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Twitter Gives Us All the Feels Over Fictional Deaths
The conversation pops back up now and again on Twitter, and the results are always devastating–if you ever need a good cry, just type in the hashtag #fictionaldeathsillnevergetover. It’s fair to say...
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Beautiful Street Mural Honors SFF’s Heroines, Reminds Us “We Can Be Heroes”
In the words of the (hopefully) immortal David Bowie, “We can be heroes.” Artist/designer VictoryVague (Victoria Haigh) has taken up the cry to remind the women of the world that they have that power,...
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Mark Hamill is Definitely in Star Wars: Episode IX… Unless He’s Trolling Us
Mark Hamill happily shaved off his beard on Twitter and Facebook as the filming of Episode VIII came to a close. (What is it with actors publicly shaving off their facial hair now?) And in the process...
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The Episode “Balance of Terror” is Touchstone for Star Trek: Discovery
Bryan Fuller is treating us to more hints again for Star Trek: Discovery. Interestingly, this little tidbit might contradict his earlier hints. (He lied to us? *gasp*) Yesterday, for the 50th...
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SCALZI PHONE HOME
“I’m an island hipster,” author John Scalzi lamented on Twitter after posting a photo of himself wearing an Aloha shirt and riding a Hawaiian fixie. “In retrospect, it was inevitable.” But what he...
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James S.A. Corey Has Started Drafting the 7th Volume of the Expanse Series
While fans eagerly await the sixth installment of The Expanse series–Babylon’s Ashes, which arrives in December–there is even more good news on the way. It turns out, the seventh book is already being...
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Sabaa Tahir Picks Patrick Rothfuss’ Brain About Writing Sequels and Impostor...
A Torch Against the Night author Sabaa Tahir jokes that Patrick Rothfuss saved her from writing a bad second book when it came time to follow up the success of An Ember in the Ashes. Rothfuss, of...
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NOT THE BEES! Black Mirror, “Hated in the Nation”
Even though Black Mirror is an anthology and you could conceivably watch season 3 in any order, “Hated in the Nation” still feels like a season finale. Not just because of its supersized runtime (90...
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Merriam-Webster Tackles Worldbuilding
As LitHub pointed out in a recent interview, Merriam-Webster’s social media game is on point. Yes, Merriam-Webster as in the dictionary—and the many clever, irreverent folks who dream up snappy tweets...
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How Supergirl’s Alex Danvers Made a Queer Teen Realize She’s Not Alone
Since Supergirl premiered last year, the character of Alex Danvers has been a role model for young women: badass spy and scientist, loving and supportive sister to Supergirl/Kara Danvers, an integral...
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Ever Wanted to Play D&D With A T-Rex?
If you’ve been to Chicago’s Field Museum, you know about Sue, the gigantic T-Rex that takes up their main hall. She’s basically awesome. But did you know that Sue has her own Twitter account? (At this...
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Have Some NSFW Fun With Hashtag #NameASuperheroSexAct
If there’s anything we love more than superhero puns, it’s naughty superhero puns! And the #NameASuperheroSexAct hashtag on Twitter proves something we never thought to put into words—the wordplay...
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Sam Sykes and Chuck Wendig Just Wrote Horror Movie Gold on Twitter
It started late last night (as all good horror tales do) with a simple request: Sam Sykes tweeted yo, can you help me out at Chuck Wendig. The other author’s response—hey what do you need—made us...
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A Bizarre Date I Witnessed Between Wolf Girl and James Spader’s Lonely...
What follows is a true story, as told through author Sarah Gailey’s Twitter account in October 2017. Trust us, you’re gonna want to stick around for the full weirdness of this one… Who wants to hear...
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Everything You Need to Know About Fighting in a Ballgown
Dresses aren’t conducive to fighting—they’re tight and loose in all the wrong places, with constraining corsets and flowy skirts designed to trip you right onto your enemy’s blade… Right? Actually,...
