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Moon Vs. Moon: A Lunar Combat Recap!

Image Place holder  of - 16Why do we only have one moon? Scientists will probably tell you different, but we like our answer better: It beat all the other hopeful moons in a gauntlet of high stakes combat encounters. In the spirit of the time-honored sport of moonfighting, we conducted a few moonfights on our Twitter, and the results are in!

See which moon’s emerged victorious in this moonly-fighty recap, and HEY! While you’re at it, check out The Starless Crown by James Rollins, the first edition in a hot new epic fantasy series about (you guessed it) fighting the moon!


Round 1: The Cooker Vs. Princess Yue

The Cooker is an anxious lil robot who tried to stop Wallace & Gromit from harvesting lunar cheese. Loves skiing; hates stealing.

Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe ascended to moon-spiritdom to save her people from Fire Nation invasion.

Round 1 Results

Winner: Princess Yue

Princess Yue led the Northern Water Tribe to a solid victory over Wallace & Gromit’s robotic antagonist, The Cooker! Garnering 69.1% of votes, you could call this win for waterbenders everywhere a total wash


Round 2: The Bureau of Balance Vs. Silverpelt

Headquartered on a floating moonbase, The Bureau of Balance is dedicated to geodesic design and destroying Grand Relics.

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Long have the cats of the Warrior Clans turned eyes and prayers to Silverpelt, the eternal hunting ground of StarClan.

Round 2 Results

Winner: Silverpelt

This moon match was a party wipe for The Bureau of Balance, with Silverpelt swiping 54.7% of the vote to claim a narrow victory for the cats of Erin Hunter’s Warriors universe. Youch. We’d prescribe a compress of dock leaf and cobwebs for the Bureau’s wounds while they recuperate. 


Round 3: Goodnight Moon Vs. A Trip To The Moon

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. 32 pages. Colorful illustrations. Over 48 million copies sold.

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Regarded as one of the most influential films of all time, A Trip To The Moon propelled an age of cinematic innovation.

Round 3 Results

Winner: Goodnight Moon 

A Trip To The Moon might have made cinematic history when it debuted over a century ago in 1902, but today this film makes history by losing harder than any other moon has ever. Goodnight Moon put it in a sleeper hold when the classic bedtime story took 81.8% of votes. Goodnight movie!


Round 4: The Death Star Vs. Sailor Moon

Capable of destroying planets, this space station oft mistaken for a moon earns its ominous name: The Death Star.

Magical girl transformation time! The cosmos’ sparkliest protector Sailor Moon is determined to save us all.

Round 4 Results

Winner: Sailor Moon

Hundreds made their voices heard by voting in this clash of aesthetics. Colorful magic against the might of space empire. The people spoke, and they said “Sailor Moon,” awarding 69% of the vote the solar system’s coolest superhero.

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9 of Our Favorite Rebellions in Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Happy 4th of July! This week in the US we’re celebrating the Revolutionary War. There will be food, fireworks, and of course, books—because there’s no such thing as a holiday without reading, at least not for us! Since we’re celebrating a revolution, we thought we’d share with your our list of some of our favorite revolutions and rebellions in science fiction and fantasy. What are we missing?

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Image Place holder  of - 25 In Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy, it’s a revolution wrapped in a heist. When Vin, a young Mistborn, joins a crew of Misting thieves, she thinks their only goal is to steal the Lord Ruler’s atium stash—an incredibly rare, and therefore valuable, metal that allows Mistborn to see the future. Of course, things get much more complicated very quickly as Vin, and the reader, find that crew leader Kelsier has much more dangerous goals: to overthrow the city of Luthadel and destroy the Lord Ruler himself.

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

Place holder  of - 64 Ken Liu’s debut novel The Grace of Kings tells the story of two very different rebel leaders: Kuni Garu and Mata Zyndu. The conflict in this one isn’t just about the fight against tyranny, but in the relationship between the wily, charming bandit Kuni and stern aristocrat Mata. Their goals may start out in alignment, but what happens once the fighting is done? Once the rebellion has ended, the true problems have just begun!

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Image Placeholder of - 13 What happens when a small, divided peninsula is invaded on two sides? When the conquerors use magic, as well as might? Those are only a few of the questions posed in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana. In this standalone fantasy novel, a small band of rebels from a province forcibly forgotten by magic use guile and trickery to try to free their home from the massive armies of the two rival sorcerers who have conquered it. When you can’t compete on the battlefield, sometimes trickery can win the day!

