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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2017 Tor.com Free Short Fiction Reading Challenge

2017 Tor.com Free Short Fiction Reading Challenge

Back for another go 'round is the Tor.com Free Short Fiction Reading Challenge! We had a lot of takers last year and Tor keeps putting out great FREE short fiction so there are lots more to read.

This challenge is for individual short stories and novellas put out by Tor.com. We have over 450 of them listed on the site so far and you'll find links over to Tor in the story descriptions so you can read them for free on their site. How cool is that?

And since its Tor, you know the authors are top notch household names... well, in more geeky households anyway. Authors like Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Kushner, Michael Swanwick, Seanan McGuire, Harry Turtledove, Kameron Hurley, Eileen Gunn, and Charles Stross to name just a few. These are a mix of original fiction and reprints in a multitude of sub-genres so there is plenty for everyone to love.

So the rules are simple: pick any shorts you like from Tor.com for your list. They don't have to be the freebies either -- Tor won't mind a bit if you buy some of their non-free novellas -- but they do have to be from Tor. As usual we encourage you to take a flyer on some new authors and of course we hope you'll try to split your reads between male and female authors. The reviews are just suggestions in this case but we do want to know about what you're reading so drop by the forum to let us know how you're doing. Don't let the reading level numbers scare you off -- these are shorts after all.

Note: WWEnd is still not affiliated with Tor.com. We just like their fiction.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2017 – December 2017

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Conjurer = 24 books + 6 reviews
 Magician = 48 books + 12 reviews
 Sorcerer = 72 books + 18 reviews
 Wizard = 96 books + 24 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.

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Ann Walker

Ann Walker

The Awakening of Insects
Beauty Belongs to the Flowers
Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light
Bourbon, Sugar, Grace
Bugs in the Arroyo
A Burden Shared
Caligo Lane
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles
Catch 'Em in the Act
The City Born Great
Come See the Living Dryad
Dragons of Tomorrow
Ecdysis
Everything that Isn't Winter
Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams
Fields of Gold
The Film-makers of Mars
First Flight
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
The Greenest Gecko
Listen
The Litany of Earth
The Loud Table
Mental Diplopia
Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story
Nevertheless, She Persisted
Oral Argument
Ponies
Ratspeak
Red
Reverse Documentary
The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom
Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color
Sing
Small Wars
Some Gods of El Paso
The Story of Kao Yu
The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday
Sweetlings
Tear Tracks
That Game We Played During the War
The Three Lives of Sonata James
Typecasting
The Walking-Stick Forest
The Weather
When Stars Are Scattered
Your Orisons May Be Recorded
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After the Coup
Bogieman
Bugs in the Arroyo
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles
Catch 'Em in the Act
Chains
Chapter 15.5: Intersections and Interlopers
Chicken Little
The City Quiet as Death
Clockwork Fairies
The Cockroach Hat
Cold Fires
The Cold Flame
The Courtship of the Queen
Divided by Infinity
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Down on the Farm
Eros, Philia, Agape
Errata
Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction
Every Heart a Doorway
Farewell Performance
The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model
The Film-makers of Mars
The Final Now
First Flight
Firstborn
Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure
The Ghost of Leadville
The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder
The Go-Slow
The Green Bird
The Horrid Glory of Its Wings
The House That George Built
Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory
Last Son of Tomorrow
The Lunatics
A Memory of Wind
The Monster's Million Faces
The Monsters of Heaven
The Next Invasion
The Nostalgist
Playing Nice With God's Bowling Ball
The President's Brain Is Missing
The Ruined Queen of Harvest World
Shade
Silver Linings
Small Offerings
The Speed of Time
The Star and the Rockets
The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday
The Terrible Old Man
TVA Baby
Vilcabamba
The Walk
A Water Matter
We Haven't Got There Yet
A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon
What Doctor Gottlieb Saw
Wikihistory
Zeppelin City
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BeckyLeJ

