Zin E. Rocklyn's "The Night Sun" is a Tor.com Original horror story that speaks to the darkness that manifests around us and in ourselves — but moreover, how justice can be found through the blood.Content warning for fictional depictions of intimate partner violence, including physical assault.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Winner of the Shirley Jackson AwardWinner of the Pulver AwardAn Ignyte Award FinalistA Library Journal Editor's Pick! A Den of Geeks Best Books of 2021!Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Octavia E. ButlerWe are a people who do not forget.Survivors from a flooded kingdom strug...

Tordotcom Publishing is proud to present a sneak peek of its 2021 debut novel and novella authors.In the tradition of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, debut author S. Qiouyi Lu has written a multifaceted story of borders, power, diaspora, and transformation with In the Watchful City.Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with ...

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2020.Includes stories by:Charlie Jane AndersG. V. AndersonGregory Norman BossertJeremy Packert BurkeKatharine DuckettBrian EvensonCarolyn Ives GilmanMaria Dahvana HeadleyStephen Graham JonesJustin C. KeyNaomi KritzerRich LarsonYoon Ha LeeS. Qiouyi LuUsman ...

A 2021 Nebula Award Nominee!One woman will travel to the stars and beyond to save her beloved in this lyrical space opera that reimagines The Little Mermaid.Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. Atuale, the daughter of a Sea-Clan lord, sparked a war by choosing her land-dwelling love and rejecting her place among her people. Now her husband and his clan ...

"This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction."— Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn the tradition of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, debut author S. Qiouyi Lu has written a multifaceted story of borders, power, diaspora, and transformation with In the Watchful City.The city of Ora is watching.Anima is an extrasensory human tasked with surveilling and protecting Ora's ...

Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers o...

Saad Z. Hossain's Kundo Wakes Up is a companion to the Ignyte and Locus Award-Nominated novella The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday.Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong—along with all its remaining residents—to continue its inexorable fall into the sea.Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes...

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel's world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the limits of loyalty, guilt, and justice.

“An elegant, elegiac examination of identity, fictionality, God and humanity itself”—Tamsyn MuirA multilayered, locked-room science fiction novella from Paul Cornell in which five digital beings unravel their existences to discover the truth of their humanity.“The crew of the Rosebud are, currently, and by force of law, a balloon, a goth with a swagger stick, some sort of science aristocrat possibly, a ball of hands, and a swarm of inse...

Nicole Glover delivers the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post–Civil War PhiladelphiaNothing bothers Hetty and Benjy Rhodes more than a case where the answers, motives, and the murder itself feel a bit too neat. Raimond Duval, a victim of one of the many fires that have erupted recently in Philadelphia, is officially declared d...

“This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. This is medicine for a broken world." —Daniel José OlderNamed a Best of 2020 Pick for Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2020Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of PoisonsThe world is changing. Poison desert eats good f...