Detonation Boulevard | Tor.com

Detonation Boulevard | Tor.com

[ad_1] In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, all while dodging the competition, fatigue, and violent lava geysers—there’s only one way Cat knows how to win: Just drive.     I raised a fist and strode out into the full glare of the floods. Crowds roared … Read more

Ceffo | Tor.com

Ceffo | Tor.com

[ad_1] On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a secret that could change her life…     “Beneath my sorrows, I hold a city.” Nizar Qabbani   She quickly realized they should never have come back. Because she was in a town she loved … Read more

After the Animal Flesh Beings

After the Animal Flesh Beings

[ad_1] A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with the meaning of life…after life ceases to exist.      Five Tales 1. How We Acquire Our Children In the time in which we now find ourselves, we acquire our children by digging in the earth. This is hard work, … Read more

The Star-Bear | Tor.com

The Star-Bear | Tor.com

[ad_1] A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda…   On a fine spring afternoon, the noted Russian émigré poet and fabulist Alexei Zerimov was seated at a sidewalk café, nursing his kir and working on a children’s story that he would later illustrate and hand-letter himself, … Read more

The Puppetmaster | Tor.com

The Puppetmaster | Tor.com

[ad_1] A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken…and some monsters cannot be chained.     Uduak IX may have ordered an assassin to gut his niece in a holy monastery, but he is still a man of honor. As emperor of Johari IX, the greatest human-ruled planet … Read more

Counting Casualties | Tor.com

Counting Casualties | Tor.com

[ad_1] Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships, and planets in its path, but also consumes their greatest arts, somehow scratching them from existence everywhere…       The Coalition highship’s face changed its name from grace under gunfire to counting casualties when our fleet … Read more

The Woman Carrying a Corpse

The Way Spring Arrives | Tor.com

[ad_1] We’re excited to reprint “The Woman Carrying a Corpse” by Chi Hui, translated from Chinese by Judith Huang, from the groundbreaking anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang, out now in paperback! “The Woman Carrying a Corpse” was originally published as 背尸体的女人 in December 2019 … Read more

Salt Water | Tor.com

Salt Water | Tor.com

[ad_1] While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa’s fish becoming something else?     Anissa touches the small round bone sprouting from the fish’s back. The fish is a small, electric blue acara, with black eyes. It’s cute but it’s only a fish. Anissa feeds pellets to the fish as … Read more

The Stars We Raised | Tor.com

The Way Spring Arrives | Tor.com

[ad_1] We’re delighted to share “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from Chinese by Judy Yi Zhou, reprinted from the groundbreaking anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang, now available in paperback! “The Stars We Raised” was originally published as 逃跑星辰 in March 2017 … Read more