Tor Books

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Tor Books is an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC which publishes popular fiction, and is particularly noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tor publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, was formed by Tom Doherty in 1980, and sold to St. Martin's Press in 1986. Along with St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt, and Farrar Straus Giroux, it is now part of the Holtzbrinck group.

In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as eBooks via Webscriptions because of concerns regarding the lack of Digital rights management (DRM). These concerns abated in 2007 and selected Tor titles will soon be available as e-books via Baen and a variety of other online retailers.

Tor has won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher every year for many years.

Authors published by Tor

Editors at Tor

Imprints

Tor Books also publish using a number of imprints
  • Forge Books (mainstream and historical)
  • Orb Books (trade paperback reprints)
  • Starscape (sf for children)
  • Tor Teen

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Joanne Bertin was born in 1953 in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. A science fiction/fantasy novelist, her short stories and books center on a world of "truehumans", "truedragons", and "dragonlords", the last of which are beings which can change from human to dragon.
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Born: July 24 1951 (1951--) (age 56)
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