Today, Tor.com announced Some of the Best From Tor.com, 2013 Edition, a collection of fiction published on Tor.com over the past year. In a statement about the release, Tor.com said:
We are thrilled to announce the 2013 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of twenty-one of our favorite stories, selected from the sixty-plus stories we published this year. This anthology is available world-wide through all major ebook retailers.
These stories were acquired and edited for Tor.com by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ellen Datlow, Ann VanderMeer, Liz Gorinsky, George R. R. Martin, Noa Wheeler, Melissa Frain, and Claire Eddy. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration.
This is the second volume in Tor.com’s anthology series, the first of which covers the entirety of the site’s first five years. It’s one of the most impressive short fiction collections available.
The table of contents, all of which are available to read for free on Tor.com:
Table of 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 Berry
- “Contains Multitudes” by Ben Burgis
- “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu
- “Old Dead Futures” by Tina Connolly
- “The Elephant in the Room” by Paul Cornell
- “Lawful Interception” by Cory Doctorow
- “Wakulla Springs” by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages
- “A Terror” by Jeff Ford
- “The Hanging Game” by Helen Marshall
- “In the Greenwood” by Mari Ness (upcoming)
- “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes
- “Rag and Bone” by Priya Sharma
- “Equoid” by Charles Stross
- “Sing” by Karin Tidbeck
- “Terrain” by Genevieve Valentine
- “The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn
- “Super Bass” by Kai Ashante Wilson
It’s my opinion that Tor.com is one of the finest publishers of genre short fiction, in print or electronically, and a curated collection of some of their best stories is sure to be full of quality. Get Some of the Best From Tor.com, 2013 Edition: eBook
