A ghost haunts King David's family. Brothers devour their enemies and each other. A rabbi opens a Chabad House in a sinister New England town. In this book, you will find seven stories as demented and horrifying as the Bible that inspired them.---------------------------Dark and enticing, the stories in King David & the Spiders from Mars explore Biblical themes with a paradoxical combination of religious irreverence and respect for the literary richness of the texts. Marked...

Ao Laiei does not know what happened to the great revolutionary war hero Uroie Aei since she resurrected him, but she has long intended to find out. Finally, a clue from an unlikely information source--the confusing art of dream-diving--enables her to be present for a surprising strike against an academic aligned with the revolutionary government. Laiei quickly discovers that it is not the physical target she is concerned with, but his field of study, which may unlock the secret of what my...

An exiled warrior pledges his loyalty to a military with many enemies in this epic fantasy novella.With a single blow, Cete won both honor and exile from his last commander. Since then he has wandered, looking for a place to call home. The distant holdings of the Reach Antach offer shelter, but that promise has a price.The Reach Antach is doomed.Barbarians, traitors, and scheming investors conspire to destroy the burgeoning settlement. A wise man wo...

Rael's father, Drase of the line of Peor, is the best stonecutter Taraf the City has ever seen. Stonecutting isn't usually women's work, but Rael—a head taller than her brothers, and as broad across in her shoulders as her father—finds it fits her well. Until the day her brother Tei is killed by a desert tribesman.Tei's death comes at a crucial juncture for Taraf the City. Beset by the tribes, as well as a rising threat from a king in the south, Rael and her fellow stoneworkers are...

The first season of the Tor.com Collection includes the following Tor.com audiobooks originally published separately in the Fall of 2015:The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante WilsonWitches of Lychford by Paul CornellSunset Mantle by Alter S. ReissBinti by Nnedi Okorafor (2016 Hugo Award winner for Best Novella)The Last Witness by K.J. ParkerOf Sorrow & Such by Angela SlatterEnv...

With a single blow, Cete won both honor and exile from his last commander. Since then he has wandered, looking for a place to call home. The distant holdings of the Reach Antach offer shelter, but that promise has a price.The Reach Antach is doomed.Barbarians, traitors, and scheming investors conspire to destroy the burgeoning settlement. A wise man would move on, but Cete has found reason to stay. A blind weaver-woman and the beautiful sunset mantle lure the warrior to wag...

Enjoy samples from Tor.com Publishing's first ten novellas in the Fall 2015 sampler!Featuring Kai Ashante Wilson, Nnedi Okorafor, K. J. Parker, Daniel Polansky, and many more, this sampler contains exciting new fantasy worlds, harrowing science fiction adventures, stolen memories, edible angels, and talking salamanders.The novellas these chapters are taken from are available in ebook, trade paperback, and audiobook.At the Publisher's request, this t...