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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | And thus was born a totally free reading challenge! That's right. You can fill all the reading levels with free short stories and novellas direct from Tor.com. This is a great way to find some new authors without having to spend a dime and it's a great challenge for those of us with more limited reading time. The reviews for this one are just suggestions. If you don't want to do them no problem. Do jump in here to let us all know what you're reading. We'll all be looking for recs for this one. Read on! | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | Bump. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 111 Location: Austin, Tx | I'm in and have picked out my first three (of the household name variety, though I'm sure I'll try tons of new authors). This will be a good diversion for when I don't quite feel up to getting into a new book yet (or am waiting for a hold at the library). | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1465 Location: The Netherlands | I am still working on getting all of them added, there are about 400 on the list. If you want me to prioritize something put it in the requests thread and I'll do that one first. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | valashain - 2016-01-09 11:14 AM I am still working on getting all of them added, there are about 400 on the list. If you want me to prioritize something put it in the requests thread and I'll do that one first. You guys are going to town with the new stories! Really appreciate the effort. It's going to make the challenge so much easier and more appealing. I'll be doing cover art the rest of the day when I get home at this pace! | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | Check out all the new short fiction that's been added for Tor.com! We have over 200 now, double what we had when this challenge started, and there are another 200 still to go. Hats off to illegible_scribble, valashain, and Engelbrecht for all their efforts! So many choices... I've got to get finished with this books I'm reading now so I can jump on one of these new stories to get my challenge going. | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 306 | This is a wonderful addition to WWE! Some of the Tor publications are novellas, so great for that challenge too. I wonder how other readers of short stories and novellas are thinking about using these shorter forms in the other challenges-say as examples of new women authors or LGBTQ authors or even the published in 2016 category. I think I'll count the novellas toward the total number of books read as I did last year. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1465 Location: The Netherlands | And we're up to 300. There's about a hundred left to go. Edited by valashain 2016-01-24 5:27 AM | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | valashain - 2016-01-24 5:27 AM And we're up to 300. There's about a hundred left to go. Thanks for the continued effort to get all these shorts in! Dlw28, they are a wonderful resource and I'm really enjoying the stories I've read so far. Just burned through the Sir Toby stories by Michael Swanwick and I loved them. I hope there are more to come or perhaps a full length novel? Does anyone know anything about this series? I liked those stories so much I decided to up my reading level to Magician (48 stories). I'm finding these really handy for all those short periods when I need a quick read but don't have a book on hand. Read the Toby's during my daughter's volleyball tournament in the gaps between games. That they're all free makes me feel like I'm getting away with something. | ||
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Member Posts: 30 | I've read the first two of the Swanwick Sir Toby series and need to catch up on the ones I've missed. I found a comment on his blog to the effect Swanwick wants to publish a full book's worth of short stories, close to 20 or so, so he's a ways off that unfortunately. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | juliael71 - 2016-02-09 9:41 AM I've read the first two of the Swanwick Sir Toby series and need to catch up on the ones I've missed. I found a comment on his blog to the effect Swanwick wants to publish a full book's worth of short stories, close to 20 or so, so he's a ways off that unfortunately. That's great news, thanks! Even if he's off his own pace on writing them knowing that he's going to be writing a bunch more is really good to hear. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1465 Location: The Netherlands | Swanwick produces a lot of short fiction so he might get them sooner than you think. ISFDB lists a couple hundred easily. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1465 Location: The Netherlands | Uh-oh, we've been found out.... http://www.tor.com/2016/02/09/worlds-without-ends-tor-com-short-fic... | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | valashain - 2016-02-09 11:42 AM Uh-oh, we've been found out.... http://www.tor.com/2016/02/09/worlds-without-ends-tor-com-short-fic... They picked up my Tweet! Bad ass. Will it bring in some more readers/members? | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | I'll answer my own question: already had a dozen new member signups. Some of those folks have joined this challenge too. For you new folks welcome to WWEnd and the reading challenge. Let us know if you have any questions about the site or the challenge. | ||
