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	Tor Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tor Books is an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC which publishes popular fiction, and is particularly noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles.
		In March 2006, Tor began releasing DRM-free ebooks through Webscriptions, but Holtzbrinck pulled the project within days of it starting, over Tor's objections.
		Tor Books also publish using a number of imprints
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tor_Books (143 words)

	Tor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tor (geography), a high craggy hill, particularly those found on Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor in South-West England
		Tor (comic book), by Joe Kubert, first published by St. John and later by DC Comics
		Tor (port), a port on the Sinai Peninsula
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tor (203 words)

	Tor SF and Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and softcover books, founded in 1980 and committed (although not limited) to SF and fantasy literature.
		Books from Tor have won every major award in the SF and fantasy fields, and for the last fifteen years in a row we have been named Best Publisher in the Locus Poll, the largest consumer poll in SF.
		Tor and Forge titles are distributed to the trade in the United States by Holtzbrinck/VHPS and in Canada by H.
	www.tor.com /tor.html (431 words)

	Locus Online: Tom Doherty interview excerpts
		Tor publisher Tom Doherty attended Trinity College in the '50s, where he majored in philosophy and played guard in football, before serving nearly two years in the US Army.
		Tor was sold to St. Martin's, which in turn was acquired by Holtzbrinck, with Tor retaining autonomy along the way.
		Currently Holtzbrinck is making Tor a global name, through an arrangement with Pan Macmillan Australia to use the name there, and through the launch of Tor UK as a joint venture with Pan Macmillan UK in March 2003.
	locusmag.com /2003/Issue10/Doherty.html (850 words)

	Tor Books: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tor Books is a publisher[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] of popular fiction fiction quick summary:
		A trade paperback (tpb) can refer to any book that is bound with a heavy paper cover that is generally cheaper than a hardcover but more expensive than a...
		André schiffrin is an author and was director of publishing at pantheon books for nearly thirty years....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tor_books.htm (1074 words)

	TOR BOOKS LISTING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tor Books is actively seeking well-written novel-length stories, focusing on both plot and character development.
		As Tor Books is an award-winning, world-renowed science fiction and fantasy publisher, please be advised that submissions in those areas will be held to our usual standards for plausibility, world-building, character development, and the various elements that comprise these genres.
		If you are submitting a series, submit only the first book in the series according to the above guidelines, and include a 1-2 page synopsis for each following book as well.
	www.ralan.com /publishr/listings/torbooks.htm (1461 words)

	Frank Herbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other highlights were The Dosadi Experiment, The Godmakers, The White Plague and the books he wrote in partnership with Bill Ransom: The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect and The Ascension Factor.
		I don't think that the mere writing of such a book as Brave New World or 1984 prevents those things which are portrayed in those books from happening.
		Books like The Green Brain, The Santaroga Barrier and Hellstrom's Hive seemed to hark back to the days before Dune, when a good technological idea was all that was needed to drive a sci-fi novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Herbert (3843 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Before establishing Tor Books, which is one of the most popular and influential science-fiction publishers of all time, Doherty teamed up with Ian Ballantine to help launch J.R.R. Tolkien in the United States.
		When Tor started, we got her a computer and a modem and she'd modem in her copy and come to New York when she wanted to meet with agents.
		The idea was to put good books into little communities across the country that didn't have bookstores, to get books at a really low price that kids could afford, good books for millions of kids who wouldn't otherwise see them.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue289/interview.html (3686 words)

	The Pick of the Literate - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
		Temple of the Winds is the epic tale of Richard Rahl, bearer of the Sword of Truth, and his beloved Kahlan Amnell, who must risk everything to uncover the source of the terrible plague which is killing their countrymen.
		Recently, Gaiman has won much critical acclaim in the U.S. and his novels with their dark sensibilities and compelling storylines are becoming favorites on this side of the Atlantic.
		The Book of D'Ni is a tale of Eden gone awry, a perfect world where a young boy's illness can change the destiny of millions.
	www.bakerbooks.net /scifi.asp (1004 words)

