Parent company Macmillan Publication types Books, E-books Founder Tom Doherty Country of origin United States of America Imprint Orb Books | Key people Tom Doherty Parent organization Macmillan Publishers Founded 1980 Key person Tom Doherty | |
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Headquarters location Flatiron Building, New York City Imprints Forge, Starscape, Tor Teen, Orb, Tor.com Official website us.macmillan.com/torforge Headquarters New York City, New York, United States Profiles | ||
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Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tom Doherty Associates LLC publishing company, based in New York City, US. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles, and publishes the online science fiction magazine Tor.com.
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History
Tor was founded by Tom Doherty in 1980. Tor is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning the peak of a rocky mountain as its logo shows. Tor Books was sold to St. Martin's Press in 1987. Along with St. Martin's Press; Henry Holt; and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, it became part of the Holtzbrinck group, now part of the Macmillan in the US.
Imprints
Tor is the primary imprint of Tom Doherty Associates. There is also the Forge imprint that publishes an array of fictional titles, including historical novels and thrillers. Tor Books also publishes two imprints for young readers: Starscape (for readers 10 years of age and up) and Tor Teen (for readers 13 years of age and up). Tor Books also has the Tor.com imprint that focuses on short works such as novellas, shorter novels and serializations.
A United Kingdom sister imprint, Tor UK, also exists and specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, while also publishing young-adult crossover fiction based on computer-game franchises. Tor UK maintains an open submission policy.
Orb Books publishes science-fiction classics such as A.E. Van Vogt's Slan.
Tor Teen publishes young-adult novels such as Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother and repackages novels such as Orson Scott Card’s Ender's Game for younger readers.
Authors
Authors published by Tor and Forge include Kevin J. Anderson, Steven Brust, Orson Scott Card, Jonathan Carroll, Charles de Lint, Philip K. Dick, Cory Doctorow, Steven Erikson, Terry Goodkind, Steven Gould, Brian Herbert, Glen Hirshberg, Robert Jordan, Andre Norton, Harold Robbins, Brandon Sanderson, John Scalzi, V. E. Schwab, Skyler White, and Gene Wolfe.
Tor UK has published authors such as Douglas Adams, Rjurik Davidson, Amanda Hocking, China Miéville, Adam Nevill, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
E-books
Tor publishes a range of its works as e-books and, in 2012, Doherty announced that his imprints would sell only DRM-free e-books by July of that year. One year later, Tor stated that the removal of DRM had not harmed its e-book business, so they would continue selling them DRM-free.
Accolades
Tor won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher in 29 consecutive years from 1988 to 2016 inclusive. In March 2014, the Worlds Without Ends website listed Tor as the second-most awarded and nominated publisher for science fiction, fantasy and horror books, after Gollancz. As of March 27, 2014, Tor has received 316 nominations and 54 wins for 723 novels, written by 197 authors.