“It’s better not to sleep at all,” he decided.

Tor also publishes more award-winning and -nominated science fiction books (269 as of April 2012) than any other publisher.He got up and sat on the edge of the bedstead with his back to the window. In March 2014, Worlds Without End listed Tor as the second-most awarded and nominated publisher of science fiction, fantasy and horror books, after Gollancz. Tor won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher in 33 consecutive years from 1988 to 2020 inclusive. The company cited the 'direct and adverse impact' of electronic lending on retail eBook sales but suggested that the change was part of a 'test program' and could be reevaluated.

In July 2018, Macmillan Publishers and Tor prompted a boycott spread across social media websites and library bulletin boards after they announced that Tor's e-books would no longer be made available for libraries to purchase and lend to borrowers, via digital distribution services such as OverDrive, until four months after their initial publication date. Martin's Press Henry Holt and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, it became part of the Holtzbrinck group, now part of Macmillan in the US. Tor is a word from Old English meaning 'the peak of a rocky hill or mountain', as depicted in Tor's logo. They were soon joined by Barbara Doherty and Katherine Pendill, who then composed the original startup team. Tor was founded by Tom Doherty, Harriet McDougal, and Jim Baen in 1980.

It is the publisher of all the novels in the Enderverse, as well as most of Orson Scott Card's other works. Tor Books is a publishing company that primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles.

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