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The Gloaming : This office looks way too familiar. By Andrew Huang, who created one of my favorites, Doll Face . (2:56 minutes)
Ida’s Luck : Gotta love the creepy black-eyed girl. “Everywhere Ida goes, misfortune is soon to follow” (20 minutes)
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A stranger leaves a package on your doorstep, a box wrapped in plain brown paper. You aren’t expecting a delivery, but Christmas is coming. Your sister’s getting married in a few weeks, so it could be a present for members of the wedding party. You open it. You find another box inside, a ...
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Time for chapter IV.6 of The Two Towers , “The Forbidden Pool,” in our Lord of the Rings re-read. As always, spoilers for all of LotR and comments after the jump.
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Faramir wakes Frodo and asks him to come outside. They (and Sam) go to a high spot next to the ...
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Do you know where your towel is? Right now? This instant?
Do you want to?
Thanks to the wonderful Colleen Lindsay , we have a prize pack to give away, consisting of a set of the new US editions of Douglas Adams’ original five-book Hitchhiker trilogy; a signed copy of Eoin Colfer’s new ...
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Douglas Adams
With Tor.com’s steampunk month now behind us, I would like to ponder what may come next. Certainly, steampunk as a genre and as a subculture is here to stay, there’s no doubting that; in all ways, steampunk is still heating up and will probably continue to grow for years. However, trends ...
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There’s a feminine kind of sentimentality which is
most often seen in stories about True Love. And
there’s a masculine kind of sentimentality which is most often seen in stories about Just War. There’s a moment near the beginning of Lord Kalvan of ...
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Competence is really attractive: H. Beam Piper’s Lord ...
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Bluejo's Journal
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We continue our Letters from Abroad interview with Professor Kelly Joyce—an old friend and one of the most interesting people I’ve ever known—currently a program director at the National Science Foundation, normally a sociology prof specializing in scientific, medical, and technological issues ...
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Illustration by Idiots’Books
He wasn’t ready to leave the hospital. For starters, he couldn’t walk yet, and there were still times when he could barely remember where he was, and there was the problem of the catheter. But the insurance company and the hospital had concurred that he’d ...
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In my debut novel, Revolution is not a Dinner Party , there is a scene where Ling, the main character, watches her father burn the family’s books and photos. This actually occurred in my childhood. My father, a prestigious surgeon trained by American missionaries, destroyed all his beloved ...
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Since I’ve talked a bit about how psychology
and appreciation of stories might interact, I thought it’d
be interesting to consider something many people mention first when talking about a story: characters. Sometimes a great protagonist or villain ...
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Story Psych: A Question of Character
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Caroline Stevermer is one of the writers who
unaccountably doesn’t get much attention. I don’t understand why
this is—maybe because she hasn’t written a series, or maybe because some of her work is YA, though YA is popular lately. She co-wrote the ...
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Sketching on the way to battle: Caroline Stevermer’s ...
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Welcome to another installment of Bradbury Thursdays! Today
the SF master reflects on the collaborations in which he’s
engaged to transfer his fiction to stage, screen and panel. The author strives to strike a balance between his vision of the ...
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Ray Bradbury on Adaptation
What’s a big new book without an audio version?
Hard to read in the car, that’s what.
Thank goodness for Kate Reading and Michael Kramer, the dynamic duo behind all of the Wheel of Time audiobooks; Michael also did Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy (sadly without Kate). Here’s an ...
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Brandon Sanderson
Oooh, Ozma is having a birthday party! Can Dorothy and her friends make it in time for the party? Can they? CAN THEY?
It must be confessed from the outset that The Road to Oz does not have much of a plot. (You just read pretty much the entire thing.) But, even plotless, The ...
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In which Charlie the First and Binx confront interstellar colonialism.
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Stephen King
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Steampunk Month Photo Contest ! The entries (all of which can be viewed at the Tor.com Steampunk Photo Contest Flickr group ) were so neat that it was nearly impossible to choose just eight.
But choose we eventually did. Your sneak preview is ...
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Stumptown #1
Written by Greg Rucka
Illustrated by Matthew Southworth
Colored by Lee Loughridge
Published by Oni Press
I went to the comic shop planning to buy a new overpriced convoluted mainstream comic mini series. What I came out with was a creator-owned book by a writer whose work I ...
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Alright folks. The time has come. I’m tired
of being beaten down. I’ve been picked apart, dismantled,
and routinely defeated too may times. It is time for me to rise. To lift my face despite the bruises and accept the challenge before me. It is time ...
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The Duel, part 1: Help Me Defeat Brandon Sanderson
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan was released on DVD and on iTunes last week, and in keeping with Tor.com tradition, we’ve put together a round table from a couple of BSG Round Table regulars, and a newcomer. Is it a glorified clip show? An excuse to show some boobies in the tubs o’ goo? Does it ...
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Back when paperbacks were first invented, Penguin used
to sell their books with orange covers that told
you nothing but the name of the book and the name of the author. A little later, when they got more sophisticated, they started to use different ...
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Like a red-figure vase: Steven Brust’s Agyar
