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The Tor.com Novellas are Now Available in Bargain Bundles

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I’ve been thrilled to see so many exciting new novellas come out of Tor.com‘s new publishing program, by so many top names in fantasy and SF. Each novella is priced at $2.99 (or $12.99 for the print versions.) Now Tor.com has announced that you can buy discounted bundles of all their novellas published in 2015. Tor.com Bundle #1 contains all four novellas originally published in September 2015, and is priced at $8.99. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson…

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Why Novellas? Tor.com‘s Stellar New Fantasy & SF Releases

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Here’s the thing about Tor.com Publishing: I’m a total fan. Complete fanboy.  I know, I know, they pay me to tell people how wonderful the books are, but between you & me? I’d do it for free, because I’m a total sucker for the books we’re putting out. (Probably not full-time, though, so if you’re reading this, boss, keep the paychecks coming!) In all seriousness, it really is a “dream job,” precisely what I’d hoped to be doing when I…

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Sample All Ten of Tor.com‘s Upcoming Novellas With Their Fall 2015 Sampler

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I’m very excited to see that Tor.com has made an impressive commitment to a distinctive new line of premium novellas coming out this fall. It’s not just that I love novellas — these books really look terrific. These are short novels, ranging in size from 96 to 224 pages, and all are available in trade paperback for around $12.99, or in digital format for just $2.99 each. The line includes a great mix of established authors — including folks we’ve discussed…

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Michael Swanwick’s “The Night of the Salamander” Live at Tor.com

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Michael Swanwick’s new novel Chasing the Phoenix was published by Tor this week, and to help mark the occasion, Tor.com has published the fifth tale in his ongoing “Mongolian Wizard” series, “The Night of the Salamander.” “The Night of the Salamander” is a fantasy set in an alternate fin de siècle Europe, featuring a locked room, a murder, and an unexpected kind of magic. The previous stories in the series were all published at Tor.com, and they are all available…

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Michael Livingston’s “At the End of Babel” Live at Tor.com

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Michael Livingston’s short story “At the End of Babel” was published today at Tor.com. At Michael’s website, he talks a little about the origin of the story, and his own history as a writer, including his first fiction sale, “The Hand That Binds,” published in Black Gate 9. My path to publishing fiction began in 2003. It was then that a friend (hi, Fred!) suggested I submit some of the stories I’d been kicking around. So I sent out two. One…

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Tor.com Salutes Solaris Books

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A while back, I praised Solaris Books for their impressive line of top-notch original anthologies, including Ian Whates’s Solaris Rising, and Jonathan Strahan’s Reach for Infinity. And just a few hours ago (see below), I reported on their upcoming fantasy volume, Fearsome Magics. Looks like I wasn’t the only one to notice. Last week at Tor.com, Niall Alexander called out the publisher for their splendid recent record on original anthologies: In recent years, no one publisher has done as much for the short…

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Get Five Years of Fiction from Tor.com — For Free!

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To celebrate their fifth anniversary, Tor.com is releasing an anthology crammed with all the original fiction they’ve published since their launch. It’s a hugely impressive list — over 150 short stories. Authors include Charles Stross, John Scalzi, Cory Doctorow, Steven Gould, Elizabeth Bear, Terry Bisson, Jay Lake, Brandon Sanderson, Jeff VanderMeer, Jo Walton, Ken Scholes, Rachel Swirsky, Harry Turtledove, Michael Bishop and Steven Utley, and Kij Johnson. And that’s just in the first twelve months! Short fiction from Tor.com has…

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Tor.com Reviews First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

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Over at Tor.com, Mordicai Knode has captured a lot of my own thoughts on First Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Here he is on Gary Gygax’s original Monster Manual: Even if you don’t play the game, you can still flip through it and think chimeras and hook horrors and mindflayers are awesome. Which follows through; even if you aren’t going to use any given monster, you can still find them interesting, and who knows, maybe flipping through you’ll find something…

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Paul Park’s Ragnarok at Tor.com

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“There was a man, Magnus’s son, Ragni his name. In Reykjavik Stands his office, six stories, Far from the harbor in the fat past. Birds nest there, now abandoned. The sea washes along Vesturgata, As they called it. In those days Ragni’s son, a rich man, Also a scholar, skilled in law, Thomas his name, took his wife From famished Boston, far away. Brave were her people, black-skinned, Strong with spear, with shield courageous, Long ago.” I was flicking through…

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Arabian Culture Myth as Fantasy: Tor.com interviews Howard Andrew Jones

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We ran out of bubbly grape juice by Friday morning, but that hasn’t stopped the non-stop celebration of Howard Andrew Jones month here at the Black Gate rooftop headquarters. Today we’ve been clustered around computers reading the lengthy and far-ranging interview with Howard at Tor.com, which covers Howard’s literary inspirations, his research methods, and how long years toiling for Black Gate molded him into the literary titan he is today: Are there other novels that inspired this series? Perhaps in unexpected ways?…

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