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Tor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 and fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, was formed by Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty

Tom Doherty is an United States publisher, and the founder of Tor Books. After working as a book salesman in the 1950s and 1960s, Doherty became publisher of Tempo Books in 1972; in 1975, he became, in addition, publisher of another company also owned by Grosset & Dunlap, the science fiction imprint Ace Books....
 in 1980, and sold to St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the iconic Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St....
 in 1986. Along with St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the iconic Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St....
, Henry Holt
Henry Holt

Henry Holt was a Baltimore, Maryland native book publisher and author. He joined the publishing company of Frederick Leypoldt in 1866 that became Henry Holt and Company in 1873....
, and Farrar Straus Giroux, it is now part of the Holtzbrinck
Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike....
 group.

In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor to stop making its books available as eBooks
E-book

An e-book is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated computer hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices....
 via Webscriptions
Webscriptions

Webscriptions was originally an electronic publishing experiment organized both to test the e-publishing market place and as a test of Jim Baen's controversial assumptions in Digital Rights Management launched by arrangement in 1999 by Jim Baen, publisher and editor-in-chief of Baen Books together with his web services consultant and provid...
 because of concerns regarding the lack of Digital rights management (DRM)
Digital rights management

Digital rights management refers to access control technologies used by publishers, copyright holders, and hardware manufacturers to limit usage of digital media or devices....
.






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Tor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 and fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, was formed by Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty

Tom Doherty is an United States publisher, and the founder of Tor Books. After working as a book salesman in the 1950s and 1960s, Doherty became publisher of Tempo Books in 1972; in 1975, he became, in addition, publisher of another company also owned by Grosset & Dunlap, the science fiction imprint Ace Books....
 in 1980, and sold to St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the iconic Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St....
 in 1986. Along with St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the iconic Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St....
, Henry Holt
Henry Holt

Henry Holt was a Baltimore, Maryland native book publisher and author. He joined the publishing company of Frederick Leypoldt in 1866 that became Henry Holt and Company in 1873....
, and Farrar Straus Giroux, it is now part of the Holtzbrinck
Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike....
 group.

In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor to stop making its books available as eBooks
E-book

An e-book is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated computer hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices....
 via Webscriptions
Webscriptions

Webscriptions was originally an electronic publishing experiment organized both to test the e-publishing market place and as a test of Jim Baen's controversial assumptions in Digital Rights Management launched by arrangement in 1999 by Jim Baen, publisher and editor-in-chief of Baen Books together with his web services consultant and provid...
 because of concerns regarding the lack of Digital rights management (DRM)
Digital rights management

Digital rights management refers to access control technologies used by publishers, copyright holders, and hardware manufacturers to limit usage of digital media or devices....
. These concerns abated in 2007 and selected Tor titles will soon be available as e-books via Baen
Baen Books

Baen Books is an American publishing company established in 1983 by long time Science Fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. It is a science fiction and fantasy publishing house that emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, military science fiction, and fantasy....
 and a variety of other online retailers.

Tor has won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher every year since 1988.

Tor also publishes more award winning science fiction books (155 as of January, 2009) than any other publisher.

Authors published by Tor

  • Poul Anderson
    Poul Anderson

    Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of Science Fiction of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy....
  • Catherine Asaro
    Catherine Asaro

    Catherine Asaro is an United States science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty set in the Skolian Empire, known as the Saga of the Skolian Empire....
  • Neal Asher
    Neal Asher

    Neal Asher is an English science fiction writer. His parents both are educators and science fiction fans. Although he began writing Science Fiction and Fantasy in high school, Asher did not turn seriously to writing till he was 25....
  • Kage Baker
    Kage Baker

    Kage Baker is an United States science fiction and fantasy writer.She was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, California and has lived there and in Pismo Beach, California most of her life....
  • Stephen Baxter
    Stephen Baxter

