Some of the Best From Tor.com 2021 Is Out Now!

The 2021 edition of Some of the Best From Tor.com is out today! This anthology features twenty-four of our favorite original stories published on the site in the past year.

Of course, you can always read these—and all other—Tor.com stories for free whenever you’d like, but starting today they will be available world-wide as a single, easy-to-read, FREE ebook, available from all your favorite vendors.

These stories were acquired and edited for Tor.com by Ruoxi Chen, Ellen Datlow, Carl Engle-Laird, Emily Goldman, Jonathan Strahan, Lee Harris, Ann VanderMeer, and Lindsey Hall. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration.

Some of the Best of Tor.com, 2021 — Table of Contents

“Masquerade Season” by ‘Pemi Aguda
“The Lay of Lilyfinger” by G. V. Anderson
“The Red Mother” by Elizabeth Bear
“The Tinder Box” by Kate Elliott
“Questions Asked in the Belly of the World” by Aliza Greenblatt
Black Leg by Glen Hirshberg
“The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie” by Kathleen Jennings
“Blood in the Thread” by Cheri Kamei
“Sand” by Jasmin Kirkbride
“Now We Paint Worlds” by Matthew Kressel
“#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi” by Usman T. Malik
“Let All the Children Boogie” by Sam J. Miller
“#Selfcare” by Annalee Newitz
“The Far Side of the Universe” by noc
“A Better Way of Saying” by Sarah Pinsker
“Baby Teeth” by Daniel Polansky
“The Future Library” by Peng Shepherd
“Aptitude” by Cooper Shrivastava
“Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels” by Lavie Tidhar
“L’Esprit de L’Escalier” by Catherynne M. Valente
“An Easy Job” by Carrie Vaughn
“Small Monsters” by E. Lily Yu