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Worlds Seen in Passing

By Irene Gallo & Jeff VanderMeer &
Worlds Seen in Passing by Irene Gallo & Jeff VanderMeer &  digital book - Fable

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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.

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“As with some collections, there will be stand-outs, favourites, duds and DNFs. And this collection from Tor is no different. This is an ambitious collection spanning a decade of short stories that were published on the Tor website. I love short stories and I have enjoyed the ones I have read on the website, some included here, and so I had a good idea of what to expect. Definitely a good read and there are a lot of great and good stories. The characters were intriguing, interesting, damaged; the differing narratives and writing styles were also a definite draw or repellant to my enjoyment of these stories. Stand-outs are The City Born Great, Daughter of Necessity, The Tallest Doll in New York City,The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections and Among the Thorns. Favourites are Elephants and Corpses, Brimstone and Marmalade, Reborn, The Shape of My Name, Eros-Philia-Agape, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning & Wildflowers, and In the Sight of Akresa. I had a couple of DNFs and RDCF (really didn't care for), but those will remain my secrets”

About Irene Gallo

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.

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