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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2025 Tor.com Free Short Fiction Reading Challenge

2025 Tor.com Free Short Fiction Reading Challenge

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. No reviews required 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.

Tor.com short Stories

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2025 – December 2025

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

 Conjurer = 12 books + 0 reviews
 Magician = 24 books + 0 reviews
 Sorcerer = 36 books + 0 reviews
 Wizard = 48 books + 0 reviews

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Abalone

Abalone

Everything's Fine
Solution
Wolf Moon, Antler Moon
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3
2
1
Administrator

Administrator

12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Ambrose

Ambrose

The Last Truth
11
10
9
8
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6
5
4
3
2
1
Astra Lorca Randall

Astra Lorca Randall

12
11
10
9
8
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6
5
4
3
2
1
Badseedgirl

Badseedgirl

48
47
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1
ElizabethR

ElizabethR

The Chronologist
D.I.Y.
Everybody Is in the Place
In Mercy, Rain
The Last Truth
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera
The Passing of the Dragon
The Puppetmaster
Salt Water
Skeleton Song
The Station of the Twelfth
Sword & Spore
Hneite

Hneite

48
47
46
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32
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1
Laffer

Laffer

An Easy Job
Between Home and a House on Fire
Evan: A Remainder
I'll Miss Myself
Median
Nine Billion Turing Tests
Not the Most Romantic Thing
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
Sinew and Steel and What They Told
Songs of the Snow Whale
Time: Marked and Mended
You Don't Belong Where You Don't Belong
Weesam

Weesam

After the Animal Flesh Beings
An Explorer’s Cartography of Already Settled Lands
Benjamin 2073
Breathing Constellations
Bright Hearts
The Canadian Miracle
The Case of the Somewhat Mythic Sword
Ceffo
The Counterworld
Counting Casualties
Day of the Kraken
Dragons of Paris
Even If Such Ways Are Bad
Exile's End
The Fire Gown
Form 8774-D
Halcyon Afternoon
Hearts in the Hard Ground
The House of Dreams
I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe
The Job at the End of the World
Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal
Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law
Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript
Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre
Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels
Liminal Spaces
Little Free Library
The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery
Manuscript Tradition
The Mongolian Wizard
Murder in the Spook House
The Necessary Arthur
The New Prometheus
The Night of the Salamander
On the Fox Roads
Other Kelly
Parthenogenesis
The Phantom in the Maze
Pretty Good Neighbor
The Pyramid of Krakow
Seven Vampires: A Judge Dee Mystery
Sun River
The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener
The Three O'Clock Dragon
Vigilant
Wait for Night
We're Here, We're Here
whargoul

whargoul

12
11
10
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7
6
5
4
3
2
1