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more about #torcom Grey_Area: This really is a great line-up. I'll be ordering it. more » Log1c: Print-on-Demand is pretty interesting, but I still like my hardcover collections. more » Grey_Area: The Tor site is great. I especially enjoy the recaps of Star Trek TOS episodes and Kage Baker's posts about silent genre movies. more » Freddy-D: I love "Dune." But Dune IS fantasy, not science fiction. How do the pilots fold space? They use a magic dust called "spice." Incidentally, "Star Wars"... more » Sproing: Anybody who needs an SF frame of reference for Western misadventures in the Arab world need only read this book. more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: The thing that always got me about Dune was how it was a really short story, but the book was massive and packed, but never seemed to "drag" on. It's... more » Grey_Area: Why is Dune such an important novel in Speculative Fiction? Because it makes people do things like this: [dropline.net] more » Pessimippöpötåmus: I completely agree. Many friends of mine think normal scifi is lame, but they eat up Dune and Star Wars like hotcake. They're all still too afraid to ... more » LiC: Just don't read the rest of the series and you'll do fine. more » 92BuickLeSabre: As a young fantasy reader, Dune was most definitely my bridge to SF, just as One Hundred Years of Solitude was my bridge to literature more broadly. more » -
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New Tor.com Print-On-Demand Line Launches with "Year's Best Fantasy 9"
Tor.com is much more than the online wing of fabled scifi publisher Tor - it's an SF fiction magazine as well as a terrific lit blog. And now it's branching out into next-wave publishing with a line of print-on-demand books. More » -
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New Online Bookstore Is "Agnostic," But It'll Be a Religious Experience For You
Tor.com may be the website of one of science fiction's biggest publishers, but their blog has tried to promote good books regardless of the publisher. And now they're extending this "agnostic" approach to their new online store, with fascinating results. More »
