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Your commute to work needs more post-apocalyptic heroic songs and interstellar voyaging. Tor.com has you covered, with a nifty free e-book collecting "Some of the Best from Tor.com." It includes stories by Michael Swanwick, Yoon-Ha Lee, Harry Turtledove, Paul Park, Nnedi Okorafor, and myself. You can pre-order the book now, and it'll be available for the Kindle (and other e-readers) on Feb. 14. [Tor.com] More »
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You might think there's a limit to how weird Rudy Rucker or Bruce Sterling can get, but when they team up, their combined weirdness limit rises exponentially. Witness their strange, unsettling — and highly quotable — story "Good Night, Moon." More »
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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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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 »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5294934&view=rss&microfeed=true Over at Tor.com, Douglas Cohen has a great explanation for why your friends who only read fantasy - the ones who don't like a book unless it's got dragons and swords - will like Frank Herbert's classic space epic Dune. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5205678&view=rss&microfeed=true Bizarre, pornographic silent movies turn up, allegedly made in 1911 — and then they start to feature uncannily real-looking Martians and other creatures straight out of Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories. The bitchy, demented story "The Film-makers Of Mars" could only be the work of Geoff Ryman (Air). It was published at Tor.com a while back, but now you can hear Ryman himself read it on the Starship Sofa podcast, and it gains a whole extra layer of snark in his own voice. You really need to hear Ryman discuss shaved pubes on Mars. Why? Because it's Saturday, and that's what one does on Saturdays. [Starship Sofa, via Books On Mars] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5122813&view=rss&microfeed=true Tor.com continued their amazing series of original stories yesterday with a new novella by Little Brother's Cory Doctorow, entitled The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away. Go and read it; if it's not your kind of thing, you can fix that by editing it yourself, as it's the first Tor.com story to be released under a Creative Commons license, meaning that everyone is "encouraged to remix it, translate it, whatever," according to Doctrow himself. [Tor.com] More »
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Tor Books, one of the biggest and most venerable publishers of excellent science fiction writing, has just launched a new blog that promises to bring the crunchy goodness of a Tor book to your RSS reader every day. With contributors like scifi authors Charles Stross and John Scalzi, as well as scifi art maven Irene Gallo and Tor editor Liz Gorinsky, you can expect cool essays on everything from trends in scifi writing to science experiments with testosterone. The best part, though, is that the site will feature regular doses of free fiction. More »
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