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THE SOUND OF REINDEER

Lyndsie Manusos
Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:00am 6 comments 15 Favorites [+]

Ada’s holiday trip to meet her girlfriend’s family becomes a bit more fraught
than usual when she discovers the family’s unusual Christmas Eve tradition…

 

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 * Original Fiction


IVY, ANGELICA, BAY

C. L. Polk
Fri Dec 8, 2023 9:00am 5 comments 19 Favorites [+]

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development
firm, Miss l’Abielle steps up to protect her community with the help of a
mysterious orphaned girl in this charming follow-up to “St. Valentine, St.
Abigail, St. Brigid,” featured on LeVar Burton Reads.

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 * Original Fiction


A HEART BETWEEN TEETH

Kerstin Hall
Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:00am 4 comments 22 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!

[Read more]

 * Original Fiction


SOME WAYS TO RETELL A FAIRY TALE

Kathleen Jennings
Wed Nov 8, 2023 9:00am 2 comments 15 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 7 comments 30 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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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BLOG

 * Science Fiction


FIVE SFF STORIES INVOLVING INTENTIONAL BODY MODIFICATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS

James Davis Nicoll
Wed Jan 3, 2024 10:00am 51 comments 8 Favorites [+]

An alternative to externally-mandated modification is, of course, self-directed
modification. Who among us has not mused wistfully on how convenient it would be
to replace our current eyes with functional sets, improve hearing, or simply
acquire the ability to set people on fire just by thinking about it?

While modern technology does offer short-cuts for self-modification—glasses,
hearing aids, and microwave lasers tuned to the resonant frequency of
water—these often fall short in one aspect or another. SFF authors can imagine
far more potent methods to facilitate self-directed modification—in fact, as
these five works show, they have!

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 * comfort reads


THE COMFORT OF “COMPETENCE PORN” STORIES

Rachel Ayers
Tue Jan 2, 2024 12:00pm 39 comments 5 Favorites [+]

It seems like we’ve all embraced the concept of comfort reads (and comfort
shows/movies) lately, particularly over the last few tumultuous years. There are
cozy mysteries, domestic fantasies, stories where nothing bad happens, books
that focus above all on kindness and caring—the kind of tales we turn to and
share whenever we need to feel better about the world. Well, I’d like to
acknowledge another type of story that belongs in this category: Competence
porn. I find that competence porn can be really, really comforting (and I’d
welcome more of it, so if you have any recommendations, please mention them in
the comments!).

If you know what I’m talking about, you probably don’t require much convincing.
If you don’t, I’ll break it down for you: What the hell is competence porn?

[Read more]

 * Best of 2023


SOME OF TOR.COM’S BEST ARTICLES ABOUT TV, MOVIES, AND POP CULTURE

Tor.com
Wed Jan 3, 2024 12:00pm 1 comment Favorite This

Happy New Year, and welcome to Tor.com’s yearly round-up of some of our favorite
articles from the twelve months! In case you missed it, there’s a separate list
for discussions about fiction, reading, writing, and all things book-related;
the list below highlights essays about other aspects of popular culture, with a
focus on film, television, and gaming in particular.

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 * adaptations


SKYDANCE PICKS UP JOHN FLANAGAN’S RANGER’S APPRENTICE SERIES FOR FILM ADAPTATION

Vanessa Armstrong
Fri Jan 5, 2024 3:30pm Favorite This
Credit: John Flanagan photo; ccbysa/GFDL CC BY 3.0

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, direct, and produce the movie.

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 * news


NETFLIX’S ADAPTATION OF JOHN SCALZI’S OLD MAN’S WAR IS STILL IN THE WORKS

Vanessa Armstrong
Fri Jan 5, 2024 2:29pm 3 Favorites [+]
Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 3.0

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 it to the production stage), but
it sounds like the Netflix movie adaptation is still moving forward.

[Read more]

 * Horror


SNOW AND SURVIVAL: 5 HORROR STORIES SET DURING WINTER

Lorna Wallace
Fri Jan 5, 2024 12:00pm 9 comments 1 Favorite [+]
Photo: Justin Kauffman [via Unsplash]

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 your spine, all that’s needed are
some not-so-friendly creatures lurking among the snowdrifts…

[Read more]

 * book recommendations


CAN’T MISS INDIE PRESS SPECULATIVE FICTION FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2024

Tobias Carroll
Fri Jan 5, 2024 10:00am Post a comment 2 Favorites [+]

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 correspondence. I wish I
could say that this was some sort of uncanny slippage through time, like in a
Steve Erickson novel; it’s not.

On the plus side, at least the first two months of 2024 have some
promising-looking books due out from indie presses.

[Read more]

 * trailers


MARVEL’S MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR SEASON 2 WILL INCLUDE A SPARKLING LIST OF
GUEST STARS

Vanessa Armstrong
Thu Jan 4, 2024 3:53pm Favorite This


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.

