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Summer

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Books

reading recommendations

Five Literary Amusement Parks That Are an Absolute Scream

By Alissa Burger

August 14, 2025

Detail from the cover of The Adventures of Amina Al-Sarifi by S.A. Chakraborty

Books

Five Books About

Five Warm Weather Fantasy Books for Summer

By Alyssa Villaire

August 5, 2025

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Books

book recommendations

8 SFF Books to Make Summer Last All Year

By Carly Silver

August 30, 2024

Images of characters from three horror movies set during the summer: Summer of '84, The Ruins, and The Bay

Lists

Horror

Midsummer Murder and Mayhem: Five Underrated Summer Horror Movies

By Lorna Wallace

July 30, 2024

Blog

Mark as Read

Summer Reading Assignments for Grown-Ups

By Molly Templeton

June 23, 2022

Blog

book recommendations

8 SFF Books to Read for an Endless Summer

By Carly Silver

August 18, 2021

Books

The Wheel of Time

This Heat Wave Will Never End: Are We Trapped in The Wheel of Time’s “Endless Summer”?

By Chris Lough

August 8, 2018

Blog

Summer

The Best Vacation Spots in Science Fiction & Fantasy

By Stubby the Rocket

July 21, 2017

Books

The Wheel of Time

How Long Did The Wheel of Time’s “Endless Summer” Last?

By Chris Lough

May 29, 2017

Lord of Chaos crop Darrell K. Sweet

Books

The Wheel of Time

How Long Was the “Endless Summer” in The Wheel of Time?

By Chris Lough

September 28, 2016

Blog

vacation

Tor.com’s Top SFF Vacation Spots!

By Stubby the Rocket

June 21, 2016

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Movies & TV

television

Hiding From Mr. Sun? Here Are Some Shows To Catch Up On This Summer!

By Leah Schnelbach, Natalie Zutter

June 16, 2015

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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