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Plus Assorted Goody Two-Shoes of SFF To view this email as a web page, go [here.]( [Tor.com Newsletter]( [Forward to a Friend]( EYE ROLL [Six SFF Characters That Tend Toward Lawful Good]( These characters' adherence to rules and order may elicit eye-rolls or exasperated sighs from more roguish types, but we’ve got a lot of respect for characters that try to uphold a code. Well, within reason, anyway… [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( BY ALL MEANS, TALK ABOUT eBOOK CLUB [Download a Free eBook of Witchmark by C.L. Polk Before February 16, 2019!]( We’re delighted to announce that the Tor.com eBook Club’s offering for February is C.L. Polk’s Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance. The novel will be available for download in the U.S. and Canada until February 15, 2019 at 11:59 PM ET. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( COMMUTES! IN! SPAAAACE! [SF Stories That Cut the Vastness of Space Down to Size]( The vastness of space can raise real problems for SF authors when plotting interstellar travel routes. James Davis Nicoll highlights some popular strategies that different authors have employed to limit the scope of their characters’ journeys through the cosmos… [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( PRECIOUS FLUIDITY [How She-Ra, Steven Universe, and the World of Animation Speak to My Genderfluidity]( When gender simultaneously feels like *everything* and *nothing*, how do you learn to define it for yourself? Emily Asher-Perrin explores the complexities of identity and the experience of gender dysphoria through key pieces of pop culture in this deeply personal essay. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( THREE MIRACLES ARE JUST THE BEGINNING [The High Costs of Fantasy Sainthood]( "[W]hat fascinates me isn’t the magic, and it isn’t the gods. It’s the characters that I think of as the saints…those crazy-dedicated, all-in, vision-haunted warriors and children and priests." In some fantasy realms, dedicating yourself to a higher power means sacrificing everything; Jessica McAdams discusses five memorable examples. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( BOOK LOVE IS THE TRUEST LOVE [How To Tell If You’re Crushing on a Book]( Have you ever developed a crush… on a book itself? Was the experience of reading enough to make you giggly, lightheaded, short of breath, flushed, self-conscious—but also delighted? In honor of Valentine’s Day, Natalie Zutter explores the different ways we fall in love with our favorite books: truly, madly, deeply. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( IN THIS COLONY [Five Fantastic Recent Books about Humans Colonizing Other Planets]( While we remain confined to this one tiny planet, humanity's dream of interplanetary colonization plays out in a recent crop of amazing SF novels! Charlie Jane Anders highlights five of the best, from Mary Anne Mohanraj's collection about (making) love in times of war to The Expanse's plausibly uncomfortable and politically volatile vision of human colonization. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( READ WITH US! [Introducing the Children of Blood and Bone Reread]( Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone was published to massive acclaim last year, and the upcoming sequel is one of the most anticipated books of 2019. Happily, the novel truly does live up to its glowing reputation—find out for yourself by joining Alex Brown on her weekly reread, starting on Monday, February 18th! [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( ORIGINAL FICTION [The Song by Erinn L. Kemper]( Whale music had a weight to it, a ponderous, profound theme. The deeper notes resonated in his tissue and filled him with sweet nostalgia. A stuttering creak swept through—the slow rocking of a porch swing, a patio door caught in a summer draft. Then, the soft groan of settling into freshly laundered sheets for a long, long sleep. A powerful near future story about two people on a whale-processing rig: one a researcher, the other a worker—and the discovery they make by listening to whale song. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( Follow Tor.com to get updates on all of our original fiction. 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