A meditation about the evolution and influence of a song written in 1902 over the next 150 plus years.

In a cyber-enhanced, futuristic Chicago, Sonata knows near-immortality is achievable through downloading her mind into a cyborg body after death. But this young artist wants to prove that living fo…

“Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light” is about a lonely young woman, recently moved to the big city, who is looking for love. What she finds is a friend and confidante who is much olde…

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.

Miss Pippa Kipling and her automaton companion, the Porter, exterminate pests of the supernatural variety. What should be a typical job in your average haunted cavern soon derails in an inconvenien…

After the collapse of civilization Nora and her family live a quiet life in the Midwestern Plains until a great fiery god of the sky descends and makes her an irresistible offer—an offer that will …

A contemporary tale of love in all its forms — and of one robot’s quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms.

The fate of two civilizations depends on one troubled family.

“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.

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…

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…

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

Tor.com is honored to reprint “Amicae Aeternum” by Ellen Klages, as featured in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 9—publishing May 12th from Solaris. Distant worlds, time tra…

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

Clockwork Fairies by Catherine Rambo with art by Gregory Manchess

Book 2 in the Luna Lake series. When a border dispute between two bear clans destabilizes shapeshifter relations throughout Europe and threatens to reveal their existence to humans, the Sazi High C…

Welcome back to the Short Fiction Spotlight, a space for conversation about recent and not-so-recent short stories. In the last installment, I talked about Beneath Ceaseless Skies #144; this time a…

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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 ...

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