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Check Out the Latest Fantasy Fiction at Tor.com

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Okay, not technically the latest fiction, since I’m still getting caught up. Let’s say recent fiction, and leave it at that. We’ll start with “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” by Laurie Penny, a hilarious and poignant story of an angel working in call center, answering prayers. Her co-worker is a demon, and she’s not allowed to actually answer any prayers, but those aren’t her greatest concerns… far from it, as it turns out. “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” was edited…

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Tor.com is Buying Science Fiction Novellas

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Tor.com is on a roll. Their new line of novellas has been a commercial and critical hit — the $2.99 digital price pretty much makes them irresistible, and Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti just won a Nebula Award. Plenty of others in their catalog are getting award attention, too. And in addition to their premium publishing line, they continue to publish fine novellas for free on their website. All in all, it’s not an exaggeration to say that Tor.com has helped usher in a new era…

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Read “Recalled to Service” by Alter S. Reiss at Tor.com

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Now that I’m home from the Nebula Awards and the Windy City Pulp and Paper show (and aaalmost finished unpacking all the great loot I brought back), I can start getting caught up. I’m way behind in my reading at Tor.com for example, and they do some darn fine stuff. The Fantasy/SF tale “Recalled to Service” by Alter S. Reiss looks like a splendid place to start. Ao Laiei does not know what happened to the great revolutionary war hero Uroie Aei…

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Read “The Great Detective” by Delia Sherman at Tor.com

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Delia Sherman is the author of The Freedom Maze, which won the Andre Norton Award, the Prometheus Award, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 2012. She’s also the author of Through a Brazen Mirror (1988), The Porcelain Dove (1993, also a Mythopoeic winner), and The Fall of the Kings (2002, with Ellen Kushner). “The Great Detective” is an alternate history Sherlockian SF tale available free online at Tor.com — right up Bob Byrne’s alley, now that I think…

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Read K. M. Ferebee’s “Tom, Thom” at Tor.com

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I’m not familiar with K. M. Ferebee, but a quick visit to her website, The Conference of the Birds, tells me she’s published short stories in Shimmer, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. It was her recent appearance at Tor.com that really attracted my attention, however. “Tom, Thom” is a dark fantasy tale available free online. Young Tom has always dreamed of wolves, which everyone knows don’t exist. One day he goes out for a log from…

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Your Favorite Novellas In One Sentence: Announcing the Winners of Tor.com‘s March Releases!

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Last week we invited the readers of Black Gate to submit a one-sentence review of their all-time favorite novellas. Every qualifying entry was entered into our contest to win one of Tor.com‘s March novella releases: The Devil You Know by K. J. Parker, Forest of Memory by Mary Robinette Kowal, or Pieces of Hate by Tim Lebbon. We received a huge number of entries, covering a vast number of novellas both famous and obscure — proof once again (as if we…

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Read A.M. Dellamonica’s “The Glass Galago” at Tor.com

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I’ve been catching up on some of the online fiction at Tor.com recently. They’ve published some new great fantasy by Joe Abercrombie, Matt Wallace, David Nickle, Jennifer Fallon, Melissa Marr, Delia Sherman, and many others. Child of a Hidden Sea, the first novel in A. M. Dellamonica’s trilogy The Hidden Sea Tales, was published in hardcover last June, and we covered it and its sequel, A Daughter of No Nation, in November. But that doesn’t mean I’ve had time to read it……

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Win One of Tor.com‘s March Releases!

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I love novellas. Tor.com loves novellas. We have so much in common, I sometimes wish we could run off together. (Of course, you know how these internet infatuations end up. I’m emotionally needy, and Tor.com is such a workaholic… it would all end in tears. But you know it’d be beautiful while it lasted.) Our love may be doomed, but there’s no reason someone shouldn’t end up happy. And I think it should be you. To help make that happen, Black Gate and…

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Read Jennifer Fallon’s “First Kill” at Tor.com

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Last month I posted a Future Treasures piece about Jennifer Fallon’s new novel The Lyre Thief, the opening volume in a new trilogy, and the first novel set in the world of her popular Hythrun Chronicles in over a decade. It’s not the only work of fiction set in that world released this year, however. Last month Tor.com published her short story “First Kill,” a brand new tale that uses the same setting. It’s available free online. How do you kill with…

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The Goblin King, New York Sorcery, and Demon Pirates: The New and Upcoming Fantasies of Tor.com

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I’ve been very much enjoying Tor.com‘s new line of novellas, which has produced a number of clear winners already. We’ve covered the first dozen or so, but they haven’t been resting in the past few weeks and months — far from it. When I checked this morning, I discovered more than a dozen new titles scheduled for the rest of this year, from authors such as Mary Robinette Kowal, Andy Remic, Tim Lebbon, Seanan McGuire, Michael R. Underwood, Matt Wallace,…

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