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Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction

Irene Gallo (Editor)

Start date: August 15, 2021

Finish date: September 14, 2021

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Oct 17, 2018 Peter Tillman rated it really liked it

Shelves: freebies, fantasy, at-slo-paso-bg-pa, short-fiction, friend-recos, award-win-nom, reread-list, science-fiction

Great to see the publisher's selection of the "Best of Tor.com So Far" as a handsome hardcover, courtesy of the Santa Barbara public library. I'll have some comments on individual stories, but they are all (I believe) still available at the tor.com website. The biggest omission from the book is the wonderful story art!
Update: winner of the 2019 World Fantasy Award for best anthology.
Some highlights:
My first reread was “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” by Laurie Penny, which I *loved* on first read ...more

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Nov 12, 2021 Lena rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: anthology, world-fantasy-award

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These Deathless Bones by Cassandra Khaw ★★★★★
Prince Joffrey’s witchy step-mother has officially given her last fuck. It was hard to read, even briefly, about this waste of space prince, but it made watching his bones crawl all the more satisfying.

Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys ★★★★★
This is the best mythos story I have ever read. Ms. Emrys, you have made me a believer! I must now read everything the gods have bid you write.

The Witch of Duva by Leigh Bardugo ★★★★★
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Dec 08, 2018 Kaa marked it as to-read

Shelves: short-story-novella, group-buddy-reads

I've already read about half of these, but since some of those are among my favorite short stories and I am a huge fan of many of the other writers, I think I would be remiss not to read the rest. ...more

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