    Stephen Baxter is a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland hard science fiction author. He was born and raised Roman Catholic. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering....
  • Elizabeth Bear
    Elizabeth Bear

    Elizabeth Bear is an American author, primarily of speculative fiction, winner of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and winner of the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline ."...
  • Joanne Bertin
    Joanne Bertin

    Joanne Bertin was born in 1953 in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. A science fiction/fantasy novelist, her short stories and books center on a world of "human," "dragon," and "dragonlords," the last of which are beings which can change from human to dragon....
  • Ben Bova
    Ben Bova

    Benjamin William Bova is an American science fiction author and editor....
  • Steven Brust
    Steven Brust

    Steven Karl Zolt?n Brust is an United States fantasy and science fiction author of Hungary descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede, and also belongs to the Pre-Joycean Fellowship....
  • Tobias Buckell
  • Emma Bull
    Emma Bull

    Emma Bull is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy....
  • Orson Scott Card
    Orson Scott Card

    Orson Scott Card is an United States author, critic and public speaking. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction....
  • Jacqueline Carey
    Jacqueline Carey

    Jacqueline Carey is an author and novelist, primarily of fantasy fiction....
  • Jonathan Carroll
    Jonathan Carroll

    Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an United States author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, Slipstream or modern fantasy....
  • Cathy Clamp & C. T. Adams
  • Samuel Clemens
  • Glen Cook
    Glen Cook

    Glen Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St....
  • Kathryn Cramer
    Kathryn Cramer

    Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer is an United States science fiction author, Literary editor, and literary critic....
  • Linda Crockett
    Linda Crockett

    Linda Crockett, born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is an United States author and teacher, best known for her Horror fiction, Romance novel, and psychological thrillers....
  • S.J. Day
    Sylvia Day

    Sylvia June Day is a United States writer. She also writes under the pseudonyms S. J. Day and Livia Dare....
  • Michael de Larrabeiti
    Michael de Larrabeiti

    Michael de Larrabeiti was an England novelist and travel writer. He is best known for writing The Borrible Trilogy, which has been cited as an influence by writers in the New Weird movement....
  • Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint

    Charles de Lint is a Canada fantasy author and Celtic folk musician.Along with writers like Terri Windling and John Crowley, De Lint popularized the genres of urban fantasy and mythic fiction which fall somewhere between classical fantasy literature, and mainstream fiction with a magical realism bent....
  • Philip K. Dick
    Philip K. Dick

    Philip Kindred Dick was an United States science fiction novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysics themes in novels dominated by monopoly corporations, Authoritarianism, and altered states of consciousness....
  • Cory Doctorow
    Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow is a Canada blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books....
  • Sara Douglass
    Sara Douglass

    Sara Warneke , better known by her pen name Sara Douglass is an Australian fantasy writer who lives in Hobart, Tasmania....
  • Steven Erikson
    Steven Erikson

    Steven Erikson is the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canada author, who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist....
  • Sam Falene
  • David Farland
  • John M. Ford
    John M. Ford

    John Milo "Mike" Ford was an United States science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.Ford was regarded as an extraordinarily intelligent, erudite and witty man....
  • Robert Forward
    Robert Forward

    Robert Lull Forward, commonly known as Robert L. Forward, was an United States physicist and science fiction writer. His fiction is noted for its scientific credibility, and uses many ideas developed during his work as an aerospace engineer....
  • Isamu Fukui
  • Richard Garfinkle
    Celestial Matters

    Celestial Matters is a science fantasy novel, set in an alternate universe with different laws of physics, written by Richard Garfinkle and published by Tor Books in 1996....
  • Gary Gibson
    Gary Gibson

    Gary Gibson is a science fiction author from Glasgow, Scotland, and a member of the GSFWC....
  • Terry Goodkind
    Terry Goodkind

    Terry Goodkind is a contemporary United States writer and author of the best-selling epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth, which according to his publisher Tor Books in an August 2006 press release has more than 10 million copies in print and has been translated into 20 different languages....
  • Kathleen Ann Goonan
    Kathleen Ann Goonan

