All too often, online communities can be hotbeds of infighting and insults. That's why it's especially heartwarming to watch hundreds of strangers come together and open their wallets for a single cause: ensuring that Nur Huda el-Wahabi's name finds its way into The Golden Compass author Philip Pullman's next book.

Twenty years ago, a book went off like a bomb and changed everything.

Planning a birthday party or bachelorette night? These 10 taverns, pubs, bars, inns, and other watering holes from fantasy fiction can't be beat. Sure, the barkeep might not agree to charge your phone, and Uber drivers might be few and far between, but that's all part of the fun. Join us in celebrating these 10 fantasy establishments that have us saying ''they come in pints!''

Have you run out of people in your life with whom you can have long conversations about the intricacies of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter? Well, Pottermore is hoping to remedy that with an official book club! That's right, now anyone anywhere can get together with fellow Potterheads at an official meeting spot to dissect the ins-and-outs of all the Harry Potter books. Check out the intro video above!

The scary and yet jaunty shadow monster in a top hat has been adopted by the meme-loving Internet, and is now the unofficial mascot of Pride Month. Some days I love being online.

Tor.com shared some amazing photos of a ballgown whose bodice is made from the spines of old books!

Reign of the Fallen is an upcoming fantasy series about a skilled necromancer who must come face-to-face with an enemy that turned her magic into a weapon.

Andy Weir's new book, Artemis, a crime story set on the Moon, doesn't come out until November. But this week it's the subject of breathless coverage, because the film rights have already been sold. I have yet to see anyone address the 800-pound gorilla in the room: The Martian is a boring plod of a novel.

June Diane Raphael and Kate Black of EMILY's List are writing Represent: The Badass Woman’s Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World, and we want this book NOW.

"A pink-tinted sea of innocuous blandness."

The hot but also somewhat terrifying trend in book sales sees people stocking up on everything-old-is-relevant-again works like Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. Important texts that cover insidious government overreach—real and fictional—have never quite gone out of style, but have seen a massive resurgence of interest in the Age of Trump. Now two classics are receiving a hardcover makeover that will look mighty fine on your bookshelf.

I've had so much fun doing the regular Orphan Black recaps for the past couple of seasons, but the real fun of TMS' show coverage has been getting to read our awesome Orphan Black science recaps, written by the fabulous Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth. Now, these two brilliant women have teamed up to expand their exploration of Sestra Science in an official companion book from ECW Press, the cover of which you can see above for the first time!

Dahlia Moss is back for another mystery in The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss. We've got an exclusive excerpt to share with you for the book's release today.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a beloved author who died young and unwed, must be in want of endless speculation about her life and death.

A college seminar forever changed the way I look at art, literature, and super-powered people. My professor (who now teaches the class at Harvard) was kind enough to send me an updated syllabus. Let's DIY a comics course.

Back in January, feminist writer Roxanne Gay pulled her latest book, How to Be Heard, from her publisher, Simon & Schuster, because they were also giving a platform to known Bigot-of-All-Trades Milo Yiannopoulos. Lately, everyone (except for maybe Bill Maher) is starting to realize that Yiannopoulos is a liability, and are cutting ties with him, including Simon & Schuster. But for Gay, it's too little, too late.

There's a killer aboard the interstellar spaceship Dormire on its 400-year journey, and the victims, newly awakened in cloned bodies, are the ones trying to figure out who it is before it's too late. This is the new sci-fi novel Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty.