TOR.COM JANUARY 2017

Passing Strange

Ellen Klages

In San Francisco, nothing is what it seems.

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic” experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.

Six women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where FICTION / FANTASY / mystery, science, and art intersect. HISTORICAL Tor.com | 1/24/2017 Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a 9780765389527 | $14.99 / $20.99 Can. story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Carton Qty: 48 8 in H | 5 in W Award winning author Ellen Klages.

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765389510 ELLEN KLAGES is the author of two acclaimed historical novels: The Green Glass Sea, which won the Scott O’Dell Award, and the New Mexico Book Award; andWhite Sands, Red Menace, which won the California and New Mexico Book awards. Her story, “Basement Magic,” won a Nebula Award and “Wakulla Springs,” co-authored with Andy Duncan, was MARKETING nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards, and won the World Fantasy Award for TOR.COM Best Novella. She lives in San Francisco, in a small house full of strange and ... -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion -Author features, excerpts, and review -Dedicated social media & sweepstakes -Banner ads & newsletter blast-Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Print ads in major genre publications -Targeted online advertising & cover reveal -Author appearances at major conventions -Blog tour including features, interviews & podcasts -Goodreads ARC Sweepstakes-Galley campaign & review coverage

2 TOR.COM FEBRUARY 2017

Idle Ingredients A Sin du Jour Affair

Matt Wallace

Sex, slugs and sausage rolls.

Catering for a charismatic motivational speaker, the staff of the Sin du Jour catering agency find themselves incapacitated by a force from within their ranks. A smile and a promise is all it took.

And for some reason, only the men are affected. It’s going to take cunning, guile and a significant amount of violence to resolve.

Another day of cupcakes and evil with your favorite demonic caterers.

FICTION / FANTASY / URBAN PRAISE Tor.com | 2/7/2017 9780765390035 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. "I fell in love with this series for its joyous, high-octane sense of mayhem, but I Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 36 would stay just for the food. When you read it, you’ll forgive me for saying this: 8 in H | 5 in W each entry leaves you hungry for more." —Melissa F Olson, author of Nightshades Other Available Formats: and the Scarlett Bernard series. Ebook ISBN: 9780765390028 "A smart, action-packed, hilariously absurdist romp." —SF Bluestocking on Pride's Spell MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre-pub promotion "Individually, these stories are perfect appetizers: devoured quickly, leaving a rich -Cover reveal taste in the mouth; they’re perfect for a weekend binge. Together, the ingredients -Author features & excerpts mix to create something wholly other, a tasting menu of fantasy fiction with -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads and featured in newsletter flavors that build upon each other int... blast (170k subscribers) -Full support for author, including other MATT WALLACE is the author of the Sin du Jour series, The Next Fix, The Failed Cities, and recent work PROMOTION & OUTREACH the novella series, Slingers. He's also penned over one hundred short stories, some of which -Standalone story in ongoing Sin du Jour have won awards and been nominated for others, in addition to writing for film and television. series In his youth he traveled the world as a professional wrestler and unarmed combat and -Ads in major genre publications self-defense instructor before retiring to write full-time. He now resides in Los Angeles with -Targeted online advertising the love of his life and inspiration for ... -Extensive promotion by author -Recipe & food-in-fiction site features -Price promotions & bundling on earlier volumes

3 TOR.COM APRIL 2017

Winter Tide

Ruthanna Emrys

The last daughter of Innsmouth returns to Miskatonic University in Winter Tide, the debut novel by Ruthanna Emrys

Two decades ago the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god, Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, emerging without a past or a future.

Now it's 1949, and the government that stole Aphra's life needs her help. FBI Agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies have stolen dangerous magical secrets from Miskatonic University, secrets that could turn the Cold War hot in an instant and hasten the end of the human race. FICTION / FANTASY / HISTORICAL Aphra must return to the ruins of her home, gather the scraps of her stolen Tor.com | 4/4/2017 9780765390905 | $25.99 / $36.99 Can. history, and assemble a new family to face the darkest of human politics and Hardcover | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 the wildest dangers of an uncaring universe. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W

