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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?23 Tor] | * [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?23 Tor] | ||
| − | * [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi? | + | * [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] | ||
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?257 Tor Double] - see [[#Tor Doubles]] below | * [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?19249 Tor / Pan Macmillan Australia] | * [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?19249 Tor / Pan Macmillan Australia] | ||
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?2126 Tor / Pan Macmillan UK] | * [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?2126 Tor / Pan Macmillan UK] | ||
| − | * [ | + | * [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?28445 Tor UK] |
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?89 Forge] (mostly for non-SF thrillers etc.) | * [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?89 Forge] (mostly for non-SF thrillers etc.) | ||
Latest revision as of 21:27, 7 May 2018
A publisher founded in 1980 (first titles appeared 1981) that has used the following imprints
- Tor
- Tor Books
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Tor Double - see #Tor Doubles below
- Tor / Tom Doherty Associates
- Tor / Pan Macmillan Australia
- Tor / Pan Macmillan UK
- Tor UK
- Forge (mostly for non-SF thrillers etc.)
Other imprints - some of these need to be merged
- Tor / QPB
- Tor / SFBC see also Publisher:SFBC
- Tor Fantasy
- Tor Kids
- Tor Paranormal Romance
- Tor Science Fiction
- Tor Teen
- Tor/Byron Preiss see also Publisher:Byron Preiss
- Tor/Otherworlds Club
- Tor/Pan
- 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.
| # | 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) |
- #37 was planned as The Final Folly of Captain Dancy by Lawrence Watt-Evans and Yesterday We Saw Mermaids by Esther Friesner with ISBN 0-812-51406-8.
- Another book that looks like it could have been in the Tor Double series is 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.
References
- Other versions of the Tor Double list are available at:
- Tor Doubles page generated from ISFDB data in ~2005.
- Wikipedia:Tor Double Novels
- TOR SF Doubles Image Library by Michael S. Smith.
- SFBookscomForum > Books in General > Tor Doubles forum thread.
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
- A Question of Time by Fred Saberhagen published January 1993