"What's Your Favorite Book?" Is Always a Loaded Question

To view this email as a web page, go [here.]( [Tor.com Newsletter]( [Forward to a Friend]( THE READING LIFE [Playing Favorites With Favorites, or, What We Talk About When We Talk About Our Favorite Books]( Maybe there are people for whom “what’s your favorite book?” isn’t a loaded question. Picking just one? Are you serious? But there are 17 books from just last year that might count as favorites! Molly Templeton shares some insights into what makes this question so difficult to answer, and what it says about our reading habits and identities. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( BEYOND BINTI [Exploring Nnedi Okorafor’s Africanfuturist Universe]( Recently, Nnedi Okorafor made an exciting revelation on her blog: it turns out that all of her books are connected, and all show elements of the same world as it evolves. There’s more to the story than we realized... A new path has been illuminated. It’s like a new story has come into existence. Aigner Loren Wilson investigates Okorafor’s vision for an African future. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( DON'T MAKE A SOUND [Why? Seriously, WHY? An Investigation Into A Quiet Place Parts I & II]( A Quiet Place drops us into a world that has been invaded by terrifying aliens who attack when they hear sound. The Abbott family are trying to create a decent life on their farm, silently, which makes sense. But…Leah Schnelbach still has a lot of questions about the world of these films, including: if muffling sound is so important, why doesn’t anyone wear socks?! [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( BACK TO THE BEGINNING [Reading The Wheel of Time: Read Along with Robert Jordan's Prequel Novel, New Spring (Part One)]( Seeing Lan and Moiraine in the Wheel of Time prequel New Spring feels like discovering that an actor you love was in some movie years before the one that made them famous. They are babies in this one, but there are a lot of hints as to what will come. Sylas Barrett takes a look at the details, and how our favorite characters develop over time. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( LONDON CALLING [Five Speculative Visions of Britain in Chaos]( Living in Britain means living in eternal existential anxiety. The tiny island nation has faced catastrophic global cooling in the past, though now the larger threat is global warming-driven sea level rise and holding together a kingdom that is less united than it once was… Of course, SFF authors have already imagined just how this might go. Here are five speculative novels about a UK in crisis. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( FROM SARAH GAILEY [Do Hippos Count as Dragons: An Examination of Identity and Taxonomy]( Do hippos count as dragons? Sarah Gailey would say that the question reveals that categories are completely malleable things, arbitrary and meaningless. But people love to have easily identifiable categories, even for other humans. So what does that mean when it comes to human identity? Gailey discusses searching for understanding, for the right labels, and why asking who and what “counts” is a bigger question than you might think. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( CLIMATE CHANGE [Five Classic SFF Novels About Environmental Disaster]( Way back in the 1970s, the rising alarm about climate change inspired authors to think about the many ways that disaster might happen, and various ways that humanity might continue to exist beyond it. James Davis Nicoll shares five classic novels about environmental disasters and attempts to sidestep impending doom. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL [Masters of the Universe: Revelation Is The Last Jedi of He-Man Cartoons]( Where She-Ra and the Princesses of Power reinvented the series as a super queer tale of found family and self-actualization, Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation is a sequel to the original series, and reveals itself to be a somewhat queer-coded tale of found family, consequences, and DEATH, with an excellent voice cast. Leah Schnelbach reviews the series. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( Follow Tor.com to get updates on all of our original fiction. FOLLOW US: [Follow Us on Facebook]( [Follow Us on Twitter]( [Follow Us on Tumblr]( [Follow Us on Pinterest]( This email was sent by: Macmillan 120 Broadway New York, NY, 10271, US We respect your right to privacy - [view our policy]( Macmillan believes piracy hurts writers, readers and everyone who loves books. 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