


Several individual stories have been shortlisted for Awards. This free Webzine is both popular and successful. Much strong fiction has first appeared at Tor.com: contributing authors with entries in this encyclopedia include Michael Bishop, Jonathan L Howard, Kij Johnson, Bruce McAllister, Rudy Rucker, John Scalzi with an Old Man's War story, Bruce Sterling, Charles Stross with tales in his Laundry sequence, Ian Tregillis, Harry Turtledove (see Baseball), Steven Utley, Jo Walton and Daniel H Wilson. Kage Baker's similar posts on early sf Cinema are assembled as Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Trainwrecks of the Silent Screen (coll 2011). Many items in the last category have been written by Jo Walton, with a representative selection gathered in book form as Walton's What Makes This Book So Great (coll 2014). Tor.com publishes original fiction in shorter forms, plus general sf commentary, reviews, and revisitings or rereadings of notable past sf and fantasy.

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