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Rachel Swirsky
Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020 Is Out Now!
Announcing the Table of Contents for Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020
Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)
Chris would rather be anywhere but here, cleaning out his deceased, hateful grandparents’ house with his relatives. Each room he visits takes him back in time to another traumatic memory. To escape this house and his grandparents and his past, he’ll need to take time travel into his own hands.
Announcing Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction Anthology
Announcing a New Novella from Nebula Award-winner Rachel Swirsky
Meet Your Favorite Authors at the Tor Author Drinkup!
Short Fiction Spotlight
Short Fiction Spotlight: The Last of Subterranean Magazine (Summer ’14)
Voting the Categories: A Guide to the 2014 Hugo Short Story Finalists
Rocket Talk: A Tor.com Podcast
Rocket Talk Episode 17: Hugo-Nominated Short Stories
Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 Audiobook Preview!
Magic Is a Little Bit Alive: How the World Became Quiet by Rachel Swirsky
How the World Became Quiet (Excerpt)
Collection and Anthologies, Fantasy || How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present, and Future collects the body of Rachel Swirsky's short fiction to date for the first time. While these stories envision pasts, presents, and futures that never existed, they offer revealing examinations of humanity that readers will find undeniably true.