tom-hiddleston-and-tilda-swinton-are-making-out-vampirically-in-only-lovers-left-alive-youre-welcome http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/tom-hiddleston-and-tilda-swinton-are-making-out-vampirically-in-only-lovers-left-alive-youre-welcome http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/ZmFfF_MBK_c/tor-books-bea-2013-schedule <p><img alt="Tor Books BEA schedule 2013" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/11_08/Tor books.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 200px;" /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=bea&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">Book Expo America 2013</a> takes place in New York City from May 29th to June 1st and Tor Books will be there! Take a look below to see which Tor authors, editors, and more will be appearing. Meet Brandon Sanderson, Ellen Datlow, Kendare Blake, and more!</p><p>Tor Books will also be present in the Macmillan section at booth 1557 for the entirety of the conference. Stop by and say hello!</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/tor-books-bea-2013-schedule">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZmFfF_MBK_c:sM2Jjt-0VvA:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/ZmFfF_MBK_c" height="1" width="1"/> Tor.com Published Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/tor-books-bea-2013-schedule http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/tor-books-bea-2013-schedule http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/KM7gMlIJ6Hc/cover-reveal-kinslayer-lotus-war-book-two-jay-kristoff <p><img alt="Jay Kristoff Jason Chan Cover Reveal Kinslayer" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Kinslayer1.jpg" />So today, we launch the cover for <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/kinslayer-jay-kristoff/617d65ae-79ca-42f5-854c-e7130c3b61f5" target="_blank"><em>Kinslayer</em></a>, part 2 of my Lotus War trilogy. I honestly thought there was no way our illustrator Jason Chan could top <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/the-cover-reveal-for-new-steampunk-novel-stormdancer" target="_blank">his cover</a> for <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/stormdancer-jay-kristoff/9d8fc95f-01cf-4c4f-98e1-2f76d731ba5b" target="_blank"><em>Stormdancer</em></a>. Almighty Zeus, I was wrong. When Lucas wrote midi-chlorians he wasn&rsquo;t as wrong as I was... actually, no, who am I kidding? Anyway, after apologizing to Jason for my lack of faith, I asked him along today to talk about the evolution of the cover design, because I&rsquo;m really only capable of drooling like a 3 year old when I look at this thing. So awaaaaaay he goes.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/cover-reveal-kinslayer-lotus-war-book-two-jay-kristoff">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=KM7gMlIJ6Hc:TrKXqTp_MyI:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/KM7gMlIJ6Hc" height="1" width="1"/> Jason Chan Published Wed, 15 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/cover-reveal-kinslayer-lotus-war-book-two-jay-kristoff http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/cover-reveal-kinslayer-lotus-war-book-two-jay-kristoff http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/ZJUYFCnQy4M/our-dysfunctional-relationship-with-the-wrath-of-khan <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Khan%20gloves.jpg" /></p><p>Like the<a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-oh-yeah-kool-aid-man-into-darkness" target="_blank"> Kool-Aid man</a> busting through a space wall, declaring &ldquo;Oh yeah,&rdquo; <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em> arrives tomorrow, and Cumberbatch is our king. I&rsquo;m not going to tell you if he is or is not playing a certain someone, but if you&rsquo;ve seen&nbsp; one second of any trailer, you already know this movie is borrowing heavily from the uber-popular and successful <em>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan</em>. It&rsquo;s about revenge! Explosions! Maybe sacrifice! Things you like about a movie!</p><p>But, as great as <em>The Wrath</em> is, did it unintentionally ruin Star Trek films forever?</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/our-dysfunctional-relationship-with-the-wrath-of-khan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ZJUYFCnQy4M:Kp8TMhP5WVo:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/ZJUYFCnQy4M" height="1" width="1"/> Ryan Britt Published Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/our-dysfunctional-relationship-with-the-wrath-of-khan http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/our-dysfunctional-relationship-with-the-wrath-of-khan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/DoK_pirUPeY/malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-toll-the-hounds-chapter-eight-part-two <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/toll-the-hounds-malazan-book-8-steven-erikson/5f578bb6-c201-4303-9438-1aa35b4207ed" target="_blank"><img alt="Malazan Re-read of the Fallen Toll The Hounds Steven Erikson" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/Toll-the-Hounds.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 307px;" /></a>Welcome to the <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/malazan-reread-of-the-fallen" target="_blank">Malazan Re-read of the Fallen</a>! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series, going first), and finally comments from Tor.com readers. In this article, we&rsquo;ll cover Part Two of Chapter Eight of<em> <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/toll-the-hounds-malazan-book-8-steven-erikson/5f578bb6-c201-4303-9438-1aa35b4207ed" target="_blank">Toll the Hounds</a> (TtH)</em>.</p><p>A fair warning before we get started: We&rsquo;ll be discussing both novel and whole-series themes, narrative arcs that run across the entire series, and foreshadowing. <strong>Note:</strong> The summary of events will be free of major spoilers and we&rsquo;re going to try keeping the reader comments the same. <a href="http://blogs/2012/09/spoiler-thread-for-the-malazan-reread-of-the-fallen" target="_blank">A spoiler thread has been set up for outright Malazan spoiler discussion</a>.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-toll-the-hounds-chapter-eight-part-two">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=DoK_pirUPeY:nL1meUk9oZw:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/DoK_pirUPeY" height="1" width="1"/> Amanda Rutter Published Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-toll-the-hounds-chapter-eight-part-two http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-toll-the-hounds-chapter-eight-part-two http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/WyKxHeZHKRg/black-company-reread-introduction <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Black Company by Glen Cook reread on Tor.com" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/series/blackcompany_seriestop.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 178px;" /></p><p>The Malazan books are said to owe a great debt to Glen Cook&rsquo;s Black Company series so it was fitting, in a way, that I first became aware of the books whilst browsing Amazon and trying to decide whether to kick off my Malazan reading with <em>Memories of Ice</em>. (By the way, in case you&rsquo;re wondering, do not start reading the Malazan books with <em>Memories of Ice</em>; it just doesn&rsquo;t work and you only end up with a headache.) But back to the books that I actually want to talk about&hellip;.