So this is the new year, Ben Gibbard sings in my head for a number of days (or weeks) around New Year’s Eve. The holiday season means a million different things, and to me it is strange and weird and personal, not full of gifts but specific, meaningful dates, a vague feeling like … | Continue reading
We announced a big change recently—a renaming from “Tor.com” to “Reactor”—and you very understandably have questions! Now that we’ve had some time to field your questions through email, social, and elsewhere, we’ll explain more about the changeover and see if we can answer some o … | Continue reading
Star Trek 4 is still happening. That’s what Deadline says, and that’s what I choose to believe. But that isn’t the only Star Trek film currently making its less-than-warp-speed way to theaters. Paramount has hired Toby Haynes (Andor) to direct a script by Seth Grahame-Smith (Abra … | Continue reading
Greetings and salutations, Cosmere Chickens! We have less than 15% of the book left to go, and while things in this pair of chapters seem to be at a bit of a standstill, we all know that Sander-lanche is looming on the horizon, ready to bury us in climactic goodness! So for now, … | Continue reading
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Book 2 of Seven Faceless Saints: Damian Venturi isn't aware of it yet. But as small shifts start to crack the foundations of the Ombrazian power structure after the Rebellion's attack, cracks are beginning to show in Damian's own facade. | Continue reading
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover Algernon Blackwood’s “A Victim of Higher Space,” first published in The Occult … | Continue reading
Head below for the full list of young adult SFF titles heading your way in January! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by the publisher. Release dates are subject to change. January 2 Sky’s End — Marc … | Continue reading
It’s borderline unimaginable that it took this long, but finally, at long last, Luke Skywalker met his mother. Which is to say, Mark Hamill met Natalie Portman at the Golden Globes this year. We all get to share in this moment because Hamill posted about it on Twitter: Now I have … | Continue reading
Dynamite with a laser beam, guaranteed to blow your mind… in my humble opinion there is no character greater, no figure so interesting, as the classic sci-fi femme fatale. I’ve been obsessed with evil women from a formative age and it wasn’t long before I stopped reading about th … | Continue reading
From August 2017 – January 2020, Keith R.A. DeCandido took a weekly look at every live-action movie based on a superhero comic that had been made to date in the Superhero Movie Rewatch. He’s periodically revisited the feature to look back at new releases, as well as a few he miss … | Continue reading
The Philip K. Dick Award is given each year for “distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States during the previous calendar year.” Last year’s winner was The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger, with a special citation for Tade Thompson’s The … | Continue reading
We’ve all been there: consumed with a desire to read but without any concrete idea of what in particular one wants to read. There are many strategies for finding books to read—which I will get back to at a later time—and it is quite possible to end up with so many potential reads … | Continue reading
They won’t be talking it through as a crew any longer. After two glorious seasons of hijinks, love, cat flags, cursed jackets, nose jars, and ever, ever so much more, Our Flag Means Death has been sent to a watery grave: The powers that be at Max, in their infinite wisdom, have c … | Continue reading
Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest in peace while their grudges live on... | Continue reading
We haven’t gotten much news recently about 3 Body Problem, the Netflix series from Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, as well as Alexander Woo (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, True Blood). The series based on the books by Cixin Liu, however, got a tra … | Continue reading
The indie film Monolith made the festival rounds last year, and Well Go USA Entertainment has picked it up for a wider theatrical release (and a release in digital) next month. The movie, which has been described as a low-fi sci-fi thriller, centers around a journalist who gets s … | Continue reading
For humans, Salizar’s is a place of mystery and wonder. For Harrow, it’s a place to hide from those who slaughtered her entire clan. | Continue reading
After weeks and weeks of rumors and speculation—guys, guys, Craig Mazin followed her on Instagram!—it’s official: Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart) will play Abby in the second season of The Last of Us. HBO describes Abby as “a skilled soldier whose black-and-white view of the world is c … | Continue reading
Head below for the full list of science fiction titles heading your way in January! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by the publisher. Release dates are subject to change. January 2 Down These Mean S … | Continue reading
In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to a … | Continue reading
Baby Yoda’s big day out is coming! Lucasfilm has just announced The Mandalorian and Grogu, a feature film that will go into production later this year. Notably, this is not the Dave Filoni movie that is meant to tie up all the stories set in the Mandalorian era. This film will be … | Continue reading
This is the news we’ve been looking for: Star Wars: Ahsoka will return for a second season. The latest Star Wars streaming series, which premiered in August of 2023, ended on a note that was not exactly a cliffhanger, but left many, many loose threads. And now we’ll get to see wh … | Continue reading
I came up with the concept for this post moments before I saw the following tweet: The woman/gay person version of this is thinking you could probably join a cult and then just kinda leave whenever https://t.co/blFc5VCVg6 — zou bisou bisou where are you (@lilgrapefruits) December … | Continue reading
Big Brother is coming … and he’ll be voiced by Venom. Which is to say, Tom Hardy is among the outstanding cast in Audible’s latest audio drama, which comes from director Destiny Ekaragha (The End of the F***ing World) and playwright Joe White (Blackout Songs). Hardy will be joine … | Continue reading
From the New York Times best-selling author of The WindUp Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping literary fantasy about the young scion from a ruling-class family who faces rebellion as he ascends to power. We’re thrilled to share the cover of Paolo Bacigalupi’s Navola, a new … | Continue reading
