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A publisher that uses the following imprints
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A publisher founded in 1980 (first titles appeared 1981) that has used the following imprints
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?23    Tor]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?23    Tor]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?1013 Tor Books]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?35610 Tor Books]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?5955  Tom Doherty Associates]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?5955  Tom Doherty Associates]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?10891 Tor, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?257  Tor Double] - see [[#Tor Doubles]] below
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?257  Tor Double]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?10891 Tor / Tom Doherty Associates]
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* [[Publisher:Tor UK|Tor UK]]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?19249 Tor / Pan Macmillan Australia]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?89 Forge] (mostly for non-SF content)
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?2126  Tor / Pan Macmillan UK]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?28445 Tor UK]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?89 Forge] (mostly for non-SF thrillers etc.)
  
 
Other imprints - some of these need to be merged
 
Other imprints - some of these need to be merged
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?19249 Tor / Pan Macmillan Australia]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?2126  Tor / Pan Macmillan UK]
 
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?19789 Tor / QPB]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?19789 Tor / QPB]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?16853 Tor / SFBC]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?16853 Tor / SFBC] see also [[Publisher:SFBC]]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?4132  Tor Fantasy]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?4132  Tor Fantasy]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?25198 Tor imprint, Pan Macmillan Australia]
 
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?26681 Tor Kids]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?26681 Tor Kids]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?19893 Tor Paranormal Romance]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?19893 Tor Paranormal Romance]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?4105  Tor Science Fiction]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?4105  Tor Science Fiction]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?4166  Tor Teen]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?4166  Tor Teen]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?21857 Tor, an imprint of Pan MacMillan Australia]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?22125 Tor/Byron Preiss] see also [[Publisher:Byron Preiss]]
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?10891 Tor, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates]
 
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?22125 Tor/Byron Preiss]
 
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?3112  Tor/Otherworlds Club]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?3112  Tor/Otherworlds Club]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?24922 Tor/Pan]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?24922 Tor/Pan]
  
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Street address:
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[http://us.macmillan.com/Content.aspx?publisher=torforge&id=261 Street address:]
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:Tom Doherty Associates
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: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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:49 West 24 Street
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: 175 Fifth Avenue
 
