Tor Doubles are a series of science fiction books published by Tor Books between 1988 and 1991, mostly in tête-bêche format. The series was inspired by the Ace Doubles, published between 1952 and 1973.

Titles in the series

This list is complete and includes ISBN numbers for the United States.

#First bookSecond bookPublication dateISBN
1 Arthur C. Clarke
A Meeting with Medusa
Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars
October 1988 0-8125-3362-3
2 Greg Bear
Hardfought
Timothy Zahn
Cascade Point
November 1988 0-8125-5971-1
3 Robert Silverberg
Born With The Dead
Brian W. Aldiss
The Saliva Tree
December 1988 0-8125-5952-5
4 John Varley
Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo
Samuel R. Delany
The Star Pit
January 1989 0-8125-5956-8
5 Poul Anderson
No Truce With Kings
Fritz Leiber
Ship of Shadows
February 1989 0-8125-5958-4
6 Barry B. Longyear
Enemy Mine
John Kessel
Another Orphan
March 1989 0-8125-5963-0
7 Vonda N. McIntyre
Screwtop
James Tiptree, Jr.
The Girl Who Was Plugged In
April 1989 0-8125-4554-0
8 Leigh Brackett
The Nemesis From Terra
Edmond Hamilton
Battle for the Stars
May 1989 0-8125-5960-6
9 Isaac Asimov
The Ugly Little Boy
Theodore Sturgeon
The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff
June 1989 0-8125-5966-5
10 Robert Silverberg
Sailing to Byzantium
Gene Wolfe
Seven American Nights
July 1989 0-8125-5924-X
11 James Tiptree, Jr.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
Joanna Russ
Souls
August 1989 0-8125-5962-2
12 Roger Zelazny
He Who Shapes
Kate Wilhelm
The Infinity Box
September 1989 0-8125-5879-0
13 Kim Stanley Robinson
The Blind Geometer
Ursula K. Le Guin
The New Atlantis
October 1989 0-8125-0010-5
14 Poul Anderson
The Saturn Game
Gregory Benford and Paul A. Carter
Iceborn
November 1989 0-8125-0277-9
15 Jack Vance
The Last Castle
Robert Silverberg
Nightwings
December 1989 0-8125-0194-2
16 James Tiptree, Jr.
The Color of Neanderthal Eyes
Michael Bishop
And Strange At Ecbatan The Trees
January 1990 0-8125-5964-9
17 L. Sprague de Camp
Divide and Rule
Leigh Brackett
The Sword of Rhiannon
February 1990 0-8125-0362-7
18 C.L. Moore
Vintage Season
Robert Silverberg
In Another Country[note 1]
February 1990 0-8125-0193-4
19 Fritz Leiber
Ill Met in Lankhmar
Charles de Lint
The Fair in Emain Macha
March 1990 0-8125-0821-1
20 L. Sprague de Camp
The Wheels of If
Harry Turtledove
The Pugnacious Peacemaker [note 1]
April 1990 0-8125-0202-7
21 Roger Zelazny
Home is the Hangman
Samuel R. Delany
We, In Some Strange Power's Employ,
Move On A Rigorous Line
May 1990 0-8125-0983-8
22 Leigh Brackett
The Jewel of Bas
Karen Haber
Thieves' Carnival [note 1]
June 1990 0-8125-0272-8
23 Norman Spinrad
Riding The Torch
Joan D. Vinge
The Tin Soldier
July 1990 0-8125-0551-4
24 Roger Zelazny
The Graveyard Heart
Walter Jon Williams
Elegy For Angels And Dogs [note 1]
August 1990 0-8125-0275-2
25 John M. Ford
Fugue State
Gene Wolfe
The Death of Doctor Island
September 1990 0-8125-0813-0
26 John Varley
Press Enter■
Robert Silverberg
Hawksbill Station
October 1990 0-8125-5948-7
27 Orson Scott Card
Eye For Eye
Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
The Tunesmith [note 2]
November 1990 0-8125-0854-8
28 Kim Stanley Robinson
A Short Sharp Shock
Jack Vance
The Dragon Masters
December 1990 0-8125-0895-5
29 Ian Watson
Nanoware Time
John Varley
The Persistence of Vision
January 1991 0-8125-5940-1
30 Poul Anderson
The Longest Voyage
Steve Popkes
Slow Lightning
March 1991 0-8125-1170-0
31 Gordon R. Dickson
Naked To The Stars
Gordon R. Dickson
The Alien Way
February 1991 0-8125-0396-1
32 Harlan Ellison
Run For The Stars
Jack Dann and Jack C. Haldeman II
Echoes of Thunder
April 1991 0-8125-1180-8
33 Mike Resnick
Bwana
Mike Resnick
Bully
May 1991 0-8125-1246-4
34 Damon Knight
Rule Golden
Damon Knight
Double Meaning
June 1991 0-8125-1294-4
35 Dean Ing
Silent Thunder
Robert A. Heinlein
Universe
July 1991 0-8125-0265-5
36 Fritz Leiber
Conjure Wife
Fritz Leiber
Our Lady Of Darkness [note 2]
August 1991 0-8125-1296-0

At least one more in the series was prepared but never published: Esther Friesner's Yesterday We Saw Mermaids paired with Lawrence Watt-Evans's The Final Folly of Captain Dancy would have been series number 37.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 This is a sequel to the first book, and is bound together the same way up: i.e. not in tête-bêche format
  2. 1 2 This is not in dos-à-dos format

References

  1. Watt-Evans, Lawrence. "How The Final Folly of Captain Dancy Got Published". Retrieved 19 August 2012.
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