Worlds seen in passing : ten years of Tor.com short fiction /

Celebrating its tenth anniversary in July, Tor.com presents this retrospective spotlighting 40 works from established and newer writers, curated by Tor.com associate publisher Gallo. Highlights include Mary Robinette Kowal's "The Lady Astronaut of Mars," expanded in the The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky duology. N.K. Jemisin shows how a metropolis survives in "The City, Born Great." In Alissa Wong's "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers," sisters Hannah and Melanie warp weather and time, only to discover the end cannot be changed. A young man finds a corpse in the river, then finds his relationship to her changing from stranger to husband when the dead begin to rise in Indrapramit Das's "Breaking Water." VERDICT A wealth of exceptional sf, fantasy, and horror spanning a decade is brought together to honor both speculative authors and their publisher. Highly recommended for all collections.-Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.