Your Tordotcom Publishing February 2022 Recap!

Fonda Lee Book Announcement, Best of Tor.com Anthology Available, and Pre-order Pins for SPEAR! To view this email as a webpage, go [here.]( [Tor.com Publishing]( [Forward to a Friend]( Fonda Lee Book Announcement, Best of Tor.com Anthology Available, and Pre-order Pins for SPEAR! New Tordotcom Books Published This Month [Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston]( [Redwood and Wildfire]( Andrea Hairston Andrea Hairston's alternate history adventure, Redwood and Wildfire, is the winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award. At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theaters, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal. Living in a system stacked against them, Redwood and Aidan's power and talent are torment and joy. Their search for a place to be who they want to be is an exhilarating, painful, magical adventure. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather]( [Sisters of the Forsaken Stars]( Lina Rather The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award. “We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames.” Not long ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth’s tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewing in the Four Systems, and Old Earth is flexing its power in a bid to regain control over its lost territories. The Order of Saint Rita—whose mission is to provide aid and mercy to those in need—bore witness to and defied Central Governance’s atrocities on the remote planet Phyosonga III. The sisters have been running ever since, staying under the radar while still trying to honor their calling. Despite the sisters’ secrecy, the story of their defiance is spreading like wildfire, spearheaded by a growing anti-Earth religious movement calling for revolution. Faced with staying silent or speaking up, the Order of Saint Rita must decide the role they will play—and what hand they will have—in reshaping the galaxy. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel]( [A History of What Comes Next]( Sylvain Neuvel Now Available in Paperback! “A History of What Comes Next is a riveting blend of historical thriller and scientific speculation, which never loses its core of humanity.” —James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author For generations, Mia’s family has shaped human history to push them to the stars. The year is 1945 and now it is her turn. Her mission: to lure scientist Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, securing the future of the space race. But there is a threat. A ruthless enemy lurks behind the scenes. Sylvain Neuvel’s genre-bending sci-fi thriller is a dark and gripping exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence, as seen through the eyes of the women who make that progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them. Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all costs. Take them to the stars. GET YOUR COPY TODAY [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [Indiebound]( [Bookshop]( Book Announcement [Book Announcement] We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of a standalone novella from World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee titled [UNTETHERED SKY]( an epic fantasy about the legendary rocs of myth and the elite team of trainers who fly them. Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving Ester with nothing but her father’s silence and pain and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family. Ester’s path leads her to join the King’s Royal Mews, where the giant rocs of legend are flown to hunt manticores by their brave and dedicated rukhers. Paired with a fledgling roc named Zahra, Ester finds purpose and acclaim by devoting herself to a calling that demands absolute sacrifice and a creature that will never return her love. The terrifying partnership between woman and roc leads Ester not only on the empire’s most dangerous manticore hunt, but on a journey of perseverance and acceptance. Untethered Sky is an epic fantasy fable in the guise of a nature memoir and a heartfelt monster story about finding’s one purpose and the pursuit of obsession at all costs. Untethered Sky is scheduled for release in Winter 2023! [Preorder Spear and get a free enamel pin!] Preorder Spear and get a free enamel pin! Upload your preorder receipt [here]( to receive a free enamel pin! But better do it soon — this offer will end on April 18! [The Best of Tor.com 2021 Anthology is Out Now!] The Best of Tor.com 2021 Anthology is Out Now! This [anthology]( features twenty-four of our favorite original stories published on the site in the past year. Of course, you can always read these—and all other—Tor.com stories for free whenever you’d like, but starting today they will be available world-wide as a single, easy-to-read, FREE ebook, available from all your favorite vendors. These stories were acquired and edited for Tor.com by Ruoxi Chen, Ellen Datlow, Carl Engle-Laird, Emily Goldman, Jonathan Strahan, Lee Harris, Ann VanderMeer, and Lindsey Hall. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration. [In case you missed it…check out Andrea Hairston’s IG Live event with Sistah Scifi!] In case you missed it…check out Andrea Hairston’s IG Live event with Sistah Scifi! To celebrate the release of Redwood and Wildfire, Andrea Hairston went live on Instagram with Sista Scifi and Tananarive Due on Feb. 3! Don’t worry about missing out on it, we have the link to the live right [here](. Cover Reveals [Cover Reveals] We are also excited to reveal the cover for [WILL DO MAGIC FOR SMALL CHANGE by Andrea Hairston]( Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she’s always been theatrically challenged. That won’t necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth. Before her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer—a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. They are a story of magic or alien science, but the connection to Cinnamon's past is unmistakable. When an act of violence wounds her family, Cinnamon and her theater squad determine to solve the mysteries and bring her worlds crashing together. [AFRICA RISEN edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight] We are thrilled to reveal the cover for [AFRICA RISEN, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight]( From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world. Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here. [LUCKY GIRL by M. Rickert] We are so excited to reveal the cover for [LUCKY GIRL by M. Rickert]( Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the bar at the local diner—all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is—she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner. And when that party seems in danger of an early end, she suggests they each tell a ghost story. Something seasonally appropriate. But Ro will come to learn that the horrors hidden in a Christmas tale—or one’s past—can never be tamed once unleashed. Follow Tor.com Publishing [f]( [t]( [g]( [t]( This email was sent by: Macmillan 120 Broadway New York, NY, 10271, US We respect your right to privacy - [view our policy]( Macmillan believes piracy hurts writers, readers and everyone who loves books. Learn more and report suspicious activity [here.]( To subscribe to this or other email communications from Macmillan, please click [here](. Visit our [profile center]( to update your email address and/or other information. If you no longer wish to receive this email communication, click [here]( to unsubscribe.