Here are original stories that straddle the borderline between "fantasy" and "mainstream" fiction, stories both bright and dark in tone (without straying into the realm of horror fiction). Sometimes set in the contemporary or historical world, sometimes p
Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature, and are a natural choice for the overarching subject of acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's third mythic anthology. The Coyote Road features a re
"A Window or a Small Box," by Jedediah Berry, is a charming and weird contemporary novelette of magic realism about a couple about to get married who find themselves on the run from "goons" in an alternative United States. At the publisher's request, this
To celebrate our fifth birthday, Tor.com assembled the last five years of our award-winning original fiction into downloadable ebook files!Table of Contents:1. When We Were Heroes (Wild Cards #21.2) by Daniel Abraham2. Olga by C.T. Adams3. Foundation (Raz
This sixth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Yoon Ha Lee, James Patrick Kelly, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selectin
A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2013.Contents:“A Rumor of Angels” by Dale Bailey“The Too-Clever Fox” by Leigh Bardugo“Thief of War” by Beth Bernobich“A Window or a Small Box” by Jedediah Berr
FLASHed is an anthology of linked flash fiction in comics and prose by 45 star cartoonists and fiction writers. Edited by Josh Neufeld and Sari Wilson, the stories in FLASHed are arranged in “triptychs"—each grouping a kind of call-and-response among