Publisher:Tom Doherty Associates

A publisher that uses the following imprints

Other imprints - some of these need to be merged

Street address:

Tom Doherty Associates

49 West 24 Street

New York, NY 10010

(source: Copyright page of Houston, Houston, Do You Read? / Souls published August 1989)

The Tor Doubles

From 1988 to 1991 Tor published dos-a-dos style doubles. 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 Tor Double publisher name to group these titles.

Published in 1988

#1 - A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke / Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.
#2 Hardfought by Greg Bear / Cascade Point by Timothy Zahn.
#3 - Born With the Dead by Robert Silverberg / The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss.

Published in 1989

#4 - Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo by John Varley / The Star Pit by Samuel R. Delany.
#5 - No Truce with Kings / Ship of Shadows
#6 - Enemy Mine / Another Orphan
#7 - Screwtop / The Girl Who Was Plugged In
#8 - The Nemesis from Terra / Battle for the Stars
#9 - The Ugly Little Boy / The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff
#10 - Sailing to Byzantium / Seven American Nights
#11 - Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr. / Souls by Joanna Russ.
#12 - He Who Shapes / The Infinity Box
#13 - The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis
#14 - The Saturn Game / Iceborn
#15 - The Last Castle / Nightwings

Published in 1990

#16 - The Color of Neanderthal Eyes / And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees
#17 - Divide and Rule / The Sword of Rhiannon
#18 - In Another Country / Vintage Season
#19 - Ill Met in Lankhmar / The Fair in Emain Macha
#20 - The Pugnacious Peacemaker / The Wheels of If
#21 - Home Is the Hangman / We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line
#22 - Thieves' Carnival / The Jewel of Bas
#23 - Riding the Torch / Tin Soldier
#24 - Elegy for Angels and Dogs / The Graveyard Heart
#25 - Fugue State / The Death of Doctor Island
#26 - Press Enter [] / Hawksbill Station
#27 - Eye For Eye by Orson Scott Card / The Tunesmith by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
#28 - A Short, Sharp Shock / The Dragon Masters

Published in 1991

#29 - Nanoware Time / The Persistence of Vision
#30 - The Longest Voyage / Slow Lightning
#31 - Naked to the Stars / The Alien Way (also pub TORDOB31)
#32 - Run for the Stars / Echoes of Thunder
#33 - Bwana / Bully!
#34 - Rule Golden / Double Meaning
#35 - Silent Thunder / Universe
#36 - Conjure Wife / Our Lady of Darkness
#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. Apparently booksellers were unhappy with the Tor Double line as they did not know how or where to shelve them meaning the series itself got shelved.^[1]^[2]
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.
2. ^ Cover for the proposed Tor Double #37 The Final Folly of Captain Dancy / Yesterday We Saw Mermaids though never published.

Publisher:Tom Doherty Associates

The Tor Doubles

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