In 2020, Tordotcom Publishing published over 30 novels, novellas, anthologies, and collections, including the first full-length novel entry in Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries series, the New England Book Award-winning novella Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi, the mind-melting sequel to the necromantic space opera Gideon the Ninth (now with even more bones!) and so much more!
We are tremendously proud of our authors, illustrators, and editors for creating such wonderful works this year. We hope that you will nominate your favorites for the Hugos, Nebulas, and other upcoming awards which honor outstanding works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror—but most of all, we hope that you have enjoyed reading these stories as much as we have!
Novels
Stormsong by C. L. Polk (The Kingston Cycle #2)
Published on February 11th, 2020
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Cover art and design by Will Staehle
Dame Grace Hensley helped her brother Miles undo the atrocity that stained her nation, but now she has to deal with the consequences. With the power out in the dead of winter and an uncontrollable sequence of winter storms on the horizon, Aeland faces disaster. Grace has the vision to guide her parents to safety, but a hostile queen and a ring of rogue mages stand in the way of her plans. There’s revolution in the air, and any spark could light the powder. What’s worse, upstart photojournalist Avia Jessup draws ever closer to secrets that could topple the nation, and closer to Grace’s heart.
Can Aeland be saved without bloodshed? Or will Kingston die in flames, and Grace along with it?
Docile by K. M. Szpara
Published on March 3rd, 2020
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Cover photograph by Yuri Arcurs/E+/Getty Images; Jacket design by Jamie Stafford-Hill
There is no consent under capitalism.
To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents’ debts and buy your children’s future.
Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him.
Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains (and money) behind Dociline and the entire Office of Debt Resolution. When Elisha refuses Dociline, Alex refuses to believe that his family’s crowning achievement could have any negative side effects—and is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile without it.
Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse.
Hearts of Oak by Eddie Robson
Published on March 17th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
Cover art by Armando Veve; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
The buildings grow.
And the city expands.
And the people of the land are starting to behave abnormally.
Or perhaps they’ve always behaved that way, and it’s normality that’s at fault.And the king of the land confers with his best friend, who happens to be his closest advisor, who also happens to be a talking cat. But that’s all perfectly natural and not at all weird.
Iona, close to retirement, finds that the world she has always known is nothing like she always believed it to be. There are dark forces… not dark. There are uncanny forces… no, not uncanny. There are forces, anyway, mostly slightly odd ones, and they appear to be acting in mysterious ways. It’s about town planning, it’s about cats and it’s about the nature of reality.
Repo Virtual by Corey J. White
Published on April 21st, 2020
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Jacket art © Shutterstock Images; Jacket design by Christine Foltzer
The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities — augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.
Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He’s been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he’s stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.
Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #5)
Published on May 5th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
Jacket art by Jaime Jones; Jacket design by Christine Foltzer
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you’re a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you’re Murderbot.
Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.
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I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
When Murderbot’s human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.
Drastic action it is, then.
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb Trilogy #2)
Published on August 4th, 2020
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Jacket art by Tommy Arnold; Jacket design by Jamie Stafford-Hill
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath—but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her.
Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor’s Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off?
City Under the Stars by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
Published on August 25th, 2020
Edited by Ellen Datlow and Lee Harris
Cover art by Raphael Lacoste; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
God was in his Heaven—which was fifteen miles away, due east.
Far in Earth’s future, in a post-utopian hell-hole, Hanson works ten solid back-breaking hours a day, shoveling endless mountains of coal, within sight of the iridescent wall that separates what’s left of humanity from their gods.
One day, after a tragedy of his own making, Hanson leaves the city, not knowing what he will do, or how he will survive in the wilderness without work. He finds himself drawn to the wall, to the elusive promise of God. And when the impossible happens, he steps through, into the city beyond.
The impossible was only the beginning.
Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston
Published on September 8th, 2020
Edited by Ruoxi Chen and Lee Harris
Jacket art: bees by Maria Stezhko/Shutterstock.com; face by Hero Images/Getty Images; Jacket design by Jamie Stafford-Hill
The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find.
Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile.
Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men.
Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston’s characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being.
Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker
Published on October 6th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
Jacket art and design by David Curtis
If you trust her you’ll never make it home…
Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework—without complaint, without fuss, without prompt.
Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable.
They live on the same street.
