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[ad_1] For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. “Long is the Way” by Carrie Vaughn and Sage Walker sheds light on what people will do to escape the sins of their past, and whether anyone can find redemption. Zoe Harris is … Read more

[ad_1] As Tor.com departs from its longtime home, the iconic Flatiron building, we present this sweet farewell from Seanan McGuire.     New York City spreads out beneath us, gray steel and gleaming glass from our aerial perspective, virtually stripped of the color and chaos that almost always fills its streets, and everything about it … Read more

[ad_1] A disturbing science fiction story about a seemingly routine scientific mission to Jupiter that is threatened by the interpersonal relationships of its crew. Content warning for fictional depictions of sexual content, including abuse and assault.     I didn’t always fantasise about killing him. I used to fantasise about fucking him, and when that … Read more

[ad_1] A new story in the Mongolian Wizard universe.     The Arctic wastes stretched wide in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice which seemed to have no end. At their center, barely visible in the weak light provided by a sliver of sun at the horizon, was a rapidly moving sled. It … Read more

[ad_1] Four young women go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.     It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest. “Everything is dicks,” Elizabeth said. She gestured at the gnarled gray trunks rising bare-limbed into the shade of their own canopy. “I mean, look around. … Read more

[ad_1] A dark fantasy about Jeoffry, a cat who fights demons, a poet, who is Jeoffry’s human confined to an insane asylum, and Satan, who schemes to end the world.     Flash and fire! Bristle and spit! The great Jeoffry ascends the madhouse stairs, his orange fur on end, his yellow eyes narrowed! On … Read more

[ad_1] Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can grasp for freedom, for change, for life. She grabs it with both hands, fiercely and intensely, and the spirit world is shaken.     In a wooden house on a modest farmstead by a … Read more

[ad_1] The beginnings of a tentative friendship between two roboticists complicate over career envy, female beauty, and a stolen robot designed to resemble a famous Korean actor.   He opens his eyes and is named Yohan. Yohan looks up the name, filled with wonder at who he could be. Yohan, it turns out, is a … Read more

[ad_1] A clan storyteller unfolds the tale of Seonag and the wolves, and the wolves and the waves.     I know you’ve heard the story of An Duine Aonarach, who one day walked into the sea and never returned. And likely you have at least heard of Seonag as well, who did the same … Read more

[ad_1] For over 25 years, the George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. “There’s never a shortage of people other people want dead.” Spector felt on familiar footing now that he saw the entire game. All a hit man wants can be … Read more