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James Gunn Reveals That Adult Groot Actually Died in the First Guardians of...
There are certain things that make a person feel safe: Indiana Jones’s signature hat returns to him every time he loses it. Xena will always make that weird yodeling battle cry before she kicks...
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Ask The Wheel of Time Showrunner Rafe Judkins Your Burning Questions...
The Wheel of Time turns, and Wednesdays come and pass: For this week’s #WoTWednesday, The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins has announced that he’ll be conducting a Twitter Q&A next Wednesday,...
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“Telling the Story of the Books” and Casting Bela: Highlights from The Wheel...
For this week’s #WoTWednesday, The Wheel of Time TV series showrunner Rafe Judkins answered fan questions on Twitter! The short-form, rapid-fire Q&A lasted only an hour but has revealed plenty...
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Chuck Wendig and Sam Sykes’ Viral Twitter Thread Becomes Horror Comedy You...
About this time last year, the internet bestowed upon us the gift of two writers improvising a silly, trope-slashing horror story entirely via Twitter for 11,000 people to enjoy. But, as with all great...
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You Might Be the Killer Falls Victim to Meta Horror Pitfalls
If you attend a remote summer camp, you have to know there’s a non-zero chance that you’ll get stalked through the woods by a killer with a mask and a machete. If you cheat Death on a plane/the...
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“90% of Space is Crap” and Other Fun Things That Happen When You Mix SF/F...
The Tor.com office’s favorite thing on the Internet today is this brilliant chart from Twitter user @crunchleaf a.k.a. Alex, one half of the Hamsteak Podcast. Combining Chekhov’s gun, Pavlov’s dog,...
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How “Wicked Girls” Inspired Wayward Children and Other Answers from Seanan...
With the arrival of In an Absent Dream, the fourth book in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series, readers will have passed through what feels like dozens of portal worlds by now: the Halls of the...
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Book Twitter is Getting Into the #ScaryStories Tag and Grady Hendrix is...
Happy Halloween! To really give spooky season the send-off it deserves, we’re turning to some real-life scary stories. In lieu of a campfire, people have been spinning their yarns on Twitter, under the...
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Fan Artists Share Pop Culture Character Portraits With Hashtag #SixFanArts
There’s no getting around it: Social distancing is LONELY. But you know what isn’t lonely? That’s right: fandom. As quarantine drags on, virtual communities and a shared love of science-fiction,...
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The Cast of Ted Lasso Would Not Simply Walk Into Mordor
One amusing way to while away the hours, if you are person who follows a lot of TV and movies, is to imagine transposing the cast of one entertainment property to another. For example, one might...
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Rosamund Pike and Rafe Judkins Answer Questions About Amazon’s Wheel of Time
Yesterday brought the long-awaited trailer for Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time. To accompany it, showrunner Rafe Judkins and actress Rosamund Pike went on Twitter to...
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The Best Nona the Ninth Fan Theories
Nona—unexpected but already wildly beloved star of Tamsyn Muir’s Nona the Ninth—has justified an entire new book between Harrow the Ninth and Alecto the Ninth. She seems to be posed like the Virgin...
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The Wheel of Time Kinda Works as a ’90s Sitcom
What if The Wheel of Time were a different kind of show? Less super-serious, fate-of-the-world and all that, and more … quirky ’90s buddy comedy? You needn’t try too hard to imagine it; someone has...
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The Magic of the Internet Has Turned This Is How You Lose the Time War Into a...
Never let it be said that Twitter does not (sometimes) sell books. The thing is, you can’t force it. It’s like a visit from a magical fairy: it comes to you; you don’t seek it out. And so it was with...
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A 25-Year-Old X-Files Mystery Was Solved on Twitter in Less Than 24 Hours
Since 1998, many people have had questions about various moments in The X-Files. One of those moments happens in the two-part episode “Dreamland,” from the show’s sixth season. A song plays in a bar...
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