: New York, NY 10010
 
: New York, NY 10010
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:(source: Copyright page of ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB11 Houston, Houston, Do You Read? / Souls]'' published August 1989)
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<small>originally Tom Doherty Associates, 49 West 24 Street, NY 10010 - source: Copyright page of ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB11 Houston, Houston, Do You Read? / Souls]'' published August 1989). By January 1993 Tor was using the 175 Fifth Avenue address though with "Inc." instead of "LLC."<sup>{{refp|QSTNFTMJKH1993|A Question of Time|Fred Saberhagen|January 1993}}</sup></small>
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== Tor Doubles ==
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From 1988 to 1991 Tor published the '''Tor Doubles''' series of paperbacks containing two novellas by different authors (later sometimes with a bonus short story thrown in).  Tor never used "Tor Double" as an imprint but as a convenience ISFDB uses the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?257 Tor Double] publisher name to group these titles.
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The series started out with dos-a-dos format publications with two "front" covers but towards the end Tor was publishing these as doubles, i. e. sequentially (this started at #18 as ''"A New Wrinkle On Tor Doubles: ... some ... will present a classic novella ... with an entirely new companion piece or sequel especially written for the Doubles by a major SF author of today. You'll be able to recognize this sort ... by the distinctive cover format; other Tor SF Doubles will continue to feature the popular back-to-back format, with a separate cover for each 'side'.''). Tor was also inconsistent in wording the series name, noted in the table below. Also, toward the end of the series' life Tor dropped the series name and number from the front cover though continued to number the publications on the copyright page.
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Apparently booksellers were unhappy with the line as they did not know how or where to shelve the dos-a-dos books; Tor tried to save it by quitting the "popular back-to-back format" for the ordinary reprint Doubles but ultimately the series itself got shelved.{{ref|1}}
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{| class=prettytable border=1 cellpadding=4 style="border-collapse:collapse; border:1px solid #aaa"
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! # !! Title !! Format !! Designation
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! colspan=4 | Published in 1988
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB01 #1] || ''A Meeting with Medusa'' by Arthur C. Clarke'' / ''Green Mars'' by Kim Stanley Robinson || rowspan=3 | dos-a-dos || Tor Double #1
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB02 #2] || ''Hardfought'' by Greg Bear / ''Cascade Point'' by Timothy Zahn || Tor Double No. 2
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|-
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB03 #3] || ''Born With the Dead'' by Robert Silverberg / ''The Saliva Tree'' by Brian W. Aldiss || Tor Double Novel No. 3
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| colspan=4 | '''Published in 1989''' (all dos-a-dos)
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB04 #4] || ''Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo'' by John Varley / ''The Star Pit'' by Samuel R. Delany || rowspan=12 | dos-a-dos || Tour Double #4
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB05 #5] || ''No Truce with Kings'' / ''Ship of Shadows'' || Tour Double #5
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB06 #6] || Longyear: ''Enemy Mine'' / Kessel: ''Another Orphan'' || Tor Double Novel No. 6
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|-
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB07 #7] || Vonda McIntyre: ''Screwtop'' / Tiptree: ''The Girl Who Was Plugged In'' || Tour Double #7
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB08 #8] || ''The Nemesis from Terra'' / ''Battle for the Stars'' || Tor Double Novel No. 9
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB09 #9] || ''The Ugly Little Boy'' / Sturgeon: ''The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff'' || Tor Double No. 9
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB10 #10] || Silverberg: ''Sailing to Byzantium'' / Wolfe: ''Seven American Nights'' || Tor Double No. 10
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB11 #11] ||''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'' by James Tiptree, Jr. / ''Souls'' by Joanna Russ || Tor Double Novel #11
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB12 #12] || Zelazny: ''He Who Shapes'' / Wilhelm: ''The Infinity Box'' || Tor Double Novel No. 12
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB13 #13] || KSR: ''The Blind Geometer'' / Le Guin: ''The New Atlantis'' || Tor Double Novel No. 13
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB14 #14] || Anderson: ''The Saturn Game'' / Benford and paul A. Carter: ''Iceborn'' || Tor Double Novel No. 14
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB15 #15] || Vance: ''The Last Castle'' / Silverberg: ''Nightwings'' || Tor Double Novel No. 15
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! colspan=4 | Published in 1990
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB16 #16] || Tiptree: ''The Color of Neanderthal Eyes'' / Bishop: ''And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees'' || dos-a-dos || Tor Double Novel No. 16
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB17 #17] || ''Divide and Rule'' / ''The Sword of Rhiannon'' || dos-a-dos || Tor SF Double No. 17
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB18 #18] || C. L. Moore: ''In Another Country'' / Silverberg: ''Vintage Season'' || double || Tor SF Double No. 18
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB19 #19] || Leiber: ''Ill Met in Lankhmar'' / ''The Fair in Emain Macha''|| dos-a-dos || Tor SF Double No. 19
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB20 #20] || de Camp: ''The Pugnacious Peacemaker'' / Turtledove: ''The Wheels of If'' || double || Tor SF Double No. 20
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB21 #21] || Zelazny: ''Home Is the Hangman'' / Delany: ''We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line'' || dos-a-dos || Tor SF Double No. 21
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB22 #22] || ''Thieves' Carnival'' / ''The Jewel of Bas'' || double || Tor SF Double No. 22
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB23 #23] || Spinrad: ''Riding the Torch'' / Joan D. Vinge: ''Tin Soldier'' || dos-a-dos || Tor SF Double No. 23
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB24 #24] || Williams: ''Elegy for Angels and Dogs'' / Zelazny: ''The Graveyard Heart'' || colspan=2 | Unknown (probably double as sequel)
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB25 #25] || John M. Ford: ''Fugue State'' / Wolfe: ''The Death of Doctor Island'' || dos-a-dos || Tor SF Double No. 25
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB26 #26] || Varley: ''Press Enter []'' / ''Hawksbill Station'' || dos-a-dos || Tor SF Double No. 26
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB27 #27] || ''Eye For Eye'' by Orson Scott Card / ''The Tunesmith'' by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. || double || SF Double #27
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB28 #28] || KSR: ''A Short, Sharp Shock'' / Vance: ''The Dragon Masters'' || double || Tor SF Double No. 28
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! colspan=4 | Published in 1991
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB29 #29] || ''Nanoware Time'' / ''The Persistence of Vision'' || double ||Tor SF Double No. 29
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB30 #30] || ''The Longest Voyage'' / ''Slow Lightning'' || colspan=2 | Unknown
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?NKDTTHSTRS1990 #31] || ''Naked to the Stars'' / ''The Alien Way'' (also pub [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB31 TORDOB31]) || Double || rowspan =5 | (none on the cover and unknown on copyright page)
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB32 #32]||''Run for the Stars'' / ''Echoes of Thunder'' || Double
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB33 #33] || {{A|Mike Resnick}} (both): ''Bwana'' / ''Bully!'' || Double
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB34 #34] || {{A|Damon Knight}} (both): ''Rule Golden'' / ''Double Meaning''|| Double
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB35 #35] || Dean Ing: ''Silent Thunder'' / RAH: ''Universe'' || Double
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| [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?TORDOB36 #36] || {{A|Fritz Leiber}} (both): ''Conjure Wife / Our Lady of Darkness'' || Double || Tor SF Double No. 36 (on copyright page)
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* #37 was planned as ''{{t|196738|The Final Folly of Captain Dancy}}'' by {{a|Lawrence Watt-Evans}} and ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids'' by {{a|Esther Friesner}} with ISBN 0-812-51406-8.{{ref|1}}
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* Another book that looks like it could have been in the Tor Double series is {{p|THJNGLCLSH1992|''The Jungle'' / ''Clash by Night''}} (Nov-1992) but this has been verified as being the novel ''The Jungle'' packaged with a short story. It does not mention "Tor Double" nor is it a dos-a-dos.
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=== References ===
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* Other versions of the '''Tor Double''' list are available at:
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** [http://www.isfdb.org/tordoubles.html Tor Doubles] page generated from ISFDB data in ~2005.
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** [[Wikipedia:Tor Double Novels]]
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** [http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/TOR.html TOR SF Doubles Image Library] by Michael S. Smith.
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** [http://sfb.3.forumer.com/index.php?s=c8849e31dba36aa447922a8b73f99e26&act=Print&client=printer&f=22&t=413 SFBookscomForum > Books in General > Tor Doubles] forum thread.
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{{Note|1}} [http://www.watt-evans.com/publishers.html#tor Author Lawrence Watt-Evans]' report on the Tor Double #37 project and outcome. He also shows [http://www.watt-evans.com/folly.jpg Cover] for the proposed Tor Double #37 ''The Final Folly of Captain Dancy'' / ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids'' that was never published.
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== Source publications ==
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* {{SourcePublication|QSTNFTMJKH1993|A Question of Time|Fred Saberhagen|January 1993}}
  
