Tor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy 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 in 1980, and sold to St. Martin's Press in 1986. Along with St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt, and Farrar Straus Giroux, it is now part of the Holtzbrinck group. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other uses, see Fantasy (disambiguation). ... Tom Doherty (born April 23, 1993) In Boston,MA is considered to be one of the best hockey prospects of his age. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Headquartered in the legendary Flatiron Building in New York City, St. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. ...

In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as eBooks via Webscriptions because of concerns regarding the lack of Digital rights management (DRM). These concerns abated in 2007 and selected Tor titles will soon be available as e-books via Baen and a variety of other online retailers.^{[citation needed]} A user viewing an electronic page on an eBook reading device An e-book (for electronic book: also eBook, ecoBook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. ... Baen Webscriptions is an experiment in electronic publishing. ... Digital rights management (DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. ...

Tor has won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher every year since 1988.^{[citation needed]} Locus Magazine is subtitled, The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field. It reports on the science fiction writing industry, including comprehensive listings of new books published in the field. ...

Authors published by Tor

R. A. Salvatore is a science-fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and Forgotten Realms novels. ... Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926–July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author of the genres Golden Age. ... Photo by Hugh Talman Catherine Asaro (born 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... Neal Asher (born 1961 in Billericay, Essex, England) is an English science fiction writer. ... Kage Baker is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for her The Company series of historical time travel science fiction. ... Stephen Baxter (born in Liverpool, 13 November 1957) is a British hard science fiction author. ... Joanne Bertin was born in 1953 in a borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Benjamin William Bova (born November 8, 1932) is an American science fiction author and editor. ... Steven Brust in 2004 at Minicon 39 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Emma Bull (born 3rd January 1954) is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Jacqueline Carey (born 1964 in Highland Park, Illinois) is an author and novelist, primarily of fantasy fiction. ... Jonathan Samuel Carroll (b. ... Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is the pseudonym of American fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ... Glen Cook at Demicon 15 in 2004 Glen Cook (July 9, 1944–) is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. ... Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (April 16, 1962) is a science fiction author, editor, and literary critic. ... Linda Crockett- (born 1943) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is an American author and teacher, best known for her horror, romance, and psychological thrillers. ... Sylvia Day is an author born in Los Angeles, California. ... Michael de Larrabeiti, author, born 18 August in Lambeth, London in 1934, currently lives in Oxfordshire. ... Charles de Lint (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician. ... Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer, mostly known for his works of science fiction. ... Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. ... Sara Douglass (Born 2 June 1957 in Penola, South Australia) is the pen name of Australian fantasy writer Dr. Sara Warneke, who lives in Hobart, Tasmania. ... Steven Erikson (born October 7, 1959) is a pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and author. ... Dave Wolverton (born 1957) is a science-fiction author who also goes under the pseudonym David Farland for his fantasy works. ... John M. Ford portrait 2000 John Milo Mike Ford (April 10, 1957 – September 25, 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet. ... Robert Lull Forward commonly known as Robert L. Forward (August 15, 1932 - September 21, 2002) was a United States physicist and science fiction writer. ... Brian Patrick Herbert (born 1947) is a best selling American author who lives in Washington state. ... |200px| ]] Pseudonym: Gabriel Mesta Born: March 27, 1962 ) Oregon, Wisconsin, U.S. Occupation: Author Genres: Science fiction Debut works: Resurrection, Inc Influences: The War of the Worlds Kevin J. Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is a prolific American science fiction author. ... Celestial Matters, by Richard Garfinkle, Published by Tor, 1996. ... Terry Goodkind (born 1948) is a contemporary American writer and author of the best-selling epic fantasy series, The Sword of Truth, which according to his publisher TOR in an August, 2006 press release[1] has more than 10 million copies in print and has been translated into 20 different... Kathleen Ann Goonan is a science fiction writer. ... Steven Gould is a science fiction author, not to be confused with Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist and author of popular science works. ... Elizabeth Haydon is a fantasy author, whose 1999 debut, Rhapsody: Child of Blood, garnered comparisons with Goodkind, Jordan, and even Tolkien. ... Raelynn Hillhouse Raelynn Hillhouse is an American novelist, expert on Central and Eastern Europe and former smuggler. