Tor.com Publishing is excited to announce Take Them to the Stars, a new science fiction trilogy from Sylvain Neuvel, author of the Themis Files and The Test.
Even before our kind started using tools, the Kibsu have been with us, guiding humanity, teaching us, molding us.
As long as we follow the rules.
Wayward Children, Seanan McGuire’s award-winning Tor.com Publishing novella series—about what happens when your portal fantasy story is over and you return to the real world—is being adapted for television!
Legendary Television and Syfy will bring Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children to the small screen, beginning with Every Heart a Doorway. Joe Tracz, whose credits include Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief musical and the A Series of Unfortunate Events TV series, will adapt the novella and serve as showrunner.
Each month, the Tor.com eBook Club gives away a free sci-fi/fantasy ebook to club subscribers.
We’re excited to announce that John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire, a dauntingly relevant story of the far-future, is the Ebook Club pick for March 2019!
Cory Doctorow’s Radicalized is a timely collection consisting of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future. The book publishes March 19th with Tor Books, and Doctorow is heading out on tour to celebrate! Check out the full list of dates and venues below.
Lambda Literary has announced the finalists for the 31st annual Lambda Literary Awards, or “Lammys,” celebrating achievement in LGBTQ literature published in 2018. Chosen from nearly 1,000 submissions from over 300 publishers (mainstream, independent, and emerging publish-on-demand technologies), the finalists span both literary genres and queer experiences. The winners will be announced at a gala ceremony in New York City on June 3, 2019.
Tor.com Publishing authors Margaret Killjoy, JY Yang, and C.L. Polk were both recognized for their work in the category of LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.
Spring is a time of rebirth and renewal, so what better season for a dark tale of the zombie-plague in Helen Marshall’s The Migration? If urban fantasy is more your thing, dive into a mystery with an inter-dimensional gumshoe in Graham Edwards’s String City. And if short fiction is your jam, then you’re in luck—this month has eight new SFF anthologies and collections, including stories from Sarah Pinsker and a dazzling selection of cross-genre work featured in New Suns from editor Nisi Shawl.
Which will you read first?
There are enough Young Adult titles in this month’s SFF offerings to keep you busy through Spring Break and beyond! Dhonielle Clayton’s The Everlasting Rose continues the Belles’ saga set in the opulent world of Orleans; Bridget Tyler’s Pioneer sends a young woman to build a new home away from Earth; K.K. Perez’s The Tesla Legacy engages in a centuries-old battle between rival alchemical societies; and Sarah Porter’s Never Contented Things warns that the fairies’ otherworldly gifts come at a terrible price…
Which will you be reading first?
The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year have been selected. We’re honored that a story published on Tor.com, Daryl Gregory ‘s “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth,” and two Tor.com Publishing titles, Brooke Bolander’s The Only Harmless Great Thing, and Kelly Robson’s Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, have been selected.
Click through for the full list—congratulations to all the finalists!
You know how this goes: in the face of insurmountable odds and grave, world-ending evil, the chosen one will rise up and save the world. Standard Hero’s Journey stuff, really. But what if that wasn’t how it went?
Mathias has always been the star. He’s the handsome one, the popular one, the one on the fast track to become mayor of his small town. Naturally, nobody is surprised when it’s revealed that Mathias is prophesied to be the one who’ll save the world. And when he rides off with his grumpy, slightly unstable best friend Aaslo in tow, no one has any reason to suspect their journey will end in anything but Mathias’s stunning success.
This month’s science fiction titles take us from the cold depths of space to the far reaches of time, then sideways to a parallel world or two! Tade Thompson’s The Rosewater Insurrection returns us to the sprawling city on the back of a gargantuan alien; Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire blends space opera with murder mystery; Cory Doctorow visits the near future in the novella collection Radicalized; K Chess’s Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the vanished culture of an alternate timeline; and Alastair Reynolds’s time-hopping Permafrost seeks a solution to an ecological catastrophe. Plus, the scattered crew of the Rocinante gears up for another fight in Tiamat’s Wrath, the eighth installment of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series.
Which will you read first?
On October 8, 2019, Wheel of Time and Robert Jordan fans will get to experience Warrior of the Altaii, a fascinating formative work by The Wheel of Time creator, offering an abundance of the epic themes that Jordan would continue to develop in The Wheel of Time itself.
Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end.
The watering holes of the Plain are drying up, the fearsome fanghorn grow more numerous, and bad omens abound. Wulfgar, a leader of the Altaii people, must contend with twin queens, warlords, prophets and magic in hopes of protecting his people and securing their future. Elspeth, a visitor from another world, holds the answers, but first Wulfgar must learn to ask the right questions.
But what if the knowledge that saves the Altaii will also destroy them?
Spring is just around the corner, and so are a bevy of new fantasy books! A world-altering spell sparks conflict in Jenna Glass’s The Women’s War; G. Willow Wilson plots a daring, magical escape in The Bird King; Katharine Duckett takes us beyond Act V of The Tempest with Miranda in Milan. And if you’re looking to curl up with a new Incryptid novel from Seanan McGuire, or start reading a new epic series from author David Dalglish, you’re in luck!
Head below for the full list of fantasy titles heading your way in March.
We’re excited to share the cover for The Warrior Moon, the striking conclusion to K Arsenault Rivera’s epic fantasy trilogy that began with The Tiger’s Daughter.
For two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s best science fiction & fantasy books.
Sorcerers fight for the right to exist and fall in love in The Heart of the Circle, an extraordinary alternate world fantasy thriller by award-winning Israeli author Keren Landsman. We’re excited to share the cover and an excerpt preview from the English language edition, translated by Daniella Zamir and available August 2019 from Angry Robot.
