We are excited to share the Table of Contents for the 2020 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of 29 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 5, 2021. 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, Jennifer Gunnels, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, 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
I really hope the “January 5, 2020” thing is a typo, because I don’t think I can do this year all over again.
Fixed! (And agreed.)
Amazing! Can’t wait to read these. Looks like two are missing though?
“The Little Witch” by M. Rickert
“Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law” by Lavie Tidhar
Couldn’t find them anywhere on on tor.com, which seemed at odds with the claim that “you can enjoy all of these stories right now at the links below.”
@3: Good catch–both of those stories are still to be published this year (“The Little Witch” will be up this week, in fact, with the other scheduled for November), so you will be able to find both of those on the site very soon!
This shelf yearns to be completed
Mine mine mine mine mine mine….
Great selection but I notice a surprising lack of Garth nix.
Oh yay, did not realize my story was in here. Doing a little happy dance!