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== The Tor Doubles ==
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{{Publishercategory}}
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Tor did not use "Tor Doubles" as an imprint but would advertise these books under the "Tor Doubles" banner. As a convenience, we are using the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?257 Tor Double] publisher name to group these titles.
 

Latest revision as of 21:27, 7 May 2018

A publisher founded in 1980 (first titles appeared 1981) that has used the following imprints

Other imprints - some of these need to be merged

Street address:

Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010

originally Tom Doherty Associates, 49 West 24 Street, NY 10010 - source: Copyright page of Houston, Houston, Do You Read? / Souls published August 1989). By January 1993 Tor was using the 175 Fifth Avenue address though with "Inc." instead of "LLC."[January 1993]

Tor Doubles

From 1988 to 1991 Tor published the Tor Doubles series of paperbacks containing two novellas by different authors (later sometimes with a bonus short story thrown in). Tor never used "Tor Double" as an imprint but as a convenience ISFDB uses the Tor Double publisher name to group these titles.

The series started out with dos-a-dos format publications with two "front" covers but towards the end Tor was publishing these as doubles, i. e. sequentially (this started at #18 as "A New Wrinkle On Tor Doubles: ... some ... will present a classic novella ... with an entirely new companion piece or sequel especially written for the Doubles by a major SF author of today. You'll be able to recognize this sort ... by the distinctive cover format; other Tor SF Doubles will continue to feature the popular back-to-back format, with a separate cover for each 'side'.). Tor was also inconsistent in wording the series name, noted in the table below. Also, toward the end of the series' life Tor dropped the series name and number from the front cover though continued to number the publications on the copyright page.

