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Offline life is busy enough, with few enough prospects for things letting up any time soon, that I am finally forced to admit it’s time for an open thread. So let’s go a little further afield this time, and talk about favorite (or otherwise interesting) responses to The Lord of the Rings in ...
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In the two weeks since I announced my intent to challenge Brandon Sanderson to a game of Magic: The Gathering , I’ve been made all-too-aware of three undeniable facts:
Brandon is more popular than me
Brandon is a better Magic player than me
And most of you want ...
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Brandon Sanderson
There’s a moment early in New Moon where Edward walks up to Bella in painfully-extended slow motion for their morning “No, I love you more”s. Proto-werewolf Jacob Black materializes to wish Bella a happy birthday. As Bella and Jacob talk, Edward stands a few feet away, glowering; when ...
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Time travel as a scientific concept has been
with us at least since the 19th century publication
of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine . But is it a real possibility? And how plausible are fictional portrayals of it? Kurt Andersen, host of the radio ...
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Studio 360: The Science and Fiction of Time Travel
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Earlier this year, Tor.com debuted as an imprint independent from Tor Books by publishing Year’s Best Fantasy 9 , David G. Hartwell’s and Kathryn Cramer’s definitive anthology of fantastical stories.
While YBF9 is still available as a print-on demand edition, and you can buy your very own ...
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Traveling to strange new worlds or dimensions play a big part in that genre we call science fiction. In fact it’s one of my favorite themes. I’ve been traveling quite a bit lately, talking to schools and libraries across the country about the Fahrenheit 451 adaptation, and how graphic novels ...
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Vampires, werewolves, and parasols. Oh my .
I’m not one to use the word “delightful.” It doesn’t cross my lips in conversation or in writing. I’m a cynical geek, and while most geeks experience love, hate, obsession, desire, and myriad other emotions, delight is just too... pure of a feeling ...
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The smell at the Wal-Mart was overpowering. It was one part sharp mold, one part industrial disinfectant, a citrus smell that made your eyes water and your sinuses burn.
“I’ve rented some big blowers,” Perry said. “They’ll help air the place out. If that ...
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Emmet’s reading Acacia by this year’s John W.
Campbell Award winner David Anthony Durham. It is labeled
book one of “War with the Mein.” This led me to pondering that common pitfall of making up fantasy names: hitting on something that already ...
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Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to ...
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From classrooms to the cruise ships, traveling is
always a fascinating adventure As a child, the ...
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A Bird Out of the Cage
In my last post I offered my recommendations of young adult fantasy novels ; now I’d like to share some YA science fiction recs. I think you’ll find there’s something that’ll appeal to just about everyone!
If you like psychological SF , like Passage and Flowers for Algernon , try:
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High on a hill was a lonely goat who ate some berries and went kind of crack-headed all over Ethiopia, and people have loved coffee ever since. I love coffee. I love the steam and aroma of a cup so massive you stir it with a supermodel, and after you drink it, you can set fires with your ...
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Today we offer the final installment in our
series of interviews with Ray Bradbury. These videos follow closely
on the heels of our serialization of Tim Hamilton’s graphic novel adaptation of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 . Bradbury has discussed ...
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Ray Bradbury on Fahrenheit 451 and Humanity’s Future
After five Oz books, L. Frank Baum longed to write something else—almost anything else. He had already written a few other fantasy books ( Queen Zixi of Ix, John Dough and the Cherub , and The Magical Monarch of Mo ) and he had a new heroine in mind, a young girl named Trot. His last Oz ...
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Backwards up the mossy glen
Turned and trooped the goblin men,
With their shrill repeated cry,
‘Come buy, come buy. ’
~ Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti
Podcast: Incomplete (up to Episode 14)
Format: Audio and Ebook
RSS Feed: http://jenniferhudock.com/goblin-market/
Genre: ...
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Man, does my heart beat for sci-fi. It’s
a pity the genre rarely gets its deserved due
in the mainstream. I can cite a dozen SF novels released this year that beat the pants off The Lost Symbol and other New York Times bestsellers in both content and ...
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Why SF fans (and authors) can benefit from reading other ...
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By popular demand, or, more accurately, by one
request, here is a follow-up to the our “H.M.S.
Stubbington” post . This time we will show some of the early sketches for our official logo, Stubby, the Tor.com rocket. Before we get to Stubbs, I ...
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Stubby, the Tor.com rocket
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I started editing anthologies in Australia in 1996.
Looking back, it’s completely unsurprising that the first anthologies
I edited were ‘year’s bests’. I first really became aware of science fiction as a ‘field’—a group of texts in dialogue with one ...
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Becoming a better editor, or me and the Best of the Year
Hey all you Neal Stephenson fans, we’ve got a treat for you! Our friends at Macmillan Audio have just released two classic Stephenson novels, Cryptonomicon and Zodiac , which were previously unavailable as unabridged audio. They were produced years ago, but were heavily abridged. These new ...
