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Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #2

Lee Harris, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Martha Wells, ...and more ( 1 ), Jeremy C. Shipp

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Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #2 is a curated selection of novellas by editor Lee Harris

This collection includes:

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

The Atrocities by Jeremy C. Shipp

She left her home for the stars, but found more adventure than she bargained for in Nnedi Okorafor’s award-winning novella Binti--a tense and intimate coming-of-age story in space.

In Paul Cornell’s urban fantasy novella Witches of Lychford, three unlikely allies band together to defeat the forces of evil that threaten to engulf their peaceful village.

From urban fantasy Seanan McGuire comes Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, a thrilling and atmospheric story of a ghost trying to make things right

A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.

Jeremy C. Shipp’s The Atrocities is a haunting gothic tale of a governess tasked with instructing a dead girl.

Reviews

“Prepare to fall in love with Binti.”—Neil Gaiman

“Beautifully written, perfectly cruel, and ultimately kind. This is Cornell at the height of his craft.”—Seanan McGuire on Witches of Lychford

“A spooky, atmospheric love letter to New York and its shifting moods, skylines and people.”—Sophia McDougall on Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“I love Murderbot!”—Ann Leckie on All Systems Red

“One of the most vital younger writers to have colonized horror literature in the past decade.”—Peter Straub on The Atrocities

About the Author

Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning, New York Times-bestselling writer of mostly science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. Her debut novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Nnedi has since won World Fantasy, Nebula, Locus, Eisner, Hugo, Lodestar, and Nommo Awards, amongst others, for her work. Nnedi has also written comics for Marvel, including Black Panther: Long Live the King and the Shuri series. She holds a PhD in literature, master’s degrees in journalism and literature, and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her daughter, Anyaugo. Learn more at nnedi.com.

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Paul Cornell has written episodes of Elementary, Doctor Who, Primeval, Robin Hood and many other TV series. He has worked for every major comics company on series such as I Walk With Monsters, The Modern Frankenstein, Saucer Country, and This Damned Band, as well as runs for Marvel and DC on Batman and Robin, Wolverine and Young Avengers. He is based in the UK.

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SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award–winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!

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MARTHA WELLS has written many novels, including the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, which has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards. Other titles include Witch King, City of Bones, The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction.