Fictional Worlds

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year’s Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes. Like al…

“The Night Cyclist” by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose nightly bicycle ride home is interrupted by an unexpected encounter.

Does a renewed world still have a place for those who only know how to destroy? While defending a tea-growing commune in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, one person seeks an answer.

A.M. Dellamonica April The eerie thing about Paige Adolpha wasn’t just that she turned up right when...

In honor of Tor.com’s sixth birthday, please enjoy this original rocket story. “A Short History of t...

During a celestial civil war, an angel-like soldier searches for her missing brother in the Crystal ...

Tor.com is pleased to reprint “Drona’s Death,” a new story by Campbell-nominated author Max Gladston...

“Sleep Walking Now and Then,” by Richard Bowes, is a weird, futuristic novelette about an interactiv...

A new adventure of Peter Crossman, special agent of the Knights Templar—a man prepared to administer...

The first few days were just weird and annoying. You’d come out in the morning and find one of the d...

Tor.com is honored to reprint “Night’s Slow Poison,” a short story by Ann Leckie originally publishe...

Frederico leaned close to smell the poison on his thirteenth wife’s cold, dead lips. It tickled his ...

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. Ten years after my parents die...

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Editor’s note: Readers of the Kindle Edition of Ken Scholes’ Antiphon, third volume in his Psalms of...

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. No one ever asks a clown at th...

Muscles tire. Words fail. Faith fades. Fear falls. In the Sixteenth Year of the Sixteen Princes the ...

From Beth Meacham, Senior Editor at Tor Books, on the acquisition of this short story: Several days ...

“Chapter Six,” by Stephen Graham Jones, is an anthropological zombie story about Crain, a grad stude...

A.M. Dellamonica “The Color of Paradox,” by A.M. Dellamonica, is a science fiction story about one o...

There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls…or so the story goes. But it’s just possible tha...

This story is about the eschatology of shadow puppets. This short story was acquired and edited for ...

The Conflagration Among the universe’s civilizations, some conceive of the journey between stars as ...

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. Mary the Irish girl let me in ...

This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers. His hand was cool and damp, wi...

My time machine was disguised as a Baronne Henriette de Snoy rosebush in full bloom. I left it in th...

Enjoy “Six Months, Three Days” a story by Charlie Jane Anders and winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for ...

Tor Books is proud to announce the launch of John Scalzi’s new fantasy trilogy The Shadow War of the...

Enjoy this reprint of “Fields of Gold” by Rachel Swirsky, originally published in ECLIPSE 4 edited b...