9/7/2023 0 Comments Best tor com novellas![]() ![]() Other notables in the category include Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom, Seanan McGuire’s Hugo- and Nebula-winning Every Heart a Doorway and, beyond Tor.com’s monopoly, China Miéville’s This Census-Taker, published by Del Rey. Plus, you can read it in one sitting, the way the good lords of lit intended. The paltry page count lets Penny, in full author-activist fervor, get away with punking up the familiar biotech premise. Deadlier serious but no less compelling is Laurie Penny’s Everything Belongs to the Future, in which the rich can extend their youth by centuries while the poor age and die naturally. At 158 pages, though? Practically perfect. Something like math poeticized, or poetry mathematized, at novel size the book would’ve gone down way too rich. My favorite of Tor’s wide-ranging catalog is Kai Ashante Wilson’s A Taste of Honey, a stunning romance that unfolds on the shores of a remote god colony. ![]() In many cases, spareness heightens prose. ![]() The joy of the sci-fi novella, by contrast, is in its one-off-ness, its collapsed space, its enforced incapaciousness.Ĭontainment need not mean compromise. More than ever, successful world-building seems to require of creators a transmedia commitment to spin-offs and prequels and various other increasingly extraneous tie-ins. ![]()
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