A collection of excerpts from some of the best original science fiction short fiction published by Tor.com

Blast off into adventure with psychic powers, half-human revolutions, haunted luxury spaceships, murderous sentient robots, and genetic experiments. Check out excerpts from five short works that will be lighting up the stars this summer:

Starfire: A Red Peace by Spencer Ellsworth

The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison

Acadie by Dave Hutchinson

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Killing Gravity by Corey J. White.

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About the Author

MARTHA WELLS has written many fantasy novels, including 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 non-fiction.

COREY J. WHITE is the author of Repo Virtual and The VoidWitch Saga – Killing Gravity, Void Black Shadow, and Static Ruin. She has also had short fiction published in Interzone and Analog magazines, and a number of sci-fi anthologies. She studied writing at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, and is now based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Her novel Repo Virtual won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

ANDREW NEIL GRAY and J. S. HERBISON are partners in life as well as in writing. The Ghost Line is their first fiction collaboration, but won’t be their last: a novel is also in the works. They have also collaborated in the creation of two humans and preside over a small empire of chickens, raspberries and dandelions on Canada’s West Coast. You can find Andrew Neil Gray at http://andrewneilgray.com and @andrewneilgray on Twitter. You can find J. S. Herbison at http://jsherbison.com.

SPENCER ELLSWORTH's short fiction has previously appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Tor.com. He is the author of the Starfire trilogy, which begins with Starfire: A Red Peace. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three children, works as a teacher/administrator at a small tribal college on a Native American reservation, and blogs at spencerellsworth.com.

DAVE HUTCHINSON was born in Sheffield in 1960 and read American Studies at the University of Nottingham before becoming a journalist. He’s the author of five collections of short stories and four novels. His novella The Push was nominated for the BSFA Award in 2010, and his novels Europe in Autumn and Europe at Midnight were nominated for the BSFA, Arthur C Clarke, and John W Campbell Memorial Awards in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Europe at Midnight was also shortlisted for a Kitschie Award in 2016. He now writes full-time, and lives in North London.


Title: Tor.com Publishing's Summer of Space Opera Sampler
Author(s): Spencer Ellsworth, Andrew Neil Gray, J.S. Herbison, Dave Hutchinson, Martha Wells, Corey J. White
ISBN: 9781250169655
Copyright 2017
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
Format: ePub,mobi | Learn More about our supported formats
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