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A HEART BETWEEN TEETH

Kerstin Hall
Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:00am 3 comments 19 Favorites [+]

A new novelette set in the realms of Kerstin Hall’s acclaimed The Mkalis Cycle
series. The 813th realm of Mkalis has fallen to a cruel and mercurial god, but
Tahmais, its would-be successor, finds an unlikely ally in her quest to reclaim
it at any cost…

Sneak a peek at the cover for Kerstin Hall’s new standalone fantasy novel
ASUNDER, coming August 2024 from Tordotcom!

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 * Original Fiction


SOME WAYS TO RETELL A FAIRY TALE

Kathleen Jennings
Wed Nov 8, 2023 9:00am 2 comments 14 Favorites [+]

There’s more to “once upon a time” than meets the eye…

A version of this story appeared in TEXT.

 

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 * Original Fiction


THE CANADIAN MIRACLE

Cory Doctorow
Wed Nov 1, 2023 9:00am 4 comments 15 Favorites [+]

A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery
workers’ efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi.

This story is set in the same future as The Lost Cause, Cory Doctorow’s new
novel, available everywhere on November 14, 2023.

 

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 * Original Fiction


ON THE FOX ROADS

Nghi Vo
Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:00am 6 comments 24 Favorites [+]

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway
discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight
lines when you run the fox roads…

 

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 * Original Fiction


THE LOCKED COFFIN: A JUDGE DEE MYSTERY

Lavie Tidhar
Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:00am 10 comments 28 Favorites [+]

A new Judge Dee mystery!

While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge
Dee and Jonathan discover the only thing more menacing than a vampire child is
twin vampire children…

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 * Original Fiction


NOT THE MOST ROMANTIC THING

Carrie Vaughn
Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:00am 15 comments 25 Favorites [+]

On one of their earliest Visigoth assignments, Graff and Ell stumble into each
other’s secrets (and one significant surprise) while conducting a recovery
mission on a mining asteroid scheduled for imminent pulverization…

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 * Original Fiction


JACK O’DANDER

Priya Sharma
Wed Oct 4, 2023 9:00am 5 comments 17 Favorites [+]

The sister of an abducted child is haunted by a sinister figure who may or may
not be real. . .

 

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DOCTOR WHO SPINOFFS I’D LOVE TO SEE

Charlie Jane Anders
Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:00pm 28 comments 9 Favorites [+]

Doctor Who is back! Last Saturday, we got the first new episode in absolute
yoinks, and there’s tons more to come. Returning showrunner Russell T. Davies
has said that one of his goals is to make more Who spinoffs, the same way RTD’s
previous stint was accompanied by Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. (Full
disclosure: RTD gave a very generous cover blurb to my novel Victories Greater
Than Death.)

As someone who thinks about Doctor Who all the time (it’s true!) I’ve been
musing about spin-offs I’d like to see. Here’s a bunch. (Warning: Spoilers for
old Doctor Who stories ahead…)

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 * Science Fiction


FIVE BOOKS FEATURING SUDDEN, UNEXPECTED CALAMITIES THAT CHANGE EVERYTHING

James Davis Nicoll
Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:00pm 23 comments 5 Favorites [+]

Every morning, many humans wake up to the soothing sound of songbirds amidst
verdant forests, confident that another sixteen hours of Earthly paradise await
before returning to perfect, untroubled sleep. But what if that weren’t true?
What if something unpleasant, perhaps even catastrophic, were waiting? Terrible
news for the people about to have a very bad day. Excellent news for readers… as
these five books prove.

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 * Mark as Read


WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT A BOOK BEFORE YOU READ IT?

Molly Templeton
Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:00am 7 comments 1 Favorite [+]

This past weekend, I read Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory. Not quite in one
sitting—sleep was required, at one point—but in under 24 hours. I’d given myself
permission to just read, to not do any of the things that were nagging at me,
and I took that permission and ran with it.

The book is fantastic; you shouldn’t, by now, need me to tell you that. But a
detail in the way it’s presented got me thinking about what a reader does or
doesn’t want to know when they pick up a book. This is not so much a matter of
what counts as a spoiler—an eternal debate in which I do not wish to embroil
myself!—but what information is too little, what is too much, and what is just
enough.

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 * news


BARBENHEIMER 2? BARBIE AND OPPY (PLUS HULK AND IRON MAN!) TO FACE OFF IN
INTERVIEWS

Vanessa Armstrong
Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:44pm Favorite This
Screenshot: Warner Bros. Pictures

There’s nothing quite like seeing two A-list actors try to interview each other,
and Variety knows it. The trade publication hosts a series of actor-on-actor
interviews, and the latest batch has some fun pair-ups.