    Kathleen Ann Goonan is an American science fiction writer. Several of her books have been nominated for the Nebula Award. Her debut novel Queen City Jazz was a The New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, and her most recent novel In War Times was chosen by the American Library Association as Best Science Fiction Novel f...
  • Steven Gould
    Steven Gould

    Steven Charles Gould is an United States science fiction author. His novels tend to have protagonists fighting to rid government of corrupt antagonists ....
  • Andrew M. Greeley
  • Elizabeth Haydon
    Elizabeth Haydon

    Elizabeth Haydon is a fantasy fiction author, whose 1999 debut, Rhapsody: Child of Blood, garnered comparisons with Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, and even J....
  • Brian Herbert
    Brian Herbert

    Brian Patrick Herbert is a best selling United States author who lives in Washington state. He is the elder son of famed science fiction author Frank Herbert....
     and Kevin J. Anderson
    Kevin J. Anderson

    Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files #Novels, and is the co-author of the Dune prequels....
  • Raelynn Hillhouse
    Raelynn Hillhouse

    Raelynn Hillhouse is an USA spy novelist and former smuggler.Hillhouse studied in Central and Eastern Europe for over six years at various institutions including Moscow State University, Moscow Finance Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, Eberhard Karls University of T?bingen and Babes-Bolyai University ....
  • James P. Hogan
    James P. Hogan (writer)

    James Patrick Hogan is a United Kingdom science fiction author....
  • Robert Holdstock
    Robert Holdstock

    Robert Paul Holdstock is an English novelist and author best known for his works of fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenres of mythic fiction....
  • Robert Jordan
    Robert Jordan

    Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. , under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series....
  • Susan Kearney
  • Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey

    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a prolific United States author of Fantasy literature. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Velgarth#Valdemar....
  • Jonathan Lethem
    Jonathan Lethem

    Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American writer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, Lethem trained to be an artist before moving to California and devoting his time to writing....
  • Paul Levinson
    Paul Levinson

    Paul Levinson is an United States author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages....
  • Jane Lindskold
    Jane Lindskold

    Jane M. Lindskold is an United States writer of fantasy and science fiction short story and novels.Jane M. Lindskold was born in 1962, at the Columbia Hospital for Women....
  • Eric Van Lustbader
    Eric Van Lustbader

    Eric Van Lustbader is a writer of fantasy and Thriller novels.He is a graduate of New York City Stuyvesant High School and Columbia College of Columbia University, with a degree in Sociology, and is a second-level Reiki master....
  • Ken MacLeod
    Ken MacLeod

    Ken MacLeod , an award-winning Scotland science fiction writer, lives in South Queensferry near Edinburgh. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics....
  • James Mallory
    James Mallory

    James Mallory is the name of two well-known scholars:*James Mallory , a Canadian jurist and constitutional expert*J. P. Mallory, archaeologist and linguistic comparativist....
  • Juliet Marillier
    Juliet Marillier

    Juliet Marillier is a New Zealand born writer of fantasy, especially historical fantasy. She currently lives in Western Australia. While Marillier writes mostly for adults, her recent books have included Cybele's Secret, a sequel to her novel for young adults Wildwood Dancing....
  • George R. R. Martin
    George R. R. Martin

    George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an United States author and screenwriter of fantasy fiction, horror fiction, and science fiction....
  • A. Lee Martinez
    A. Lee Martinez

    A. Lee Martinez is an United States fantasy and science fiction author. He has been a member of the DFW Writers Workshop since 1995. He currently resides in Dallas, Texas....
  • David Marusek
    David Marusek

    David Marusek is an author who was born in Buffalo, New York but lived various places in youth. He is currently divorced and has a grown daughter....
  • David McDaniel
    David McDaniel

