The trappings of noir are nothing if not versatile. You just need a city—fantastical or not—with space for the moral shades of gray that allow protagonists to explore their light and dark sides. There are tropes—the detective stand-in’s moral relativism being a primary example—but they’re relatively loose, less rules than guidelines to keep the narrative moving. A […]
In the same spirit, author Jeannette Ng (Under the Pendulum Sun), whose story “How the Tree of Wishes Gained its Carapace of Plastic” appears in the collection, joins us to highlight other authors and stories that have sought to examine “classics” of Western literature. The classics cast long shadows, having been canonized in our culture […]
2017 was a great time to be a fan of sci-fi and fantasy. Pop culture has become a veritable geek feast, with comic book adaptations riding high at the box office, prestige SF films getting respect from the Oscars, and, of course, the books, which only seemed to get better with each passing week. Here’s what […]
For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SFF releases.
There has been a movement of late to reexamine the problematic legacy of H.P. Lovecraft, creator of the Cthulhu Mythos. Modern authors—many of them the women and writers of color so dismissed in the author’s work—are using his monsters and his worlds to reclaim cosmic horror for a new age and voice bold new viewpoints […]
