Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015: A Tor.Com Original
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A Civil Campaign
Same literary-SF sensibility as the Tor anthology, with a genuine comedy-of-manners courtship replacing short-story variety; longer arc, guaranteed happy ending.
Home Sweet Home
Shares the anthology's interest in grief and damaged people, but far more conventional small-town contemporary and notably spicier.
Sweet Surprise
A pure light contemporary escape rather than speculative literary work; steamier, lower-stakes, warm small-town comfort instead of strange ideas.
The Fault in Our Stars
Keeps the emotional gut-punch quality of the best Tor shorts, but it's YA contemporary and ends without the tidy resolution.
A Damsel in Distress
For the wit and craft rather than the speculative element: a farcical, chaste period comedy, lighter and sunnier than the anthology's darker pieces.
Legacy (The Sharing Knife #2)
Delivers the same imaginative worldbuilding in longer form, centering a forbidden cross-culture marriage; slower, warmer, more focused on one couple.