Alasdair Stuart
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United Kingdom
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Picking the Perfect Horror Movies for Halloween
The best day of the year is nearly upon us—oh, Horror Christmas, how I love you. There is no better time to watch horror movies than October, and also no better time to try some new ones. Horror ci… → Read More
Fear in a Handful of Syllables: The Magnus Archives
Alasdair Stuart, voice of Peter Lukas, dives deep into how the story structure of beloved horror podcast The Magnus Archives is akin to a magic trick. → Read More
Star Trek Has the Best Credit Sequences in All of SciFi Television
I am an easy mark for a good credits sequence. “Good” doesn’t necessarily mean long, either—Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s exuberant twenty-second sprint tells you everything you need to know, while (in the … → Read More
Five B-List Movie Monsters Who Deserve a Bigger Following
The Predator stalks onto big screens this week. Either the third or sixth (depending on if you count the Alien vs. Predator pay-per-view fights) sequel to the surprisingly deep (and also very explo… → Read More
The Ten Best Episodes of Torchwood, Ever
The great thing about Doctor Who is how much of it there is to watch. The bad thing about Doctor Who is just how MUCH of it there is to watch, especially when you factor in the various spin-offs. F… → Read More
Tor.com Publishing Opening to Novella Submissions on July 30
Tor.com Publishing will soon be reopening to unsolicited novella submissions! Starting July 30, 2018, Lee Harris, Carl Engle-Laird, and Ruoxi Chen will be reading and evaluating original novellas s… → Read More
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Breaths New Life into the Franchise
There are few movie series that embody their tag line more than Jurassic Park. “Life finds a way” perfectly describes a franchise that opened with an all-time classic and followed it up with the wo… → Read More
The Best Episodes of New Doctor Who So Far
Doctor Who returns! Twice! Sort of! The entire run of the original series (at least, all of the show that still exists) is currently streaming on Twitch and Amazon Prime, while the 2005-and-onward … → Read More
Playing Favorites with the Clarke Award Shortlists, 1987-2018
The fiction featured in this year’s Clarke Award shortlist spans everything from the second American Civil War to a post-apocalyptic fable set in the ruins of a sub-genre. It’s a brilliant collecti… → Read More
Announcing the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2018 Clarke Award has just been announced. The Clarke is awarded to the best science fiction novel of the year and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was pu… → Read More
Duncan Jones’ Moon Is Still a 21st-century Classic
Mute, Duncan Jones’ long-awaited follow-up to Moon, hit Netflix last month, after a lengthy incubation period. It’s part of Netflix’s current trend of producing and/or acquiring somewhat esoteric g… → Read More
Essential Viewing: The Films of Guillermo del Toro
Let’s hear it for Guillermo del Toro, ladies and gentlemen! One of the most passionate and articulate advocates for genre (in particular) and narrative (in general) as a force for good finally pick… → Read More
How Netflix is Changing Science Fiction (Beyond Big Marketing Gimmicks)
Sense8. Okja. Bright. The OA. Mute. Travelers. Dark. Altered Carbon. The Cloverfield Paradox. Plus The Expanse and Annihilation, internationally speaking. In the last few years Netflix has position… → Read More
Announcing the Nominees for the 2018 Philip K. Dick Award
The nominees for 2018’s Philip K. Dick Award have been announced–congratulations to all! → Read More
Charles Stross’s Dark State (Audio Excerpt)
Book 2 in the Empire Games series. In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, … → Read More
Great Holiday Movies in Which Everything Goes Wrong, And Sometimes Explodes
So, the festive season is officially upon us. U.K. shopping centres are all playing the same jolly-but-also-intensely-misanthropic-and-grumpy mix tape they run every year, the supermarkets are tryi… → Read More
Tom Baker and Douglas Adams Ride Again in “Shada,” The Lost Doctor Who Serial
“Shada” is a Doctor Who story that’s always been folded away in strange pockets of the show’s history (which, given the direction the plot ultimately takes, is oddly appropriate). Initially recorde… → Read More
Sarah Gailey Talks Heists, Hope, Feral Hippos, and Defiantly Joyful Characters
Sarah Gailey’s debut novella, River of Teeth, is one of my favourite novellas of the decade. You really, really should check it out—and now’s the perfect time! Today only (November 27, 2017) … → Read More
Steal the Stars Will Literally Stop You In Your Tracks (In A Good Way!)
There’s a moment, quite early on, in Steal The Stars that completely brought me up short. Actually made me stop on the pavement (over to the side, obviously—I’m not a monster) and just think about … → Read More
The Best Continuation of The Terminator Saga Has Already Happened: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
James Cameron has formally announced that a new Terminator movie is in development. Given that he basically lives on Pandora with the Na’vi now, Cameron will be producing while Deadpool’s Tim Mille… → Read More