In the spirit of the magical research conducted by the main cast of Olivie Blake’s Atlas Series, we’ve conducted a little research of our own! Over the years, we’ve assembled a number of quizzes to deduce where YOU stand in the Atlas universe. With only a few clicks, we can identify who your ally is, who your enemy is, and who you are of titular six we first met in The Atlas Six.
Now the trilogy is complete, so complete these quizzes! Tell us who you are!
As the finals hours of 2023 trickle away, we find ourselves fondly remembering the moments we’ve shared. The books we’ve read. The features we’ve published. Take a stroll down recent memory lane with us through some of this year’s highlights!
We opened the year with lots of articles about what new books we were going to see in it, but we also put together this helpful list! If you’re like us, you’re reading goals are ambitious, and your TBR is atrocious. This list is still good for addressing both of those adjectives.
Sometimes our authors visit us at the office and we get to ask them so many questions about writing, their stories, and honestly just whatever’s at the top of our brain’s during the lightning round of Q&A.
We’re big fans of tropes here at Tor. If tropes were a materials from which a house is constructed, they’d probably be like the skeleton frame that keeps the whole house together. But don’t just take your perhaps ill-conceived similes from us! Check out these authors for the good descriptive language stuff!
For half a decade now, we’ve celebrated Dragon Week, a week full of dragon-related lists, playlists, author features, quizzes, and assembled miscellany. THIS year we took to the skies and then broke orbit into space for Dragon Week 5eva: Aliens Vs. Dragons!
This feature is so good that instead of coming up with something new to say, we’ll just excerpt the intro:
Sometimes you want something a little different for a beach read. If that’s you, may we recommend focusing less on the body of water nearby and more on what’s under your toes? Yes, we’re talking sand. Sometimes at the beach you don’t necessarily want a book about people swimming or going on vacation or eating lobster. Sometimes you just want a good SFF with quality SAND.
We just like sand. It’s summer and we write about what we want.
Let’s dive in the deep end of the literary sandbox.
John Scalzi’s Starter Villain is a delightful read with a delightful cover featuring a cat in a suit. Not to be outdone, the real feline colleagues of Tor coworkers took a glamor photoshoot with the book.
V.E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, opens another door to a new fantasy series set in the dazzling world of Shades of Magic.
Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and new in The Fragile Threads of Power.
Starling House is a gripping and gothic new tale from New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can’t stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.
Praise for Starling House
“Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent.” —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
“Gorgeous, poignant, and honest—an unforgettable read.” —Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter
“A smart, spectacular contemporary Gothic that will leave its roots in you and linger in your dreams.” —Kat Howard, Alex Award–winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians
Set in the world of New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree’s Bookshops & Bonedust takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.
Viv’s career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned.
Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it.
What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?
Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn’t possibly imagine.
Still, adventure isn’t all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.
The much-anticipated final installment in Olivie Blake’s trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling phenomenon, The Atlas Six.
Praise for The Atlas Trilogy
“Lethally smart…The Atlas Six will grip you by the throat and refuse to let go.” —Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
“Six of the most devious, talented, and flawed characters to ever find themselves in a magical library…wholly a delight.” —Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Book of Night
“Compelling, entertaining, and addictive.” —T. L. Huchu, author of The Library of the Dead
opens in a new windowOnce upon a time—in the quaint, idyllic summer of 2016—I released a book called opens in a new windowWolfsong. I hoped people would like it as it was a little…different than what I’d written before. I wasn’t necessarily thinking about how this would turn into a four-book series, although that was at the back of my mind.
I didn’t expect the reaction it received, or for the subsequent books. A fierce and protective fandom sprouted up around these characters, and I was delighted by it. People took to Ox and Joe and Carter and Kelly like they were real, and it blew my mind. Granted, that meant every word or turn of phrase was dissected within an inch of its life, but hey, I’m good with that.
Music has always been a major part of what I do. I think, one day, I might even have a musical in me, though that’s probably far away. (Can you imagine?!) I made a playlist for Wolfsong back when it was released, but that was on my old Blogger site (how young I was! How starry-eyed!) that is now defunct. Over the years, I’ve been asked over and over again to put the playlist together once more.
But we’re running out of time Oh, all the echoes in my mind cry There’s blood on your lies The sky’s open wide There is nowhere for you to hide The hunter’s moon is shining
Oh to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the colored balloons You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain Though you’re thinking that you’re leaving there too soon You’re leaving there too soon
A long December and there’s reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can’t remember the last thing that you said as you were leaving Now the days go by so fast
You swore and said we are not We are not shining stars This I know, I never said we are Though I’ve never been through Hell like that I’ve closed enough windows to know you can never look back
To me it’s so damn easy to see That true people are the people at home. Well, I’ve been away but now I’m back today, And there ain’t a place I’d rather go.
The scars of your love remind me of us They keep me thinking that we almost had it all The scars of your love they leave me breathless I can’t help feeling
Pale Yellow Unrip the flesh and let the damage grow Like a blade in the chest bones Pale Yellow Relieve the weight and give it a last go And make it your best shot
I am an island You are the ocean You’re so close we’re touching, completely surrounded But I cannot have you the way that I want to ‘Cause I am an island you are the ocean No, I cannot have you, I cannot have you without drowning
Five days after black and red collide The motion sickness past, I’ll be the first to stand Behind that weathered door, I thought it would be safest My head is dizzy now, I thought we’d overcome We might not make it home tonight
When all the angel-wizards, elven princes, landed gentry, and other properly noble adventure-ly types have peaced out because the world is dying, who is left to save it? In New York Times bestselling author Kel Kade’s genre-bending opens in a new windowThe Shrouds of Prophecy series, we get the B-team: The assholes, thieves, second-bests, cheaters, and mildly insane, who now shoulder the burden of saving the world.
The God of Death is tired of dealing with the living, so he’s decided everyone should die. And he’s found allies. The Berru, an empire of dark mages, has unleashed a terrifying army of monstrous lyksvight upon everyone with a pulse.
While the wealthy and powerful, the kings and queens, abandon the dying world, one group of misfits says no more. Through dogged determination and the ability to bind souls to their dead bodies, Aaslo and his friends fight on.
In the mountains of the far north, another bastion of defense is opened. Cherrí, the avatar of a vengeful fire god, has united the survivors amongst her people and begun her own war on the invaders.
Now, Aaslo and Cherrí must find a way to unite their powers, one divine, the other profane, to throw back the monsters of the Berru, and challenge Death itself.
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