Other Available Formats: PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9780765390912 “A mythos yarn that totally reverses the polarity on Lovecraft's xenophobia, so that in the end the only real monsters are human beings.” —Charles Stross, Hugo Award winning author of The Annihilation Score MARKETING TOR.COM • Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion “Winter Tide is a weird, lyrical mystery—truly strange and compellingly grim. It's • Author features & review • Excepts & audio excerpts an innovative gem that turns Lovecraft on his head with cleverness and heart.” • Dedicated social media & sweepstakes —Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker • Banner ads & newsletter blast • Promotion through Tor & Tor.com Publishing newsletters “Winter Tide is a treasure chest. Ruthanna Emrys writes within the Lovecraftian PROMOTION & OUTREACH universe but stakes her own territory; she expands that universe in such exciting • Advertising focused on Lovecraft & and surprising ways.” —Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom genre fans • Multiple ARC Sweepstakes & galley campaign RUTHANNA EMRYS lives in a mysterious manor house on the outskirts of Washington, DC, • Print ads in genre publications including with her wife and their large, strange family. She makes home-made vanilla, obsesses about SFX magazine game design, gives unsolicited advice, and occasionally attempts to save the world. Her • Digital features, interviews & podcasts stories have appeared in a number of venues, including Strange Horizons, Analog, and Tor.com. Winter Tide is her first novel.

4 TOR.COM MARCH 2017

Chalk

Paul Cornell

A tale of revenge, of absolution, of mistrust and of terror.

Andrew Waggoner has always hung around with the losers in his school, desperately hoping each day that the school bullies — led by Drake — will pass by him in search of other prey. But one day they force him into the woods, and the bullying escalates into something more; something unforgivable; something unthinkable.

Broken, both physically and emotionally, something dies in Waggoner, and something else is born in its place.

FICTION / FANTASY / In the hills of the West Country a chalk horse stands vigil over a site of CONTEMPORARY ancient power, and there Waggoner finds in himself a reflection of rage and Tor.com | 3/21/2017 vengeance, a power and persona to topple those who would bring him low. 9780765390950 | $17.99 / $24.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 260 pages | Carton Qty: 32 8 in H | 5 in W Paul Cornell plumbs the depths of magic and despair in this brutal exploration of bullying in Margaret Thatcher's England. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765390943 PRAISE Quotes forthcoming from Diana Rowland, Lucy A. Snyder and John Connolly. MARKETING TOR.COM PAUL CORNELL is a writer of science fiction and fantasy in prose, comics and television, -Dedicated pre-pub promotion -Author features & excerpts one of only two people to be Hugo Award nominated for all three media. A New York Times #1 -ARC sweepstakes Bestselling author, he's written Doctor Who for the BBC, Wolverine for Marvel, and Batman -Banner ads and featured in newsletter & Robin for DC. He's won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, an Eagle Award for his blast (170k subscribers) comics, and shares in Writer's Guild Award for his TV work. His recent Tor.com novella -Full support for author, including other Witches of Lychford has been nominated for the BSFA Awa... recent work -Promotion through Tor and Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Author appearances & promotion at major conventions -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Galley campaign, sweepstakes & review coverage -Targeted online advertising -Author engagement: Cornell is an active ...

5 TOR.COM JANUARY 2017

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

Seanan McGuire

A thrilling and atmospheric story of a ghost trying to make things right from the author of Every Heart a Doorway.

When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline while dodging meddlesome witches.

But something has come for the ghosts of New York, something beyond reason, beyond death, beyond hope; something that can bind ghosts to mirrors and make them do its bidding. Only Jenna stands in its way. FICTION / FANTASY / CONTEMPORARY PRAISE Tor.com | 1/10/2017 9780765391421 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Praise for Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway: Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 36 8 in H | 5 in W "Seanan McGuire has long been one of the smartest writers around, and with this Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765383884 novella we can easily see that her heart is as big as her brain. We know this story isn't true, but it is truth." —Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series (TV's True Blood)

"McGuire has created her own mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy — a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics, even as it carves its own precocious space between them." —NPR

"Seanan McGuire once again demonstrates her intimate knowledge of the human hear...

SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of Every Heart a Doorway, the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid series, and several other works, both standalone and in trilogies. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant.

She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot.

