Winner of the World Fantasy Award
Worlds Seen in Passing is an anthology of award-winning, eye-opening, genre-defining science fiction, fantasy, and horror from Tor.com's first ten years, edited by Irene Gallo.
"A fresh new story going up at Tor.com is always an Event."Charlie Jane Anders
Since it began in 2008, Tor.com has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. Its hundreds of remarkable stories span from science fiction to fantasy to horror, and everything in between. Now Tor.com is making some of those worlds available for the first time in print.
This volume collects some of the best short stories Tor.com has to offer, with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short stories and novelettes chosen from all ten years of the program.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders
Damage by David D. Levine
The Best We Can by Carrie Vaughn
The City Born Great by N. K. Jemisin
A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel by Yoon Ha Lee
Waiting on a Bright Moon by JY Yang
Elephants and Corpses by Kameron Hurley
About Fairies by Pat Murphy
The Hanging Game by Helen Marshall
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu
A Cup of Salt Tears by Isabel Yap
The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys
Brimstone and Marmalade by Aaron Corwin
Reborn by Ken Liu
Please Undo This Hurt by Seth Dickinson
The Language of Knives by Haralambi Markov
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri
Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky
The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Last Son of Tomorrow by Greg van Eekhout
Ponies by Kij Johnson
La beauté sans vertu by Genevieve Valentine
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong
A Kiss With Teeth by Max Gladstone
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly
The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey
Breaking Water by Indrapramit Das
Your Orisons May Be Recorded by Laurie Penny
The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley
The Cage by A.M. Dellamonica
In the Sight of Akresa by Ray Wood
Terminal by Lavie Tidhar
The Witch of Duva by Leigh Bardugo
Daughter of Necessity by Marie Brennan
Among the Thorns by Veronica Schanoes
These Deathless Bones by Cassandra Khaw
Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch by Kelly Barnhill
This World Is Full of Monsters by Jeff VanderMeer
The Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson
A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star by Kathleen Ann Goonan
IRENE GALLO is the publisher and creative director of Tor.com and Tor.com Publishing. As Tor Books creative director, Irene has established the look and design of an incalculable number of books since 1993. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction from the Society of Illustrators, thirteen Chesley Awards, and numerous gold and silver medals from Spectrum and the Society of Illustrators.