We are excited to share the Table of Contents for the 2021 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of 22 of our favorite short stories and novelettes selected from the stories we have published this year. The eBook edition will be available for free from all your favorite vendors on January 25, 2022. Of course, you can enjoy all of these stories right now at the links below.
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
I always look forward to this. For some reason, I forget to read as they become available. But, I always grab the e-book as it becomes available.
Marking that day in my calendar. I recently found the 2020 edition on my kindle while on vacation (had completely forgotten about it) and could not put it down again.
For anyone on Goodreads, I added this edition of Some of the Best of Tor. I added all authors and editors, but was unable to to upload the cover image. Could someone at Tor Dot Com upload the cover to Goodreads? It would be appreciated. I read all of these short stories over the year and it was nice to be able to add this book to my “read” shelf.