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As BTS takes over the world one pop song at a time, their artistry evolves in fascinating ways.
Join us for our latest Close Read, as
@DeliaMary
guides us through the evolution of "Black Swan":
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This tiny Jyn Erso went to the Star Wars Celebration and handed out copies of the Death Star plans to every Leia:
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Today's tea:
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On Catra, the
#SheRa
series finale, and how it feels to see messier human emotions portrayed as attributes worth celebrating:
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\ you said you were on /__
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The 1st season of
#OurFlagMeansDeath
has meant so much to so many, and deftly examines so many things we take for granted in fiction.
@mayagittelman
peels those layers apart—Krakens, lighthouses, and all—to get at the heart of things.
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Let’s talk about Mo Dao Zu Shi, or The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation -- a Chinese novel (and several adaptations) that demonstrates how to make audiences really *care* about a story and its characters:
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Today's tea:
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\ You said you would read /_
\ the rest of that book / |
\ today but here you /___|
\ are scrolling /
\_through Twitter_/
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“It’s hard, keeping your heart open. It makes you vulnerable. But it doesn’t make you weak.”
@mayagittelman
on the subversive queer triumph of She-Ra:
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\__it every time.___/
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"Percy Jackson is, at its core, about identity, [...] about finding the parts of the self that matter."
AM Gelberg (
@ann3liesemg
) on constantly rediscovering new meaning in
@rickriordan
's book series:
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Great news, fantasy readers!
@BrandSanderson
&
@TorBooks
have announced the now-official title to Stormlight Archive Book 4. More from the author in the link.
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Fans who have been pulling for the entire series from the start: it's happening!
#TheSagaIsComing
#TheDragonPrince
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Check out the cover of
@PatrickRothfuss
's The Narrow Road Between Desires, an expanded standalone story set in the Kingkiller Chronicle universe -- publishing November 14th with
@dawbooks
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Video essayist
@thelindsayellis
announces her debut novel Axiom’s End, a first contact story. More plot details in the link.
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Read an excerpt from
@VirtualTal
's THE PUNCH ESCROW, in which a man is accidentally duplicated while teleporting.
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A piece of Mars is now named for author Octavia Butler:
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but instead stay up all night
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CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER
Me reading Me going to the
the books Vs. bookstore to buy
on my TBR more books
( •_•) (•_• )
( ง )ง ୧( ୧ )
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when, in fact, we have a TBR
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NO ONE TELL HIM HE ISN'T A BOOK.
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Each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face…
Read an excerpt from NONA THE NINTH, the next book in
@tazmuir
's Locked Tomb series — forthcoming Sept 13 from
@TorDotComPub
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stay inside and
read our TBR 📖
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From the director of The Babadook to Crispin Glover and Ben Barnes to Ana Lily Amirpour, this Guillermo del Toro project for Netflix is shaping up to be truly spectacular.
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Today's tea:
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\ finish a TBR book / |
\ before buying /___|
\ another book & /
\ yet, here we /
\_ are. _/
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"This pairing is pretty damned (sorry, *blessedly*) obvious."
We're still in love with the 2019 adaptation of
@terryandrob
and
@neilhimself
's
#GoodOmens
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Immigrant. Socialite. Magician.
We're excited to announce
@NghiVoWriting
’s The Chosen and the Beautiful, a magical reimagining of The Great Gatsby told through the eyes of a queer, Asian-American Jordan Baker — arriving in 2021 with
@TorDotComPub
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A heads up for fantasy readers...the Tordotcom Ebook Club is giving away The Way of Kings by
@BrandSanderson
for one day only on Monday, May 4th!
The ebook won’t be *available* until May 4, but you can sign up now to receive it on that day.
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The Stormlight Archive is expanding! We're thrilled to announce
@BrandSanderson
's DAWNSHARD, publishing this November with
@torbooks
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Which house would you want to be stuck in?
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We are deeply saddened to report that scientist, Hugo Award winner, and prolific science fiction author and editor Ben Bova passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the age of 88.
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The PBS Ursula K. Le Guin documentary is free to watch until the end of the month!
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This week only, download all four of Martha Wells' MURDERBOT novellas for free! One per day, starting with ALL SYSTEMS RED.
