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(Modern Fantasy; Lychford) Autumn
learns that casting spells when drunk and angry has bad results when she
accidentally shatters Lychford’s magical defenses and traps a number of
people inside unstable space-time bubbles.
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(Horror; Persons Non Grata) Deacon
James plays the blues, but on a train ride a new melody gets into his head.
Something powerful enough to change people’s lives—or end them.
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(SF Adventure) Even after 500 years,
Earth is still after the founders of the Colony, so when a probe wanders into
their system Duke has to find a way to get everyone to safety.
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(SF Horror) Signalman investigates the
origins of a mysterious fungus that killed some cultists in California.
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(SF Thriller; Murderbot Diaries) A
“security bot” assigned to support a survey team impresses them with its
competence as a series of things go wrong. What they don’t know is that it
has disabled the governor that prevents it from hurting people.
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(Fantasy Science; Binti) After a year
at college offworld, Binti comes back to Africa for a visit. Her relatives
aren’t pleased with how she’s changed nor with the violent alien friend she
brings with her.
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(Historical Fantasy; Industrial Magic)
In order for her to marry her fiance, help her brother and pursue her secret
career as an illustrator, Charlotte has to keep her magic a secret.
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(Steampunk Thriller) In a very
different 20th-Century North America, Desmond tries to smuggle a young boy
across the border from independent Tejas to the free land of the Five
Civilized tribes.
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Down Among the Sticks and Bones
by Seanan McGuire Time: 2h:12m (Novella)
Issue: Tor Novella 06/13/17
(Portal Fantasy; Wayward Children)
Twin sisters, Jack and Jill, escape from overbearing parents into The Moors,
a fantasy land where werewolves and vampires are real.
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(Horror) Jenna has lived in New York
City ever since she died forty years ago. Now something is happening to New
York City’s ghosts, and she’s determined to find out what and stop it—if it
doesn’t find her first.
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(Modern Fantasy Horror; Sin du Jour)
Now that Sin du Jour is in open conflict with Allenby, something terrible is
bound to happen. Allenby has something suitably sadistic in mind, tailored to
the unique nature of Sin du Jour.
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(Modern Fantasy; Sin du Jour) The
staff of Sin du Jour are honored to be invited to cater the inauguration of
the president of the magical “shadow government” that really runs the world.
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(Modern Fantasy; Sin du Jour) Sin du
Jour gets a new liaison, who mesmerizes the men, alienates the women, and
starts making unwelcome changes.
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(Space Opera; Voidwitch) She calls
herself Mars. She’s running from the authorities, who want to use her
powerful telekinetic powers. Powers that leave scores of dead in her wake.
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(High Fantasy; Varekai) As Ree and
Aadet track down a murderous band of rebels led by people loyal to the
usurper they defeated a few years ago, Ree meets a migrant group who may hold
the key to her forgotten past.
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(Historical Fantasy) An account of how
the young Benoit Mandelbrot learned he could affect physical reality with his
mathematics and how he tried to mount a defense against the Nazi’s in France.
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(Horror) At 12, Junior thinks his dead
father has returned to protect his family. There’s a lot Junior doesn’t know
about his father—living or dead.
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(Historical Fantasy Romance) In San
Francisco in 2015, an old Japanese woman spends her last days dealing with
mysterious unfinished business involving the 1940 disappearance of a friend
who illustrated pulp magazines.
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(Dystopia) A few centuries from now,
on a dying Earth, Kir joins a team trying to build an interstellar
teleportation device. Unfortunately, to get funding they have to incorporate
the crew from a reality show.
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(Alternate History) Winslow
Houndstooth takes a federal commission to clear feral hippopotamuses from the
Mississippi valley, but he has another target in mind.
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(Diesel Punk) In an alternate 1960s
LA, Ray is the last robot in the world, and he's working as a hit man.
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(Alternate History) While Adelia and
Hero try to rescue Adelia’s kidnapped baby, Archie and Houndstooth try to
find Hero.
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(Epic Fantasy; Tensorate) The
Protector’s twin children threaten her absolute rule. Their magic is almost
as strong as hers, and they pursue technology as well.
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The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray and J.S.
Herbison Time: 1h:36m (Novella) Issue: Tor Novella 07/11/17
(SF Thriller) Saga and her husband
help a client take over a mothballed luxury spaceship between Earth and Mars.
There’s something the client isn’t telling them, though. Something deadly.
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The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
by Margaret Killjoy Time: 1h:23m (Novella)
Issue: Tor Novella 08/15/17
(Near-Future Fantasy) In the dried-out
ruins of an Iowa town, anarchists cope with a demon deer they summoned to
protect themselves from “predators” but which seems to have its own definition
of the word.
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The Murders of Molly Southbourne
by Tade Thompson Time: 1h:10m (Novella)
Issue: Tor Novella 10/03/17
(Horror) Molly has an affliction:
whenever she bleeds, the blood grows into duplicates of her. Duplicates who
always want to kill her.
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(Fantasy Adventure; Tensorate) Mokoya
and her brother use their powerful magic to defend Bataanar from external
attack which her mysterious new love interest may be involved with.
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(Horror) College friends Henry,
Maggie, and Russell decide to play archeologist in the back yard of an old,
abandoned house, but things get serious when they find the deformed skeleton
of a child.
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(Alternate History Fantasy Adventure;
Industrial Magic) Charlotte’s brother Ben needs her help to stop a saboteur
who keeps destroying looms at the factory where he’s apprenticed. Magic may
be involved, but she has to keep her own abilities secret.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
2017 Tor Novellas
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