SuperCheap Free! Tor.Com, a division of Macmillan, is offering the four awards finalist in their short stories competition free for pre-order. These have been available for several days, but did not have a description. Here are the descriptions and links.
Overtime by Charles Stross: Introduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race. Now, in Overtime, the Laundry is on a skeleton staff for Christmas - leaving one bureaucrat to be all that stands between the world and annihilation by the Thing That Comes Down Chimneys. Written especially for Tor.com's holiday season, Charles Stross's novelette is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award.
Click here to pre-order your free copy of Overtime
First Flight by Mary Robinette Kowal: The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal's Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. First Flight is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award.
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A Memory of Wind by Rachel Swirsky: The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia--and how does a human girl become the wind? The starkness and psychological insight of Rachel Swirsky?s Tor.com story earned it a place among the finalists for the 2010 Nebula Award.
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Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky: Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky's contemporary tale of love in all its forms--and of one robot's quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms--is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award.
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