The Art of Space Travel
The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage
The Best We Can
Breaking Water
Caligo Lane
The Caretakers
The City Born Great
Clover
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
The Destroyer
Everything that Isn't Winter
Fabulous Beasts
Fiber
Finnegan's Field
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Foundation
The Great Detective
Her Scales Shine Like Music
The High Lonesome Frontier
A Human Stain
The Jack of Coins
La beauté sans vertu
Lullaby for a Lost World
The Maiden Thief
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Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story
Nevertheless, She Persisted
Red as Blood and White as Bone
Scarecrow
Terminal
That Game We Played During the War
These Deathless Bones
Those Who Watch
The Three Lives of Sonata James
Traumphysik
The Weather
The Weight of Memories
Weight of the Dead
Your Orisons May Be Recorded
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The City Born Great
The Thing About Growing up in Jokertown
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Binti: Home
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The Awakening of Insects
Clover
Cold War
The Colonel
Combustion Hour
The Dogs of Athens
Dragonkin
Dragons of Tomorrow
Dune: Red Plague
Extracurricular Activities
Fireworks in the Rain
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
La beauté sans vertu
meat+drink
A Pest Most Fiendish
The Running of the Bulls
The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom
Seven Birthdays
Tear Tracks
Terminal
That Game We Played During the War
Those Who Watch
Totem Poles
The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island
GiantPanda

GiantPanda

Acadie
Angel of the Blockade
The Atonement Tango
The Awakening of Insects
Bourbon, Sugar, Grace
A Burden Shared
Come See the Living Dryad
Crispin's Model
Dark Warm Heart
Ecdysis
Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)
Extracurricular Activities
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams
The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter
The Ghost Line
The Greenest Gecko
Hexagrammaton
A Human Stain
The Lamentation of Their Women
The Last Novelist:  (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)
The Library of Lost Things
Losing Heart Among the Tall
Mandelbrot the Magnificent
Mapping the Interior
The Martian in the Wood
The Martian Obelisk
Mental Diplopia
Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
Nevertheless, She Persisted
The Old Dispensation
Party Discipline
Proof of Concept
Red
Sanctuary
The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom
Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color
Sweetlings
The Tablet of Scaptur
These Deathless Bones
This World Is Full of Monsters
Uncanny Valley
The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island
Waiting on a Bright Moon
When Stars Are Scattered
When the Devil Drives
The White-Throated Transmigrant
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Acadie
Agents of Dreamland
All Systems Red
Binti
Binti: Home
Brother's Ruin
A Burden Shared
The Butcher of Anderson Station
The Cavern of the Screaming Eye
The City Born Great
Cold-Forged Flame
The Delirium Brief
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Drive
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
Every Heart a Doorway
Firstborn
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
The Fortress at the End of Time
From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review
The Ghost Line
Gluttony Bay: A Sin du Jour Affair
Greedy Pigs
Idle Ingredients
Killing Gravity
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
The Library of Lost Things
Lightning in the Blood
A Long Day in Lychford
The Lost Child of Lychford
The Martian Obelisk
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
Omnilingual
Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies
Passing Strange
Prompt. Professional. Pop!
Proof of Concept
A Red Peace
River of Teeth
The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom
Shadow Sun Seven
Some Desperado
Standard Hollywood Depravity
Strongest Conjuration
A Taste of Honey
Taste of Marrow
Weaver's Lament
Women of Harry Potter
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The Atonement Tango
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams
A Human Stain
Red
The Story of Kao Yu
The Thing About Growing up in Jokertown
The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island
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The City Quiet as Death
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
Her Scales Shine Like Music
Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land
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The Art of Space Travel
The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage
The Ballad of Black Tom
Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light
A Burden Shared
The City Born Great
Dragons of Tomorrow
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
Every Heart a Doorway
Everything that Isn't Winter
First Kill
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Loud Table
The Martian Obelisk
A Pest Most Fiendish
Reverse Documentary
Seven Birthdays
The Story of Kao Yu
A Taste of Honey
That Game We Played During the War
The Thing About Growing up in Jokertown
This World Is Full of Monsters
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mjmahoney

After the Coup
Caligo Lane
The City Born Great
Fiber
The Library of Lost Things
Midway Relics and Dying Breeds
A Pest Most Fiendish
Playing Nice With God's Bowling Ball
The President's Brain Is Missing
Reverse Documentary
This Chance Planet
Waiting on a Bright Moon
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MogulOne

The Absconded Ambassador
Agents of Dreamland
All Systems Red
Arabella of Mars
The Ballad of Black Tom
Binti
Brother's Ruin
Buffalo Soldier
The Burning Light
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
Eastern Standard Tribe
The Five Daughters of the Moon
Forest of Memory
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
Mapping the Interior
Nightshades
Proof of Concept
River of Teeth
The Shootout Solution
Standard Hollywood Depravity
Taste of Marrow
The Warren
Weaver's Lament
piibald

piibald

Among the Thorns
The Angelus Guns
The Art of Space Travel
The Battle of the Round
A Burden Shared
The Devil You Know
Dog
Doppel
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Forest of Memory
Greedy Pigs
Idle Ingredients
The Last Witness
Listen
The Martian Obelisk
meat+drink
The Old Dispensation
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
Red
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The Story of Kao Yu
That Game We Played During the War
Writing Women Characters Into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas
Rhondak101

