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Portal Doors, Talking Marmots, and Disembodied Heads: A Peculiar Peril by...
A Peculiar Peril is, like all of Jeff VanderMeer’s books, very peculiar indeed. Defying genre expectations, it is at once epic fantasy, contemporary fantasy, historical fantasy, and portal world...
View ArticleComplications and Contradictions: All of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
Michelle Ruiz Keil’s young adult historical fantasy novel All of Us With Wings is a challenging book to review. Full of difficult but important themes and topics, it embraces discomfort and pushes the...
View ArticleAll the New Horror and Genre-Bending Books Arriving in July!
Head below for the full list of horror and genre-bending titles heading your way in July! Keep track of all the new releases here. You can also find a list of other horror titles scheduled for 2020...
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Lunar Self-Sabotage: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series launched with a single novelette (“The Lady Astronaut of Mars“), and the eponymous Lady Astronaut Elma York has in turn inspired other women to go to space...
View ArticleSleeps With Monsters: Revisiting Comforting Favourites
This year is being A Lot, isn’t it? I’m not sure how to handle it. One of the ways I’m trying to, though, is by revisiting some books that are… I won’t call them “old” favourites, because very few of...
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8 Amazing Novels About Female Superheroes
Superheroes are inescapable on the big screen, and they’ve dominated comics for more than half a century. But what about those of us who just can’t get enough prose? Where’s the long-form fiction...
View Article12 SFF Stories Told From Second-Person Perspective
Writing in second person—forgoing I or she/he/they of other perspectives in favor of that intensely-close, under-your-skin you—can, ironically, be rather alienating. Often it feels too intimate for the...
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8 of Our Favorite Twists on Classic Gothic Stories
Here at Tor.com we love a good Gothic. The spooky houses that seem to have personalities of their own, the sinister men with murky pasts, the plucky heroines fighting against all the creepiness to...
View Article“Blood. Blight. Darkness. Slaughter.”: The Year of the Witching by Alexis...
The Year of the Witching is Alexis Henderson’s debut novel, but you’d never know it. It’s so well crafted and her point of view so well honed it feels like it should be her third or fourth book. The...
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The Magic of Travel and Exploring Fantasy Cultures
The first thing my parents taught me, more by accident than intention, was that travel gets into your blood. It’s a drug. It’s magic. I was born on the northern edge of Montana where on cold, clear...
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Five More Massive Works of SFF to Add to Your Must-Read Pile
Are we having fun with the lockdown yet? Some of you may live, like me, in a region where our pal COVID-19 seems to be under control—or you may be trapped in some dire realm where it is not. Yet, for...
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Celebrate George Romero’s Legacy and His Epic Novel The Living Dead
George A. Romero was one of our greatest writers and filmmakers and he shaped modern cinema as we know it. One of his best-known innovations was the creation of a new kind of zombie aesthetic. With...
View ArticleJo Walton’s Reading List: September 2023
September was an excellent month, I was in Florence the whole time until right at the end when I flew to Chicago. I read eleven books, and it’s only now seeing them together as a list that I realise...
View ArticleDivergent Series Author Veronica Roth Reflects On Her Series’ Controversial...
In the 2010s, the Divergent book series were one of many books being adapted for the big screen. The film adaptation, as well as the ending of Veronica Roth’s final book in the series, Allegiant, were...
View ArticleJo Walton’s Reading List: October 2023
I was in Chicago for the first few weeks of October and then home in Montreal for the last week. I read eighteen books. I’m sorry this is late, but some of these were surprisingly difficult to talk...
View ArticleBacklist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Journeys
This month we’re packing a bag and setting off into five backlist science fiction and fantasy titles dealing with journeys. We’re going into the past, into the future, into legends, and into the self....
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To All the Books I’m Not Reading… Yet
I just keep buying books. I don’t need them. I suspect I don’t need to tell most of you how thoroughly I don’t need them; I think it’s a safe guess that many of the readers of Tor.com have solid TBRs,...
View ArticleMost Anticipated Young Adult SFF/H for November & December 2023
The end of the year is fairly quiet in young adult speculative fiction, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing worth checking out. Here’s a little list of my eight most anticipated science fiction and...
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An Illustrated Edition of The House in the Cerulean Sea Is Coming from Grim...
The latest book to get the fancy, illustrated treatment from Grim Oak Press is T.J. Klune’s beloved The House in the Cerulean Sea, which launches in a limited edition of 1,000 copies today. For those...
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Five Books With Highly Imaginative Takes on Prehistoric Existence
You know where you are with stone tools. Or rather, scientists know where their ancestors were with stone tools, because stone tools are sufficiently durable that, with a bit of luck, the tools will...
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