</p><p>[More about The Black Company Reread on Tor.com]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/black-company-reread-introduction">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=WyKxHeZHKRg:_j6d9LCy1gA:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/WyKxHeZHKRg" height="1" width="1"/> Graeme Flory Published Wed, 15 May 2013 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/black-company-reread-introduction http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/black-company-reread-introduction http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/wT317UlGRPw/good-omens-is-the-perfect-gateway-fantasy <p><img alt="Good Omens is the Perfect Gateway Fantasy" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Good%20Omens.jpg" />I sit here with visions of Pratchett and Gaiman fans holding pitchforks at the ready as I write this. <em>Good Omens </em>is one of those books that you mention to people and they&rsquo;ve either read and loved it and you are from that point on BFFs for life, <em>or </em>they&rsquo;ve never heard of it and really enjoy Tom Clancy. In order to save my neck, I want to begin by saying that <em>Good Omens </em>was my gateway drug into the scifi/fantasy genre. So put down the pointy objects, you guys.</p><p>Picture this, 1999, a high schooler surrounded by stacks of horror novels. I was a major Vampire Chronicles junkie and when Lestat and I fell out for a short time, I&rsquo;d tuck in with a Stephen King or Dean Koontz novel. It wasn&rsquo;t all horror for me, of course, there were the ubiquitous school reading lists to keep me busy so I was attracted to &ldquo;junk&rdquo; reading, which I assumed was anything genre. Not Austen, Dostoevsky, or Joseph Campbell. Junk.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/good-omens-is-the-perfect-gateway-fantasy">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wT317UlGRPw:ICuSw7_FFWs:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/wT317UlGRPw" height="1" width="1"/> Sally Feller Published Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/good-omens-is-the-perfect-gateway-fantasy http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/good-omens-is-the-perfect-gateway-fantasy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/5T5Eq3EbSMc/return-to-the-black-company-with-a-reread-and-specially-priced-ebook <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Black Company Reread 2.99" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/series/blackcompany_seriestop.jpg" style="height: 178px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>Tor.com is going to be exploring Glen Cook&rsquo;s beloved and awesome fantasy series,&nbsp;<em>The Black Company</em>. Starting next week, Tor.com will launch<em> The Black Company </em>reread<em>,</em> which will delve deep into this epic series, revisiting all your favorite moments. But if you&rsquo;re new to this dark fantasy series, now is the time to jump in! This is gritty fantasy with aspects of military fiction and intrigue, playing out over an epic span of time.</p><p>As an incentive, for one week only, the ebook version of <em>The Black Company</em>, the first novel of the Chronicles of the Black Company series, is available for just $2.99. Links below, or at your preferred ebook retailer.</p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Company-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B009WUGAJE/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1368555451&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Kindle</a> | <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-black-company-glen-cook/1022727413?ean=9780812521399" target="_blank">Nook</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-black-company/id573656385?mt=11" target="_blank">iBook</a></p><p>And join us next week for the Black Company Reread! <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/black-company-reread-introduction" target="_blank">Read the details on how Graeme Flory will break the series down</a> and why he was inspired to tackle a reread.</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/return-to-the-black-company-with-a-reread-and-specially-priced-ebook">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5T5Eq3EbSMc:6OSyMwyEFqI:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/5T5Eq3EbSMc" height="1" width="1"/> Tor.com Published Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/return-to-the-black-company-with-a-reread-and-specially-priced-ebook http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/return-to-the-black-company-with-a-reread-and-specially-priced-ebook http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/wQIAgvDzOUg/the-button-man-and-the-murder-tree <p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>George R. R. Martin&rsquo;s Wild Cards multi-author shared-world universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. Now, in addition to overseeing the ongoing publication of new Wild Cards books (like 2011&rsquo;s Fort Freak), Martin is also commissioning and editing new Wild Cards stories for publication on Tor.com. In Cherie Priest&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Button Man and the Murder Tree,&rdquo; it&rsquo;s Chicago in 1971, and Raul is a button man&mdash;a professional ender of lives that the Mob needs ended. But something&rsquo;s odd about his most recent assignments. And then there are those mushrooms growing out of his skin....</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>This short story was acquired for Tor.com by senior editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden.</em></span></span></p><p>[Read &ldquo;The Button Man and the Murder Tree&rdquo; by Cherie Priest]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-button-man-and-the-murder-tree">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=wQIAgvDzOUg:9KYqXVZ8C94:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/wQIAgvDzOUg" height="1" width="1"/> Cherie Priest Prose Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-button-man-and-the-murder-tree http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-button-man-and-the-murder-tree http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/NN-yrQnAOdM/morning-roundup-kirk-came-in-that-thing-hes-braver-than-we-thought <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align caption enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Kirk falcon.jpg" style="height: 200px; width: 475px;" title="Art by Kevin Lingefelser" /></p><p>It looks like J.J. Abrams has given Chris Pine a new ride and he promises she won&rsquo;t get a scratch, but we really, really doubt it. Though the likelihood of him blasting some sweet beats while flying the Falcon are pretty high.&nbsp;</p><p>Your collection of daily offsite links includes a Robo-statue, more Star Trek/Star Wars collision, an impending Halloween treat and more!</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-kirk-came-in-that-thing-hes-braver-than-we-thought">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NN-yrQnAOdM:c_3mlCaCsao:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/NN-yrQnAOdM" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-kirk-came-in-that-thing-hes-braver-than-we-thought http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-kirk-came-in-that-thing-hes-braver-than-we-thought http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/kfVmyqeZCGw/one-hell-of-a-week <p><img alt="British Genre Fiction Focus One Hell of a Week" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/bgff-banner.jpg" /></p><p>Welcome back to the <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/british-genre-fiction-focus" target="_blank">British Genre Fiction Focus</a>, Tor.com&rsquo;s weekly column dedicated to news and new releases from the United Kingdom&rsquo;s thriving speculative fiction industry.</p><p>It&rsquo;s been another weird year, weather-wise. But with the sun in the skies, and temperatures on the rise, it might just be that summer... is coming.