	Seven Deadly Sins - Die sieben Sünden \| The Wraeththu
		Since the books' original publication, there has emerged a growing fan community for this androgynous, hermaphrodite race — a mix of feminine grace and deadly masculine strength — and it seems they are now here to stay.
		The original trilogy (the Wraeththu Chronicles) was published in the late 1980s in the U.K. and the U.S. In the early 90s, Tor Books published a 3-in-one omnibus edition of these three books.
		Histories books will be published by Tor Books in the U.S. and Immanion Press in the U.K. With the founding of Immanion Press in 2003 began a new series, Wraeththu Mythos, which is designed to include related novels, stories, and other material.
	www.metrogirl.com /wraeththu-seven-sins/english_wraeththu.htm (361 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Crossroads of Twilight
		If a legacy, not one to be envied, and based upon the obvious ambition of the original books, one must assume that the author had desired something more than being remembered only as having written the longest story in genre history.
		Even now, after ten books, it is difficult to imagine how he can successfully conclude this series under another three, without sacrificing the realism and verity of the narrative world he's created.
		In his bio at the back of each book he likes to state that "he has been writing since 1977 and intends to continue until they nail shut his coffin." For his fans' sake, let us hope this takes place after he finishes the series.
	www.sfsite.com /03a/ct147.htm (1772 words)

	Carver SF Novels by Universe
		NEPTUNE CROSSING, The Chaos Chronicles: Book One, 1994, Tor Books (hc); pb 1995.
		THE INFINITE SEA, The Chaos Chronicles: Book Three, 1996, Tor Books (hc); pb 1997.
		I poured into these books all the wonder, amazement, and desire to travel in space that caught my imagination when I first started devouring the science fiction years ago.
	www.starrigger.net /book-uni.htm (604 words)

	Market News from America
		Sun Books (http://www.sunbooks.com) put out trade paperback, non-fiction originals and reprints, and are looking for cookery books, how-to, reference, self-help, new age, and humour.
		Tor Books are seeking novel-length paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, horror, near-future, speculative fiction, non-standard time travel romances.
		Tor are open to non-traditional romances (multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-spiritual, homosexual, etc), as well as traditional ones.
	www.jbwb.co.uk /usmarketnews.htm (4316 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Jupiter Novels
		Tor, via the talents of Charles Sheffield (along with Jerry Pournelle for the first of the novels), is publishing The Jupiter Novels.
		The second book, The Billion Dollar Boy, is the story of Shelby Cheever V, one of the richest people of the 22nd century.
		Unlike the other protagonists in the other books, he's a likable teen, lonely because his actress mom is always dragging him around looking for that next big break, precise because of the lack of stability and cautious because he's met his share of glad-handing, easy-talking losers over the years.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/jup33.htm (1118 words)

	Books by Steven Brust
		That is, it should be thought of as a single book.
		Therefore, these five books are clearly seen to be a triolgy consisting two one-part novels and one three-part novel.
		Each part consists of two "books." Therefore, chapter four of book two of part three of the third book is easily seen to be chapter fifty two of the third novel, or chapter one hundred and twenty of....
	dreamcafe.com /books.html (1183 words)

	The SF Site: Charles de Lint Reading List
		Charles de Lint is one of those rare authors whose work is envied by writers and book editors as much as by his fans.
		Books and music are the best things in life.
		Set in Ottawa South, a place populated by folk like us and by trolls, goblins and other creatures seen only by a few, Jacky Rowan slips between here and the world of Faerie to unravel the evil mysteries ensnaring the Elven Court and heading towards our world.
	www.sfsite.com /lists/cdl.htm (1561 words)

	Current Reads: Chelsea Quiinn Yarbro
		While ostensibly vampire-horror novels, as the series has progressed the stories are more and more historical novels where the main character is, almost as an afterthought, a vampire.
		Many of the books have been out of print for a number of years, and are very hard to come by.
		They show up in used book stores every once in awhile, but I learned the hard way to buy them the moment they show up.
	www.phouka.com /books/yarbro.html (292 words)

	Amazon.com: The Jungle Book (Tor Classics): Books: Rudyard Kipling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The language and tone of Vogel's adaptation is changed in ways that strip the stories of the sense of pride and self that made the originals such tremendous lessons, and of the subtle darkness that gave them the ring of truth.
		The Jungle Book is a story about a young boy whose life is paid for with a bull brought down by Bagera, a fl panther.
		I liked this book because it had a lot of action, a lot of animal characters, but it was a little tough to read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812504690?v=glance (2142 words)

