Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction
by Irene Gallo (Editor)
Tor.com Short Fiction (Anniversary 2018)
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Winner of the World Fantasy Award Worlds Seen in Passing is an anthology of award-winning, eye-opening, genre-defining science fiction, fantasy, and horror from T's first ten years, edited by Irene Gallo. "A fresh new story going up at T is always an Event."-Charlie Jane Anders Since it began in 2008, T has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. Its hundreds of show more remarkable stories span from science fiction to fantasy to horror, and everything in between. Now T is making some of those worlds available for the first time in print. This volume collects some of the best short stories T has to offer, with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short stories and novelettes chosen from all ten years of the program. TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Six Months, Three Days" by Charlie Jane Anders "Damage" by David D. Levine "The Best We Can" by Carrie Vaughn "The City Born Great" by N. K. Jemisin "A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel" by Yoon Ha Lee "Waiting on a Bright Moon" by JY Yang "Elephants and Corpses" by Kameron Hurley "About Fairies" by Pat Murphy "The Hanging Game" by Helen Marshall "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" by John Chu "A Cup of Salt Tears" by Isabel Yap "The Litany of Earth" by Ruthanna Emrys "Brimstone and Marmalade" by Aaron Corwin "Reborn" by Ken Liu "Please Undo This Hurt" by Seth Dickinson "The Language of Knives" by Haralambi Markov "The Shape of My Name" by Nino Cipri "Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal "Last Son of Tomorrow" by Greg van Eekhout "Ponies" by Kij Johnson "La beauté sans vertu" by Genevieve Valentine "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" by Alyssa Wong "A Kiss With Teeth" by Max Gladstone "The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" by Tina Connolly "The End of the End of Everything" by Dale Bailey "Breaking Water" by Indrapramit Das "Your Orisons May Be Recorded" by Laurie Penny "The Tallest Doll in New York City" by Maria Dahvana Headley "The Cage" by A.M. Dellamonica "In the Sight of Akresa" by Ray Wood "Terminal" by Lavie Tidhar "The Witch of Duva" by Leigh Bardugo "Daughter of Necessity" by Marie Brennan "Among the Thorns" by Veronica Schanoes "These Deathless Bones" by Cassandra Khaw "Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch" by Kelly Barnhill "This World Is Full of Monsters" by Jeff VanderMeer "The Devil in America" by Kai Ashante Wilson "A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star" by Kathleen Ann Goonan At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. show lessTags
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This is a massive anthology by Tor (obviously), a publisher I've recently come to appreciate, which feels incredibly belated, because Tor has been fantastic for a very long time now. Anyway, there are a whopping 40 short works in this collection, ranging from light fantasy to the hardest of sci-fi.
As always with anthologies, some stories are excellent and/or spoke to me, while others miss the mark. I might go and review some of the shorts that I especially love — or that I have on my to-read list, but trying to review them all would be ulcer-inducing.
Very few authors have more than one story, so it was wonderful finding new talent to later check out in more depth. I have one complaint, though: all the big-name authors that they show more advertise on the cover have stories in the first half ... and the second half drags a bit. Did they just want to make sure people read the more well-known or award-winning stories first in case they DNF'd it?
Highlights for me from this collection:
- The Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel by Yoon Ha Lee
- Elephants and Corpses by Kameron Hurley
- Reborn by Ken Liu
- The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal show less
This is a massive anthology by Tor (obviously), a publisher I've recently come to appreciate, which feels incredibly belated, because Tor has been fantastic for a very long time now. Anyway, there are a whopping 40 short works in this collection, ranging from light fantasy to the hardest of sci-fi.
As always with anthologies, some stories are excellent and/or spoke to me, while others miss the mark. I might go and review some of the shorts that I especially love — or that I have on my to-read list, but trying to review them all would be ulcer-inducing.
Very few authors have more than one story, so it was wonderful finding new talent to later check out in more depth. I have one complaint, though: all the big-name authors that they show more advertise on the cover have stories in the first half ... and the second half drags a bit. Did they just want to make sure people read the more well-known or award-winning stories first in case they DNF'd it?
Highlights for me from this collection:
- The Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel by Yoon Ha Lee
- Elephants and Corpses by Kameron Hurley
- Reborn by Ken Liu
- The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal show less
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