Apparently booksellers were unhappy with the line as they did not know how or where to shelve the dos-a-dos books; Tor tried to save it by quitting the "popular back-to-back format" for the ordinary reprint Doubles but ultimately the series itself got shelved.[1]

# Title Format Designation
Published in 1988
#1 A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke / Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson dos-a-dos Tor Double #1
#2 Hardfought by Greg Bear / Cascade Point by Timothy Zahn Tor Double No. 2
#3 Born With the Dead by Robert Silverberg / The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss Tor Double Novel No. 3
Published in 1989 (all dos-a-dos)
#4 Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo by John Varley / The Star Pit by Samuel R. Delany dos-a-dos Tour Double #4
#5 No Truce with Kings / Ship of Shadows Tour Double #5
#6 Longyear: Enemy Mine / Kessel: Another Orphan Tor Double Novel No. 6
#7 Vonda McIntyre: Screwtop / Tiptree: The Girl Who Was Plugged In Tour Double #7
#8 The Nemesis from Terra / Battle for the Stars Tor Double Novel No. 9
#9 The Ugly Little Boy / Sturgeon: The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff Tor Double No. 9
#10 Silverberg: Sailing to Byzantium / Wolfe: Seven American Nights Tor Double No. 10
#11 Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr. / Souls by Joanna Russ Tor Double Novel #11
#12 Zelazny: He Who Shapes / Wilhelm: The Infinity Box Tor Double Novel No. 12
#13 KSR: The Blind Geometer / Le Guin: The New Atlantis Tor Double Novel No. 13
#14 Anderson: The Saturn Game / Benford and paul A. Carter: Iceborn Tor Double Novel No. 14
#15 Vance: The Last Castle / Silverberg: Nightwings Tor Double Novel No. 15
Published in 1990
#16 Tiptree: The Color of Neanderthal Eyes / Bishop: And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees dos-a-dos Tor Double Novel No. 16
#17 Divide and Rule / The Sword of Rhiannon dos-a-dos Tor SF Double No. 17
#18 C. L. Moore: In Another Country / Silverberg: Vintage Season double Tor SF Double No. 18
#19 Leiber: Ill Met in Lankhmar / The Fair in Emain Macha dos-a-dos Tor SF Double No. 19
#20 de Camp: The Pugnacious Peacemaker / Turtledove: The Wheels of If double Tor SF Double No. 20
#21 Zelazny: Home Is the Hangman / Delany: We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line dos-a-dos Tor SF Double No. 21
#22 Thieves' Carnival / The Jewel of Bas double Tor SF Double No. 22
#23 Spinrad: Riding the Torch / Joan D. Vinge: Tin Soldier dos-a-dos Tor SF Double No. 23
#24 Williams: Elegy for Angels and Dogs / Zelazny: The Graveyard Heart Unknown (probably double as sequel)
#25 John M. Ford: Fugue State / Wolfe: The Death of Doctor Island dos-a-dos Tor SF Double No. 25
#26 Varley: Press Enter [] / Hawksbill Station dos-a-dos Tor SF Double No. 26
#27 Eye For Eye by Orson Scott Card / The Tunesmith by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. double SF Double #27
#28 KSR: A Short, Sharp Shock / Vance: The Dragon Masters double Tor SF Double No. 28
Published in 1991
#29 Nanoware Time / The Persistence of Vision double Tor SF Double No. 29
#30 The Longest Voyage / Slow Lightning Unknown
#31 Naked to the Stars / The Alien Way (also pub TORDOB31) Double (none on the cover and unknown on copyright page)
#32 Run for the Stars / Echoes of Thunder Double
#33 Mike Resnick (both): Bwana / Bully! Double
#34 Damon Knight (both): Rule Golden / Double Meaning Double
#35 Dean Ing: Silent Thunder / RAH: Universe Double
#36 Fritz Leiber (both): Conjure Wife / Our Lady of Darkness Double Tor SF Double No. 36 (on copyright page)

References

1. ^  Author Lawrence Watt-Evans' report on the Tor Double #37 project and outcome. He also shows Cover for the proposed Tor Double #37 The Final Folly of Captain Dancy / Yesterday We Saw Mermaids that was never published.

Source publications

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