6 TOR.COM APRIL 2017

Proof of Concept

Gwyneth Jones

In a far future Earth, blind hope keeps the populace contented.

On a desperately overcrowded future Earth, crippled by climate change, the most unlikely hope is better than none. Governments turn to Big Science to provide them with the dreams that will keep the masses compliant. The Needle is one such dream, an installation where the most abstruse theoretical science is being tested: science that might make human travel to a habitable exoplanet distantly feasible.

When the Needle’s director offers her underground Kir Heilsen’s people as a training base, Heilesen is thrilled to be invited to join the team, even though FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION she knows it’s only because her brain is host to a qAI called Altair. Tor.com | 4/11/2017 9780765391445 | $14.99 / $20.99 Can. But Altair knows something he can’t tell. Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Carton Qty: 44 8 in H | 5 in W Kir, like all humans, is programmed to ignore future dangers. Between the Other Available Formats: artificial blocks in his mind, and the blocks evolution has built into his host, Ebook ISBN: 9780765387363 how is he going to convince her the sky is falling?

GWYNETH JONES is a writer and critic of genre fiction. She's won the Tiptree award, two MARKETING World Fantasy awards, the Arthur C. Clarke award, the British Science Fiction Association TOR.COM short story award, the Dracula Society's Children of the Night award, the Philip K. Dick -Dedicated pre-pub promotion award, and the S.F.R.A. Pilgrim award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. She -Author features & excerpts -ARC sweepstakes also writes for teenagers, usually as Ann Halam. -Banner ads and featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) She lives in Brighton, UK, with her husband and two cats called Ginger and Milo; curati... -Full support for author, including other recent work -Promotion through Tor and Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Advertising targeting science fiction & environmental issues -UK & international review coverage -Goodreads ARC Sweepstakes -Outreach to mainstream literary outlets

7 TOR.COM MARCH 2017

Standard Hollywood Depravity

Adam Christopher

Raymond Electromatic returns to solve a new mystery in Tinsel Town.

The moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.

Honey.

As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancer’s cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion. A shot, under the cover of darkness, a body FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION bleeding out in a corner, and most of Los Angeles’ population of hired guns Tor.com | 3/7/2017 hulking, sour-faced over un-drunk whiskey sours at the bar. 9780765391834 | $14.99 / $20.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Carton Qty: 44 8 in H | 5 in W But as Ray tries to track down the package he was dispatched to the club to retrieve, his own programming might be working against him, sending him Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765391827 down a long hall and straight into a mobster’s paradise. Is Honey still the goal—or was she merely bait for a bigger catch?

Just your standard bit of Hollywood depravity, as tracked by the memory MARKETING TOR.COM tapes of a less-than-standard robot hitman. -Dedicated pre-pub promotion -Author features & excerpts PRAISE -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads and featured in newsletter PRAISE FOR MADE TO KILL blast (170k subscribers) -Full support for author, including other recent work "Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'" —John Scalzi, New York -Promotion through Tor and Tor.com Times bestselling novelist Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Advertising targeting science-fiction & "Made to Kill is yet more proof that we should all be thankful for Adam fantasy audiences including SFX magazine Christopher and his imagination. This tale of robot noir is unlike anything I’ve -Author appearances at conventions ever read — Adam’s is a weird and wonderful voice and we are lucky to have it." including SDCC —Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Aftermath -Series promotion with Tor novels -Galley campaign, sweepstakes & review coverage "Adam Christopher has brilliantly deduced what should have been obvious all -Digital features, ... along: Classic noir and robots are a perfect match. Part Chandler, part Asimov, and part Philip K. Dick, Made to Kill is a rip-roaring cocktail of smar...

ADAM CHRISTOPHER is a novelist and comic writer. In 2010, as an editor, Christopher won a Sir Julius Vogel award, New Zealand's highest science fiction honor. His debut novel, Empire State, was SciFiNow's Book of the Year and a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2012. In 2013, he was nominated for the Sir Julius Vogel award for Best New Talent, with Empire State shortlisted for Best Novel. His other novels include The Age Atomic and The Burning Dark.