    David Edward McDaniel was a United States science fiction author, who also wrote spy fiction, including several novels based upon the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.....
  • Shannon McKelden
  • Laura J. Mixon
    Laura J. Mixon

    Laura J. Mixon is a chemical and environmental engineer better known as a science fiction writer. She writes about the impact of technology and environmental changes on personal identity and social structures....
  • L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
    L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr. is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, lived in Washington, D.C....
  • Sarah Monette
    Sarah Monette

    Sarah Monette is an American novelist and short story author writing mostly in the genres of fantasy and Horror fiction. She was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee....
  • Warren Murphy
    Warren Murphy

    Warren Murphy is an United States author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins....
  • Linda Nagata
    Linda Nagata

    Linda Nagata is an United States science fiction author who won the Nebula award for best novella in 2000 . She frequently writes about nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain....
  • Alan Nayes
  • Larry Niven
    Larry Niven

    Laurence van Cott Niven is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award, Ditmar Award, and Nebula Award for Best Novel awards....
  • Andre Norton
    Andre Norton

    Andre Alice Norton was an USA science fiction and fantasy author . Born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio, she published her first novel in 1934, was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1983....
  • Eric Nylund
  • Takashi Okazaki
    Takashi Okazaki

    is a Japanese people Mangaka who wrote and illustrated the manga series Afro Samurai.External links...
  • Hayford Peirce
    Hayford Peirce

    Hayford Peirce is an United States writer of science fiction, Mystery fiction, and spy thrillers. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard College....
  • Gary Phillips
    Gary Phillips

    Gary Phillips is a retired goalkeeper who is manager at Grays Athletic F.C. in the Conference National.Phillips spent the majority of his playing days at Underhill Stadium with Barnet F.C., taking over as manager prior to the start of the 1993-94 in English football, before being replaced by Ray Clemence....
  • Jerry Pournelle
    Jerry Pournelle

    Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an United States science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog....
  • Tim Powers
    Tim Powers

    Timothy Thomas Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy fiction author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare....
  • Cherie Priest
    Cherie Priest

    Cherie Priest is an American novelist living in Seattle, Washington. In addition to her novels Priest publishes a well known blog, and is at the head of the growing presence of authors online, being in contact with many others via their blogs....
  • Kit Reed
    Kit Reed

    Kit Reed is an United States author primarily of fantasy, Horror fiction, and science fiction, although she has also done some non-genre works....
  • Mike Resnick
    Mike Resnick

    Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick , better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is a popular and prolific United States science fiction author....
  • Spider Robinson
    Spider Robinson

    Spider Robinson is an United States Canadian Hugo award and Nebula award winning science fiction author....
  • Ginny Rorby
    Ginny Rorby

    Ginny Rorby is an United States young adult novelist. She was raised in Winter Park, Florida and lived in Miami during her career as a Pan American World Airways flight attendant....
  • R.A. Salvatore
  • Brandon Sanderson
    Brandon Sanderson

    Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in Provo, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University....
  • Robert J. Sawyer
    Robert J. Sawyer

    Robert James Sawyer is a Canada science fiction writer, born in Ottawa in 1960 and now resident in Mississauga. He has published 18 novels, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and numerous anthologies....
  • John Scalzi
    John Scalzi

    John Michael Scalzi II is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog , at which he has written daily on a number of topics since 1998....
  • Karl Schroeder
    Karl Schroeder

    Karl Schroeder is an award-winning Canada science fiction author. His novels present far-future speculations on topics such as nanotechnology, terraforming, augmented reality and interstellar travel, and have a deeply philosophical streak....
  • Charles Sheffield
    Charles Sheffield

    Charles Sheffield , was an England-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author. He had been a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronomical Society....
  • Will Shetterly
    Will Shetterly

    Will Shetterly is an American fantasy and comic book writer best-known for his novel Dogland . The novel is inspired by his childhood at the tourist attraction Dog Land owned by his parents....
  • Joseph Staten
    Joseph Staten

