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2011 Locus Award-finalists Announced

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Ali Fisher

Locus Magazine has announced their 2011 Locus Award-nominees! Look at all this amazing work from Tor and St. Martin's Press:

Fantasy Novel
THE SORCERER'S HOUSE
Gene Wolfe

First Novel
SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY
Mary Robinette Kowal

THE QUANTUM THIEF
Hannu Rajaniemi

Novella
“The Mystery Knight”
George R.R. Martin (WARRIORS)

Anthology
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION
Gardner Dozois, ed.

WARRIORS
George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds.

Non-fiction
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve
William H. Patterson, Jr.

And More
Congratulations are also in order for David G. Hartwell, nominated in the Editor category, Tor, nominated in the Publisher category, and Tor.com, nominated in the Magazine category!

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10 Can’t-Miss SFF Books from Kirkus Reviews

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Ali Fisher

This week Kirkus Reviews highlighted 10 Can't-Miss Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for 2011 including a few of our in-house favorites!

They selected Jo Walton's AMONG OTHERS because, "All SF fans will get what Morwenna is about, particularly the joy she experiences discovering new books and other people to talk to about them."

Richard Matheson's OTHER KINGDOMS caught their eye for the "accomplished and tragic" story: a "star-crossed romance between two lovers from different worlds."

Finally, THE QUANTUM THIEF made the list because author Hannu Rajaniemi, "is clearly one of those disgustingly brilliant people whom you could hate if you didn't admire him so much." [...]

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io9’s Spring Title Parade!

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Ali Fisher

io9, that great hub of all things science and science fiction, announced which spring titles are making them wiggly with anticipation. Six of the must-haves are available from Tor:

  THE GRAVITY PILOT, by M.M. Buckner
  DEATHLESS, by Catherynne M. Valente
  AFTER THE GOLDEN AGE, by Carrie Vaughn
  ALL THE LIVES HE LED, by Frederik Pohl
  FUZZY NATION, by John Scalzi
  THE QUANTUM THIEF, by Hannu Rajaniemi

Having just finished Carrie Vaughn's AFTER THE GOLDEN AGE, I can only agree that this modern heroine story is an April must. It's the kind of book that lives in front of your face making getting off the bus at the right stop or pouring coffee in the cup, instead of all over the counter, impossible. Next up for me from this list is Hannu Rajaniemi's debut, THE QUANTUM THIEF, a hard sci-fi May release handed to me by our old buddy Ben. [...]

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Geek Week Event Recap & Trade of Queens GIVEAWAY!

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Ali Fisher

You guys remember Ben, right? Oh, you know, Ben! From waaay back when (a month ago)?

He's agreed to be my unofficial Tor liaison: slipping me galleys hot off the press and passing on whispers about upcoming Tor excitement, so I can pass it on to you! Last night Ben was gentleman enough to escort the new girl (me) to that super awesome Tor reading and concert at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe I told you all about.

It's beyond me how Jo Walton and Charles Stross have escaped reading in New York for this long since they were both eloquent and hilarious readers. If you get the chance to see either of them read, do it.

I also managed to scrounge up two copies of Stross' latest, THE TRADE OF QUEENS, for you librarians! If you would like to be entered into the drawing, send an email this week to: library at macmillanusa dot com (subject: Stross Giveaway!).

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Geek Week at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Ali Fisher

Tonight I'll be at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in NYC with a slew of my fellow Tor fanatics chatting up authors Jo Walton (AMONG OTHERS) and Charles Stross (THE TRADE OF QUEENS), scoping out the giveaways, jammin to Ninja Sex Party, and wearing a pair of wicked red galaxy leggings. If you're in the area, stop on by!

TONIGHT, Tuesday, February 22 at 7:00 PM
126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012

And after the event, when you're all geeked out, get your drink on with the Tor.com team at the Botanica Bar.

Tor.com event announcement and details here
RSVP to the Facebook event here

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Winter 2011 Catalogs!

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Ben Rubinstein

Dear Librarian,

Our Winter 2011 catalogs are now
available here.
And I know that we’re not supposed to have favorites… But we just couldn’t help
ourselves! So check out our you-can’t-live-without-these-titles list here.

Enjoy!

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Why I love fantasy. And our newest fantastic giveaway!

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Ben Rubinstein

So I just finished book two of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of
Time, The Great Hunt. It was a fantastic read, and reinforced my huge,
enormous, colossal love for fantasy. Jordan really stepped up the
intrigue in the second installment. While I loved the first book, I was a bit
worried that the series might devolve into a reductive battle of good and evil.
But in The Great Hunt, he shows that there are many more factions than
we had believed, and even within those factions there is infighting as goals
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