And prepare for Murderbot (and ARTs!) full length novel adventure, coming on May 5th!
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Murderbot is coming to the big screen! Details, description, and love for soap operas below:
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We're thrilled to announce THE WHITE GUY DIES FIRST, a collection of 13 subversive horror stories for young adults that center characters of color and upend classic horror tropes, edited by
@tjbentonwalker
and publishing summer 2024 with
@torteen
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Ava DuVernay adapting Octavia Butler’s seminal Afrofuturist sci-fi novel Dawn for television:
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We're delighted to announce a new addition to Tamsyn Muir’s (
@tazmuir
) The Locked Tomb series: NONA THE NINTH, arriving in fall 2022 with
@TorDotComPub
💀 🖤 💀
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CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER
Me using one Me using any
of the many Vs. scrap of paper
bookmarks I own as a bookmark
( •_•) (•_• )
( ง )ง ୧( ୧ )
/︶\ /︶\
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We are extremely sad to report the passing of author and science fiction and fantasy Grand Master Gene Wolfe.
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"Required reading" can be a dangerous notion...
@veschwab
's 2018 Tolkien Lecture is a call to open and explore new gateways into fantasy, instead of gatekeeping and excluding potential readers:
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"This laser-like focus on the “right” books sends a clear message to Black authors [...] your stories aren’t worth much if you don’t bleed on the page for us."
Author L.L. McKinney (
@ElleOnWords
) on the problem of "issue books" that center on Black trauma
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"As a Muslim reader, I have long maintained that the Muslim influences in DUNE go deeper than many may have realized."
@hdernity
digs into the appendices of Frank Herbert's classic to reveal how Dune engages with its Islamic references:
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"We’re in the middle of a golden age of sapphic science-fiction and fantasy and with this wave of books comes an interesting trend — the depiction of butch lesbians as sacrificial paladins."
@C_L_Clark
on a recurring trope in recent SFF:
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but end up on Twitter instead.
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but end up on
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Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party…
Take a peek at the Dramatis Personae for
@tazmuir
’s NONA THE NINTH, out September 13th with
@TorDotComPub
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BIG news! David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are bringing The Three-Body Problem to Netflix, with Rian Johnson, Ken Liu, and author Liu Cixin on board!
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The Good Omens miniseries is coming to BBC and Amazon Prime in 2018 and
@neilhimself
is showrunner!
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📍 us
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📍being a |
"Responsible |
Adult" |
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📍spending half our paycheck whenever we go to the bookstore
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The Wayward Children series by
@seananmcguire
is coming to television! Showrunner and network info here:
@TorDotComPub
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To celebrate the spooky season, October's FREE ebook is
@tazmuir
's GIDEON THE NINTH, book one in the Locked Tomb series. Get it before October 8th at 11:59pm!
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From exclamations of "evil Earth" to rock-based character names, author
@nkjemisin
wove a particular idiom into the Broken Earth novels.
CD Covington (
@exaggerated
) takes a closer look at the linguistic world-building:
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We're thrilled to announce BREATHE FIYAH, an upcoming flash fiction anthology in collaboration with
@fiyahlitmag
!
Submissions will open August 26!
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Please enjoy 's favorite holiday tradition: an annual reading of
@neilhimself
's "I, Cthulhu"!
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NEWS: Devi Pillai to Become President and Publisher, Tom Doherty Associates
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We're thrilled to announce
@sl_huang
's The Water Outlaws, a queer epic fantasy full of bandits, heroes, and revolution inspired by the Chinese classic Water Margin — arriving in 2022 from
@TorDotComPub
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Do you remember being scared by this classic cover of A Wrinkle in Time?
There’s an unexpected mystery behind it—no, not “how does the centaur eat when it doesn't have arms???”—it's that no one seems to know who the artist is.
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Dwayne Johnson does one terrifyingly accurate Danny DeVito impression...
Check out the first trailer for
#Jumanji
The Next Level
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Join
@levarburton
tomorrow at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET for the first Twitter live-stream of
#LeVarBurtonReads
, featuring "a selection" of
@neilhimself
stories!
