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Five SFF Authors Who Debuted at a Surprisingly Young Age
Many people would agree that artistic accomplishment is reserved for the mature, people whose age confers upon them the perspective and experience required to excel in this field. Younger persons are...
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Once a Bookseller, Always a Bookseller
My first job out of university was in a bookshop. Dalton’s Bookshop in Canberra, the federal capital of Australia, which is in some ways a kind of mini-me of Washington, D.C. crossed with an Australian...
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Patrick Rothfuss Is Hosting a Twitch Series (With Guest Authors!) to Promote...
Patrick Rothfuss’ latest work, the novella The Narrow Road Between Desires (itself an expansion on his previously published short story, “The Lightning Tree”) is set to come out this November. In the...
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All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in September!
Head below for the full list of science fiction titles heading your way in September! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by...
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All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in September!
Head below for the full list of young adult SFF titles heading your way in September! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by...
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All the New Horror, Romantasy, and Other SFF-Crossover Books Arriving in...
Head below for the full list of horror, romantasy, and other SFF-crossover titles heading your way in September! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or...
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Five Readerly Pet Peeves (That Have Nothing To Do With Storytelling)
Ideally, the experience of reading a book is entirely driven by the author’s narrative choices. In actual practice, there are many elements that can complicate or undermine the process of transforming...
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It’s Just a Job, Until It Isn’t: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
Godkiller is Hannah Kaner’s debut novel. First published in the UK in January 2023, it received strong praise (including from Samantha Shannon and Tasha Suri) and rapidly became a UK bestseller....
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A Shakespearean SF Thriller: The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
In The Death I Gave Him, Em X. Liu reimagines Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Hamlet as a queer, near-future sci-fi thriller. Hayden, our new Hamlet, finds his scientist father brutally murdered. Years...
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: August 2023
August was a wonderful but very busy month. I was in Florence the whole time, mostly having an excellent time dashing around with friends looking at beautiful art and eating great food. I read only...
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Five Novels Inspired by the Old Norse Kings’ Sagas and the Sagas of the...
As I mentioned in a recent post that focused specifically on retellings of Norse mythology, the whole “Viking thing” (or “Northern thing,” as W.H. Auden more accurately put it) is presently riding a...
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Five SFF Works Featuring Draconian Laws and Legal Systems
Many authorities believe (and have believed, throughout history) that order and tranquility are best assured by draconian laws inflexibly applied. Sometimes this policy has discouraged undesirable...
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Five Enduring Reasons to Love the Mass Market Paperback
I’ve recently have rediscovered my love of physical media, in particular books. No format is as close to my heart as the humble mass market paperback, whose virtues I would now like to praise for about...
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Jo 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...
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Divergent 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...
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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,...
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Backlist 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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Most 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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Jo 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...
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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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Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and Supernatural Communication Devices
I work part-time in an older university theatre where I frequently encounter relics of bygone eras. One of note: a disused communication system whose handsets survive in parts of the building that have...
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Five Books That Imagine the Future of Canada
Canada! Stretching from Halton to Clarington, from the Lake north to Brock, and beyond, Canada’s fabled history stretches back several years… Perhaps Canada has a future as well. If so, what sort of...
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Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books Set in Space
Let’s pop on our helmets and climb into our rocket because we are headed to space. These five underrated backlist titles are all set amongst the stars. Advanced tech? Check. Traversing the galaxy?...
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: November 2023
November was a dark cold month spent entirely at home, reading and trying to write. Whose idea was this? Oh all right, mine, but having the clocks go back wasn’t my idea. Anyway, I read 26 books in...
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Some of Tor.com’s Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2023
Once again, it’s time to look back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles from the past year! Below, we’ve rounded up many of our favorite essays about books, reading, writing, and...
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Rethinking the End of Year Book List
’Tis the season for lists, and I don’t mean the checking-it-twice kind. Best books lists, best movies lists, best games, best best-of lists, best reviews, best cookbooks, best albums, best songs. You...
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Brandon Sanderson’s Fifth Stormlight Archive Book Gets Publishing Date
It’s been a year and a half since Rhythm of War, the fourth book in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series was published, and we now know when to mark our calendars for when we can finally read...
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Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2023
As 2023 draws to a close, now is a great time to look back on all of the great young adult speculative fiction from this past year. By the end of the year, more than 320 science fiction, fantasy, and...
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: December 2023
Oh my goodness, 2024 already! I was home in December, writing, and over the holidays I had friends to stay in a Covid-cautious bubble that let me have fun and see people in a relatively safe way,...
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