It may be the new year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dip back a month or two to read some excellent short speculative fiction. Stories that come out during the last few weeks of the year often get missed as everyone looks ahead, so here are ten of my favorite science fiction, f … | Continue reading
We have some big news. Tor Publishing Group announced today that Tor.com will become Reactor (www.reactormag.com) on January 23, 2024, coinciding with the launch of a completely redesigned website. Since its founding in 2008, Tor.com has become a leader in coverage of science fic … | Continue reading
Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations. | Continue reading
HBO’s The Last of Us, an adaptation of the popular video game about a post-apocalyptic world where most of humanity have been turned into mushroom-infected, zombie-like creatures, was one of the most critically praised and popular television series of last year. One of the best e … | Continue reading
Head below for the full list of fantasy, science fiction, young adult SFF, horror, romantasy, and other SFF-crossover titles heading your way in January! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by the publish … | Continue reading
The last season of What If…? was released once a week, and I reviewed each episode as it came out. Given that Marvel/Disney decided to put the second season out each night over nine nights, like some sort of janky comics Hanukkah, we thought it’d make more sense to do one big wra … | Continue reading
“Demons” Written by Manny Coto Directed by LeVar Burton Season 4, Episode 20 Production episode 096 Original air date: May 6, 2005 Date: January 19, 2155 Captain’s star log. On the moon, at the Orpheus Mining Facility, John Frederick Paxton, the mine’s owner, and a doctor named M … | Continue reading
Reptiles often appear in legend and story as horrifying monsters or portents of doom; perhaps it’s a holdover from the prehistoric days when fearsome dinosaurs roamed the earth. I’m just as inclined to love a good rampaging lizard-beast as much as the next guy, but lately, I’ve b … | Continue reading
Mark Pellington’s 2002 film, based on John Keel’s 1975 book, was my gateway drug to the weirdness that is the Mothman. I’ll tackle the book next week. For now, let’s just sit back and watch the horror ever so slowly unfold, as Richard Gere plays Washington Post ace reporter John … | Continue reading
The Golden Globes returned last night, and that went about as well as can be expected for an awards show that is famously something of a mess (and with a troubled history, to boot). But there’s good news among all the baffling fashion choices and predictable wins! Studio Ghibli w … | Continue reading
The tech industry is renowned for innovation, from self-driving cars that will one day confidently plow into lane dividers or street signs, to bitcoin currencies perfect for reducing fortunes to pocket change, to everyone’s favorite, the torment nexus. Now allegations have emerge … | Continue reading
Skydance is moving fast and has big plans for adapting John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice books, a popular young adult fantasy series. Not only does the studio hope the initial live-action film will be the first of a franchise, but they’ve also got Ted Melfi on board to adapt, d … | Continue reading
We first found out that Netflix optioned the rights to John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War over six years ago, back in December 2017. It’s not uncommon for things to get optioned but never get made (Old Man’s War, in fact, had been previously optioned by Paramount and Syfy without making … | Continue reading
Snow can be magical, softly blanketing the landscape, making everything look beautiful and unreal. But snow and ice can also be dangerous and menacing, and in the hands of horror authors, cold weather can create an atmosphere of real terror. To send a truly memorable shiver up yo … | Continue reading
Somehow Palpatine returned, only in this scenario the role of “Palpatine returned” will be played by “it’s 2024.” I’m as surprised as you are; I still have to remind myself to write “2023” on my checks, which suggests that I’m likely to fall two years off on at least one piece of … | Continue reading
The first season of the animated series Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was a pure delight, and if the new trailer for the second season is any indication, the upcoming episodes will be equally enjoyable to watch. Thirteen-year-old Lunella Lafayette (aka Moon Girl) is settl … | Continue reading
Saevus Corax is the sort of man who doesn’t like to be the center of attention, because being the center of attention invariably means that someone is trying to kill him. He seeks no glory in the wars that constantly pop up across his benighted continent; he waits until the battl … | Continue reading
A queer, gender-flipped take on Conan The Barbarian from French filmmaker Bertrand Mandico is heading to the United States, and the trailer gives us a glimpse of what the film entails. Mandico’s movie, titled She Is Conann, is shot on 35MM film and, as the trailer teases, reveals … | Continue reading
Filmmaker Pablo Berger has created an animated film adaptation of Sara Varon’s graphic novel Robot Dreams. According to the buzz from the festival circuit, it’s one of the best movies of the year and currently boasts a 100 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film has ye … | Continue reading
I hope you got through your TBR piles over the winter break because I’ve got 20 young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for you. These are my most anticipated new books coming out in January and February 2024, books full of adventure, drama, and a whole lotta chaos … | Continue reading
Teo never thought he could be a hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. Author Aiden Thomas returns to the world of The Sunbearer Trials in Celestial Monsters—publishing September 3, 2024 with Feiwel & Friends. We’re thrilled to share the cover below, plus an interview with the auth … | Continue reading
When there are no good boys available, what’s a (seemingly straight) girl to do? Pine over a lovely dead guy in a graveyard, obviously. For most young goths, such pining is the end of the romantic line: dead guys gonna stay dead. But in Lisa Frankenstein, the sweet, decayed corps … | Continue reading