</p><p>To celebrate&mdash;because any old excuse will do, in truth&mdash;a special heated edition of the British Genre Fiction Focus, featuring an inferno, a literary sweatshop of sorts, the back of a very angry man, and an account of the passionate (to put it politely) reaction to Charlaine Harris&rsquo; last Sookie Stackhouse book.</p><p>This week&rsquo;s new releases are rather less fiery, I&rsquo;m afraid, with publishers everywhere making way for Dan Brown&rsquo;s new novel. But nothing stops the Elves, evidently! And as an antidote to <em>Inferno</em>, why not try the third volume of <em>The Dagger and the Coin</em> by genre giant Daniel Abraham?</p><p>Let&rsquo;s get this roast on the road!</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/one-hell-of-a-week">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=kfVmyqeZCGw:ndz5fyRbQ2Q:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/kfVmyqeZCGw" height="1" width="1"/> Niall Alexander Published Wed, 15 May 2013 11:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/one-hell-of-a-week http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/one-hell-of-a-week http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/guq7y4Mzymw/marvels-agents-of-shield-extended-trailer <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. J. August Richards Patriot" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/agents-of-shield-patriot.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 267px;" /></p><p>ABC and Marvel Studios have released a 3-minute extended teaser for this fall&rsquo;s Marvel&rsquo;s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. show which details the characters, situation, and the threats they face in much more detail. Also there&rsquo;s lots of Coulson. Lots and lots of Coulson. (He&rsquo;s yelling at the newbies! Oh we love that man.)</p><p>There&rsquo;s also more information on the mysterious new superhero featured in the original teaser. The internet has been speculating that he&rsquo;s playing Rage, or possibly a younger Luke Cage, but we think we&rsquo;ve got him pegged, and it&rsquo;s not either of those characters.</p><p>[Who is the <em>S.H.I.E.L.D.</em> mystery hero?]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/marvels-agents-of-shield-extended-trailer">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=guq7y4Mzymw:E5lphNVCPVM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/guq7y4Mzymw" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Tue, 14 May 2013 21:10:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/marvels-agents-of-shield-extended-trailer http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/marvels-agents-of-shield-extended-trailer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/Y6a4gMz3Llo/review-a-stranger-in-olondria-by-sofia-samatar <p><img alt="A Stranger in Olondria cover, Sofia Samatar" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Stranger in Olondria.gif" style="width: 250px; height: 381px;" /></p><p>For a long time now I have been afraid of Sofia Samatar&#39;s fiction. Knowing the effect her poetry has had on me&mdash;in <a href="http://goblinfruit.net/2012/winter/poems/?poem=qasida" target="_blank"><em>Goblin Fruit</em></a>, in <a href="http://stonetelling.com/issue6-dec2011/samatar-girlhours.html" target="_blank"><em>Stone Telling</em></a>, in <a href="http://strangehorizons.com/2012/20120723/samatar-p.shtml" target="_blank"><em>Strange Horizons</em></a>&mdash;I have trembled at the thought of allowing her words any deeper purchase on my psyche. Given her ability to incapacitate me with a few well-turned stanzas, what havoc might she wreak with a whole novel?</p><p>Through some terrible and wonderful magic, <em>A Stranger in Olondria</em> has anticipated these fears and commented on them. With characteristic wit, poise, and eloquence, Samatar delivers a story about our vulnerability to language and literature, and the simultaneous experience of power and surrender inherent in the acts of writing and reading.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-a-stranger-in-olondria-by-sofia-samatar">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Y6a4gMz3Llo:uo0QfkUaCxY:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/Y6a4gMz3Llo" height="1" width="1"/> Amal El-Mohtar Published Tue, 14 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-a-stranger-in-olondria-by-sofia-samatar http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-a-stranger-in-olondria-by-sofia-samatar http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/GadrM5EpwqE/the-rithmatist-release-day-sweepstakes <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/BrandonSanderson.jpg" /></p><p>It&rsquo;s here! Brandon Sanderson&rsquo;s new YA novel <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/the-rithmatist-brandon-sanderson/94f08d64-65c4-45a0-9f2a-70bab715c842"><em>The Rithmatist </em></a>hits the shelves today, and we want to give you a copy of your very own, signed in our offices by Brandon and <em>Rithmatist </em>illustrator Ben McSweeney. (You can check out Ben&rsquo;s illustrations in our excerpt <a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/01/the-rithmatist-excerpt">here</a>.)</p><p>Winners will also receive a goody bag filled with Rithmatic chalk. We&rsquo;ve got ten copies, so comment in the post to enter!&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px;">NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A purchase does not improve your chances of winning. Sweepstakes open to legal residents of fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia, who are 18 or older. To enter, comment on this post beginning at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) May 14, 2013. Sweepstakes ends at 12:00 p.m. ET May 18, 2013. Void outside of the 50 US, and DC where prohibited by law. Please see full details and official rules&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-rithmatist-release-day-sweepstakes-rules">here</a>.&nbsp;Sponsor: Macmillan Publishers, 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-rithmatist-release-day-sweepstakes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=GadrM5EpwqE:D7yVuwEuroc:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/GadrM5EpwqE" height="1" width="1"/> Sweepstakes Published Tue, 14 May 2013 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-rithmatist-release-day-sweepstakes http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-rithmatist-release-day-sweepstakes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/VeRGZmSskz4/announcing-the-2013-finalists-for-the-john-w-campbell-memorial-award <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Announcing the 2013 Finalists John W Campbell Memorial Award" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/John Campbell Award.jpg" /></p><p>Tor.com is pleased to announce that the <a href="http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/" target="_blank">Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas</a> has revealed the 2013 finalists for the <a href="http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/campbell.htm" target="_blank">John W. Campbell Memorial Award</a> for the best novel of the year. The nominees include three Tor novels: <em>Existence</em>, by David Brin, <em>The Rapture of the Nerds</em>, by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, and <em>The Fractal Prince</em> by Hannu Rajaniemi. Congratulations to them, and to all the other nominees! You can see the full announcement below.