8 TOR.COM APRIL 2017

Lightning in the Blood

Marie Brennan

PRAISE Praise for Marie Brennan's Lady Isabella Trent Memoirs:

"It's a time of changes for the main character, but this mix of scientific and fantastic creatures remains in fine form."—Publishers Weekly on In the Labyrinth of Drakes

"These chronicles have the power of fabulous and historic voyages, along with a wry wit that refuses to accept the standard notions of any era--past, present, or future."—Locus on Voyage of the Basilisk

"Uncompromisingly honest and forthright [and] narrated in Brennan's usual crisp, vivid style, with a heroine at once admirable, formidable, and captivating. FICTION / FANTASY / EPIC Tor.com | 4/25/2017 Reader, lose no time in making Isabella's acquaintance." —Kirkus Re... 9780765392015 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Carton Qty: 52 8 in H | 5 in W MARIE BRENNAN is an anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She is the author of several acclaimed fantasy novels including A Other Available Formats: Natural History of Dragons; The Onyx Court Series: Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Ebook ISBN: 9780765391438 Star Shall Fall, and With Fate Conspire; Warrior; and Witch. Her short stories have appeared in more than a dozen print and online publications.

MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre-pub promotion -Author features & excerpts -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads and featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Full support for author, including other recent work -Promotion through Tor and Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Author appearances & promotion at major conventions -Targeted advertising, print & digital, including SFX magazine -Cross-promotion with Tor series -Online Publicity Campaign

9 TOR.COM JANUARY 2017

The Fortress at the End of Time

Joe M. McDermott

A man desperate to prove himself inherits a watch station with a glorious military past, but no future.

Commander Ronaldo Aldo has committed an unforgivable crime. He will ask for forgiveness all the same: from you, from God, even from himself.

Connected by ansible, humanity has spread across galaxies and fought a war against an enemy that remains a mystery. At the edge of human space sits the Citadel—a relic of the war and a listening station for the enemy's return. For a young Ensign Aldo, fresh from the academy and newly cloned across the ansible line, it's a prison from which he may never escape. FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / HARD SCIENCE FICTION Deplorable work conditions and deafening silence from the blackness of space Tor.com | 1/17/2017 have left morale on the station low and tensions high. Aldo's only hope of 9780765392817 | $19.99 / $27.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 305 pages | Carton Qty: 36 transcending his station, and cloning a piece of his soul somewhere new is 8 in H | 5 in W both his triumph and his terrible crime.

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765392800 Joe M. McDermott is best known for the novels Last Dragon, Never Knew Another, and Maze. His work has appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. He holds an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program. He lives in Texas.

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10 TOR.COM JANUARY 2017

Binti: Home

Nnedi Okorafor

The sequel to the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Binti.

It’s been a year since Binti and the Meduse Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she abandoned her family in the dawn of a new day.

And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and her elders. Her experiences off-planet have changed her forever, and Binti will have to discover whether there is still a home for her on Earth.

PRAISE "Nnedi Okorafor's imagination and worldbuilding are unparalleled, as are the FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / heartfelt emotional struggles she creates." —Jim C. Hines, author of Blood of ALIEN CONTACT Tor.com | 1/31/2017 Heroes and the Goblin Quest trilogy 9780765393111 | $14.99 / $20.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Carton Qty: 48 NNEDI OKORAFOR, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 8, 1974, is 8 in H | 5 in W an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her Tor.com Other Available Formats: novella Binti won the 2015 Nebula Award, her children's book Long Juju Man (Macmillan, Ebook ISBN: 9780765393104 2009) won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, and her adult novel Who Fears Death (DAW, 2010) was a Tiptree Honor Book. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Chicago State University. MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre-pub promotion -Author features & excerpts -Ongoing promotion of Binti -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads and featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Full support for author, including other recent work -Promotion through Tor and Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Print ads in major genre publications including SFX magazine -Cover reveal -Goodreads ARC sweepstakes -Galley campaign and review coverage -Full support for author, including other recent work -...

11 TOR.COM FEBRUARY 2017

Cold Counsel

Chris Sharp

The last of the trolls is out for revenge.

Slud of the Blood Claw Clan, Bringer of Troubles, was born at the heart of the worst storm the mountain had ever seen. Slud’s father, chief of the clan, was changed by his son’s presence. For the first time since the age of the giants, he rallied the remaining trolls under one banner and marched to war taking back the mountain from the goblin clans.

