The 2020 edition of Some of the Best From Tor.com is out today! This anthology features twenty-four of our favorite original stories published on the site in the past year.
Of course, you can always read these—and all other—Tor.com stories for free whenever you’d like, but starting today they will be available world-wide as a single, easy-to-read, FREE ebook, available from all your favorite vendors.
These stories were acquired and edited for Tor.com by Ruoxi Chen, Ellen Datlow, Carl Engle-Laird, Emily Goldman, Jennifer Gunnels, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Lee Harris, Diana Pho, Jonathan Strahan, Ann VanderMeer, and Miriam Weinberg. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration.
Some of the Best of Tor.com 2020
Table of Contents
- “If You Take My Meaning” by Charlie Jane Anders
- “Hearts in the Hard Ground” by G. V. Anderson
- “The Night Soil Salvagers” by Gregory Norman Bossert
- “The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers” by Jeremy Packert Burke
- “The Ones Who Look” by Katharine Duckett
- “Solution” by Brian Evenson
- “Exile’s End” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
- “The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods” by Maria Dahvana Headley
- “Wait for Night” by Stephen Graham Jones
- “The Perfection of Theresa Watkins” by Justin C. Key
- “Little Free Library” by Naomi Kritzer
- “How Quini the Squid Misplaced his Klobučar” by Rich Larson
- “Beyond the Dragon’s Gate” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “Anything Resembling Love” by S. Qiouyi Lu
- “City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat” by Usman T. Malik
- “Of Roses and Kings” by Melissa Marr
- “Yellow and the Perception of Reality” by Maureen McHugh
- “The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex” by Tamsyn Muir
- “Two Truths and a Lie” by Sarah Pinsker
- “St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid” by C. L. Polk
- “Everything’s Fine” by Matthew Pridham
- “The Little Witch” by M. Rickert
- “The Night Sun” by Zin E. Rocklyn
- “Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)” by Rachel Swirsky
- “We’re Here, We’re Here” by K. M. Szpara
- “Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Sinew and Steel and What They Told” by Carrie Vaughn
- “An Explorer’s Cartography of Already Settled Lands” by Fran Wilde
- “Flight” by Claire Wrenwood
Buy the Book
Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020
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Amazon says the book is not currently available.
It’s fixed!
The Apple Books version is 152 Mb once downloaded – a tad hefty ay?
Thanks everyone. If this is anything like the past volumes, it will be all sorts of fantastic and weird and freaky and haunting. I look forward to getting lost in it.
thank you!
Agreed! As always, thank you so much for putting this together for free for our e-devices Tor!
I clicked the “favorite vendors” link, chose ibooks… and got a single page with just a cover image and a title.
Oh wait, it’s there now. It was just SLOOOOOOW.
<Emily Lutella> Never mind </Lutella>
The free MOBI file is too big to send my Kindle.
My many thanks for a wonder full gift to ring in the new year.
Amazing that you GIVE us such wonderful literature.
Look forward to working my way through these stories.
Happy New Year!
There is no story by Tamsyn Muir in my copy even if she is mentioned on the cover. Is this normal?
Is there a chance you will distribute this in two parts for those of us on a kindle? The files are well over the size (50M) that can be sent to a kindle. :(
Edited to add:
Never mind – Amazon has it for free right now. So anyone else running into the size problem, go grab it straight from Amazon.
The Indie Bound link leads to a “page not found”. A search on their site also turns up nothing.
@15: Sorry for the confusion! This eBook-only collection is not available on IndieBound (since IndieBound doesn’t sell books themselves, but instead helps people to find physical copies of books at their nearest independent bookstore)–apparently there was no way to delete or hide the button/link from the default template above, but if we can figure how to do so we’ll update the article.
@13: Thank you for the heads up–the developers are aware of the problem and are updating the file so that the Muir story is included as planned. It should be updated within the next few days, but you can also find the story here: https://www.tor.com/2020/07/29/the-mysterious-study-of-dr-sex-tamsyn-muir/
Yay! I had a note on my calendar and was anxiously waiting.
Thank you!! Usually I make a point of financially supporting artists, but this year Covid humbled my finances (small business owner – I am losing money each month instead of making a salary). Silver lining: I have discovered the joys of digital library lending, and your free books have been a life-saver. THANK YOU!!
Still no Tamsyn Muir story.