We're not just selling to a small niche of devoted genre buffs. Pointing to 'a world in which Game of Thrones rules TV,' Pillai emphasizes that 'science fiction and fantasy storytelling has become significantly more mainstream.

Foy explains: 'As science fiction and fantasy sees increased mainstream success and exposure in other media, there are exciting opportunities for continued readership and market share growth.' Nevertheless the market is shifting and offering new challenges and opportunities for Tor Books. Le Guin, Cory Doctorow, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, Harold Robbins, Brandon Sanderson, John Scalzi and V.E. During its revered history spanning 40 years, Tor Books has launched the careers of many science fiction and fantasy greats and has published a range of authors in many categories, including Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. There is a lot of excellent science fiction and fantasy being published right now by a wide variety of publishers, and I believe it is always exciting to have strong competition, which only makes the books better and delivers quality goods to consumers.'įounded in 1979 by Tom Doherty, Tor Books is the country's 'dominant publisher' in science fiction and fantasy, as Foy puts it. In the same vein, Fritz Foy, president and publisher of Tom Doherty Associates, parent company of Tor Books, says, 'Unlike my counterparts in comic books, I tend not to label eras as golden age or silver age. 'We are seeing so many diverse books-from authors of much more diverse backgrounds and also in terms of what's in the books themselves, and of the kinds of challenging ideas writers are taking chances on.' 'We're living at a time when a critical mass of well-established writers are hitting their stride at a phenomenal level of storytelling skill, while at the same time, a large class of scarily talented newcomers is shaking up the field in every imaginable way,' she explains. For Devi Pillai, v-p and publisher of Tor Books, the golden age of science fiction and fantasy is now-not 50 or 70 years ago.

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