[Read more]

 * book review
 * K.J. Parker


K.J. PARKER DELIVERS A STRONG SEQUEL WITH SAEVUS CORAX CAPTURES THE CASTLE

Matthew Keeley
Thu Jan 4, 2024 3:00pm Post a comment 1 Favorite [+]

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 battles are done, then he and his
salvage crew tidy up the field: burning or burying bodies, retrieving uniforms
and weapons, removing rings from fingers and earrings from ears, prying shoes
from horses and arrows from people. Any wounded found in the wreckage are nursed
back to health; needless to say, Saevus, who does not run a charity, charges
their government for this service.

Unfortunately for Saevus Corax, he is the protagonist of a K.J. Parker trilogy,
and so he never can labor in his desired obscurity.

[Some spoilers ahead for the first book in the series.]

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 * trailers


SHE IS CONANN TRAILER GIVES US THE QUEER EPIC FANTASY YOU’RE LOOKING FOR, MAYBE

Vanessa Armstrong
Thu Jan 4, 2024 2:53pm 2 Favorites [+]


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.

[Read more]

 * trailers


A SOON TO BE STAR-CROSSED DOG AND ROBOT MEET-CUTE IN ROBOT DREAMS TRAILER

Vanessa Armstrong
Thu Jan 4, 2024 2:15pm Favorite This


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 yet to screen for the general
public in the U.S., but we’re now being treated to a trailer to give us a tease
of what the movie is like.

[Read more]

 * Young Adult


MOST ANTICIPATED YOUNG ADULT SFF/H FOR JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2024

Alex Brown
Thu Jan 4, 2024 1:30pm Post a comment 1 Favorite [+]

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.

[Read more]

 * cover reveal


GODS, BEASTS, AND BURGEONING ROMANCE: AIDEN THOMAS TALKS CELESTIAL MONSTERS

Tor.com
Thu Jan 4, 2024 12:00pm Post a comment 4 Favorites [+]
Photo credit: Sara Elroubi

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 author!

[Read more]

 * news


THE COURSE OF TEEN LOVE RUNS RAMPANT AND BLOODY IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR LISA
FRANKENSTEIN

Molly Templeton
Thu Jan 4, 2024 11:55am 3 Favorites [+]


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 corpse gets reanimated (via lightning
and/or a tanning bed), and young Lisa (Kathryn Newton) gets her heart’s desire.

Then it’s time to do some murder, obviously.

[Read more]

 * Jo Walton Reads


JO WALTON’S READING LIST: DECEMBER 2023

Jo Walton
Thu Jan 4, 2024 11:00am 13 comments 8 Favorites [+]

Oh my goodness, 2024 already! I was home in December, writing, and over the
holidays I had friends to stay in a Covid-cautious bubble that let me have fun
and see people in a relatively safe way, though my son and other friends got
sick—which meant that the present-opening part of Christmas got postponed
several days after the traditional 25th. Stay safe out there.

I finished thirteen books in December, some of them great.

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 * Elantris reread


ELANTRIS REREAD: CHAPTERS FORTY-NINE AND FIFTY

Paige Vest and Lyndsey Luther
Thu Jan 4, 2024 10:00am 9 comments Favorite This

Well well well! Here we are in another bright and shiny new year, my Cosmere
Chickens! And I sincerely hope that this one treats you better than the one
before. (If you had a good year, I hope that this one’s even better. And if it
was a bad one, well… same wish.)

You may remember that we left off on a bit of a sad place in our reread two
weeks ago. Prince Raoden’s still “dead” and stuck in Elantris, and the Aons are
still stubbornly refusing to work for him. Princess Sarene’s been “cured” of her
Shaod, but that means that she’s been separated from “Spirit” ::pout:: and
thrust back into the politically fraught turmoil of Kaye, where Telrii has taken
over the throne but refused to convert to Shu-Dereth (as he promised Hrathen he
would). Things aren’t quite at a boil, but they’re getting close. So won’t you
join us as we light a candle and make our way down the streets of Elantris, on
our way to meet Raoden in a certain dimly lit, dusty library…

[Read more]


SERIES: ELANTRIS REREAD

 * news


SNEAK PEEK OF LA BREA’S FINAL SEASON REVEALS DINOSAURS WRECKING THE AUTOMOTIVE
MUSEUM, LIKE DINOSAURS DO

Vanessa Armstrong
Wed Jan 3, 2024 4:11pm Favorite This


NBC’s La Brea is about to have its third and final season. If you haven’t
watched the series yet, here’s the overarching premise: a bunch of folks in Los
Angeles fall into a huge sinkhole after an earthquake and find themselves… in
another time. And things get more convoluted from there, potential viewers! In a
way that harkens back to television shows of yore like Lost and, well, Lost. 

[Read more]

 * trailers


THE FIRST OMEN TRAILER GIVES US PRIESTS AND NUNS CREATING AN EVIL OFFSPRING

Vanessa Armstrong
Wed Jan 3, 2024 2:29pm Favorite This


The prequel to The Omen is finally making its way to theaters, and we have a
trailer to prove it.

[Read more]

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 * Reading Winter’s Heart (Part 6)
 * Terry Pratchett Book Club: Wintersmith, Part III
 * 5 SFF Books Set in the American South
 * Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II”

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