Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012

by Tor Books, Sylvia Day, Brandon Sanderson

This outstanding collection of short stories features some of the best of Tor.com original fiction, in audio for the first time. Written for and originally published exclusively on Tor.com, this audiobook includes Nebula and World Fantasy Award-nominated short stories, brand-new fiction from bestselling authors, and tales that feature characters and worlds that listeners already know and love.

In this unique story collection, listeners will enjoy fiction from Sylvia Day, John Scalzi, Brandon Sanderson, and many others. The collection includes:

“Earth Hour” by Ken MacLeod
“Eve of Sin City” by Sylvia Day, featuring Evangeline Hollis of the Marked series
“The President’s Brain is Missing” by John Scalzi
“Overtime” by Charles Stross, set in the world of The Laundry Files
“Firstborn” by Brandon Sanderson
“Down on the Farm” by Charles Stross, set in the world of The Laundry Files
“After the Coup” by John Scalzi
“The Finite Canvas” by Brit Mandelo
“Swift, Brutal Retaliation” by Meghan McCarron
“Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia” by Rachel Swirsky

Genres: Science Fiction, Audiobook, Anthologies, Short Stories

Audio CD

First published December 24, 2013

Reviews

[Enno · Rating 3 out of 5]

Favorite story: The President's Brain is Missing.

[Tammy]

Contains:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... by John Scalzi (3/5)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... by Brandon Sanderon (5/5)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... by John Scalzi (4/5)

[Michael Ngo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some books didn’t draw my attention maybe about 70% but the other 30% were pretty good.

[Boostamonte Halvorsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good collection. The stories were all unique and I enjoyed most of them!

[Amit Ragoobar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely contains a couple engaging stories, but I felt like most of these were mediocre.

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Sandersen story about the spaceship admiral and his brother was by far my favorite in here. Others were meh.

[Erzsabet · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far it’s pretty decent. The story The President’s Brain is Missing is interesting, but the author overuses “so-and-so said” terribly. Ruins an otherwise interesting story for me.

[Mike Baird · Rating 3 out of 5]

meh

[John Barclay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some really good stories, two very dull ones. A collection tied together in no way at all, but a few really interesting ideas and well worth the time, except for the boring witch story and a few too many Laundry stories.

[Christopher · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good collection. Some stories better than others. One stories was really great. I don't like Laundry Files stories and there were two of those. Don't get the appeal.

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This feels like an anthology of stories that they got permission to publish, rather than the best stories.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good collection of short stories from diverse authors with varying degrees of satisfaction and closure.

[Hazi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh.

[Cole Schoolland · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful Anthology with some great original works. Excellent narration on the audio version as well.

Easily one of the best selections of modern science fiction that I have come across.