They live in different worlds.On an unplanned detour from home to school one morning, Avery and Zib find themselves climbing over a stone wall into the Up and Under—an impossible land filled with mystery, adventure and the strangest creatures.
Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross
Published on October 27th, 2020
Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Jacket photographs: arch © Getty Images, skulls & desktop © Shutterstock.com
As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere.
In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive.
Novellas
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #5)
Published on January 7th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
Jacket art by Robert Hunt; Jacket design by FORT
When Jack left Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister—whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice—back to their home on the Moors.
But death in their adopted world isn’t always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome.
Eleanor West’s “No Quests” rule is about to be broken.
Again.
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Published on January 21st, 2020
Edited by Ruoxi Chen
Jacket art and design by Jaya Miceli
Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor’s son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven’t happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands.
Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative. It burns fearlessly toward revolution and has quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience.
Ella and Kev are both shockingly human and immeasurably powerful. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by racism. Their futures might alter the world.
Prosper’s Demon by K. J. Parker
Published on January 28th, 2020
Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Cover art by Sam Weber; Cover design by Christie Foltzer
In a botched demonic extraction, they say the demon feels it ten times worse than the man. But they don’t die, and we do. Equilibrium.
The unnamed and morally questionable narrator is an exorcist with great follow-through and few doubts. His methods aren’t delicate but they’re undeniably effective: he’ll get the demon out—he just doesn’t particularly care what happens to the person.
Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world’s first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he’s demonically possessed.
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Published on February 4th, 2020
Edited by Ruoxi Chen
Jacket art and design by Will Staehle
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”
Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.
The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.
Finna by Nino Cipri
Published on February 25th, 2020
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Cover art by Carl Weins; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store—but not that one—slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.
To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle #1)
Published on March 24th, 2020
Edited by Ruoxi Chen
Cover art by Alyssa Winans; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.
Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor’s lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She’s a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.
Anthropocene Rag by Alex Irvine
Published on March 31st, 2020
Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Cover design by Drive Communications
In the future United States, our own history has faded into myth and traveling across the country means navigating wastelands and ever-changing landscapes.
The country teems with monsters and artificial intelligences try to unpack their own becoming by recreating myths and legends of their human creators. Prospector Ed, an emergent AI who wants to understand the people who made him, assembles a ragtag team to reach the mythical Monument City.
In this nanotech Western, Alex Irvine infuses American mythmaking with terrifying questions about the future and who we will become.
Out of Body
by Jeffrey Ford
Published on May 26th, 2020
Edited by Ellen Datlow
Cover photographs © Getty Images; Cover design by FORT
A small-town librarian witnesses a murder at his local deli, and what had been routine sleep paralysis begins to transform into something far more disturbing. The trauma of holding a dying girl in his arms drives him out of his own body. The town he knows so well is suddenly revealed to him from a whole new perspective. Secrets are everywhere and demons fester behind closed doors.
Worst of all, he discovers a serial killer who has been preying on the area for over a century, one capable of traveling with him through his dreams.
The Ghosts of Sherwood by Carrie Vaughn
Published on June 9th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
Cover art and design by Elizabeth Dresner
Everything about Father is stories.
Robin of Locksley and his one true love, Marian, are married. It has been close on two decades since they beat the Sheriff of Nottingham with the help of a diverse band of talented friends. King John is now on the throne, and Robin has sworn fealty in order to further protect not just his family, but those of the lords and barons who look up to him—and, by extension, the villagers they protect.
There is a truce. An uneasy one, to be sure, but a truce, nonetheless.
But when the Locksley children are stolen away by persons unknown, Robin and Marian are going to need the help of everyone they’ve ever known, perhaps even the ghosts that are said to reside deep within Sherwood.
And the Locksley children, despite appearances to the contrary, are not without tricks of their own…
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
Published on June 23rd, 2020
Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Jacket art by Sija Hong; Hand-lettering by Sarah J. Coleman; Jacket design by Christine Foltzer
A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined.
Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings
Published on July 28th, 2020
Edited by Ellen Datlow
Jacket and interior art by Kathleen Jennings; Jacket design by Jaya Miceli
In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothers—a note that makes her question memories of their disappearance and her father’s departure.
