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New Spring: The Graphic Novel based on the novel by Robert Jordan, by Chuck Dixon, Mike Miller, and Harvey Tolibao

   

In This Issue

  Mapping Worlds in The Lost Gate

  Why Escape?

  What Happens After You Save the World?

  More Stories

Wheel of Time News

  Brandon Sanderson is re-reading The Wheel of Time before writing the last novel. Follow along on Twitter with hashtag #wotrr.

  Charles Vess’ artwork in upcoming ebook, From The Two Rivers: 1 | 2

  Tor.com’s Wheel of Time Re-Read continues with Crossroads of Twilight

  The Thirteenth Depository’s Wheel of Time Re-Read continues with Knife of Dreams

Giveaways

  The Lost Gate and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

  HALO Book & Audiobook Prize Pack

  Farlander by Col Buchanan

  Out of the Dark by David Weber

Preview Chapters

  AN IRISH COUNTRY GIRL
by Patrick Taylor

  HALO: CRYPTUM
by Greg Bear

  THE LOST GATE
by Orson Scott Card

  A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH!
by Harry Harrison

  A WHISPER TO THE LIVING
by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Audio Excerpts

  THE LOST GATE
by Orson Scott Card

The Lost Gate by Orson Scott CardMapping Worlds in The Lost Gate

By Orson Scott Card

Sometimes you know when you’re onto something big. It was the same year that “Ender’s Game” appeared in Analog—my first sci-fi publication. I was working with Ben Bova, and the stories I was selling all had spaceships and rivets and machines. But in my heart, what I loved was fantasy.

No, let’s be more precise: What I loved was Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and George Macdonald’s The Light Princess and C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and Michael Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead and Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd and John Hersey’s White Lotus and Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz and Crowley’s The Deep and Peake’s Ghormengast.

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Farlander by Col BuchananWhy Escape?

By Col Buchanan

Escapism is bad for you. It’s unhealthy and immature and leads to a lack of bathing.

I’m fairly certain you’ve come across this particular sentiment before, maybe not the bathing part, but the rest of it. Hell, maybe even the bathing part too. People who hold this viewpoint tend to look poorly upon the imagined realms of fantasy and SF – and even more so in regards to their fans. Yes – because we’d rather poke a stick at the human condition from the vantage of Mars or Westeros than from the kitchen sink, because we like to cast our imaginations as far as we can, because we like to go wow along the way, we’re all somehow squandering our precious time on this Earth.

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Among Others by Jo WaltonWhat Happens After You Save the World?

By Jo Walton

Among Others is a book about what happens after you’ve saved the world. What happens when you’re fifteen, and you thought you were going to die, and your sister did die, and the world is safe but nobody knows you did it.

It’s about going on from there, day after day, and going to school. It’s also a book about loving books, how reading can shape your mind and the way you approach the world. It’s about someone who obsessively reads science fiction, but who has fantasy problems and real world problems. It’s about the loneliness of being a bright kid with nobody to talk to about the things you care aboutƒand it’s about using magic to try to do something about that. And it’s set in a very specific place and time—South Wales and the Marches, between September 1979 and February 1980.

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More Stories

  How ‘Friend’ Became a Verb by Orson Scott Card

 Winding the Mainspring by Jay Lake

  The Post and Courier interviews Larry Niven

  New Tor.com short story: “The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree” by Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn

  RisingShadow.net interviews Blake Charlton

  Tor.com wants YOU to tell them what the best SFF novels of the decade were.

  Interview with Dom Testa

  Blake Charlton interviews Peter Orullian

  “Crossing The Line” by Stephen Jay Schwartz: Free story available for download

  SciFiNow interviews Larry Niven

  John Scalzi on the most notable science-fiction films of 2010 and science fiction movies in 2011

  Which science fiction films have the best and worst science, according to NASA?

 

 

Video

The Lost Gate Trailer

Halo: Cryptum by Greg Bear

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