Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.78
Format: 719 pages, ebook
This year on July 20th, Tor dot com turned 15! Since that long-ago year of 2008, we’ve published mo…
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1. Burning Girls
By: Veronica Schanoes
3.89
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
Burning Girls, by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educ… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Learning and skill are things to be proud of; they are the stars that light the sky of one’s lifetime."-Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls
2. The City Born Great
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.49
Format: 288 pages, ebook
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this yea… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
3. Brimstone and Marmalade
By: Aaron Corwin
3.77
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Just in time for Halloween, we have a funny, sweet, and slightly skewed short story by Aaron Corwin… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
4. A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star
By: Kathleen Ann Goonan
3.91
Format: 160 pages, ebook
"A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star", by Kathleen Ann Goonan, … read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fiction
5. The Hanging Game
By: Helen Marshall
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, ebook
Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Sky… read more
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6. The Devil in America
By: Kai Ashante Wilson
4.50
Format: 142 pages, ebook
Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them acr… read more
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7. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original
By: Cassandra Khaw
2.82
Format: 3 pages,
A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more
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8. Tear Tracks
By: Malka Ann Older
3.89
Format: None pages, ebook
Flur traveled across the stars to make first contact with the Cyclopes, hoping to forge a peace tre… read more
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9. Please Undo This Hurt
By: Seth Dickinson
4.16
Format: None pages, ebook
Ever feel like you care too much? After a breakup, after the funeral...it feels like the way to win… read more
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10. The Language of Knives
By: Haralambi Markov
4.50
Format: None pages, ebook
"The Language of Knives" by Haralambi Markov is about the death rituals of this secondary world. A … read more
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11. Saga, Volume 11
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.26
Format: 153 pages, ebook
While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
12. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
By: Cory Doctorow
3.90
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
13. Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.03
Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition
Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times b… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- anthologies
"I found that when people are nursing a grievance it’s a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason."-Ben Aaronovitch, Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
14. This World is Full of Monsters
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.38
Format: 38 pages, ebook
An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters
15. Small Monsters
By: E. Lily Yu
3.91
Format: 37 pages, ebook
All it’s life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger a… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- horror
16. Blood in the Thread
By: Cheri Kamei
3.86
Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition
Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.Nothing tears two wo… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
17. The Passing of the Dragon
By: Ken Liu
4.10
Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman who fears she's failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her fav… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon
"Seven-and-seventy years in a shoebox, The penciled dates fading, gone, Scales of the dragon I can never know . . ."-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon
"We’re all trying to tell our own story, And we make other people parts of our own stories. We’re meant to bring our stories together, to speak and listen and know that the stories are real and they m…"-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon
"Life is one long story we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, and in our quest for meaning, we make other people players in our own psychomachia. Sometimes the consequence of doing that can be…"-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon
18. Porgee's Boar
By: Jonathan Carroll
3.79
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
An artist's work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best cust… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
19. Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds
By: Indrapramit Das
3.29
Format: 32 pages, ebook
A student of multiversal time travel slips from one version of New York to another, discovering th… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fiction
20. After the Animal Flesh Beings
By: Brian Evenson
3.85
Format: 23 pages, ebook
A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
21. How to Cook and Eat the Rich
By: Sunyi Dean
3.78
Format: 9 pages, ebook
A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
22. Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
By: Daryl Gregory
3.91
Format: 42 pages, ebook
When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"He could talk at length about the known invasive species, and why there were so many different ones: the weblike filaments choking the trees in New Orleans, the flame-colored poppies erupting on Mexi…"-Daryl Gregory, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
23. Exile's End
By: Carolyn Ives Gilman
4.03
Format: 48 pages, ebook
Exile's End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fiction
"How do you lose your name? When people stop telling your story. Why must we tell our story? Because others start telling it for us."-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
"He came to the prison of ghosts; For Hoarder people do not free their dead. Their feet fall heavy, weighted by the past They do not hear the spirits cry for freedom They heap up secrets in an archive…"-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
"Let’s sing of the lightbeam journey Of the man who was not a man Sent by the Whispering Kindom To search the sky for ghosts. How did he find the way? He followed the poison papers, He followed the sc…"-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
24. Two Truths and a Lie
By: Sarah Pinsker
3.79
Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition
Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie
25. Blood Is Another Word for Hunger
By: Rivers Solomon
3.67
Format: 25 pages, ebook
Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can gr… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
26. The Tale of Ak and Humanity
By: Yefim Zozulya
3.39
Format: 25 pages, ebook
"The Tale of Ak and Humanity" is a Tor.com Original from sci-fi author Yefim Zozula.Citizens are di… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
27. Counting Casualties
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.69
Format: 18 pages, ebook
Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
28. Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.78
Format: 719 pages, ebook
This year on July 20th, Tor dot com turned 15! Since that long-ago year of 2008, we’ve published mo… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
29. The Touches
By: Brenda Peynado
3.51
Format: 27 pages, ebook
Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Sa… read more
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- short stories
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30. Jack O'Dander
By: Priya Sharma
3.70
Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition
The sister of an abducted child is haunted by a sinister figure who may or may not be real. . . … read more
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- horror
31. Tor.com Short Fiction Sept/Oct 2023
By: Tor.com
3.64
Format: 174 pages, ebook
For our September/October 2023 bundle, we’ve got stories about a struggling artist, a post-apocalyp… read more
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