Pre-order (For Free!) Some of the Best from Tor.com 2014

We are thrilled to announce the 2014 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of twenty-six of our favorite short stories, novelettes, and novellas, selected from the seventy-plus stories we published this year.

Of course, you can always read these—and all other—Tor.com stories for free whenever you’d like, but starting January 6th they will be available world-wide as a single, easy to read, free mini ebook. This offer is available world-wide throughout all ebook retailers. (Kindle readers can pre-order it now.)

These stories were acquired and edited for Tor.com by Ellen Datlow, Carl Engle-Laird, Liz Gorinsky, David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Peter Joseph, Marco Palmieri, Paul Stevens, and Ann VanderMeer. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration.

Note: The free ebook download offer has expired as of January 1, 2016

Some of the Best of Tor.com 2014
Table of Contents

• “As Good As New” by Charlie Jane Anders (Short Story)
• “The End of the End of Everything” by Dale Bailey (Novelette)
• “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch” by Kelly Barnhill (Short Story)
• “Sleep Walking Now and Then” by Richard Bowes (Novelette)
• “Daughter of Necessity” by Marie Brennan (Short Story)
• “Brisk Money” by Adam Christopher (Short Story)
• “A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the Overhaul of the Barricade” by John Chu (Short Story)
• “The Color of Paradox” by A.M. Dellamonica (Short Story)
• “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys (Novelette)
• “A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone (Short Story)
• “A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star” by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Novelette)
• “Cold Wind” by Nicola Griffith (Short Story)
• “The Tallest Doll in New York City” by Maria Dahvana Headley (Short Story)
• “Where the Trains Turn” by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Novella)
• “Combustion Hour” by Yoon Ha Lee (Short Story)
• “Reborn” by Ken Liu (Novelette)
• “Midway Relics and Dying Breeds” by Seanan McGuire (Novelette)
• “Anyway: Angie” by Daniel José Older (Short Story)
• “The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert (Novella)
• “Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden’s Syndrome” by John Scalzi (Novella)
• “Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes (Novelette)
• “The Insects of Love” by Genevieve Valentine (Novelette)
• “Sleeper” by Jo Walton (Short Story)
• “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson (Novelette)
• “In the Sight of Akresa” by Ray Wood (Novelette)
• “A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap (Short Story)

Creating this short list was a very difficult process. To see all our original fiction publications, please visit our prose index. I would like to thank our authors, editors, artists, and readers for making this a fantastic year of fiction for us.