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

Placeholder of  -68 When humanity moves into the stars, will we go as peaceful partners, or conquerors? Le Guin’s classic novel posits that we may not always be benevolent. In The Word for World is Forest, Terrans have enslaved the peaceful people of Athshe, and use them to harvest the forests that cover their world, since lumber has become scarce on Earth. If you visit enough atrocities upon them, however, even a peaceful people will eventually rise up against you—as the Athsheans eventually do, introducing mass violence to their previously pacifistic culture. The Word for World is Forest is short, but hard-hitting; Le Guin doesn’t pull any metaphorical punches.

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

Poster Placeholder of - 61 Should you defend a rightful ruler if he’s also pretty awful? That’s one of the big questions for the characters in Saladin Ahmed’s debut novel. The aging ghul hunter Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, his assistant Raseed bas Raseed, and the magic shape-shifter Zamia Badawi thought they were on the trail of a killer. Instead, they discover a fomenting rebellion against the rightful Khalif—who’s also a terrible person. All Adoulla wants is to retire and drink tea in peace, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen anytime soon if the Falcon Prince, the iron-fisted Khalif, and a brewing power struggle have anything to do with it.

The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang

It’s brother against sister in J.Y. Yang’s novella The Black Tides of Heaven. Mokoya and Akeha are the twin children of the Protector, who sold them to the Grand Monastery as children. There, they developed their gifts—and began, despite their efforts, to drift apart. Akeha, seeing the rot at the heart of his mother’s rule, chooses to fall in with The Machinists, rebels who want to end the state. Can the siblings maintain their bond as they end up on different sides of a growing conflict?

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

After a terrorist attack in his hometown of San Francisco, 17 year-old Marcus is swept up by Homeland Security for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. After days of being detained and mercilessly interrogated, Marcus is finally let go, and discovers that his world has changed. The US has become a police state, with everyone treated as a potential hostile. Privacy has gone the way of the dodo. Marcus isn’t about to take that lying down, though. It’s time to organize a cyber revolution.

Dune by Frank Herbert

In Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel, political instability is a fact of life for Paul Atreides. His father, Duke Leto, takes control of the planet Arrakis at the command of the Emperor, even knowing it’s likely a trap from House Harkonnen. Once the trap is sprung, Paul and his mother Jessica survive, fleeing to join the Fremen, the Arrakis natives who live in the desert. Using the Fremen as his fighting force, Paul embarks on a quest to take back Arrakis—and the galaxy—by overthrowing the Emperor and destroying House Harkonnen.

The Star Wars Extended Universe

Star Wars: A New Hope introduced the world to the Rebel Alliance, an organized band of misfits opposing the colossal, evil Empire. After the original trilogy, the Star Wars universe expanded out into a universe of books, with stories from a wide variety of authors, following different characters and locations across the galaxy. In Rebel Rising, we see the rise of the evil Empire as well as the formative years of a soon-to-be hero of the Rebellion: Jyn Erso. How are heroes formed? This is how.

Kevin J. Anderson at Denver Comic Con

Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson, co-author of Mentats of Dune, will be at this year’s Denver Comic Con this weekend, June 13-15.

Check out his schedule of panels:

Friday, June 13th

  • 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM Panel: Tor and WordFire: Bestselling Author Kevin J. Anderson talks about being a Tor Books author and also the publisher of WordFire Press, Room 207

Saturday, June 14th

  • 11:45 AM – 12:35 PM Panel: Star Wars: Exploring the Expanded Universe, Kevin J. Anderson, including Tor author David Farland,  Room 103/105
  • 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM: Star Wars vs. Dune-Kevin Anderson Film, with Kevin J. Anderson, Room 403/404
  • 3:00 PM: Kevin J. Anderson Signing at BOOM! Studios Booth 500
  • 4:45 PM – 5:35 PM: The Writing Process: Focus on Sci-Fi with Kevin J. Anderson, Room 106

Sunday, June 15th

  • 11:45 AM – 12:35 PM Panel: Building My First Lightsaber with Kevin J. Anderson, Room 106

In addition to Denver Comic Con, Kevin will also be stopping at conventions across the country. Here’s where he’ll be in the upcoming months:

  • Tuesday-Friday, August 29-September 1
    Dragoncon
    Atlanta, GA

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