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5 Super-Competent Sci-Fi Ensembles We’d Trust to Get Us Through Space
Science fiction has spent decades exploring the far reaches of our universe and various fictional ones, but space itself never gets easier. In our fictional futures, humans might be fighting across the...
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That One Time Patrick Rothfuss, Chuck Tingle, John Scalzi, and Neil Gaiman...
We can all agree that a blockbuster erotic fantasy novel written Exquisite Corpse-style by a Patrick Rothfuss–Chuck Tingle–John Scalzi–Neil Gaiman collective would be absolutely incredible, but sadly,...
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The 25 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2020
2019 was a really good year for genre fiction. I mean, really good. Between new epics from Leigh Bardugo, Erin Morgenstern, Chuck Wendig, Sarah Gailey, Paul Krueger, Annalee Newitz, and other...
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What Do We Want the Future of Star Wars to Look Like?
The Rise of Skywalker has finally hit theaters and is retreating into the rear-view mirror. The conclusion to the so-called Skywalker Saga is the end of an era for George Lucas’s franchise, and now,...
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Meet John Scalzi on Tour for The Last Emperox!
The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John...
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Twelve SFF Stories Told From Second-Person Perspective
Writing in second person—forgoing I or she/he/they of other perspectives in favor of that intensely-close, under-your-skin you—can, ironically, be rather alienating. Often it feels too intimate for the...
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Download a Free eBook of Redshirts by John Scalzi Before March 21!
Each month, the Tor.com eBook Club gives away a free sci-fi/fantasy eBook to club subscribers. For March 2020 eBook the eBook Club pick is John Scalzi’s Redshirts, the winner of the 2013 Hugo Award for...
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Download John Scalzi’s Redshirts Before March 21…Then Come Back For The...
The response to the March 2020 Tor.com eBook Club pick has been so strong that John Scalzi and Tor Books are now offering MORE books! If you’re reading this before March 21, 2020, then you can sign up...
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4/1 Only: Download a Free Ebook of THE COLLAPSING EMPIRE by John Scalzi
Good news, everyone! (For once!) The Tor.com eBook Club is offering a free download of John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire, a dauntingly relevant story of the far-future, as a bonus* download for...
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Getting Ready for John Scalzi’s The Last Emperox: A Refresher on the...
With The Last Emperox arriving next week, it’s time to jump back into the universe of the Interdependency. John Scalzi’s space opera is a series where an ancient, little-understood space-time highway...
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SF Stories That Cut the Vastness of Space Down to Size
As previously established, three-dimensional maps present increasingly intractable problems for two-dimensional media. SF authors who want to create a coherent map for their setting (even one they...
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The End of Everything Brings New Beginnings in John Scalzi’s The Last Emperox
Things are stressful right now! Very uncertain and stressful! One thing that’s neither uncertain nor stressful, however, (or at least not in a bad way) is John Scalzi’s Interdependency series. The...
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John Scalzi’s The Last Emperox Tour Goes Digital!
The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John...
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Lockdown Marshmallow Contest Time! Highlights from John Scalzi’s r/Books AMA
John Scalzi is the Hugo Award-winning author of the Old Man’s War series, Redshirts, the Lock In series, and much, much more. Last week, his Interdependency trilogy concluded with the release of The...
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Does John Scalzi Prefer Spaceships or Dragons? Find Out in a Series of Rapid...
Back when our offices were still open, Tor Books sat down with beloved author John Scalzi to ask some tough, rapid fire questions. That’s right, we know you’ve all been wanting to know whether John...
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John Scalzi and Mary Robinette Kowal Chat About Sci-Fi, Writing Processes,...
It’s always wonderful to listen to two leading genre writers chat about their craft, but that’s made even better when the two writers are close friends. We got to sit in on a conversation between John...
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John Scalzi Is Releasing a Sequel to The Dispatcher, Will Be a Part of New...
John Scalzi is set to release Murder by Other Means, an Audible-exclusive audio novella narrated by Zachary Quinto, a sequel to 2016’s The Dispatcher. The story is due out on the platform on September...
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Announcing the 2020 Dragon Awards Winners
For decades, DragonCon has been a mainstay convention in Atlanta, Georgia, and since 2016, it’s held its own set of genre awards to honor the best works in a variety of categories, ranging from science...
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Subterranean Press Announces Print Edition of John Scalzi’s The Dispatcher:...
If you’ve been waiting to read John Scalzi’s latest story, The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means, rather than having Zachary Quinto read it to you, you’re in luck: Subterranean Press has announced a...
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Five SF Empires That Seemed Too Big to Fail
One might think that if an organization/state/empire is big, it is too big to fail. Certainly, facing off against this kind of gargantuan foe always feels impossible in the here and now. But as we...
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Something Big Is Coming… Revealing John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi returns with his first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling, Hugo-nominated Interdependency trilogy! We are pleased to share the cover for The Kaiju...
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Five Recently Completed SFF Series
Among life’s many pleasures is that little thrill one gets on completing a project, whether it is placing the last piece into a jigsaw puzzle, sliding the final book into its assigned place on a...
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Announcing John Scalzi’s EPIC In-Person Tour With The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi’s last book, The Last Emperox, came out in April 2020—which meant that unfortunately a multi-week tour that was planned had to be cancelled at the last minute. Since then, Scalzi found...
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The Kaiju Preservation Society Workplace Guidelines: The Too-Short Version
The Kaiju Preservation Society, on sale now, is John Scalzi’s first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New...
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Fun With Giant Monsters: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
We’re in a fascinating moment. In past eras someone like Dante Alighieri would throw real life famous (and infamous) people into Hell, and trust that his readers would know them; John Milton could fill...
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Which John Scalzi Novel Should You Read Next?
Old Man’s War was my first book by John Scalzi, and it would be my gateway back into science fiction and fantasy after years and years skimming along the surface, apathetic about my reading choices and...
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Download a New Becky Chambers + A Classic Scalzi for Free Before May 7!
The Tor.com Ebook Club for May 2022 Imagines a Hopeful Future For People, Robots, and Those Who Would Be Both Why these books? Written across a span of ten years, all three of these titles imagine a...
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Seven Very Short Sci-Fi Stories That Can Be Read in Seven Minutes or Less
I’m the type of reader who hates having to put down a book before I’ve finished a chapter, which means that when I’ve only got a few minutes to spare I often turn to social media instead of reading....
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5 Recently Completed SFF Series
Among life’s many pleasures is that little thrill one gets on completing a project, whether it is placing the last piece into a jigsaw puzzle, sliding the final book into its assigned place on a...
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John Scalzi and R.F. Kuang Are 2023 Alex Awards Winners!
This morning, the winners of the American Library Association’s annual awards were announced, including the Alex Awards, which recognize the ten best adult books that appeal to teen readers. There are...
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