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 * book review


THEA GUANZON’S THE HURRICANE WARS IS A WHIRLWIND FANTASY ROMANCE THAT STANDS ON
ITS OWN

Natalie Zutter
Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:00pm Post a comment Favorite This

I keep thinking about something that Philippines-based author Thea Guanzon said
in a recent interview with Paste Books: “Coming at it from the perspective of
someone who lives in the Global South, fanfiction opened doors for me that I
otherwise would not have had access to.” Her debut novel The Hurricane Wars may
have started as a Star Wars fanfic, but its transformation into a Southeast
Asian-inspired fantasy romance has a greater emotional resonance because of
where it started. Like fierce heroine Talasyn, Guanzon can credit a mix of luck
and her own drive with achieving a dream—here, a published novel—that had
previously seemed impossible.

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 * news


WE’VE GOT ONE WONDERFUL TIDBIT FROM THE SIX OF CROWS SERIES NETFLIX DIDN’T
GREENLIGHT

Vanessa Armstrong
Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:43pm Favorite This
Credit: Dávid Lukács/Netflix

More than a few folks were upset to hear the news that Netflix didn’t move
forward with a third season of Shadow and Bone. And to make matters worse, we
also found out that the streamer commissioned a writers’ room for the Six of
Crows spinoff, but decided not to move forward to production with the
already-written scripts.

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 * interview


OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH’S ZHENG YI SAO IS THE “DON DRAPER OF THE SEA,” ACCORDING TO
RUIBO QIAN

Vanessa Armstrong
Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:00pm Post a comment 1 Favorite [+]
Credit: Nicola Dove/Max

The second season of Our Flag Means Death introduced us to some new characters.
One of the new folks we meet is Zheng Yi Sao, a pirate who brought China to its
knees, and who also is more than a little interested in Oluwande and his
“softness.”

Zheng Yi Sao is based on a real-life pirate (though she lived decades after Ed
and Stede roamed the open seas), and her introduction to the crew we’ve come to
love is a welcome addition. And just like Ed and Stede are markedly different
than their real-life counterparts, Ruibo Qian, who plays Zheng Yi on the show,
brought her own take to her character as well.

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 * Teen Horror Time Machine


MYSTERIOUS MESSAGES: CAROL ELLIS’ MY SECRET ADMIRER AND R.L. STINE’S SECRET
ADMIRER

Alissa Burger
Thu Nov 30, 2023 1:00pm Post a comment Favorite This

Sometimes a thoughtful note or a sweet gift from a secret admirer can be a
much-appreciated confidence boost. These anonymous kindnesses let you know that
somebody’s thinking about you and even better, thinks you’re pretty great. An
admirer might keep their identity a secret for several different reasons: maybe
they’re working on a nice surprise or a grand gesture, maybe they’re smitten but
shy, maybe they’re just trying to send a bit of kindness out into the world. Or
maybe they’re planning to murder you and don’t want to get caught. In Carol
Ellis’s My Secret Admirer (1989) and R.L. Stine’s Secret Admirer (1996), Jenny
Fowler and Selena Goodrich have to figure out who their secret admirers are and
what they want–before it’s too late. 

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 * news


THE BLACK PHONE 2 RINGS UP MUCH OF THE CAST FROM THE FIRST FILM

Molly Templeton
Thu Nov 30, 2023 12:18pm 1 Favorite [+]
Screenshot: Blumhouse Productions / Universal Pictures

The Black Phone continues to ring. The 2022 adaptation of Joe Hill’s story was
one of last year’s most profitable movies, and naturally, a sequel is on the
way. Deadline reports that a possibly surprising number of actors will be
returning for the phone’s next ring: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine
McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Miguel Mora.

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 * movies


FIVE AMAZING LESSER-KNOWN MOVIES ABOUT ALIENS

Lorna Wallace
Thu Nov 30, 2023 12:00pm 2 comments 1 Favorite [+]

If you’re a regular reader of Tor.com, then there’s a pretty good chance you
like movies about aliens. If you’ve already seen the classics of the genre
countless times—movies like Alien (1979), The Thing (1982), and E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial (1982)—and you’re looking for something a little more
esoteric, then here, for your consideration, are five alien movies that are
hidden gems…

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 * Mark as Read


WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT A BOOK BEFORE YOU READ IT?

Molly Templeton
Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:00am 7 comments 1 Favorite [+]
"Woman in White" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (c.1916)

This past weekend, I read Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory. Not quite in one
sitting—sleep was required, at one point—but in under 24 hours. I’d given myself
permission to just read, to not do any of the things that were nagging at me,
and I took that permission and ran with it.

The book is fantastic; you shouldn’t, by now, need me to tell you that. But a
detail in the way it’s presented got me thinking about what a reader does or
doesn’t want to know when they pick up a book. This is not so much a matter of
what counts as a spoiler—an eternal debate in which I do not wish to embroil
myself!—but what information is too little, what is too much, and what is just
enough.

