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IT’S BEGINNING TO FEEL A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS
We’re fast approaching the end of the month and the onslaught of December and Christmas is just around the corner. We’ve already had Christmas songs playing on a continual loop in all the stores and...
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PAUL CORNELL: THE FIVE QUESTION INTERVIEW – WITH FREE EXTRACT
Paul Cornell is better known for his comics and Doctor Who writing, but on December 6th Tor UK publishes his first foray into urban fantasy, a gritty police investigation into the seedy underworld...
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FACT OR FICTION: RESEARCHING LONDON FALLING
London Falling was a research-heavy novel. Not only did I want the detail of London lore to be right, but also the police background, and everything else that could be checked against reality....
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WRITING ACROSS THE MEDIUMS
This is a story about a straight line that got interrupted. It’s a story that feels especially apt to tell at this time of the year, in the run up to Christmas. It’s also especially apt therefore,...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL AT TEAM TOR
Wow – what a year it has been. We’ve been as busy as beavering beavers over at Tor Towers and published over fifty titles this year, some reissues, some existing authors and some debuts. But all, of...
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TOR EBOOK OF THE MONTH: LONDON FALLING
Each month we offer you a discount on one of our latest DRM-free ebooks. This month it has to be the gripping LONDON FALLING by Paul Cornell. The dark is rising . . . Detective Inspector James Quill...
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LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
Well the world didn’t end on 21st December, which is nice. And now we can start looking ahead to the future because that’s what we in SFF like to do! 8-) And the year ahead looks pretty darn good....
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AWARDS NEWS: BSFA AND KITCHIES SHORTLISTINGS!
We are delighted to announce two welcome pieces of awards news on this snowy Friday. This has cheered us mightily as many of us contemplate our fragile transport system in advance of the commute home....
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TOR’S TOP TIPS: OUR AUTHORS ON WRITING
I asked several of our authors to offer one tip for aspiring writers. This is what they sent in: JOHN GWYNNE: Write for yourself. Something that you want to read. More than that; that you’re desperate...
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A LOVE LETTER TO GENRE FROM TEAM TOR
Valentine’s Day, a day of romance, roses, fluffy animals, chocolates and songbirds. Sweet! Not to be all Bah Humbug about it, but give me aliens, ray guns and sword-wielding heroes any day. Aragorn...
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EASTERCON 2013: GETTING WITH THE 8SQUARED PROGRAMME
With Eastercon’s EightSquared convention this Easter weekend, I wanted to share with you what Team Tor and authors will be up to and hope to see you there! Paul Cornell,Adrian Tchaikovsky,Gary Gibson...
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THE RETURN OF DOCTOR WHO — AND A NEW COMPANION!
This Easter weekend saw the hour that Whovians around the country have been waiting for all year: the return of Doctor Who. It’s now in its seventh series since the 2005 relaunch, with this also being...
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COMPETITION: FUTURE CITIES
Star Trek Into Darkness landed this week (whoop!), and in the middle of all the whiz and bang there’s a pretty cool look at Future London. Which got us thinking: what other futuristic landscapes in...
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PODCAST DYNAMITE – WITH AUTHORS PAUL CORNELL AND ANDREW LANE
A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to have Paul Cornell and Andrew Lane visit the office. It was a lovely sunny day so we decided the best thing to do was take them to a basement podcast studio and...
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COMIC-CON 2013: MY TOP TEN HIGHLIGHTS
Every year, for one weekend, the eyes of the great and the geek turn to settle on one convention, when the biggest names in comics, films, TV, books and games all descend on the city of San Diego....
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TOR COMIC-CON FOCUS: FRIDAY COMPETITION
Feeling blue now that Comic-Con has departed for another year? Never fear! We’ve got just the thing to brighten up your day! To continue our focus on all things Comic-Con for this week, and following...
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GEEKFEST 2013: THE NINE WORLDS ROUND-UP
I spent this weekend at Nineworlds. For those of you who don’t know, Nineworlds is a brand new, three-day ‘geekfest’. This was the first year of the event, which was funded via kickstarter with the aim...
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TOR UK AT THE WORLD FANTASY CONVENTION 2013
The World Fantasy Convention 2013 is almost here! And as this highlight of the annual fantasy calendar is nearly upon us, I thought I’d do a quick run-down of what Tor UK and our authors will be up to...
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TOR UK AT THE WORLD FANTASY CONVENTION 2013
This last weekend was the amazing World Fantasy Convention 2013 in Brighton …Take a seat, and let me tell you about it. I had an amazing chance to step behind the velvet rope, when I was invited to...
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THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
As things get increasingly seasonal, I thought it would be fun to see just what genre goodies are out there in terms of Christmas decorations. If you want to show your tree some genre love, there’s no...
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