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We are thrilled to announce the 2013 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of twenty-one of our favorite stories, selected from the sixty-plus stories we published this year. This …

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Elizabeth Bear is the author of several SF novels, including Jenny Casey trilogy — Hammered, Scardown, and Worldwired — which won the Locus Award for best first novel, Undertow, and Carnival, which was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. She is also the author of the Promethean Age fantasy series, and, with Sarah […]

Show Notes Rated PG. for tricksters and fiddle music. The Fiddler of Bayou Teche by Delia Sherman One night, paddling far from home, I see lights that are not the pale feu follets that dance in the swamp at night. They are yellow lights, lantern lights, and they tell me I have come to a farm. I am a little afraid, for Tante Eulalie used to warn me about letting people see me. “You know how ducks carry on when a strange bird land in their water?” she says. “The good people of Pierreville…

James Van Pelt is the author of the novel Summer of the Apocalypse, and nearly 90 short stories, which have mostly appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, Realms of Fantasy, and Talebones. He also has two collections, Strangers and Beggars and The Last of the O-Forms and Other Stories. Van Pelt had been writing a series of […]

Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson converted my story When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (from the collection Overclocked) into .mobi and .epub for easy viewing on an e-reader or mobile device. I probably get mo...

Mary Rickert’s stories have been appearing regularly in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction for several years, starting in 1999 with her first publication, “The Girl Who Ate Butterflies.” Her work has also appeared in SCI FICTION and the anthology Feeling Very Strange, and has been nominated for the Nebula Award. Her collection, Map […]

"The People of Sand and Slag" starts as straight military science fiction -- and then twists. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

"The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" is the 2008 Hugo-Award-nominated short story by Daniel Abraham originally published in Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (available from Bantam Spectra).