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-2013-finalists-for-the-john-w-campbell-memorial-award">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VeRGZmSskz4:Bii7OLC-c-w:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/VeRGZmSskz4" height="1" width="1"/> Tor.com Published Tue, 14 May 2013 20:15:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-2013-finalists-for-the-john-w-campbell-memorial-award http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-2013-finalists-for-the-john-w-campbell-memorial-award http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/9PoLNsJwsRA/restraining-social-activism-arabella <p><img alt="Arabella cover, Georgette Heyer" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/Arabella.jpg">Georgette Heyer was not known for paying much attention in her historical fiction to the problems faced by the lower classes, especially in her Regency novels, by now almost entirely focused on comedy. The lower classes, when they appeared at all, showed up as loyal, devoted servants—sometimes too devoted—thieves, or comedy figures. But after three straight Regency novels, in <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/arabella-georgette-heyer/1100202417?ean=9781402219467" target="_blank"><em>Arabella</em></a>, she suddenly decided to introduce a touch—a mere touch—of poverty, as if to acknowledge that even in the idealistic Regency world of her creation, genuine, real poverty could appear.&nbsp; And as if to immediately soften this, she surrounded this poverty with witty dialogue, romantic banter, and what by all appearances is the expected romantic ending. Appearances only; a closer look shows that the ending has, shall we say, issues.</p><p>[Which means, of course, that I have to massively spoil the ending. But since most of you will guess the main parts of it anyway, I don’t feel <em>that</em> bad about it.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/restraining-social-activism-arabella">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9PoLNsJwsRA:NMbTgse3t2w:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/9PoLNsJwsRA" height="1" width="1"/> Mari Ness Published Tue, 14 May 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/restraining-social-activism-arabella http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/restraining-social-activism-arabella http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/zkBb33AhGgM/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-q-less <p><img alt="Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Q-Less" class="blog-pic-right-align enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/ds9-qless10.jpg" style="height: 192px; width: 250px;" /><strong>&ldquo;Q-Less&rdquo;</strong><br />Written by Hannah Louise Shearer and Robert Hewitt Wolfe<br />Directed by Paul Lynch<br /><strong>Season 1, Episode 6</strong><br />Production episode 40511-407<br />Original air date: February 7, 1993<br />Stardate: 46531.2</p><p><strong>Station log:</strong> Bashir is hitting on a pretty Bajoran woman in the replimat. At the next table over O&rsquo;Brien is rolling his eyes and snarfing on his coffee. To Bashir and the woman&rsquo;s disappointment, and O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s great relief, they&rsquo;re interrupted by a summons to a runabout landing pad. The <em>Ganges</em> spent too long out of coverage, and their battery is drained of power, and Dax forgot to pack the USB charger. They barely made it to the station. Dax and Ensign Pauley are trapped inside, and they can&rsquo;t get the door open. Confusing the issue is that Bashir is reading three lifesigns. (Further confusing the issue is the fact that the station has transporter technology, and they could just beam the people off the runabout, but we&rsquo;ll let that go.)</p><p>O&rsquo;Brien plugs in a charger, and they get the door open. The chief recognizes the third passenger as <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/01/star-trek-the-next-generation-qcaptains-holidayq" target="_blank">Vash</a>, who&rsquo;s been in the Gamma Quadrant for two years. &ldquo;<a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/star-trek-the-next-generation-qpid" target="_blank">A friend dropped me off</a>,&rdquo; she says offhandedly, and as they escort Dax, Pauley, and Vash to the infirmary, we get a look at Q hiding in the background. (Amusingly, Vash doesn&rsquo;t recognize O&rsquo;Brien at first. Nobody ever pays attention to the transporter operator...)</p><p>[Still chasing your own tail?]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-q-less">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zkBb33AhGgM:SAFyUUbL9Co:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/zkBb33AhGgM" height="1" width="1"/> Keith DeCandido Published Tue, 14 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-q-less http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-q-less http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/ObOZIW4cb2s/short-fiction-spotlight-the-weirdpoetic <p style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt="Short Fiction Spotlight: The Weird/Poetic" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Tidbeck2.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 315px;" title="© Charlotte Frantzdatter Johansen 2013" /></p><p>Welcome back to the <em>Short Fiction Spotlight</em>, a space for conversation about recent and not-so-recent short stories. While catching up on a bit of magazine reading, I noticed that one author in particular had a strong showing in April: Karin Tidbeck, who had two separate stories out last month, one of them here at Tor.com (&ldquo;<a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/04/sing" target="_blank">Sing</a>&rdquo;). We see this a lot from some delightfully productive folks, of course, but it&rsquo;s still notable to me whenever I encounter two stories in a month, in different publications, from a writer whose work I genuinely enjoy. There was also a stand-out story in the newest issue of <em>Apex</em> by Emily Jiang that I wanted to talk about.</p><p>[Onward.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/short-fiction-spotlight-the-weirdpoetic">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=ObOZIW4cb2s:gb6u6wbEUEk:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/ObOZIW4cb2s" height="1" width="1"/> Brit Mandelo Published Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/short-fiction-spotlight-the-weirdpoetic http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/short-fiction-spotlight-the-weirdpoetic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/EsEZxZrze80/batman-animated-series-rewatch-his-silicon-soul-fire-from-olympus <p align="center" target="_blank"><img alt="Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: His Silicon Soul &amp; Fire from Olympus" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/Batman/00-57.jpg" style="height: 356px; width: 475px;" /></p><p><strong>&ldquo;</strong><strong>His Silicon Soul&rdquo;</strong><br />Written by Marty Isenberg, Robert N. Skir<br />Directed by Boyd Kirkland<br /><strong>Episode #060</strong><br />Music Composed by Carl Johnson, Harvey R. Cohen<br />Animation by Dong Yang Animation Co., LTD.<br /><strong>Original Airdate&mdash;November 20th, 1992</strong></p><p><strong>Plot:</strong>&ldquo;Batman&rdquo; wakes up in a crate, and quickly discovers he&rsquo;s actually a robot duplicate, created by the supercomputer HARDAC as a back up plan to take over the world</p><p>[Machine that thinks he&rsquo;s a man... and a man that thinks he&rsquo;s a god]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/batman-animated-series-rewatch-his-silicon-soul-fire-from-olympus">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=EsEZxZrze80:r4MDuPZLWYw:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/EsEZxZrze80" height="1" width="1"/> Steven Padnick Published Tue, 14 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/batman-animated-series-rewatch-his-silicon-soul-fire-from-olympus http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/batman-animated-series-rewatch-his-silicon-soul-fire-from-olympus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/w7f8LJPBCFU/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-memory-of-light-part-13 <p><img alt="The Wheel of Time Re-read A Memory of Light Part 13" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/WOT_Images/AMOL-cover.jpg" />See this hat? This is a Wheel of Time re-reading hat. I Re-read Wheels of Time in this hat.