My story "Intestate" is up now at Tor.com — it's one of the weirdest things I've ever written, sort of an attempt to do something like The Royal Tenenbaums except with mad science.
Read the best stories from Tor.com in a free e-book anthology
Your commute to work needs more post-apocalyptic heroic songs and interstellar voyaging. Tor.com has you covered, with a nifty free e-book collecting "Some of the Best from Tor.com." It includes stories by Michael Swanwick, Yoon-Ha Lee, Harry Turtledove, Paul Park, Nnedi Okorafor, and myself. You can pre-order the book…
Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling's twisted future Hollywood story will…
You might think there's a limit to how weird Rudy Rucker or Bruce Sterling can get, but when they team up, their combined weirdness limit rises exponentially. Witness their strange, unsettling — and highly quotable — story "Good Night, Moon."
New Tor.com Print-On-Demand Line Launches with "Year's Best Fantasy 9"
Tor.com is much more than the online wing of fabled scifi publisher Tor - it's an SF fiction magazine as well as a terrific lit blog. And now it's branching out into next-wave publishing with a line of print-on-demand books.
New Online Bookstore Is "Agnostic," But It'll Be a Religious Experience…
Tor.com may be the website of one of science fiction's biggest publishers, but their blog has tried to promote good books regardless of the publisher. And now they're extending this "agnostic" approach to their new online store, with fascinating results.
Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy
Over at Tor.com, Douglas Cohen has a great explanation for why your friends who only read fantasy - the ones who don't like a book unless it's got dragons and swords - will like Frank Herbert's classic space epic Dune.
Mars Invades Earth With X-Rated Movies: Hear For Yourself!
Bizarre, pornographic silent movies turn up, allegedly made in 1911 — and then they start to feature uncannily real-looking Martians and other creatures straight out of Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories. The bitchy, demented story "The Film-makers Of Mars" could only be the work of Geoff Ryman (Air). It was published at…
Tor Puts New Story Online To Read, Remix
Tor.com continued their amazing series of original stories yesterday with a new novella by Little Brother's Cory Doctorow, entitled The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away. Go and read it; if it's not your kind of thing, you can fix that by editing it yourself, as it's the first Tor.com story to be …
Get Your Daily Dose of Scifi Authors at Tor.com
Tor Books, one of the biggest and most venerable publishers of excellent science fiction writing, has just launched a new blog that promises to bring the crunchy goodness of a Tor book to your RSS reader every day. With contributors like scifi authors Charles Stross and John Scalzi, as well as scifi art maven Irene…
