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Even If Such Ways Are Bad
A two-person crew embark on a mind-bending deep space mission inside a living wormship capable of burrowing through space. What lies on the other end is unknown—as is what they will do once they get...
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The Dark House
A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t be contained by frames… Author’s note: This story contains fictional depictions of suicide and...
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The River and the World Remade
When the waters rose, the people who stayed on the River learned they weathered the storms best together, but what happens when one of their own becomes curious about the Land? Back before I...
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Salt Water
While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa’s fish becoming something else? Anissa touches the small round bone sprouting from the fish’s back. The fish is a...
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Counting Casualties
Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships, and planets in its path, but also consumes their greatest arts, somehow scratching them from...
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The Puppetmaster
A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken…and some monsters cannot be chained. Uduak IX may have ordered an assassin to gut his niece in a holy...
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Pretty Good Neighbor
There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands… It was a June night, warm but breezy. Lynn and the kids had gone to bed, and I was sitting out next to the...
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The Star-Bear
A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda… On a fine spring afternoon, the noted Russian émigré poet and fabulist Alexei Zerimov was seated at a sidewalk...
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After the Animal Flesh Beings
A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with the meaning of life…after life ceases to exist. Five Tales 1. How We Acquire Our Children In the...
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Ceffo
On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a secret that could change her life… “Beneath my sorrows, I hold a city.” Nizar Qabbani She...
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Detonation Boulevard
In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, all while dodging the competition, fatigue, and violent lava geysers—there’s only one way Cat knows...
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Burning Girls
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes, edited by Ellen...
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The Devil in America
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson, edited by...
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Blood Is Another Word for Hunger
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger” by Rivers Solomon,...
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The City Born Great
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “The City Born Great” by multi Hugo Award-winning author...
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Six Months, Three Days
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders, edited by...
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What It Means to Be a Car
An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt. . . Welcome to Small Heaven, home of Jennet Harada. You are Ketrin Nanhola? Yes, that’s me. My name is Seishin Toyota and I...
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Headhunting
A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a cathedral–but why would someone want it? Amir wakes up from a dream about a flesh-and-bone piano,...
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The Three O’Clock Dragon
Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing dragon and her unconventional platform… Liza exited the south tunnel just in time to see the launch....
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The Job at the End of the World
A weary resilience worker should know better than anyone: no one is safe when the world is always ending… The nail gun was busted so I was up on the roof with an actual hammer. It wasn’t bad: a minor...
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