</p><p>Today&rsquo;s entry covers Chapters 12 and 13 of <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/a-memory-of-light-robert-jordan/f3827af5-f653-4167-8398-cd938d9034ff" target="_blank"><em>A Memory of Light</em></a>, in which variously shocking revelations are made, and some of them make a hell of a lot more sense than others.</p><p>Previous re-read entries are <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/wot-reread" target="_blank">here</a>. The Wheel of Time Master Index is <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/wheel-of-time-master-index" target="_blank">here</a>, which has links to news, reviews, interviews, and all manner of information about the Wheel of Time in general. The index for all things specifically related to the final novel in the series, <em>A Memory of Light,</em> is <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/a-memory-of-light" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>I am also thrilled to continue to tell you that the Wheel of Time Re-read is also <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/03/the-wheel-of-time-reread-collected-ebooks-have-arrived" target="_blank">now available as e-books,</a>from your preferred e-book retailer! How cool is THAT, seriously.</p><p>This re-read post, and all posts henceforth, contain spoilers for the entire Wheel of Time series<strong>.</strong> If you haven&rsquo;t read, read at your own risk.</p><p>And now, the post!</p><p>[&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.&rdquo;]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-memory-of-light-part-13">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=w7f8LJPBCFU:6zK4WYewwE0:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/w7f8LJPBCFU" height="1" width="1"/> Leigh Butler Published Tue, 14 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-memory-of-light-part-13 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/the-wheel-of-time-re-read-a-memory-of-light-part-13 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/uOhXrYbhddA/replica-excerpt <p><img alt="Replica cover, Jenna Black" class="blog-pic-right-align enlarge " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/replica-cover.jpg" style="height: 374px; width: 250px;" />Some days we can&#39;t help but compare ourselves to the girl on the cover of <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/replica-jenna-black/f7ac0b48-fc5b-4f49-8a8b-6deae3502666" target="_blank">Jenna Black&#39;s <em>Replica</em></a>, staring out wistfully over a shining New York City that we can only peer at through giant glass windows of an odd shape and size.</p><p>The book itself is out on July 16 from Tor Books, and contains a twist we don&#39;t often see in a YA yarn, so you really shouldn&#39;t miss it! But in the meantime, just stare at the cover with us. And relate.</p><p>[Read an excerpt from Replica by Jenna Black]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/replica-excerpt">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=uOhXrYbhddA:ENRSEgIPYGM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/uOhXrYbhddA" height="1" width="1"/> Jenna Black Excerpts Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/replica-excerpt http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/replica-excerpt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/9OQV9I0Vp_U/sleeps-with-monsters-martha-wells-answers-eight-questions <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Sleeps With Monsters: Martha Wells Answers Eight Questions" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/marthawellscolor1000.jpg" /></p><p>We&rsquo;ve arrived at the end of our brief focus on Martha Wells. I shall be disappointed if she needs further introduction (aside from those books of hers I&rsquo;ve covered in this space, you should all go read <em>City of Bones </em>and <em>The Death of the Necromancer </em>right now, I mean <em>right away people</em>, what are you <em>waiting</em> for, they&rsquo;re <em>right there</em>&mdash;ahem), so without further ado, let me present Martha Wells: the author of thirteen novels, mostly recently the Books of the Raksura (<em>The Cloud Roads, The Serpent Sea, </em>and <em>The Siren Depths, </em>Night Shade Books) and <em>Emilie and the Hollow World </em>(Angry Robot Books).</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/sleeps-with-monsters-martha-wells-answers-eight-questions">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=9OQV9I0Vp_U:QmAaCMV8aFg:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/9OQV9I0Vp_U" height="1" width="1"/> Liz Bourke Published Tue, 14 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/sleeps-with-monsters-martha-wells-answers-eight-questions http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/sleeps-with-monsters-martha-wells-answers-eight-questions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/0RMSSsHa8rM/time-traveling-is-the-best-dating-service-first-trailer-for-about-time <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/about-time.jpg" /></p><p>What would you do if you found out that the men in your family could time travel? Well, in <em>About Time</em>, the young man in question does the practical thing&mdash;he gets himself a girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) by going back and re-wooing her correctly. But the Butterfly Effect is still a possibility here and it looks like he might lose her forever by abusing the privilege. His dad is Bill Nighy, though, so he&#39;ll probably be all right. We&#39;re excited for this movie! It looks absolutely adorable, and will be out in the U.K. on September 6, so hopefully the U.S. will get it around about the same time.</p><p>[Watch the trailer]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/time-traveling-is-the-best-dating-service-first-trailer-for-about-time">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=0RMSSsHa8rM:vg8JJUQjNkQ:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/0RMSSsHa8rM" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Tue, 14 May 2013 14:05:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/time-traveling-is-the-best-dating-service-first-trailer-for-about-time http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/time-traveling-is-the-best-dating-service-first-trailer-for-about-time http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/Jt9Wv_t4NFs/first-onscreen-superman-animated <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Superman animated Max and Dave Fleischer" class="blog-pic-middle-align enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/fleischer_superman_1.jpg" style="height: 355px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>The character of Superman, first created in comics by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1933, has a longer history of screen adaptations than most people realize.</p><p>Though many know the most recent movies were preceded by the 1978 movie <em>Superman</em>, which starred Christopher Reeve and was followed by three sequels in the 1980&rsquo;s; and some are aware that pop culture has a friendly niche for the 1950&rsquo;s <em>Superman</em> television show featuring George Reeves, two episodes of which were mashed into a theatrical release titled <em>Superman and the Mole Men </em>in 1951; fewer know of the serials <em>Superman</em> and <em>Atom Man vs. Superman</em>, that ran before feature films in theaters in the late 1940&rsquo;s, and in which Kirk Alyn was the first actor to play the role in a screen adaptation.