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Precious Little Things
Adrian Tchaikovsky - 2017
This piece of fiction can also be Read on Tor.com.
Across the Dark Water
Richard Kadrey - 2021
A thief hires a guide to lead him safely through the city’s many dangers to the one person who can give him the travel papers he needs to escape.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar
Rich Larson - 2020
The object in question is in the hands of a dangerous crime lord.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
If You Take My Meaning
Charlie Jane Anders - 2020
But now she's embarking on the most terrifying adventure of her life—journeying into the darkness to become a new type of being, one who can help humanity to survive. And deep at the heart of the city in the middle of the night, the price of transformation could be higher, and more terrible, than Alyssa ever expected.
Deriving Life
Elizabeth Bear - 2019
Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives us a future where life and love and identity have so many more options than they do today, in this visonary short story, a Tor.com Original.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Guile
Ian McDonald - 2018
in Ian McDonald's Tor.com Original short story The Guile.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Any Way the Wind Blows
Seanan McGuire - 2019
In the original Tor.com story Any Way the Wind Blows, New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire presents a sweet tribute to Manhattan's iconic Flatiron building--celebrating the longtime home of Tor Books as the publisher bids farewell for new office space.Composed of travelers from nine different parallel dimensions, the Cartography Corps crew aboard the airship Stalwart Trumpet of Glory descends on the New York City in our universe to collect and preserve artifacts from the legendary turn-of-the-twentieth century landmark Flatiron building.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
Daryl Gregory - 2018
How much time do we have left, and do we even understand what timescale to use? As a slow apocalypse blooms across the Earth, planets and plants, animals and microbes, all live and die and evolve at different scales. Is one human life long enough to unravel the mystery?Nine Last Days on Planet Earth is a Tor.com Original from the award-winning science fiction author Daryl Gregory.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Martian Obelisk
Linda Nagata - 2017
A story about an architect on Earth commissioned to create (via long distance) a masterwork with materials from the last abandoned Martian colony, a monument that will last thousands of years longer than Earth, which is dying.
Loss of Signal
S.B. Divya - 2018
The first mind to circle the moon without a body in tow. It's a golden opportunity, perhaps the only chance for a 19-year-old whose body failed him to become immortal. But as he reaches the dark side of the moon and loses signal from Earth, the cold of space threatens to overwhelm him, in S.B. Divya's engrossing Tor.com Original short story, Loss of Signal.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Three Lives of Sonata James
Lettie Prell - 2016
But this young artist wants to prove that living forever isn't the same as living a beautiful life.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light
Mimi Mondal - 2019
I am a trapeze master. An act of compassion puts a trapeze artist in India on a collision course with a terrifying supernatural power in His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light: a Tor.com Original from Dalit writer Mimi Mondal.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Recoveries
Susan Palwick - 2018
Two women who have been friends since they were children—one a recovering alcoholic brought up by parents who believe they’re alien abductees, the other an orphan with an eating disorder—contend with a secret that might doom their friendship, in Susan Palwick's Tor.com Original short story, Recoveries.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Sinew and Steel and What They Told
Carrie Vaughn - 2020
He expected to die before they ever discovered what he really is. But he's not dead, and now he has to explain.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Martian in the Wood
Stephen Baxter - 2017
Although people hoped and prayed peace had come, they were wrong. Across the gulf of space, plans were being drawn for a return, but before they could bear fruit a terrible discovery was made deep in Holmburgh Wood, one that would tear a family apart and shock the world.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.