From the author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant comes "Please Undo This Hurt", a Tor.com Original short story from science fiction and fantasy writer Seth Dickinson Ever feel like you care too much? After a breakup, after the funeral...it feels like the way to win at life is to care the least. That's not an option for Dominga, an EMT who cares too much, or her drinking buddy Nico, who just lost his poor cat. Life hurts. They drink. They talk: Nico's tired of hurting people. He wants out. Not suicide, not that - he'd just hurt everyone who loves him. But what if he could erase his whole life? Undo the fact of his birth? Wouldn't Dominga be having a better night, right now, if she didn't have to take care of him? And when Dominga finds a way to do just that, when she is gifted or armed with a terrible cosmic mercy, she still cares enough to say: I am not letting him have this. I am not letting Nico go without a fight. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Winner of the World Fantasy Award Worlds Seen in Passing is an anthology of award-winning, eye-opening, genre-defining science fiction, fantasy, and horror from Tor.com's first ten years, edited by Irene Gallo. "A fresh new story going up at Tor.com is always an Event."—Charlie Jane Anders Since it began in 2008, Tor.com has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. Its hundreds of remarkable stories span from science fiction to fantasy to horror, and everything in between. Now Tor.com is making some of those worlds available for the first time in print. This volume collects some of the best short stories Tor.com has to offer, with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short stories and novelettes chosen from all ten years of the program. TABLE OF CONTENTS: “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders “Damage” by David D. Levine “The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn “The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin “A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel” by Yoon Ha Lee “Waiting on a Bright Moon” by JY Yang “Elephants and Corpses” by Kameron Hurley “About Fairies” by Pat Murphy “The Hanging Game” by Helen Marshall “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu “A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys “Brimstone and Marmalade” by Aaron Corwin “Reborn” by Ken Liu “Please Undo This Hurt” by Seth Dickinson “The Language of Knives” by Haralambi Markov “The Shape of My Name” by Nino Cipri “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal “Last Son of Tomorrow” by Greg van Eekhout “Ponies” by Kij Johnson “La beauté sans vertu” by Genevieve Valentine “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong “A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections” by Tina Connolly “The End of the End of Everything” by Dale Bailey “Breaking Water” by Indrapramit Das “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” by Laurie Penny “The Tallest Doll in New York City” by Maria Dahvana Headley “The Cage” by A.M. Dellamonica “In the Sight of Akresa” by Ray Wood “Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar “The Witch of Duva” by Leigh Bardugo “Daughter of Necessity” by Marie Brennan “Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes “These Deathless Bones” by Cassandra Khaw “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch” by Kelly Barnhill “This World Is Full of Monsters” by Jeff VanderMeer “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson “A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star” by Kathleen Ann Goonan At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Seth Dickinson's epic fantasy series which began with the “literally breathtaking” (NPR) The Traitor Baru Cormorant, returns with the third book, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is among them. But the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent. If it escapes quarantine, the ancient hemorrhagic plague called the Kettling will kill hundreds of millions...not just in Falcrest, but all across the world. History will end in a black bloodstain. Is that justice? Is this really what Tain Hu hoped for when she sacrificed herself? Baru's enemies close in from all sides. Baru's own mind teeters on the edge of madness or shattering revelation. Now she must choose between genocidal revenge and a far more difficult path—a conspiracy of judges, kings, spies and immortals, puppeteering the world's riches and two great wars in a gambit for the ultimate prize. If Baru had absolute power over the Imperial Republic, she could force Falcrest to abandon its colonies and make right its crimes. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

HOLLY JACK TRILOGY (Book Two of Three) The year is 2042 and the technological, political, and economic changes have swept across the entire planet. Significant land mass disruptions have forced larger cities to relocate, making societies adapt. An uprising of the people across the world, changed all of the corrupt systems, almost overnight. Holly Jack, now a leader of the Southern League, was asked to investigate the brutal murder of a friend, which led her down a network more sinister than she’d ever encountered before. Every deceptive layer that’s peeled away threatens the security of the people across the planet. As Holly works against time, can she uncover the truth before humanity regresses once again? Click here to see the trailer at HollyJack.com - https://hollyjack.com/trailers/trailerrotgp/

A breathtaking geopolitical epic fantasy, The Monster Baru Cormorant is the sequel to Seth Dickinson's "fascinating tale" (The Washington Post), The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Her world was shattered by the Empire of Masks. For the power to shatter the Masquerade, She betrayed everyone she loved. The traitor Baru Cormorant is now the cryptarch Agonist—a secret lord of the empire she's vowed to destroy. Hunted by a mutinous admiral, haunted by the wound which has split her mind in two, Baru leads her dearest foes on an expedition for the secret of immortality. It's her chance to trigger a war that will consume the Masquerade. But Baru's heart is broken, and she fears she can no longer tell justice from revenge...or her own desires from the will of the man who remade her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Top Ten Finisher in the 2014 P & E Readers Poll (2nd Place: anthologies category). Everyone dreams but not everyone remembers them... Sometimes that's a very good thing. This collection of dark stories explores dreams, their impact, their meaning, their results... Read and enjoy ... gentle warning, watch your own dreams from now on...

This updated second edition of Working with Loss and Grief provides a model for practitioners working with those who are grieving a significant life loss. Making clear connections between theory and practice, the ′Range of Response to Loss′ model provides a theoretical ′compass′ for recognising the wide variability in reaction to loss and the ′Adult Attitude to Grief′ scale is a tool for ′mapping′ individual grief and its change over time, providing an individual grief profile. Together these offer a framework for practitioners to: -listen to stories of grief told by clients -identify common patterns in grief -recognize individual difference in grief response -make assessments -prompt therapeutic dialogue -guide therapeutic focus and -evaluate outcomes. This edition includes: a new chapter on ′The RRL Model and a Pluralistic Approach to Counselling′ ; two new case studies; additional content on vulnerability; new grief assessment tools and systems, and the latest research. Dr Linda Machin is Honorary Research Fellow at Keele University, having been a Lecturer in Social Work and Counselling at Keele. She established a counselling service for the bereaved in North Staffordshire and continues to work as a researcher and freelance trainer.