Most Anticipated New Books, plus Thor, Gorr, and Middle-earth

To view this email as a web page, go [here.]( [Tor.com Newsletter]( [Forward to a Friend]( FOR YOUR BOOKSHELVES [The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books for the Rest of 2022]( Hope you’re ready, because there are so many upcoming books we want to talk to you about! Books Editor Christina Orlando has put together a preview of all the SFF books to keep an eye out for during the rest of the year. Get ready to mark your calendars! [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( UNICORNS, DRAGONS, AND ALIENS, OH MY! [Welcome to SFF Bestiary!]( In a new series, Judith Tarr will be looking at the whole range of SFF fauna, from the fantastical to the science-fictional, from unicorns and dragons to aliens of all sorts, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. Tarr will explore not only the weird and the wonderful but the apparently ordinary—finding new ways to look at animals we may all think we know. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( THE HOBBITS ARE GOING TO AMAZON [The Rings of Power Teaser Trailer — What’s Going On Here?]( Well, here it is, two and a half minutes of Middle-earth…and even some Valinor! The trailer for Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series has arrived. Here, Tolkien expert Jeff LaSala breaks down every moment to see what we can expect from the show. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( MARK AS READ [What to Read When You Can’t Seem to Stop Staring at the Television]( Sometimes, reading can be a real challenge. Focus? Thoughts that connect to one another? An attention span that works for more than fifteen minutes? Easier said than done. In a new Mark As Read column, Molly Templeton shares some ideas for getting back into reading, even when your brain doesn’t want to cooperate. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( MULTIVERSES [The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to Alternate Earths]( There’s no need to travel long distances to visit extrasolar worlds if one can simply step from one version of Earth to another version. There are many tales about alternate worlds and universes, but here, James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF stories featuring alternate Earths. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( READ WITH JO [Jo Walton’s Reading List: June 2022]( Jo Walton read fifteen books in June, and has quite a lot to say about them. Join her as she discusses everything from SFF classics, poetry, and romance to biography, travel books, and other works of nonfiction, including some excellent books you might want to pick up yourself! [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( FOR (NEW) ASGARD [Thor: Love and Thunder Isn’t Really the Romance We Were Promised—and That’s a Good Thing]( After the rousing and wild success that was Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel Studios demanded that Taika Waititi try to bottle lightning…er, and thunder…once again for the next Thor film. But Thor has been through a lot, so it might just be time for a midlife crisis. Emmet Asher-Perrin reviews the newest MCU film. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( GOD OF THUNDER [Faith, Worthiness, and God Butchery in Thor: Love and Thunder]( You might not expect Thor: Love and Thunder to delve too deeply into ideas about religion, because it’s a Marvel movie and we don’t expect it to get too far into ideas about anything. But Leah Schnelbach was pleasantly surprised by what the film did with what it would mean to attack and dethrone gods. In this essay, Schnelbach explores religion, gods, and superheroes in Thor: Love and Thunder. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( ORIGINAL FICTION [“The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch” by Garth Nix]( In this raucous steampunk tale a sacred order of scientist nuns battle against vicious Invaders from Mars and their murderous machines in an ongoing conflict that has lasted centuries. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( ORIGINAL FICTION [“In Mercy, Rain” by Seanan McGuire]( Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill descended the impossible staircase and found herself in the Moors, a world of drowned gods and repugnant royals. After abandoning her sister to a vampire lord, and under the tutelage of a mad scientist who can do impossible things with flesh and living lightning, Jack quickly learns that in the Moors, death is merely a suggestion. 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