Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Welcome to Throwback Thursdays on the Tor/Forge blog! Every other week, we’re delving into our newsletter archives and sharing some of our favorite posts. In the January 2012 Tor Newsletter, author Michael Flynn examined the problem of science and technology in far-future sci-fi. He decided, in his own words, “to put a banana in the…
Written by Michael Flynn Exempting fables and other surrealisms, a novel is an artifact constructed from bits and pieces of the author’s experience and research that seeks to emulate nature. (And the Latin term for a construction is fictio.) We praise a novel when we say it is “true to life” (and note the distinction…
“On The Razor’s Edge is a magnificent and satisfyingly open-ended conclusion to the tale of the civil war between the Shadows of the Names…It is a beautifully told story with colorful characters out of epic tradition, a tight and complex plot, and solid pacing.” Michael Flynn’s On the Razor’s Edge gets a starred review in…
By Michael Flynn The problem with near-future science fiction is that the fiction is over-taken by events. My novel Firestar, recently re-issued by Tor, concerns the near “future” of 1999-2010 and the hot scoop is that things didn’t work out that way. Some of it, sure, including, alas, the predicted recession. But Serbia is no…
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, The January Dancer by Michael Flynn and Half a Crown by Jo Walton, have been chosen as three of the six finalists in this year’s Prometheus Award for Best Novel. Here are all six finalists for the Best Novel category of this year’s Prometheus Award, which honors the best pro-freedom…