Realms of Fantasy Not Closing and Robots are Angry
After a disastrous February for genre short fiction that we’d all rather forget I thankfully get to redact, well, not redact, but I do get to announce that Realms of Fantasy magazine is not closing. SF...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket and More Read Coraline to You
HarperCollins has just unveiled a new video series where authors, friends of Neil Gaiman, and more, each read one chapter from Neil Gaiman’s book Coraline. The series begins this week with Chapter One...
View ArticleLyrical Empowerment: Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
I tried to describe Memory of Water to a few people in the days after I finished it. It was a bit of challenge that led to me falling back on tiresome comparisons. One example read, ‘it feels like the...
View ArticleMessenger of Fear Book Trailer and Sweepstakes!
New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant brings you the story of Mara, a teenage girl whose life is about to change. She wakes up in a field alone, not knowing where she is or how she got...
View ArticleLast Run: The Witch With No Name by Kim Harrison
The thirteenth and final novel in Kim Harrison’s The Hollows series, The Witch With No Name, returns one last time to the world of Rachel Morgan and her associates—and there are plenty of things to...
View ArticleThe Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Stefan Bachmann
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a recurring series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors, artists, and others! Today we’re joined...
View ArticleShould-Have-Been: Black Dog by Caitlin Kittredge
The first in a fresh urban fantasy series, Black Dog by Caitlin Kittredge introduces readers to Ava—a hellhound who collects souls for a reaper, who is a sort of loan shark for demons—and her world....
View ArticleCover Reveal for The Diabolical Miss Hyde
Tor.com is thrilled to reveal the cover for Viola Carr’s The Diabolical Miss Hyde—a steampunk fantasy retelling of the horror classic in which Dr. Eliza Jekyll, daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry...
View ArticleA Head Full of Ghosts Excerpt and Cover Reveal
Tor.com is pleased to reveal the cover design for A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul G. Tremblay’s chilling thriller that blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror—coming...
View ArticleSeveneves of Neal Stephenson
HarperCollins now owns Neal Stephenson’s soul—or rather the rights his next two novels in most every major territory: in the US and Canada under the auspices of William Morrow, and in Australia, New...
View ArticleA Time of Transformation: The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
Between land and sea, day and night, life and death and the like, there lie those borders that, much as we might try, we cannot deny. Equally, though, there are those we impose: make-believe borders...
View ArticleDress Up in Books: Maria Dahvana Headley’s Pop Quiz Interview
Welcome back to The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe, a recurring series here on Tor.com featuring some of our favorite science fiction and fantasy authors, artists, and others! Today we’re joined...
View ArticleMake Your Own Kind of Music: Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
Maria Dahvana Headley’s entry into YA fantasy is a strong, strong one. Magonia is the story of 16 year old Aza Ray Boyle, a girl who can not breathe the air of earth and has has been almost drowning...
View ArticleEndurance: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
You certainly can’t judge a book by its cover, but its first sentence, I find, can be tremendously telling—and so it is with Seveneves, the latest doorstopper of a novel to bear Neal Stephenson’s name,...
View ArticleThe Story of The Story of Kullervo
If, on the back of The Children of Hurin, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, The Fall of Arthur and last year’s Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, you thought the well of variously unfinished...
View ArticleA Farewell to Discworld: Terry Pratchett’s The Shepherd’s Crown
One of the intractable problems of getting older is that you will inevitably watch your heroes die. For a reader, there comes the day when the pleasure of opening a new book by a beloved author is...
View ArticleNever Mind the Messenger: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
In the suggestive sentence attached to the first chapter of The Rest of Us Just Live Here, “the Messenger of the Immortals arrives in a surprising shape, looking for a permanent Vessel; and after being...
View ArticleSherlock: The Mind Palace Sweepstakes!
We want to send you a copy of Sherlock: The Mind Palace, a coloring book by artist Mike Collins, available today from HarperCollins! Yes, you heard us correctly—a Sherlock coloring book. The game is...
View ArticleThe Sherlock Coloring Book is a Three-Crayon Problem!
Adult coloring books are all the rage right now. They’re an elegant way to relive one of your favorite childhood activities. They’re a Zen activity to do while watching Netflix. And they’re a fun way...
View ArticleCover Reveal for Beth Cato’s Breath of Earth
We’re pleased to share the cover for Beth Cato’s Breath of Earth, designed by Richard Aquan and illustrated by Gene Mollica. For this alternate history fantasy (coming August 23 from Harper Voyager),...
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