Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #2: A Selection of Novellas
About this ebook
This collection includes:
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Atrocities by Jeremy C. Shipp
She left her home for the stars, but found more adventure than she bargained for in Nnedi Okorafor’s award-winning novella Binti--a tense and intimate coming-of-age story in space.
In Paul Cornell’s urban fantasy novella Witches of Lychford, three unlikely allies band together to defeat the forces of evil that threaten to engulf their peaceful village.
From urban fantasy Seanan McGuire comes Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, a thrilling and atmospheric story of a ghost trying to make things right
A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.
Jeremy C. Shipp’s The Atrocities is a haunting gothic tale of a governess tasked with instructing a dead girl.
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About the author
NNEDI OKORAFOR, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 8, 1974, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her Tor.com novella Binti won the 2015 Hugo and Nebula Awards; her children's book Long Juju Man won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa; and her adult novel Who Fears Death was a Tiptree Honor Book. She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo.
Paul Cornell has written episodes of Elementary, Doctor Who, Primeval, Robin Hood and many other TV series, including his own children’s show, Wavelength. He’s worked for every major comics company, including his creator-owned series Saucer State for IDW and This Damned Band for Dark Horse, and runs for Marvel and DC on Batman and Robin, Wolverine and Young Avengers. He’s the writer of the Lychford rural fantasy novellas from Tor.com Publishing. He’s won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, an Eagle Award for his comics, a Hugo Award for his podcast and shares in a Writer’s Guild Award for his Doctor Who. He’s the co-host of Hammer House of Podcast.
SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!
MARTHA WELLS has written many fantasy novels, including The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction. Her New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards.
JEREMY C. SHIPP is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Sheep and Wolves. Their shorter tales have appeared in over 60 publications, including Cemetery Dance, ChiZine and Apex Magazine. Jeremy lives in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse.
Lee Harris is the author of the critically acclaimed The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West and Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History. A frequent contributor to Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Atlantis, The Wall Street Journal’s "Opinion Journal," and TCSDaily.com, he has become one of the most sought-after commentators on the post-9/11 epoch. He lives in Stone Mountain, GA.
