A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on
Tor.com
in 2011.Contents:Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders The Dala Horse by Michael Swanwick A Clean Sweep with All the Trimmings by James Alan Gardner Beauty Belongs to
All Thala wants to do is swim free, far beyond the boundaries of her family's protected waters. Instead, she's forced to stay within the confines of her Uncle's cliff top home. She struggles with life on land, battling her self-obsessed Uncle in any petty
The young ladies of Hertfordshire are dropping like flies.Miss Elizabeth Bennet could not be more pleased when the famous London detective Mr Sherlock Darcy makes it his business to solve the mystery of three young ladies’ deaths – not least because h
The future is boring. Technology has solved the world's most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play. Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn't. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day an
Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come. This volume includes:The Evil that
strange magic...in 17 Fascinating tales of spells gone awry When it comes to magic, skipping the directions, changing the ingredients, or garbling the words of a spell can lead to unusual consequences-sometimes dire, sometimes comical. Included in these
Disaster upon catastrophe forces an unlucky engineer to become someone more adventuresome.A tech-savvy private investigator stalks organ traffickers across a toxic cityscape.International hostilities on an alien planet turn a human architect into a dogged
Scheherazade’s One Thousand and One Nights stories have captured imaginations for a millennia. Fairy tales and fables abound, telling of the fantastic and mysterious, the comic and dramatic.This anthology will explore romantic Orientalism through a spec
On the [date redacted] of the [year redacted], [names redacted] of the [organisation redacted] discovered a hidden text that documented realities other than our own.Dark, weird realities.Within these pages they discovered monuments to a dying alien race,