Read More »

 * news


DIRECTOR FRANCIS LAWRENCE MAY LACE UP HIS SHOES FOR STEPHEN KING’S THE LONG WALK

Molly Templeton
Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:47am Favorite This

There’s a new Stephen King adaptation to add to your list (you keep a list,
right? A really long list?). According to The Hollywood Reporter, director
Francis Lawrence (Constantine) is in “final talks” to direct The Long Walk for
Lionsgate (who just picked up the rights). JT Mollner (Outlaws and Angels) will
write the script.

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 * Brandon Sanderson


ELANTRIS REREAD: CHAPTERS FORTY-TWO AND FORTY-THREE 

Paige Vest and Lyndsey Luther
Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:00am 8 comments Favorite This

P: Welcome back after the Turkey Day hiatus, Cosmere Chickens. Lyndsey and I are
back at it and wondering… “Can you feel the love tonight, the peace the evening
brings?” Because guurrrlll, Raoden is all starry eyed and love sick and we are
HERE for it. We’ve been waiting for him and his Teo princess with the eyes and
the wits and the form… to be thrust together in Elantris and, as evil as it was
to do, we kind of thank Hrathen for poisoning Sarene.

Did I just say that? Really?

L: You sure did. I suppose even a broken clock like Hrathen is right twice a
day…

P: I suppose it is! So, Chickens, join us for the wuv… twu wuv… and see how
loopy our prince is as well as how arrogant and self-important Hrathen is
feeling now that he’s leveled up to HEALED BY JADDETH! ::beckons:: Right this
way, you little cluckers. Join us.

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SERIES: ELANTRIS REREAD

 * trailers


GETTING POSSESSED BY AN EVIL SWIMMING POOL IS A FAMILY AFFAIR IN NIGHT SWIM
TRAILER

Vanessa Armstrong
Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:17pm 1 Favorite [+]


We have another trailer for Night Swim, the movie about an evil swimming pool
targeting the new family that moved in. This one is, frankly, a vast improvement
from the first one, and also gives us more of a clue as to what specific horrors
said swimming pool will commit.

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 * book review


LOSS AND ATTEMPTED REDEMPTION: THE SIREN, THE SONG, AND THE SPY BY MAGGIE
TOKUDA-HALL

Vanessa Armstrong
Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:00pm Post a comment 1 Favorite [+]

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy, the companion novel to Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s
first book in this fantasy world, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, is about
loss and attempted redemption, about the atrocities wrought by empires, and
about the cyclical horrors that humanity inflicts on itself and the environment.

It is also—buffered by Tokuda-Hall’s emotive prose—a compelling tale about a
handful of characters trying to topple a brutal, oppressive empire while trying
to stay alive. The book is told from multiple points of view, but the four main
ones are Genevieve, a young woman indoctrinated by the Empire who realizes that
the force she thought was just for most of her life is, in fact, the opposite;
Koa and Kaia, siblings of the Wariuta people, islanders with hyena familiars who
have yet to be yoked by the Empire; and Alfie, a young man who is aiding the
pirates rebelling against the Empire by working undercover in the palace.

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 * news


BRIAN AND WENDY FROUD’S FAERIES IS GETTING A TELEVISION ADAPTATION THANKS TO JIM
HENSON COMPANY AND AMAZON

Vanessa Armstrong
Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:25pm 2 Favorites [+]

Brian and Wendy Froud, the designers who met while working on The Dark Crystal
and went on to work with The Jim Henson Company on Labyrinth and, more recently,
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, are working with Amazon MGM Studios and the
Henson Company to adapt their work into a television show.

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 * Weird Fiction


ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE: REMY NAKAMURA’S “WET DREAMS IN R’LYEH”

Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:00pm 9 comments 2 Favorites [+]

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 Remy Nakamura’s “Wet Dreams in R’lyeh,” first published in
Frances Lu Pai Ippolito and Mark Teppo’s 2023 The Cozy Cosmic anthology. It’s a
fun, fast read—go pick it up! Spoilers ahead.

Read More »


SERIES: READING THE WEIRD

 * interview


OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH’S VICO ORTIZ SHARES JIM’S FEAR OF A CERTAIN HAUNTED JACKET

Vanessa Armstrong
Wed Nov 29, 2023 1:00pm Post a comment 2 Favorites [+]
Credit: Nicola Dove/Max

The second season of Our Flag Means Death ended a month ago, and if you’re
caught up, you know that the found family of pirates had quite a journey over
the course of its eight episodes.

One of those pirates is Jim, played by Vico Ortiz. Ortiz’s character is no
longer simply the revenge-focused assassin we met in the first season—they’ve
had the opportunity to explore different sides of themselves. “Jim has this
opportunity to explore who they are finally, outside of their own individual
revenge identity,” Ortiz told me in a recent interview. “They get to engage more
emotionally with the crew and be like, ‘Who am I aside from knives? Who am I
outside of killing?’”

Read More »

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