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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2018 Tor.com Free Short Fiction Reading Challenge

2018 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 2018 – December 2018

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.

Anika.chronicles

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Badseedgirl

Badseedgirl

The Cage
Clockwork Fairies
Good Night, Moon
Lightbringers and Rainmakers
River of Souls
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daxxh

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The Atonement Tango
Binti: The Night Masquerade
A Burden Shared
Dark Warm Heart
Day of the Kraken
Ecdysis
The Fire Gown
The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter
A Ghost Story
Hold-Time Violations
The House of Dreams
The Human Engineer
A Human Stain
The Last Novelist:  (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)
The Library of Lost Things
The Martian in the Wood
The Martian Obelisk
The Mongolian Wizard
The Old Dispensation
Passing Strange
Sanctuary
Swift, Brutal Retaliation
Uncanny Valley
ZeroS
DeirdriuWRS

DeirdriuWRS

Among the Thorns
The Angelus Guns
The Art of Space Travel
Beauty Belongs to the Flowers
The Best We Can
Bourbon, Sugar, Grace
Burning Girls
Cold Wind
Come See the Living Dryad
A Cup of Salt Tears
Dark Warm Heart
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
The Department of Alterations
The Devil in America
Dragonkin
Ecdysis
The End of the End of Everything
Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)
The Ghoul Goes West
The Hanging Game
Heads Will Roll
Hello, Moto
Her Scales Shine Like Music
The High Lonesome Frontier
A Human Stain
The Ink Readers of Doi Saket
The Insects of Love
La beauté sans vertu
The Library of Lost Things
Listen
Loss of Signal
The Martian in the Wood
The Martian Obelisk
Mental Diplopia
Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story
Old Dead Futures
The Pigeon Summer
Ponies
Red as Blood and White as Bone
Selfies
Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color
A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star
Sing
Sleep Walking Now and Then
A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel
Waters of Versailles
You Know How the Story Goes
Your Orisons May Be Recorded
divinenanny

divinenanny

All Systems Red
Binti
Binti: Home
Binti: The Night Masquerade
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Descent of Monsters
Every Heart a Doorway
The Expert System's Brother
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
The Ink Readers of Doi Saket
Killing Gravity
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
Mandelbrot the Magnificent
The Only Harmless Great Thing
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
The Red Threads of Fortune
River of Teeth
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
The Tallest Doll in New York City
Time Was
Unlocked:  An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
Wakulla Springs
Witches of Lychford
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mjmahoney

mjmahoney

Extracurricular Activities
Lullaby for a Lost World
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Momosnyx

Momosnyx

Ballroom Blitz
Damage
Elephants and Corpses
Fabulous Beasts
Ginga
Hold-Time Violations
The Language of Knives
The Log Goblin
The Museum and the Music Box
Oral Argument
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
Please Undo This Hurt
Schrödinger's Gun
The Shape of My Name
Some Gods of El Paso
The Thyme Fiend
Variations on an Apple
Waters of Versailles
The Ways of Walls and Words
The Year of the Rat
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Myriel

The Atonement Tango
Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story
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tbritz13

Extracurricular Activities
The Martian Obelisk
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About Fairies
Adult Children of Alien Beings
Am I Free to Go?
Ambiguity Machines: An Examination
Among the Thorns
The Art of Space Travel
Ballroom Blitz
Burning Girls
The Cartography of Sudden Death
Clover
Damage
Divided by Infinity
Dormanna
Everything that Isn't Winter
Extracurricular Activities
Fabulous Beasts
The Fifth Dragon
The Finite Canvas
Fireworks in the Rain
First Flight
Ghost Hedgehog
The Ghost of Leadville
The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland — For a Little While
The High Lonesome Frontier
In the Sight of Akresa
Intestate
Into the Gray
A Kiss With Teeth
The Kite Maker
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
The Lamentation of Their Women
Last Son of Tomorrow
The Library of Lost Things
Loss of Signal
Lullaby for a Lost World
The Lunatics
Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair
The Man with the Knives
Meat and Salt and Sparks
Men Who Wish to Drown
Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story
Midway Relics and Dying Breeds
The Mighty Phin
Milagroso
The Mongolian Wizard
The Monsters of Heaven
Morph
The Mothers of Voorhisville
Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch
The Nearest
The Need for Air
Nell
Night's Slow Poison
Noma Girl
The Nostalgist
Once More Into the Abyss
Orphan Pirates of the Spanish Main
Our King and His Court
The Pigeon Summer
Played Your Eyes
Points of Origin
The President's Brain Is Missing
Reborn
Red
Schrödinger's Gun
Seven Birthdays
The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One:  The Dead City: Prologue
A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star
Silver Linings
Sleep Walking Now and Then
Space Ballet
The Speed of Time
Strongest Conjuration
Swift, Brutal Retaliation
The Tallest Doll in New York City
Tear Tracks
These Deathless Bones
The Three Lives of Sonata James
Traumphysik
Triquetra
Two's Company
Uncanny Valley
Under The Spinodal Curve
Waters of Versailles
The Weight of Memories
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Where the Trains Turn
The Writ of Years
Yiwu
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Weesam

Weesam

Among the Silvering Herd
Anyway: Angie
Bitter Grounds
Bourbon, Sugar, Grace
Breaking Water
A Burden Shared
The Cage
Chapter 15.5: Intersections and Interlopers
The City Quiet as Death
The Cockroach Hat
Cold Fires
Come See the Living Dryad
The Courtship of the Queen
Crazy Me
Crispin's Model
Damage
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Dormanna
Dune Time
Eve of Sin City
Everything that Isn't Winter
Extracurricular Activities
Fangs for Hire
Fare Thee Well
Farewell Performance
Fields of Gold
The Final Now
Freedom is Space for the Spirit
A Ghost Story
Good People
The Great Detective
Headache
Hexagrammaton
The House That George Built
A Human Stain
I, Cthulhu
The Lamentation of Their Women
Lawful Interception
Lee at the Alamo
The Library of Lost Things
Listen
Little Knife
Loco
The Lunatics
The Man with the Knives
The Martian in the Wood
The Martian Obelisk
The Monster's Million Faces
The Monsters of Heaven
The Mothers of Voorhisville
New World Blues
The Night Cyclist
Night's Slow Poison
Nine-Tenths of the Law
The Old Dispensation
Olga
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A Pest Most Fiendish
Preparations
Rag and Bone
Ragnarok
River of Souls
Sacrifice of the First Sheason
The Sigma Structure Symphony
Sing
Small Offerings
Small Wars
Specimen 313
The Star and the Rockets
The Story of Kao Yu
The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday
A Stroke of Dumb Luck
Sweetheart
Swingers
The Terrible Old Man
Thanatos Beach
There Will Always Be a Max
These Deathless Bones
Thief of War
The Thing About Growing up in Jokertown
This World Is Full of Monsters
Tom, Thom
The Too-Clever Fox
Tourists
Typecasting
Vilcabamba
The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island
Wave of Infection
What Doctor Gottlieb Saw
The White-Throated Transmigrant
Wikihistory
Wild Things
The Witch of Duva
The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree
Zeppelin City