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 James Patrick Hogan (born June 27, 1941, London) is a science fiction author. ... For other persons named Robert Jordan, see Robert Jordan (disambiguation). ... Mercedes Lackey (born June 24, 1950) (also known as Misty Lackey) is a prolific American author of fantasy novels. ... Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American writer. ... Paul Levinson, 2002 Paul Levinson (b. ... Jane M. Lindskold is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. ... Ken MacLeod (born August 2, 1954), an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer, lives near Edinburgh. ... JP Mallory is the nom-de-plume of Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist Prof. ... Juliet Marillier is an Australian writer of fantasy, especially historical fantasy. ... David Marusek is an author who was born in Buffalo, New York but lived various places in youth. ... David Edward McDaniel (1944(?)-November 1, 1977) was a US science fiction author. ... Laura J. Mixon is a chemical and environmental engineer better known as a science fiction writer. ... L. E. (Leland Exton) Modesitt, Jr was born in 1943 in Denver, Colorado. ... Warren Murphy (born in Jersey City, New Jersey, September 13, 1933) is an American author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. ... Linda Nagata (1960-) is an American science fiction author who won the Nebula award for best novella in 2000 (for Goddesses). She frequently writes about nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Andre Alice Norton (February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005), science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction), was born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. ... Eric Nylund or Eric S. Nylund was born in 1964. ... Hayford Peirce (born January 7, 1942, Bangor, Maine) is an American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers. ... Jerry Eugene Pournelle, Ph. ... Cover Art for Four and Twenty Blackbirds Cherie Priest is an American novelist, whose debut novel, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, was published in 2003. ... Michael Diamond Resnick (born Chicago, March 5, 1942), better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is a popular and prolific American science fiction author. ... Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948 in New York City) is a Canadian science fiction writer. ... Ginny Rorby is an American young adult novelist. ... Brandon Sanderson (born 1976) is an American fantasy author. ... Robert J. Sawyer is a Canadian hard science fiction writer, born in Ottawa in 1960 and now resident in Mississauga. ... John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Mans War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of... Charles Sheffield (June 25, 1935 – November 2, 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author. ... Will Shetterly (born 1955) is a fantasy and comic book writer whose best-known novel is Dogland (1997). ... Joseph Staten was born in San Franssico, California. ... Charles David George Charlie Stross (born Leeds, October 18, 1964) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. ... Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: ) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay The Technological Singularity, in which... Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. ... James M. Ward (born May 23, 1951), is an American game designer and fantasy author. ... Peter Watts is a Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist. ... Honor Harrington from Honor Among Enemies cover, by David Mattingly. ... Walter Jon Williams (born 15 October 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. ... Francis Paul Wilson (b. ... Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) is a contemporary science fiction author. ... Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931, New York, New York) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. ... Jane Yolens Wizards Hall Jane Yolen (born February 11, 1939 in New York City) is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. ...

Editors at Tor

This biographical article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... David G. Hartwell is an editor of speculative fiction. ... Harriet McDougal is a former Editorial Director at Ace Books. ... Beth Meacham (1951-) is an American writer and editor. ... Patrick Nielsen Hayden is a science fiction editor and fanzine writer. ... Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and teacher. ...

Imprints

Tom Doherty Associates publishes a number of imprints: This article is about imprints in publishing. ...

• Forge Books (mainstream and historical)
• Paranormal Romance
• Orb Books (trade paperback science fiction and fantasy reprints)
• Starscape (science fiction for children)
• Tor Teen

Orb Books is a publishing imprint of Tor Books. ... A trade paperback can refer to any book that is bound with a heavy paper cover that is generally cheaper than the hardcover but more expensive than the regular paperback version. ...

External links

• Tor Books website
• Tor Books Imprints