However, the long-lived elves remembered the brutal wars of the last age, and did not welcome the return of these lesser-giants to martial power. Twenty thousand elves marched on the mountain intent on genocide. They eradicated FICTION / FANTASY / EPIC the entire troll species—save two. Tor.com | 2/21/2017 9780765393296 | $19.99 / $27.99 Can. Aunt Agnes, an old witch from the Iron Wood, carried Slud away before the Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8 in H | 5 in W elves could find them. Their existence remained hidden for decades, and in that time, Agnes molded Slud to become her instrument of revenge. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780765393289 For cold is the counsel of women.

PRAISE MARKETING TOR.COM “In Cold Counsel, Chris Sharp puts a new spin on ancient myths to craft a tale of -Dedicated pre- & post-pub promotion -Author features, excerpts & review destiny and revenge that is at once beautifully gory, eloquently profane, and -Dedicated social media channels delightfully merciless.” —David Mack, New York Times bestselling author of 24: -ARC sweepstakes Rogue -Banner ads & promotion in multi- newsletter blast (170k+ subscribers) PROMOTION & OUTREACH Chris Sharp grew up in the suburban wonderland of Alexandria, VA, where he cut his nerd -Print ads in major genre publications teeth playing role-playing games and making gore movies with his friends. He studied including SFX magazine English Literature and Anthropology at Brown University, and Mayan Archaeology at the -Targeted online advertising & marketing Harvard Field School in Honduras. He then spent sixteen years in Brooklyn, NY, where he -Extensive engagement & promotion by worked in film and commercial production by day, and was yet another wannabe novelist by author night. Some of the films he made with his childhood friends have... -Cover reveal & Goodreads Sweepstakes

12 TOR.COM MARCH 2017

Brother's Ruin

Emma Newman

Victorian England – where magic is commonplace, dark adventure a certainty, and etiquette a necessity.

The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards to snatch up a new apprentice. Talented mages are bought from their families at a tremendous price, while weak mages are snapped up for a pittance. For a lower middle class family like the Gunns, the loss of a son can be disastrous, so when seemingly magical incidents begin cropping up at home, they fear for their Archie's life and their own livelihoods. FICTION / FANTASY / HISTORICAL But Archie Gunn isn't a talented mage. His sister Charlotte is, and to prevent Tor.com | 3/14/2017 her brother from being imprisoned for false reporting she combines her 9780765393968 | $14.99 / $20.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Carton Qty: 48 powers with his to make him seem a better prospect. However, maintaining 8 in H | 5 in W the charade will mean masquerading as Archie's assistant, and delaying or

Other Available Formats: destroying her own plans for marriage. Ebook ISBN: 9780765393951 When she discovers a nefarious plot by the sinister Doctor Ledbetter, Charlotte must use all her cunning and guile to protect her family, her secret and her city. MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre-pub promotion EMMA NEWMAN writes dark short stories and science fiction and urban fantasy novels. -Author features & excerpts Between Two Thorns, the first book in Emma’s acclaimed Split Worlds urban fantasy series, -ARC sweepstakes was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards for Best Novel and Emma was nominated for -Banner ads and featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) Best Newcomer. Her latest novel is Planetfall. -Full support for author, including other recent work Emma is a professional audio book narrator and also co-writes and hosts the Hugo-nominated -Promotion through Tor and Tor.com podcast ‘Tea and Jeopardy’ which involves tea, cake, mild peril and singing chickens. Her Publishing newsletters hobbies in... PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Targeted advertising, print & digital, including SFX magazine -UK & international review coverage -ARC campaign & review coverage -Goodreads Sweepstakes -Engaged author -Online engagement: blog tour & podcasts

13 TOR.COM MARCH 2017

Buffalo Soldier

Maurice Broaddus

The Man in the High Castle with a Caribbean flavor.

Having stumbled onto a plot within his homeland of Jamaica, former espionage agent, Desmond Coke, finds himself caught between warring religious and political factions, all vying for control of a mysterious boy named Lij Tafari.