Rhondak101

And the Burned Moths Remain
Come See the Living Dryad
Daughter of Necessity
The Death of Me
The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure
The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor
The Great Detective
Listen
A Long Spoon
Lullaby for a Lost World
Mad Maudlin
The Mothers of Voorhisville
Rag and Bone
Red as Blood and White as Bone
Seven Birthdays
Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land
Shall We Gather
Sing
Sleep Walking Now and Then
The Two Weddings of Bronwyn Hyatt
Variations on an Apple
Where the Trains Turn
robyn

robyn

The City Born Great
Extracurricular Activities
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
The Great Detective
A Human Stain
Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story
Red as Blood and White as Bone
Seven Birthdays
The Thing About Growing up in Jokertown
The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island
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teenidle

And the Burned Moths Remain
At the End of Babel
Beauty Belongs to the Flowers
Brimstone and Marmalade
Bugs in the Arroyo
A Burden Shared
The Cage
Caligo Lane
The Caretakers
Cold Fires
Come See the Living Dryad
Contains Multitudes
A Cup of Salt Tears
Dark Warm Heart
Ecdysis
Elephants and Corpses
Eros, Philia, Agape
Errata
Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction
Every Heart a Doorway
Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams
Farewell Performance
Fields of Gold
The Final Now
Firstborn
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure
Freeze Warning
Grace Immaculate
Headache
Heads Will Roll
Hexagrammaton
A Human Stain
The Insects of Love
The Language of Knives
Listen
Little Knife
The Loud Table
Mad Maudlin
The Martian Obelisk
A Memory of Wind
Men Who Wish to Drown
Mental Diplopia
The Monster's Million Faces
Nevertheless, She Persisted
The Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter
Porn & Revolution in the Peaceable Kingdom
Portrait of Lisane de Patagnia
Red as Blood and White as Bone
The Rotten Beast
Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color
Sing
Small Offerings
A Tall Tail
The Too-Clever Fox
The Two Weddings of Bronwyn Hyatt
Variations on an Apple
A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel
Waiting on a Bright Moon
What Makes a River
The White-Throated Transmigrant
A Window or a Small Box
The Witch of Duva
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Weesam

Among the Thorns
The Angelus Guns
Business as Usual
The Button Man and the Murder Tree
Cayos in the Stream
Chapter Six
The Christmas Show
The City Born Great
Clover
Cold War
The Colonel
The Color of Paradox
A Cup of Salt Tears
Daughter of Necessity
The Death of Me
The Deepest Rift
The Devil in America
The Dogs of Athens
Doppel
Dragonkin
Dragons of Tomorrow
The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging
Fabulous Beasts
The Fifth Dragon
Fire Above, Fire Below
Fireworks in the Rain
First Kill
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Foundation
Friedrich the Snow Man
From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review
The Ghosts of Christmas
Ginga
The Glass Galago
The Golden Apple of Shangri-La
Homecoming
In the Cave of the Delicate Singers
The Intelligence Director
Jay Lake and the Last Temple of the Monkey King
Jubilee
The Key to the Coward's Spell
Kia and Gio
La beauté sans vertu
The Litany of Earth
A Long Spoon
The Loud Table
Lullaby for a Lost World
Mad Maudlin
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Midway Relics and Dying Breeds
Milagroso
Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch
Nighttime in Caeli-Amur
Old Dead Futures
Our Human
Please Undo This Hurt
Prompt. Professional. Pop!
Ramesses on the Frontier
Ratspeak
Reborn
Rocket Ship to Hell
The Running of the Bulls
The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom
Selfies
Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land
Shall We Gather
A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star
Sleep Walking Now and Then
Some Desperado
Some Gods of El Paso
Something Going Around
Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was
Space Ballet
Strongest Conjuration
Super Bass
The Tallest Doll in New York City
Tear Tracks
Terminal
A Terror
That Game We Played During the War
Totem Poles
Trigger
The Two Weddings of Bronwyn Hyatt
Two's Company
The Ugly Woman of Castello di Putti
Variations on an Apple
A Visit to the House on Terminal Hill
The Walk
The Walking-Stick Forest
Warm Up
The Weight of Memories
When Gods and Vampires Roamed Miami
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Where the Lost Things Are
A Window or a Small Box
The Writ of Years