Blackout and All Clear are one book, conveniently bound in two volumes. Don’t read them out of order, don’t read one without the other. In 1982, Connie Willis wrote a novelette called Firewatch. It…

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for this year’s Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award, and the Andre Norton Award. Needless to say, Tor.…

The Daily Express is claiming today that a “mole” in the Doctor Who camp has revealed that we’re getting a female Twelfth Doctor in the form of Sherlock alum Lara Pulver after a M…

Concept artist Mark Molnar has been having some fun doing some Dune speed paintings as a personal project…. Makes us wish some studio would give the movie another go.

If the medium is indeed the message then it seems like the crossover of a prose writer into the world of screenwriting would be as extreme as a unicorn turning into a panda. And though we can conce…

The Hero and the Crown isn’t a title that leads you to expect anything unusual, but the novel attached to it is very different from a standard fantasy in some interesting ways. It was publish…

Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen, today announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free. “Our authors and re…

The title of this post is my considered response to Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End. It was my response when I first read it at twelve, and it’s still my response reading it to…

Charlie Stross writes: [W]hile working on the novel that was to become Space Cadet, Heinlein warned his agent that the inclusion of an ethnically diverse cast was not only deliberate—it was non-neg…

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Answering the question asked by innumerable readers of the author’s novel All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia’s cat?

“The Forest Girl” is a new short story set in the world of L.E. Modesitt Jr.’s Recluce novels.

Welcome to Tremontaine, where social advantage is best achieved through duels of wit and steel. A Duchess whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; a handsome young scholar with more passion tha…

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...