</p><p>[Superman goes back even earlier than that, though]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/first-onscreen-superman-animated">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Jt9Wv_t4NFs:WNrKvKesDiw:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/Jt9Wv_t4NFs" height="1" width="1"/> Charley Parker Published Tue, 14 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/first-onscreen-superman-animated http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/first-onscreen-superman-animated http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/M6X5KPRjTk8/shall-we-gather <p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>When one world brushes another, asking the right question can be magic&hellip;.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>This short story was acquired for Tor.com by Tor Books editor Paul Stevens.</em></span></span></p><p>[Read &ldquo;Shall We Gather&rdquo; by Alex Bledsoe]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/shall-we-gather">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=M6X5KPRjTk8:8OYTq6kwY80:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/M6X5KPRjTk8" height="1" width="1"/> Alex Bledsoe Prose Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/shall-we-gather http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/shall-we-gather http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/Ws6qchYLlJM/morning-roundup-nathan-fillion-becomes-final-boss-in-every-zelda-game <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Fillion vs everyone.jpg" style="height: 333px; width: 475px;" /></p><p style="text-align: left; ">Somewhere in the world, Nathan Fillion grabbed Zelda and stabbed Link, making him the most unbeatable boss in video game history. To be frank, we&#39;re a little worried about him showing up as the final boss in every single video game ever. How could anyone ever win again? And why would they want to?</p><p style="text-align: left; ">Your daily collection of offsite links includes weddings, Star Wars locales and more! (Image via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1dz800/link_getting_stabbed_by_nathan_fillion_while/" target="_blank">Reddit</a>)</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-nathan-fillion-becomes-final-boss-in-every-zelda-game">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=Ws6qchYLlJM:19nkt2zQc8Q:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/Ws6qchYLlJM" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-nathan-fillion-becomes-final-boss-in-every-zelda-game http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/morning-roundup-nathan-fillion-becomes-final-boss-in-every-zelda-game http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/f655MlvcZdo/barnes-a-noble-booksellers-picks-for-may <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Barnes and Noble Bookseller's Picks for May" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/series/BN-seriesheader-REV.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 206px;" title="Barnes and Noble Bookseller's Picks for May" /></p><p>For over a decade, Barnes &amp; Noble buyer Jim Killen has been a driving force behind Barnes &amp; Noble&rsquo;s science fiction and fantasy sections. <a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/barnes-and-noble-booksellers-picks" target="_blank">Each month on Tor.com, Mr. Killen curates a list of science fiction &amp; fantasy titles</a>, sometimes focused on upcoming titles and sometimes focused on a theme.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s the Barnes &amp; Noble science fiction and fantasy picks for May.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/barnes-a-noble-booksellers-picks-for-may">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=f655MlvcZdo:jOocKeHR3gA:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/f655MlvcZdo" height="1" width="1"/> Tor.com Published Mon, 13 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/barnes-a-noble-booksellers-picks-for-may http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/barnes-a-noble-booksellers-picks-for-may http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/mwj9KdslsKM/magicians-end-excerpt <p><img alt="Magician's End cover, Raymond E. Fiest" class="blog-pic-left-align enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/magicians-end.jpg" style="height: 302px; width: 200px;" /><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Check out </em><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/09221892-2ac5-4c1e-8f98-33cc8a2f05b6" target="_blank">Magician&#39;s End</a><em>, the finale book in Raymond E. Feist&#39;s Chaoswar Saga, out tomorrow from Harper Voyager:</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>An uneasy quiet has settled upon Midkemia in the wake of a surprise invasion. But the land is far from peaceful. Leaderless, the Kingdom is on the brink of anarchy and civil war, unless Hal conDoin, Duke of Crydee, and his brothers can rally their allies to crown a new king. They must move quickly, for war has left the land vulnerable to an agency of horrific destruction not of this world. No one is safe, not even the Star Elves whose city deep in the Grey Tower Mountains has come under attack by an ancient darkness that seeks to extinguish every living thing in Midkemia.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Yet the bravery of determined warriors&mdash;brothers in blood and arms&mdash;is not enough to ensure the Kingdom&#39;s preservation without the magic of the Master Sorcerer Pug. A powerful spell has trapped him, his son Magnus, and two unlikely allies in an unfamiliar realm, and they must find their separate ways home&mdash;a journey of memory and discovery that will illuminate the truth of the destiny that awaits them. But to save Midkemia&mdash;and everything he has fought for and all he cherishes&mdash;Pug will have to pay the ultimate price.</em></span></span></p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/magicians-end-excerpt">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=mwj9KdslsKM:giQI1T6urdk:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/mwj9KdslsKM" height="1" width="1"/> Raymond E Feist Excerpts Mon, 13 May 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/magicians-end-excerpt http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/magicians-end-excerpt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/X_3EX0yy3vk/how-to-root-for-captain-kirk <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Kirk%20shirtless.jpg" style="height: 318px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>Let&rsquo;s face it: Captain James Tiberius Kirk has a reputation as a guy who will sleep with anything female&mdash;making him, in the pantheon of <em>Star Trek</em>, one of the <em>least</em> likable characters. In one of the trailers for <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em>, Kirk confusedly says, &ldquo;I have a reputation?&rdquo; Yes you do, Kirk. And it isn&rsquo;t a good one!&nbsp;And whether he&rsquo;s in his Shatner or Pine guises, he is a difficult character to nail down in terms of cultural appeal. Does his &ldquo;sluttiness&rdquo; make him a creep?&nbsp;Do we even&nbsp;<em>like</em>&nbsp;this guy? And if we don&rsquo;t, how do our brains find ways of continuing to root for him?