Tor.com will celebrate its tenth anniversary on July 20, 2018. It’s hard to believe. I feel like we started yesterday… or was it a million years ago? I can’t decide. What I do know is that we are as excited today as we were then. We wanted to build a place that treated science fiction and fantasy (and related subjects) with gravitas and humor, a place to have fun without shying away from weightier, more thoughtful subjects. In short, we wanted to build a place where we wanted to hang out. Much has changed over the years but the essence remains the same—we’re still talking about the things we love. Through all the hashtags and trending topics, we still find the key to success is focusing on good, solid content.
Short fiction has been a cornerstone of the site since the day we launched. I am excited to announce that, as part of our celebration to mark the occasion, we will be publishing a hardcover anthology of some of my favorite stories over the past decade. Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction will be out early this fall. Below is the list of contributing authors. It’s such a stellar group, I really couldn’t not be more proud to have been involved with these stories.
Worlds Seen in Passing will include work from:
- Charlie Jane Anders
- Dale Bailey
- Leigh Bardugo
- Kelly Barnhill
- Marie Brennan
- John Chu
- Nino Cipri
- Tina Connolly
- Aaron Corwin
- Indrapramit Das
- A.M. Dellamonica
- Seth Dickinson
- Ruthanna Emrys
- Max Gladstone
- Kathleen Ann Goonan
- Maria Dahvana Headley
- Kameron Hurley
- N. K. Jemisin
- Kij Johnson
- Cassandra Khaw
- Mary Robinette Kowal
- Yoon Ha Lee
- David D. Levine
- Ken Liu
- Haralambi Markov
- Helen Marshall
- Pat Murphy
- Laurie Penny
- Veronica Schanoes
- Rachel Swirsky
- Lavie Tidhar
- Genevieve Valentine
- Greg van Eekhout
- Jeff VanderMeer
- Carrie Vaughn
- Kai Ashante Wilson
- Alyssa Wong
- Ray Wood
- JY Yang
- Isabel Yap
I want to thank all of the writers, editors, and artists that have brought short fiction to Tor. com. As much as I have enjoyed it, putting this anthology together was a heartbreaking enterprise in many ways. There are so many equally deserving stories. I feel as if I am leaving old friends behind when it comes to the ones that couldn’t fit in this volume. I also want to say that, with my art background, I’m much more comfortable calling myself a curator than an editor—especially when all of these stories were initially acquired by a dream team of editorial talent. The consistent quality of stories that come into my email inbox each month is slightly less mind-boggling when I remember that they are coming from Ellen Datlow, Ann VanderMeer, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Liz Gorinsky, and a select group of others. As publishers, we gave these editors free rein and they ran with it. What you see is their taste and vision in as pure a form as we can offer. There will be more time to reflect on the as we get closer to our anniversary.
In the meantime, pre-orders are up! Give your future self a gift.
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Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction
The short stories in the site allow me to have a quick fiction fix when things at life leaves me little time to read. My personal favorites are Red as Blood and White as Bone and Come See the Living Dryad by Theodora Goss, Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders and Daughter of Necessity by Marie Brennan.
I agree with the good content approach and the community, this is one of the few sites when I actually read the comments.
Will these contain the illustrations? I hope so!!!
Best site ever man. Stoked about this.
I need this. I NEED IT.
Very cool.
I can’t plan my life 6 hours in advance much less 6 months. Please remind us again in June!
So dumb question, does this anthology collects from the first batch of short stories ever published here, like way back or is only more recent work?.
TIA!.
P. S. Will it include some sort of artwork?. ;-)
7, here’s the Table of Contents from Barnes and Nobles:
“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders (Hugo winner, Nebula nominee)
“Damage” by David D. Levine (Nebula nominee)
“The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn
“The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin
“A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Waiting on a Bright Moon” by JY Yang
“Elephants and Corpses” by Kameron Hurley
“About Fairies” by Pat Murphy
“The Hanging Game” by Helen Marshall
“The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu (Hugo winner)
“A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap
“The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys
“Brimstone and Marmalade” by Aaron Korwin
“Reborn” by Ken Liu
“Please Undo This Hurt” by Seth Dickinson
“The Language of Knives” by Haralambi Markov
“The Shape of My Name” by Nino Cipri
“Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky (Hugo nominee)
“Last Son of Tomorrow” by Greg van Eekhout
“Ponies” by Kij Johnson (Nebula winner, Hugo nominee, World Fantasy nominee)
“La beauté sans vertu” by Genevieve Valentine
“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong (Hugo nominee, Nebula nominee)
“A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections” by Tina Connolly
“The End of the End of Everything” by Dale Bailey Ellen
“Breaking Water” by Indrapramit Das (Shirley Jackson nominee)
“Your Orisons May Be Recorded” by Laurie Penny
“The Tallest Doll in New York City” by Maria Davana Headley
“The Cage” by A.M. Dellamonica
“In the Sight of Akresa” by Ray Wood
“Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar
“The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale” by Leigh Bardugo
“Daughter of Necessity” by Marie Brennan
“Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes
“These Deathless Bones” by Cassandra Khaw
“Mr. Sorenson and the Sasquatch” by Kelly Barnhill
“This World Is Full of Monsters” by Jeff VanderMeer
“The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson (Nebula nominee, World Fantasy nominee, Shirley Jackson nominee)
The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal
“A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star” by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Heh. I was just looking at books by file size on my Kobo, as one does, and the five year antho was by far the largest text-based book on my device…