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Tordotcom Publishing 2022 Debut Sampler
Tordotcom Publishing is proud to present a sneak peek of its 2022 debut novel and novella authors.
In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scotto Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages.
Marion Deed's Comeuppance Served Cold is a hard-boiled historical fantasy of criminality and magic, couched in the glamour of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us.
Celebrated short fiction author Rachel Swirsky returns with January Fifteenth, a gut-wrenching, near-future novella humanizing the experimental, practically science fictional policy of universal basic income.
Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in Joma West's Face, a sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame.
Meet the cure for the human disease in this dark and infectious debut from Hiron Ennes. Leech is Edgar Allen Poe mixed with Ridley Scott, Jeff VanderMeer with a side of Charlotte Brontë, The Thing from the thing's point of view. It will worm its way deep into your bones and hold you hostage to your own insatiable human fascination.
Pepper Rafferty has lived her entire adult life knowing two that the famous artist, Ula Frost's, paintings are purported to harbor magical powers and that Ula Frost is the woman who gave her away. Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing is a heartstopping quest for truth written for a post-modern age with the world-melding of David Mitchell and the intimacy of Marilynn Robinson.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scotto Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages.
Marion Deed's Comeuppance Served Cold is a hard-boiled historical fantasy of criminality and magic, couched in the glamour of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us.
Celebrated short fiction author Rachel Swirsky returns with January Fifteenth, a gut-wrenching, near-future novella humanizing the experimental, practically science fictional policy of universal basic income.
Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in Joma West's Face, a sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame.
Meet the cure for the human disease in this dark and infectious debut from Hiron Ennes. Leech is Edgar Allen Poe mixed with Ridley Scott, Jeff VanderMeer with a side of Charlotte Brontë, The Thing from the thing's point of view. It will worm its way deep into your bones and hold you hostage to your own insatiable human fascination.
Pepper Rafferty has lived her entire adult life knowing two that the famous artist, Ula Frost's, paintings are purported to harbor magical powers and that Ula Frost is the woman who gave her away. Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing is a heartstopping quest for truth written for a post-modern age with the world-melding of David Mitchell and the intimacy of Marilynn Robinson.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
82 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 8, 2022
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About the author
Scotto Moore
8 books94 followersScotto Moore is the author of , a science fantasy novel, and YOUR FAVORITE BAND CANNOT SAVE YOU, a sci-fi/horror novella, both published by Tor.com. For fourteen years, he was an active playwright in Seattle, with major productions nearly every year during that time, and 45 short plays produced during that time as well. He wrote book, lyrics, and music for the a cappella sci-fi musical , which won the 2018 Gregory Falls Award for Outstanding New Play, presented by Theatre Puget Sound. He also wrote, directed and produced three seasons of the sci-fi/comedy web series ; and wrote and starred in the horror/comedy play
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July 14, 2022
This sampler only included the first chapters of books, so these ratings are based solely on that short sample.
Battle of the Linguist Mages: 2/5. An overly cocky narrator plays a video game.
Comeuppance Served Cold: 4/5. Noir with magic. I'm intrigued.
And Then I Woke Up: 3/5. Interesting. I have the feeling it could get twisty and deep.
January Fifteenth: 3/5. A world where UBI is a thing.
Face: 2/5. Awkward and weird, not my thing.
Leech: 4/5. A doctor with a split consciousness. I want to read this one.
Self-Portrait With Nothing: 4/5. A parallel universe art mystery. Could be really good.
Battle of the Linguist Mages: 2/5. An overly cocky narrator plays a video game.
Comeuppance Served Cold: 4/5. Noir with magic. I'm intrigued.
And Then I Woke Up: 3/5. Interesting. I have the feeling it could get twisty and deep.
January Fifteenth: 3/5. A world where UBI is a thing.
Face: 2/5. Awkward and weird, not my thing.
Leech: 4/5. A doctor with a split consciousness. I want to read this one.
Self-Portrait With Nothing: 4/5. A parallel universe art mystery. Could be really good.
June 6, 2022
Loved the first entry in this sampler. The rest of the titles represented weren't for me.
December 14, 2023
An interesting mix of my 2022 Tor story beginnings. All were intriguing / engaging enough to make me want to find the full stories.
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