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Member Posts: 30 | As a FYI, Tor.com usually puts up a partial year end collection for download called "Some of the Best of Tor.Com" 2011 onwards. The 2015 one was just posted. If you have a Tor.com account, you can download it on the site or they're at the usual digital places. http://www.tor.com/2016/02/02/some-of-the-best-from-tor-com-2015-is... | ||
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New User Posts: 1 | Just started and wondering where to document my readings and post my reviews? UPDATE: Never mind, I figured it out! Edited by ab2016 2016-02-11 3:53 AM | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | ab2016 - 2016-02-11 3:49 AM Just started and wondering where to document my readings and post my reviews? UPDATE: Never mind, I figured it out! Welcome to WWEnd and the Tor.com reading challenge! Glad you got it figured out but if you run into any trouble just let us know. | ||
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New User Posts: 2 | Hi guys. I heard about this reading challenge through tor.com. I'm entirely new to SF and fairly new to horror, but I read some major fantasy novels. I'd like to discover SF and H and broaden my horizon on F, so this challenge sounded perfect! However, I just spent quite some time trying to add novels to the slots in the reading challenge. Could someone help me with this, I can't seem to find the "add" button. Thanks! | ||
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Member Posts: 30 | If you've joined the challenge, it'll be an option on the individual catalog entries for the stories/novels/etc way at the bottom as ticky boxes. Click on the book you want to add, add it your reading list, and then you can tick off what challenge to add it to. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4005 Location: Dallas, Texas | JasperW - 2016-02-11 1:07 PM Hi guys. I heard about this reading challenge through tor.com. I'm entirely new to SF and fairly new to horror, but I read some major fantasy novels. I'd like to discover SF and H and broaden my horizon on F, so this challenge sounded perfect! However, I just spent quite some time trying to add novels to the slots in the reading challenge. Could someone help me with this, I can't seem to find the "add" button. Thanks! Hey JasperW, welcome to WWEnd and the reading challenge! To add a book to your list all you have to do is:
The book will appear on your challenge list with a faded cover. Once you tag the book as read it will go full color. Give it a go and let me know if you need any more help! Read on! | ||
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New User Posts: 2 | Thanks! I got it! | ||
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New User Posts: 3 Location: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | Worked for me...started with Brandon Sanderson's online lectures, where he recommended Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel on Tor.com, then I found the challenge, and here I am I can't find Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel (http://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/) to add to my read list for the challenge. It's my newest favourite! I also read Breaking Water while I was exploring Tor.com, and I'd love to give it a good rating, but I didn't see the rate window when I was adding it to my reading list (I added some notes, I'll hold back on posting reviews till I see what's expected here). Edited by TotallyTomatoes 2016-02-14 1:33 PM | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1465 Location: The Netherlands | TotallyTomatoes - 2016-02-14 8:06 PM Worked for me...started with Brandon Sanderson's online lectures, where he recommended Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel on Tor.com, then I found the challenge, and here I am I can't find Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel (http://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/) to add to my read list for the challenge. It's my newest favourite! I also read Breaking Water while I was exploring Tor.com, and I'd love to give it a good rating, but I didn't see the rate window when I was adding it to my reading list (I added some notes, I'll hold back on posting reviews till I see what's expected here). There you go: https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=17296 | ||
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New User Posts: 3 Location: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | valashain - 2016-02-14 4:04 PM TotallyTomatoes - 2016-02-14 8:06 PM Worked for me...started with Brandon Sanderson's online lectures, where he recommended Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel on Tor.com, then I found the challenge, and here I am I can't find Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel (http://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/) to add to my read list for the challenge. It's my newest favourite! I also read Breaking Water while I was exploring Tor.com, and I'd love to give it a good rating, but I didn't see the rate window when I was adding it to my reading list (I added some notes, I'll hold back on posting reviews till I see what's expected here). There you go: https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=17296 Thank You!! I added it to my challenge | ||
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