The bugs eat metal and leave people and animals alone—unless you crush one, and then they’ll swarm and destroy everything they touch. When Kimball comes upon twelve-year-old Thayet, she’s been stuck on a rock in a river of bugs for two days,...
Some people will tell you that world-class fame is better than living to a contented old age. Other people disagree. One of those other people might possibly be the protagonist of The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging...
The Red Mother is a fantasy novella by Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.
Auga, a wandering sorcerer, follows his brother’s fate-thread into the village of Ormsfjoll, where he expects to deliver good news and continue his travels. What...
“A Forest, or a Tree” is a nightmarish horror story from author Tegan Moore, a Tor.com Original.
Four friends, May, Piper, Ailey, and Elizabeth, go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.
It was just the four of them, four...
Once upon a moment, the One spoke to He and She, and learned that infinity and eternity are slippery concepts. At best.
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics...
From the award-wining fantasy author of the Dead Rivers Trilogy, comes Naomi Kritzer’s enchanting Tor.com Original short story, “Little Free Library”
Upon setting up her Little Free Library, Meagan develops an unexpected friendship with a...
Critically acclaimed sci-fi author K.M. Szpara probes the ethics of genetic engineering in this Tor.com Original short story “We’re Here, We’re Here”
Joining a boyband gave Tyler everything he ever dreamed of. A close-knit group of...
A young man grieving for his lost sister steps into the world of their favorite board game, in a desperate attempt to find her.
At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM)...
Annalee Newitz’s Old Media: A Tor.com Original, tells the story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love while they watch old anime from the 21st century.
At the Publisher’s request, this title...
Carolyn Ives Gilman’s Exile’s End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural appropriation.
An artifact of indescribable and irreplaceable beauty created by an “extinct” culture has been the...