Last year, The Expanse got a double-episode season premiere — and it really could we have used one this time around too. The way the show lets its narrative bleed from one season to another means that there’s never any downtime, and no need to ramp back up again, when a new season starts; we’re still in the thick of it, and the “it,” right ...
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When J.K. Rowling first revealed that Harry and Ginny’s son, James Sirius Potter, had been sorted into Gryffindor, she also noted that Teddy Lupin—son of Remus and Tonks, and the Head Boy of Hufflepuff House—was disappointed by the hat’s decision. Teddy’s disappointment ...
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We’ve got one month left, so we’ve got time for one final Deadpool 2 trailer. This one gives us a better breakdown of the X-Force team and also gets us a closer look at Cable. This is clearly gonna be a wild one, friends.
Here we go:
We’re mostly in it for Domino and Negasonic, but Terry Crews i...
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James Cameron has a lot of questions about science fiction—big ones, like How will the world end? and Will technology destroy us? and What does it mean to be human? While he has explored many of these existential quandaries in films from The Terminator to Avatar, now the filmmaker is coming at these questions a different way: For
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Deep Ones and naga and hippos, oh my! Tor.com Publishing has all of your science fiction and fantasy summer fun lined up, from the next installments in some of our most popular and beloved series (more Murderbot!) to new books by Karl Schroeder, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brian McClellan, and P. Djèlí Clark. We’re also publishing one of the y...
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I love villains. I really, really do. In all of their sneering, cackling, impeccably dressed glory.
I’m lucky to be a fan of genre fiction, the home of some of the best villains in popular culture. The ultimate villains—supervillains—are the children of genre fiction. The archetypal Dark Lord is most at home glowering down from spe...
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Daredevil was created in 1964 by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, based on a character design by Jack Kirby. DD has one of the more ingenious superhero disguises, as his secret identity is a blind lawyer named Matt Murdock. Thanks to the early-Marvel catch-all of radiation = super-powers, young Matt was blinded by a radioactive canister, but his ...
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The Expanse is back, and so am I! I’ve missed you, weird blue show. After Molly Templeton’s stellar write up of last week’s episode I’ll be reviewing The Expanse moving forward—but next week Molly will return with additional “Notes for Book Nerds,” sinc...
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While writing my steampunk murder mysteries, I read a lot about dead bodies and hangings. Gallows superstitions—those associated with executions—were rife in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Got a hanged man’s corpse? Don’t know what to do now?
Here are a few ideas from the pages of history:
Use him...
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