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Annie Without Crow


Michael Swanwick - 2021
    Michael Swanwick's "Annie Without Crow" is a historial fantasy short story--a Tor.com Original.An act of indiscretion from her immortal trickster companion sends Annie and her league of ladies-in-waiting on a time-defying adventure that becomes the inspiration for William Shakespeare.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

For He Can Creep


Siobhan Carroll - 2019
    Luke's Hospital for Lunatics believing God has commissioned him to write The Divine Poem. But years earlier, he made a bargain with Satan and the devil has come to collect his due--a poem that will bring about the apocalypse.Saving Smart's soul, and the rest of the world, falls to Jeoffry, the poet's demon-fighting cat and a creature of cunning Satan would be a fool to underestimate...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Necessary Arthur


Garth Nix - 2020
    Time to find the Necessary Arthur and get down to business!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.

Elephants and Corpses


Kameron Hurley - 2015
    When his assistant Tera recognizes the most recent waterlogged cadaver they bought off the street, though, he finds that his new body is carrying more trouble than he bargained for.

Come See the Living Dryad


Theodora Goss - 2017
    "Come See the Living Dryad" by Theodora Goss is a fantasy about a contemporary woman investigating the murder of an ancestor suffering from a rare disease who was a famous sideshow attraction in the nineteenth century.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections


Tina Connolly - 2018
    The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections is a Tor.com Original from fantasy author Tina Connolly.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Yellow and the Perception of Reality


Maureen F. McHugh - 2020
    June doesn’t fully understand her twin sister’s research, but that doesn’t stop her from trying, if it means she can better understand Wanda.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Angel of Khan el-Khalili


P. Djèlí Clark - 2017
    A girl visits a bazaar in Cairo, seeking a favor from a mysterious angelic being.This story first appeared in the anthology Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt.

Sand


Jasmin Kirkbride - 2021
    When Suzy was born, her parents filled her mouth with sand. But this is normal and natural and the way things are always done. And if she finds it uncomfortable to keep it there, to eat with it there, to talk with it there, she's just going to have to learn to live with it.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Beyond the Dragon's Gate


Yoon Ha Lee - 2020
    Now, years later, the military has need of her expertise in order to prevent the destruction of their AI-powered fleet.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Perfect State


Brandon Sanderson - 2015
    He has defeated all foes, has united the entire world beneath his rule, and has mastered the arcane arts. He spends his time sparring with his nemesis, who keeps trying to invade Kai's world.Except for today. Today, Kai has to go on a date.Forces have conspired to require him to meet with his equal—a woman from another world who has achieved just as much as he has. What happens when the most important man in the world is forced to have dinner with the most important woman in the world?

Little Free Library


Naomi Kritzer - 2020
    This is especially so for Meigan, who develops an unexpected friendship with a mysterious borrower of books from her Little Free Library.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Better Way of Saying


Sarah Pinsker - 2021
    But his aspirations to edit some of the worst dialog leads him in a weird direction that changes his life.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Manuscript Tradition


Harry Turtledove - 2020
    Feyrouz Hanafusa is a curator at Yale in the 23rd century. Space exploration is still ongoing, and signs of life have been discovered on a planet near TRAPPIST-1. Signs, Dr. Hanafusa realizes, that suspiciously resemble drawings in the Voynich manuscript, which no one has been able to decipher in over eight hundred years.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.