With Wolverine and Star Trek out, we’ve launched 2009’s summer blockbuster season. And every year this is more synonymous with big-scale sci-fi and fantasy movies.
To help out, Tor.com has prepared a Movie Sell-Out Survival Guide for your reference. Key tips include choosing night school over Land of the Lost and budget tricks to pay for gas money to reach a theater showing Moon.
I saw an ad, and I clicked on it. Not an exceptionally rare occurrence, but not something that happens every day. Turns out Tor.com has posted chapter one of Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether to read the preview, but the description itself is reason enough to check out the post. Highlights:
The NorseCODE genome project was designed to identify descendants of Odin. What it found was Kathy Castillo, a murdered MBA student brought back from the dead to serve as a valkyrie in the Norse god’s army. Given a sword and a new name, Mist’s job is to recruit soldiers for the war between the gods at the end of the world—and to kill those who refuse to fight.