    Joseph Staten is a bestselling United States writer born in San Francisco, California. The son of a theologian, Staten originally planned on becoming an actor, but dropped the idea in college....
  • Charles Stross
    Charles Stross

    Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftianism to fantasy....
  • Patrick Taylor
    Patrick Taylor

    Patrick or Pat Taylor can refer to:* Patrick Taylor , an Irish-Canadian author and doctor* Patrick F. Taylor, founder of Taylor Energy...
  • Harry Turtledove
    Harry Turtledove

    Harry Norman Turtledove is an United Statesn novelist, who has produced works in several genres including historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction....
  • Vernor Vinge
    Vernor Vinge

    Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer science, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep , A Deepness in the Sky , Rainbows End , Fast Times at Fairmont High and The Cookie Monster , as well...
  • Jo Walton
    Jo Walton

    Jo Walton is a Wales fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004....
  • James M. Ward
  • Lawrence Watt-Evans
    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the pseudonyms of United States science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans . Born in Arlington Massachusetts as the fourth of six children, he made his first attempts at professional writing when he was eight....
  • Peter Watts
    Peter Watts

    Peter Watts is a Canada science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist.His first novel Starfish introduced Lenie Clarke, a deep-ocean power-station worker physically altered for underwater living and the main character in the sequels: Maelstrom , Behemoth: ?-Max and Behemoth: Seppuku ....
  • David Weber
    David Weber

    David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio in 1952. Weber and his wife Sharon live in Greenville,_South_Carolina, South Carolina with their three children and "a passel of dogs"....
  • Walter Jon Williams
    Walter Jon Williams

    Walter Jon Williams is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind....
  • F. Paul Wilson
    F. Paul Wilson

    Francis Paul Wilson is an United States author, primarily in the science fiction and horror fiction genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician....
  • Robert Charles Wilson
    Robert Charles Wilson

    Robert Charles Wilson is a contemporary science fiction author.Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario....
  • Gene Wolfe
    Gene Wolfe

    Gene Wolfe is an United States science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic....
  • Jane Yolen
    Jane Yolen

    Jane Hyatt Yolen is an United States author and editing of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books....


Editors at Tor

  • Susan Chang
  • Claire Eddy
  • James Frenkel
    James Frenkel

    James Frenkel is a science fiction book editing for Tor Books. He has edited numerous award-winning authors such as Vernor Vinge, Joan D. Vinge, and Frederik Pohl , Andre Norton, Loren D....
  • Chris Anderson
  • Anna Genoese
  • Liz Gorinsky
  • David Hartwell
  • Harriet McDougal
  • Beth Meacham
    Beth Meacham

    Beth Meacham is an American writer and editor. She is married to editor Tappan Wright King. She worked for Ace Books from 1981 to 1983, and for Tor Books fulltime from 1984 on....
  • Patrick Nielsen Hayden
    Patrick Nielsen Hayden

    Patrick James Nielsen Hayden , often abbreviated as PNH, is an American science fiction editor, fan, science fiction fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, teacher and blogger....
  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden
    Teresa Nielsen Hayden

    Teresa Nielsen Hayden is an American science fiction editor, science fiction fanzine writer, essayist, and teacher. She works for Federated Media Publishing Inc where she edits the comment section for the blog Boing Boing....
  • Heather Osborn
  • Eric Raab
  • Melissa Ann Singer
  • Paul Stevens


Imprints

Tom Doherty Associates publishes a number of imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
s:
  • Forge Books (mainstream and historical)
  • Paranormal Romance
  • Orb Books
    Orb Books

    Orb Books is a publishing imprint of Tor Books. Orb Books specialises in trade paperback reprints of science fiction and fantasy works of special merit which are unavailable in mass market paperback....
     (trade paperback science fiction and fantasy reprints)
  • Starscape (science fiction for children)
  • Tor Teen
  • Tor/Seven Seas (manga)


External links