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"I watched Blade Runner for the first time" says
@gaileyfrey
. What she sees is closer to the present than the future
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
@sfwa
have announced that Nalo Hopkinson will be the 37th Damn Knight Grand Master!
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An ode to the
#Outlander
theme song and the brilliance of
@bearmccreary
in changing it every season, sometimes even twice!
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We’re thrilled to announce THE LOST METAL, a Mistborn Novel by
@BrandSanderson
— publishing November 15, 2022 with
@torbooks
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MURDERBOX 🤖
MURDERBOX 🤖
MURDERBOX 🤖
MURDERBOT BOXED SET🤖
MURDERBOT BOXED SET🤖
MURDERBOT BOXED SET🤖
MURDERBOT BOXED SET🤖
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"The world of wuxia is fundamentally bound up with those hierarchies of power it seeks to reject."
@jeannette_ng
on how the Chinese fantasy genre of wuxia is intertwined with politics from the medieval through the modern era:
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A24 has acquired the rights to adapt Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER, with Garrett Bradley to direct.
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For nearly four years, author
@NisiShawl
has taken an in-depth look at some important titles in the long history of Black science fiction (with a bit of fantasy bleed-over) — take a quick tour through the on-going series here:
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"Other kids were scared of mistwraiths, but Wayne figured they just didn’t know how to negotiate properly..."
We're thrilled to share the opening chapters of
@BrandSanderson
's THE LOST METAL, the conclusion to the Wax & Wayne Mistborn series with
@torbooks
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And God said, let there be light--er, first-look footage from
#GoodOmens
! Plus, tidbits from
@neilhimself
on the
#SDCC18
panel:
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In case you haven't noticed, the cast list for Terry Pratchett and
@neilhimself
's
#GoodOmens
is freaking incredible, even beyond the two leads:
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Author Terry Goodkind has passed at the age of 72. Our thoughts go out to his family, friends, and fans. The Sword of Truth was a gateway into epic fantasy literature for many readers.
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Gideon the Ninth author
@tazmuir
has signed a 5 book deal with
@TorDotComPub
! And the first book stars a lesbian gunslinger UNDER THE SEA:
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Get ready
@BrandSanderson
fans! The launch event for THE RHYTHM OF WAR is going to be epic:
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We're thrilled to announce ORIGINS OF THE WHEEL OF TIME, a a deep dive into the real-world history and mythology that inspired the work of Robert Jordan
Written by Michael Livingston (
@medievalguy
), Origins of The Wheel of Time arrives Nov 8 with
@torbooks
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That time
@neilhimself
and YoshitakaAmano wrote a fantastical origin story for David Bowie:
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When you're a historian and you love A Knight's Tale *because of* its gleeful trampling of "historical accuracy" 🛡️
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.
@neilhimself
's The Ocean at the End of the Lane is getting a fully illustrated edition by
@elise_hurst_art
!
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND
DOWN TO CERTAIN DOOM AND BACK AGAIN
YOUR HEART IS TRUE YOU’RE A PAL AND A PALADIN
AND IF YOU FORMED A PARTY
INVITED EVERY DWARF YOU KNEW
YOU WOULD SEE THE BIGGEST AXE IS OWNED BY ME
AND THE HEAD DETACHED WOULD SAY
THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND
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During the development of AD&D 2e in the 1980s, the Golden Girls served as the template for the ideal adventuring party.
#truedndfacts
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"At the time of this entry I am five months into forced captivity by enemy insurgents. This is my continued attempt to create a report."
A new story set in the Locked Tomb universe; "As Yet Unsent" by Tamsyn Muir is out today!
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Readers can download
@BrandSanderson
's The Way of Kings FOR FREE on March 23 & 24! Details:
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We're so thrilled to show off the cover for
@BrandSanderson
's Rhythm of War, by artist Michael Whelan!
Publishing this November with
@torbooks
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In a post-Earth future, a group of students try to ward off despair with debauchery on a far off planet—until the corpses start showing up.
We're excited to share the cover for Honey Watson’s Lessons in Birdwatching, out 8/8/23 from
@angryrobotbooks
!
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Another
@veschwab
adaptation is in the works! City of Ghosts is being developed as a one-hour CW drama from Pretty Little Liars showrunner
@imarleneking
.
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