Wanting the boy to have a chance to live a free life, Desmond assumes responsibility for him and they flee. But a dogged enemy agent remains ever on their heels, desperate to obtain the secrets held within Lij for her employer alone. FICTION / FANTASY / HISTORICAL Assassins, intrigue, and steammen stand between Desmond and Lij as they Tor.com | 3/28/2017 search for a place to call home in a North America that could have been. 9780765394293 | $14.99 / $20.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 168 pages 8 in H | 5 in W MAURICE BROADDUS is a fantasy and horror author best known for his short fiction and his Knights of Breton Court novel trilogy. He has published dozens of stories in magazines Other Available Formats: and book anthologies, including in Asimov's Science Fiction, Black Static, and Weird Tales. Ebook ISBN: 9780765394286 Broaddus was born in London, but grew up in Indianapolis. His mother is from Jamaica, where she and many of his relatives still live. MARKETING TOR.COM -Dedicated pre-pub promotion -Author features & excerpts -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads and featured in newsletter blast (170k subscribers) -Full support for author, including other recent work -Promotion through Tor and Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Blog tour, cover reveal & podcasts -Digital advertising targeting alternative history fans -Print advertising including SFX magazine -Author appearances at conventions -Grassroots promotion with galleys & sweepstakes

14 TOR.COM FEBRUARY 2017

Agents of Dreamland

Caitlin R Kiernan

A threat from beyond Pluto means one more job for the Signalman.

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.

In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible — the Children of the Next Level — and offers them FICTION / FANTASY / DARK something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming FANTASY and they will help to usher it in. Tor.com | 2/28/2017 9780765394323 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Carton Qty: 76 A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so 8 in H | 5 in W deeply that he and his government sought out help from ‘other’ sources,

Other Available Formats: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with Ebook ISBN: 9780765394316 NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.

And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for MARKETING TOR.COM answers to what can save humanity. -Dedicated pre-pub promotion -Author features & excerpts CAITLIN R KIERNAN is the author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten -ARC sweepstakes -Banner ads and featured in newsletter novels; many comic books; and more than two hundred published short stories, novellas, and blast (170k subscribers) vignettes. She is also the author of scientific papers in the field of paleontology. She has won -Full support for author, including other numerous awards, including two World Fantasy Awards, two Bram Stoker Awards, and a James recent work Tiptree Jr. Award. -Promotion through Tor and Tor.com Publishing newsletters PROMOTION & OUTREACH -Print ads including SFX magazine -Multi-genre online advertising targeting SFF, horror & spy thrillers -Promotion with other subversive Lovecraftian authors -Cover reveal & Goodreads Sweepstakes -Digital features, interviews & podca...

15 Index

Agents of Dreamland; Caitlin R Kiernan...... 15 Binti: Home; Nnedi Okorafor...... 11 Brennan, Marie; Lightning in the Blood...... 9 Broaddus, Maurice; Buffalo Soldier...... 14 Brother's Ruin; Emma Newman...... 13 Buffalo Soldier; Maurice Broaddus...... 14 Chalk; Paul Cornell...... 5 Christopher, Adam; Standard Hollywood Depravity...... 8 Cold Counsel; Chris Sharp...... 12 Cornell, Paul; Chalk...... 5 Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day; Seanan McGuire...... 6 Emrys, Ruthanna; Winter Tide...... 4 Fortress at the End of Time, The; Joe M. McDermott. . . . . 10 Idle Ingredients: A Sin du Jour Affair; Matt Wallace...... 3 Jones, Gwyneth; Proof of Concept...... 7 Kiernan, Caitlin R; Agents of Dreamland...... 15 Klages, Ellen; Passing Strange...... 2 Lightning in the Blood; Marie Brennan...... 9 McDermott, Joe M.; The Fortress at the End of Time...... 10 McGuire, Seanan; Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day...... 6 Newman, Emma; Brother's Ruin...... 13 Okorafor, Nnedi; Binti: Home...... 11 Passing Strange; Ellen Klages...... 2 Proof of Concept; Gwyneth Jones...... 7 Sharp, Chris; Cold Counsel...... 12 Standard Hollywood Depravity; Adam Christopher...... 8 Wallace, Matt; Idle Ingredients: A Sin du Jour Affair...... 3 Winter Tide; Ruthanna Emrys...... 4