A beguiling story that proves that gothic delights and uncanny family horror can live—and even thrive—under a burning sun, Flyaway introduces readers to Bettina Scott, whose search for the truth throws her into tales of eerie dogs, vanished schools, cursed monsters, and enchanted bottles. Flyaway enchants you with the sly, beautiful darkness of Karen Russell and a world utterly its own.
The Heirs of Locksley by Carrie Vaughn
Published on August 4th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
Cover art and design by Elizabeth Dresner
“We will hold an archery contest. A simple affair, all in fun, on the tournament grounds. Tomorrow. We will see you there.”
The latest civil war in England has come and gone, King John is dead, and the nobility of England gathers to see the coronation of his son, thirteen year old King Henry III.
The new king is at the center of political rivalries and power struggles, but John of Locksley—son of the legendary Robin Hood and Lady Marian—only sees a lonely boy in need of friends. John and his sisters succeed in befriending Henry, while also inadvertently uncovering a political plot, saving a man’s life, and carrying out daring escapes.
All in a day’s work for the Locksley children…
Drowned Country by Emily Tesh (The Greenhollow Duology #2)
Published on August 18th, 2020
Edited by Ruoxi Chen
Cover image by David Curtis; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can’t ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. Henry Silver does not relish what he’ll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the sea—a missing girl, a monster on the loose, or, worst of all, Tobias Finch, who loves him.
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
Published on September 1st, 2020
Edited by Ellen Datlow
Cover design by Catherine Casalino
We thought we’d play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead.
One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until it starts killing.
Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He’ll be a hero. He’ll save everyone to the best of his ability. He’ll do whatever he needs to so he can save the day. That’s the thing about heroes—sometimes you have to become a monster first.
An Unnatural Life by Erin K. Wagner
Published on September 15th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
Cover art by Will Staehle; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
The cybernetic organism known as 812-3 is in prison, convicted of murdering a human worker but he claims that he did not do it. With the evidence stacked against him, his lawyer, Aiya Ritsehrer, must determine grounds for an appeal and uncover the true facts of the case.
But with artificial life-forms having only recently been awarded legal rights on Earth, the military complex on Europa is resistant to the implementation of these same rights on the Jovian moon.
Aiya must battle against her own prejudices and that of her new paymasters, to secure a fair trial for her charge, while navigating her own interpersonal drama, before it’s too late.
The Seventh Perfection by Daniel Polansky
Published on September 22nd, 2020
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Cover art by Feifei Ruan; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
When a woman with perfect memory sets out to solve a riddle, the threads she tugs on could bring a whole city crashing down. The God-King who made her is at risk, and his other servants will do anything to stop her.
To become the God-King’s Amanuensis, Manet had to master all seven perfections, developing her body and mind to the peak of human performance. She remembers everything that has happened to her, in absolute clarity, a gift that will surely drive her mad. But before she goes, Manet must unravel a secret which threatens not only the carefully prepared myths of the God-King’s ascent, but her own identity and the nature of truth itself.
Burning Roses by S. L. Huang
Published on September 29th, 2020
Edited by Diana Gill
Jacket art by Victo Ngai; Jacket design by Christine Foltzer
Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods.
Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she’s past her prime.
They would both rather just be retired, but that’s not what the world has ready for them.
When deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything they’ve both grown to love, the two must join forces. Now blessed and burdened with the hindsight of middle age, they begin a quest that’s a reckoning of sacrifices made and mistakes mourned, of choices and family and the quest for immortality.
The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tinfoil Dossier #3)
Published on October 13th, 2020
Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Cover photographs: coastal home © Getty Images; ocean © Shutterstock.com; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time.
Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling. He wants to learn if she can stop the latest apocalypse. Ellison, once a unique and valuable asset, can barely remember why she ever fought the good fight.
Still, you don’t say no to the Signalman, and the time has come to face her fears and the nightmare forces that almost destroyed her. Only Ellison can unleash the hound of Tindalos…
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Published on October 13th, 2020
Edited by Diana Pho
Jacket art and design by Henry Sene Yee
IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS.
In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan’s ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.
Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan’s demons straight to Hell. But something awful’s brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.
Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?
The Fourth Island by Sarah Tolmie
Published on October 20th, 2020
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Cover art by Rovina Cai; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
Huddled in the sea off the coast of Ireland is a fourth Aran Island, a secret island peopled by the lost, findable only in moments of despair. Whether drowned at sea, trampled by Cromwell’s soldiers, or exiled for clinging to the dead, no outsiders reach the island without giving in to dark emotion.