	Brian Lumley.com Book News - Latest Releases
		This fourth book in the series is seeing hardcover for the first time in the US, thanks to its popularity in paperback.
		Psychosphere, the second book in the Psychomech trilogy, has been reissued from Tor Books in tradepaper format.
		Psychomech, the first book in the Psychomech trilogy, has been reissued from Tor Books in tradepaper format.
	www.brianlumley.com /news/booklatest.html (1138 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lost World (Tor Ed.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first few chapters of this book are some of the wittiest that I have read in a while.
		The opening of the book, in which we learn of Ned Malone's motivation, certainly comes across as dated and sexist.
		This book was tied for 9th on August Derleth's Arkham Survey of 'Basic SF Titles', but it really is more of an Adventure novel than a Science Fiction novel.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0613173554 (922 words)

	Jack L Chalker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He's been a lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution, The National Institutes of Health and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects; Chalker married Eva C. Whitley in 1978 and has 2 sons.
		Chalker's awards include the Dedalus Award (1983), The Gold Medal of the West Coast Review of Books (1984), Skylark Award (1985), Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award (1979), as well as others of varying prestige, and has been a nominee for the John W. Campbell Award nominee twice and for the Hugo award four times.
		The Birth of Flux and Anchor, Tor Books, 1985
	www.wikiverse.org /jack-l-chalker (531 words)

	Amazon.com: Ivanhoe (Tor Classics): Books: Sir Walter Scott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is most definately a book you have to wade through but Scott is such a masterful story teller that the difficult passages are worth the effort.
		THe introduction to my copy says that the book is not accurate to medieval history and was not meant to be.
		Although Scott's book pays fitting homage to tradition, justice, virtue, and piety, there is an undercurrent of criticism of the Church and men tasked with defending the common good.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812565657?v=glance (1577 words)

	Tor Books to Shed Light on the World of Perfect Dark - Xbox
		Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC—the largest publisher of science fiction and fantasy books in the world—announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft Game Studios for the publishing rights to three novels based on the world of Perfect Dark.
		"Tor’s mission is to provide great books that explore human innovation and our ability to push the limits of technology.
		Tor Publicity Director Elena Stokes says of the anticipation for Perfect Dark Zero, "What Tor is doing with the release of Perfect Dark: Initial Vector is giving fans a chance to see inside the world of Perfect Dark before the game launches.
	news.teamxbox.com /xbox/9081/Tor-Books-to-Shed-Light-on-the-World-of-Perfect-Dark (544 words)

	Alibris: Tor Savidge
		Recent advances in molecular technology have provided new microbial imaging tools, not only complementing more classical methods, but in many cases significantly enhancing the sensitivity and efficiency in which studies may be conducted.
		We guarantee the condition of every book, new or used.
		If you are not satisfied for any reason, return the item for a full refund of the item price.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Tor_Savidge (120 words)

	Books
		(Tor Books, 1990; Science Fiction Book Club, 1991).
		It's out of print, but you might be able to buy it used on Amazon or ABE Books.
		(Tor Books, 1995; Science Fiction Book Club, 1995).
	www.costik.com /books.html (345 words)

	Lambda Sci-Fi Books - Lammies
		he Lambda Literary Award is given each year by the Lambda Literary Foundation to selected books in numerous categories.
		In 1989, the award's first year, science fiction and mystery were combined into one category for gay men's books and one for lesbian works.
		Through 1993 science fiction and fantasy had their own category for gay men and for lesbians.
	www.lambdasf.org /lsf/books/lammys.html (195 words)

	Works of Karl Schroeder
		Tor and SCI FI have written a press release describing the programme (see attached).
		Each month, one carefully selected Tor title will receive the SCI FI Essential stamp of approval, which will appear on the spine and cover of the book.
		Tor readers, the SCI FI audience, and new fans will benefit from an array of special features promoting the new books.
	www.kschroeder.com /1122666123/index_html (421 words)

	Cinescape - Home - Editorial
		The books share few characters, and rarely make direct reference to one another; but, put together, they create a dynamic forecast of the conquest of outer space.
		The latest entries in the saga have recently been released by TOR books.
		Bova is convinced that his books, while fiction, will in some way be fulfilled.
	www.cinescape.com /0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Books&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270442&obj_id=34527 (781 words)

	tor books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader.
		Only a true hero can save Bridget from the gruesome death that awaits her'and this is exactly what Bagley, much to his own surprise, proves himself to be.
		Judy Hindley's lulling text combines with Tor Freeman's soft illustrations to create this gentle, loving ode to favorite sleeping places.When you're yawning and nodding and flopping and ready to fall in a heap, where do you choose for a nap or a snooze?
	www.books-shoppe.com /kwp/tor_books.html (456 words)

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