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/how-to-root-for-captain-kirk">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=X_3EX0yy3vk:45wTafvAR3Y:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/X_3EX0yy3vk" height="1" width="1"/> Ryan Britt Published Mon, 13 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/how-to-root-for-captain-kirk http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/how-to-root-for-captain-kirk http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/5833XN38ZJQ/nebula-awards-2013-showcase-sweepstakes <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/Nebula Showcase.jpeg" style="width: 200px; " />We&#39;ve got a special sweepstakes for you today, just in time for the Nebula Awards this weekend&mdash;five copies of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pyrsf.com/nebulaawards2013.html"><em>Nebula Awards Showcase 2013</em></a>, edited by Catherine Asaro and featuring gorgeous cover art by Julie Dillon!</p><p>Out tomorrow from Pyr Books, this volume includes the winners of last year&#39;s Andre Norton, Damon Knight Grand Master, Rhysling, and Solstice Awards, as well as the Nebula Awards winners. It features stories, essays, poems, and excerpts from Geoff Ryman, Ken Liu, Jo Walton, Connie Willis, Delia Sherman, and Amal El-Mohtar, among many talented others.</p><p>[How to win]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/nebula-awards-2013-showcase-sweepstakes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=5833XN38ZJQ:2ZhgqeC4XMU:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/5833XN38ZJQ" height="1" width="1"/> Sweepstakes Published Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/nebula-awards-2013-showcase-sweepstakes http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/nebula-awards-2013-showcase-sweepstakes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/VsbkzEs3c1U/mass-effects-we-are-not-a-mistake <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Geek Love: Mass Effect" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_04/geek love mass effect.jpg" /></p><p>I&rsquo;ve only been playing video games for about a year, because I only recently got the memo that videogames had turned into something I would enjoy. I don&rsquo;t like being told what to do and I don&rsquo;t see the value in things like fan fiction, usually, because I don&rsquo;t get off on playing with other people&rsquo;s toys. But people I trust kept telling me videogames weren&rsquo;t like that anymore, so I gave it a shot, and I haven&rsquo;t looked back since.</p><p>The first thing I got really obsessed with was the <em>Mass Effect</em> trilogy, which is basically a story about the diplomatic moves necessary to create a community in the face of Apocalypse. Over three games&mdash;hundreds of hours of playtime&mdash;you build an army, out of a complex variety of factions, races, interests and centuries of nasty political history.</p><p>The big selling point of the game&mdash;some would say, dubiously fulfilled&mdash;is that every choice you make carries weight. People you mess with in the first game might still resent you two games later. Valued allies you allow to die won&rsquo;t be around when you need them, and so on. But there&rsquo;s one choice, early in the game, that has led to more fights around the story than any other.</p><p>Minor spoilers to follow&mdash;and plenty of opportunities to nitpick, I&rsquo;m sure&mdash;but they&rsquo;re not really the point.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/mass-effects-we-are-not-a-mistake">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=VsbkzEs3c1U:rPizlO05e5k:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/VsbkzEs3c1U" height="1" width="1"/> Jacob Clifton Published Mon, 13 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/mass-effects-we-are-not-a-mistake http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/mass-effects-we-are-not-a-mistake http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/E3ktNKTzvPI/review-ghoulish-song-william-alexander <p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/ghoulish-song-william-alexander/53489744-8c2e-400b-9394-bdcb04671613" target="_blank"><img alt="Book Review Ghoulish Song William Alexander" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/ghoulish song.jpg" style="height: 303px; width: 200px;" /></a></p><p>Settings are sometimes the best and most memorable characters of a story, and of returning to YA literature in particular; revisiting Narnia is like seeing an old friend, and I won&rsquo;t pretend not to have chosen a grad school based on its resemblance to Hogwarts. <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/ghoulish-song-william-alexander/53489744-8c2e-400b-9394-bdcb04671613" target="_blank"><em>Ghoulish Song</em></a> is William Alexander&rsquo;s second book set in the city of Zombay, and though I&rsquo;ve not read its sister novel, the National Book Award-winning <em>Goblin Secrets</em>, this fantastical port city&mdash;noisy and wafting with the smell of fresh bread&mdash;has secured its place on my map of fantastical places. Alexander paints a picture so vivid, readers can&rsquo;t help but cheer on his protagonist as she fights for her home.</p><p>Kaile&rsquo;s first quest, however, is to save her mother.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-ghoulish-song-william-alexander">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=E3ktNKTzvPI:wC-Ep0wMxMg:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/E3ktNKTzvPI" height="1" width="1"/> Emily Nordling Published Mon, 13 May 2013 17:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-ghoulish-song-william-alexander http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/review-ghoulish-song-william-alexander http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/HfcAb9-h2U0/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-rewatch-madness-vengeance-growing-pains <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tough Love, Glory, Tara" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/btvs-toughlove1.jpg" /></p><p>&ldquo;Tough Love,&rdquo; written &nbsp;by Rebecca Rand Kirshner</p><p>With Joyce gone and the weight of the Dawn on her shoulders, Buffy has conceded to the inevitable: she has to drop out of university. &ldquo;Tough Love&rdquo; opens as she&rsquo;s expressing her regret over this turn of events to her poetry professor.</p><p>She&rsquo;s not the only one racking up personal losses. Ben has been missing for two weeks, and his supervisor at the hospital seems to consider this a firing offence. Which: fair enough. He is a doctor, after all.</p><p>Ben only gets a moment to savor that sense of having been cheated of his dreams before Glory takes him over again. He fights the transformation, but fails. The Goddess is back and, she says, she is hungry.</p><p>[Read More...]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-rewatch-madness-vengeance-growing-pains">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=HfcAb9-h2U0:C2XA1HrqNws:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/HfcAb9-h2U0" height="1" width="1"/> Alyx Dellamonica Published Mon, 13 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-rewatch-madness-vengeance-growing-pains http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-rewatch-madness-vengeance-growing-pains http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/NX2spEuIAMk/ghost-in-the-shell-arise-trailer <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ghost in the Shell: Arise trailer anime" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Ghost in the Shell arise.jpg" style="height: 280px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>Back in February<a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/02/trailer-ghost-in-the-shell-arise" target="_blank">, we reported on the first glimpse of the prequel movie </a><em>Ghost in the Shell: Arise</em>, will finally detail the story of how Motoko Kusanagi became a cyborg. Now, ahead of its Japan-only June release, here is a brand new trailer revealing some of the mysteries surrounding the origins of Section 9!