Time and again, The Fourth Island weaves a hypnotic pattern with its prose, presaging doom before walking back through the sweet and sour moments of lives not yet lost. It beautifully melds the certainty of loss with the joys of living, drawing readers under like the tide.
The Factory Witches of Lowell by C. S. Malerich
Published on November 10th, 2020
Edited by Carl Engle-Laird
Cover photographs: red string © Shutterstock.com, tangled thread © Getty Images; Cover design by Jaya Miceli
Faced with abominable working conditions, unsympathetic owners, and hard-hearted managers, the mill girls of Lowell have had enough. They’re going on strike, and they have a secret weapon on their side: a little witchcraft to ensure that no one leaves the picket line.
For the young women of Lowell, Massachusetts, freedom means fair wages for fair work, decent room and board, and a chance to escape the cotton mills before lint stops up their lungs. When the Boston owners decide to raise the workers’ rent, the girls go on strike. Their ringleader is Judith Whittier, a newcomer to Lowell but not to class warfare. Judith has already seen one strike fold and she doesn’t intend to see it again. Fortunately Hannah, her best friend in the boardinghouse—and maybe first love?—has a gift for the dying art of witchcraft.
Last Stand in Lychford by Paul Cornell (Witches of Lychford #5)
Published on November 24th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
Cover design by FORT
There are changes in the air, both in Lychford and in the land of fairy.
The magical protections previously employed by the town are gone, and the forces of darkness are closing in – both figuratively and literally.
Can Autumn and Lizzie save their community, and… well, the world…?
Exploding fairies, the architect of the universe and a celestial bureaucratic blunder make this a satisfying conclusion to the ever-popular Witches of Lychford series.
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle #2)
Published on December 8th, 2020
Edited by Ruoxi Chen
Cover art by Alyssa Winans; Cover design by Christine Foltzer
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and discover how truth can survive becoming history.
Nghi Vo returns to the empire of Ahn and The Singing Hills Cycle in When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, a mesmerizing, lush standalone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and Fortune.
Anthologies
Tor.com Publishing 2020 Debut Sampler by Nino Cipri, Kathleen Jennings, K. M. Szpara, and Nghi Vo
Published on February 25th, 2020
Tor.com Publishing is proud to present a sneak peak of its 2020 debut novel and novella authors.
Nino Cipri’s Finna is a fun, queer story about low-wage workers traveling through wormholes to find a missing grandmother, and themselves.
Transformation, enchantment, and the emotional truths of family history teem in Kathleen Jennings’ stunning debut, Flyaway.
Docile is the sexy, startling, near-future science fiction debut from Hugo and Nebula Award finalist K. M. Szpara.
And, with the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.
In Our Own Worlds #2 by Katharine Duckett, Seanan McGuire, Lina Rather, and Kai Ashante Wilson
Published on May 19th, 2020
In celebration of Pride, Tordotcom Publishing presents four critically acclaimed novellas featuring LGBTQ+ characters.
This collection includes:
- Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
- The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora by Zen Cho, Saad Z. Hossein, S. L. Huang, Nghi Vo, Neon Yang
Published on August 11th, 2020
Clerics and tigers. Nuns and bandits. Archers and hunters. Mages versus Machinists. A recently awoken djinn king and the soldier who must contain him. All these and more can be found in excerpts from five fantasy novellas rooted in Asia and the Asian Diaspora that will enchant minds and hearts alike.
This collection includes:
- The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
- The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain
- Burning Roses by S. L. Huang
- When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
- The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
Collections
The Murderbot Diaries, Volumes 1-4 by Martha Wells
Published on October 27th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
“We are all a little bit Murderbot.” – NPR on Martha Wells’s The Murderbot Diaries
Tordotcom Publishing is proud to present the first four hardcover volumes of Martha Wells’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning series The Murderbot Diaries together in this boxed set.
The Complete Lychford by Paul Cornell
Published on November 17th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
At last, The Complete Lychford! All five volumes of Paul Cornell’s popular Witches of Lychford series are together for the first time in this ebook omnibus.
Wayward Children, Volumes 1-3 by Seanan McGuire
Published on November 17th, 2020
Edited by Lee Harris
