Tor.com Launches

By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 7/29/2008 7:50:00 AM

SF/fantasy publisher Tor Books has a new site. Tor.com, which launched at ComicCon last week, offers original content from SF/fantasy authors—both authors who are published by Tor and ones who are not—and image galleries from science fiction and fantasy artists. It also features blogs from an array of SF luminaries as well as SF/fantasy news and commentary, and registered members can interact on the site.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden, senior editor of Tor Books and Tor.com’s editor-in-chief, said, “Our objective with Tor.com is to bring this vibrant community a science fiction convention that never ends.”

Up on the site now are original short stories from Hugo Award-winning British SF writer Charles Stross and film critic-turned Campbell Award Winner for Best New Writer John Scalzi.

Tor.com is accepting banner ads and offering other promotional opportunities, but it is not selling books on the site.

Tor.com was active before the launch, but in a more corporate capacity, said Shannon Kerr of SSA Public Relations.