<i>&nbsp;</i>Watch below.</p><p>[Trailer below]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/ghost-in-the-shell-arise-trailer">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=NX2spEuIAMk:2dZv-gOpCBI:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/NX2spEuIAMk" height="1" width="1"/> Stubby the Rocket Published Mon, 13 May 2013 16:50:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/ghost-in-the-shell-arise-trailer http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/ghost-in-the-shell-arise-trailer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/fZ2ycHg7dtc/two-stories-from-a-single-vision-le-modesitt-on-the-one-eyed-man <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="One Eyed Man L.E. Modesitt Jr John Jude Palencar" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/stories/Palencar/full_palencarproject.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 423px;" /></p><p><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/the-one-eyed-man-jr-l-e-modesitt/29f263b5-9d69-4d2c-a0e8-18cc0bb76d64" target="_blank"><em>The One-Eyed Man</em></a> is a novel that was one I never intended to write. Some two years ago, my editor, the esteemed David Hartwell, approached me and several other authors and asked us to write a short story based on a painting by John Jude Palencar. I started writing, and I kept writing, and by the time I got to 15,000 words or so, and was just beginning to get into the story, I realized two things: first, that I was nowhere close to finishing the story, and, that, in fact, it wasn&rsquo;t a story; and second, that I wasn&rsquo;t going to finish the Imager Portfolio book I was also working on by the time I&rsquo;d promised it to David. So&hellip; I put aside the story that had become at least the beginning of a novella, if not a novel, and wrote a much shorter story entitled &ldquo;New World Blues,&rdquo; which was published by Tor.com in February of 2012 as part of the &ldquo;Palencar Project,&rdquo; consisting of five stories, all based on the painting, by different writers.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/two-stories-from-a-single-vision-le-modesitt-on-the-one-eyed-man">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=fZ2ycHg7dtc:0ax9i6t3j1M:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/fZ2ycHg7dtc" height="1" width="1"/> L. E. Modesitt Jr. Published Mon, 13 May 2013 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/two-stories-from-a-single-vision-le-modesitt-on-the-one-eyed-man http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/two-stories-from-a-single-vision-le-modesitt-on-the-one-eyed-man http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/TUDPKRwU8zY/the-one-eyed-man-excerpt <p><img alt="The One-Eyed Man cover, L.E. Modesitt, Jr." class="blog-pic-left-align enlarge" src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/one-eyed-man.jpg" style="height: 302px; width: 200px;" /><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Check out L. E. Modesitt, Jr.&rsquo;s new novel, </em><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/29f263b5-9d69-4d2c-a0e8-18cc0bb76d64" target="_blank">The One-Eyed Man</a><em>, out on September 17:</em></span></span></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1368197426702_627"><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs&nbsp;that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes anagathics possible on Stittara is fragile, and&nbsp;the Unity government has a vital interest in making sure the flow of&nbsp;longevity drugs remains uninterrupted, even if it means uprooting the human settlements.</em></span></span></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1368197426702_623"><span style="color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Offered the&nbsp;job of&nbsp;assessing the ecological impact of the human presence on Stittara, freelance consultant Dr. Paulo Verano jumps at the chance to escape the ruin of his personal life. He&nbsp;gets far more than he bargained for: Stittara&rsquo;s atmosphere&nbsp;is&nbsp;populated with skytubes&mdash;gigantic, mysterious airborne&nbsp;organisms&nbsp;that drift like clouds above the surface of the planet. Their exact nature has eluded humanity for centuries, but Verano believes his conclusions about Stittara may hinge on understanding the skytubes&rsquo; role in the planet&rsquo;s&nbsp;ecology&mdash;if he survives the hurricane winds, distrustful settlers,&nbsp;and secret agendas&nbsp;that impede his investigation at every turn.</em></span></span></p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-one-eyed-man-excerpt">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=TUDPKRwU8zY:LLfHwGh0smM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/TUDPKRwU8zY" height="1" width="1"/> L. E. Modesitt Jr. Excerpts Mon, 13 May 2013 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-one-eyed-man-excerpt http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/05/the-one-eyed-man-excerpt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/U-g0hNZCTRM/doctor-who-nightmare-in-silver <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Doctor Who, Nightmare in Silver, Neil Gaiman" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/dw-nightmare8.jpg" style="width: 475px; height: 265px;" /></p><p>The Doctor had a full house for this episode: the Cybermen came back, and Warwick Davis was one of the special guest stars, so... did &ldquo;Nightmare in Silver&rdquo; do as promised? Did Neil Gaiman make the Cybermen scary again? Did the Cybermen need to be scary again?</p><p>And why do those things on everyone&rsquo;s faces look like Borg implants?</p><p>[I can beat you in three moves.]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-nightmare-in-silver">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=U-g0hNZCTRM:dCMVG_5XqNg:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/U-g0hNZCTRM" height="1" width="1"/> Emily Asher-Perrin Published Mon, 13 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-nightmare-in-silver http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/doctor-who-nightmare-in-silver http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/zA6I2nbCGFE/jonathan-rhys-meyers-dracula-could-make-dashing-vampires-cool-again <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Jessica De Gouw as Mina with Dracula" class="blog-pic-middle-align " src="http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_05/Dracula 12.jpg" style="height: 345px; width: 475px;" /></p><p>The first images for NBC&rsquo;s sexy TV reboot of <em>Dracula</em> have emerged<a href="http://www.blastr.com/2013-5-12/take-first-look-jonathan-rhys-meyers-nbcs-new-dracula-series" target="_blank">, along with a new&nbsp;synopsis </a>and I think (against conventional wisdom) that it might not (pun intended) suck. Here&rsquo;s why.</p><p>[Read more]</p><p><a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/jonathan-rhys-meyers-dracula-could-make-dashing-vampires-cool-again">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?i=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?a=zA6I2nbCGFE:vhIiiWnSthc:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~4/zA6I2nbCGFE" height="1" width="1"/> Ryan Britt Published Mon, 13 May 2013 15:45:00 +0000 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/jonathan-rhys-meyers-dracula-could-make-dashing-vampires-cool-again http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/jonathan-rhys-meyers-dracula-could-make-dashing-vampires-cool-again