9/7/2023 0 Comments Tom doherty tor booksIt has won the award as Best Science Fiction Publisher in the annual poll conducted by Locus magazine - a trade publication of the science fiction field - for the last 21 years. He says the latest innovation with the Tor.com web site is a wonderful tool to allow the company to interactively “communicate more broadly with its readers.”ĭoherty founded Tor books in 1980, and it is the most successful of all science-fiction publishers. “Science fiction readers are early adapters,” said Doherty, “It’s a fast changing field.”ĭoherty, 73, has seen a lot of technological change since he got his start in the business as a salesman for Pocket Books in 1957. The fact Tor Books publishes science fiction and fantasy may be a reason the web site has done so well, says the company founder and President Tom Doherty. Once used simply for email, bulletin boards and research, today it is also a major source of entertainment.Ī New York City-based book publisher stepped out recently and created an innovative web site that combines blogs, bookmarks, and the other common personal uses of the internet with original science fiction literature and art, published free on-line as a comprehensive web portal for people interested in the genre. With the internet becoming a bigger part of everyone’s life, its uses have also proliferated. Web site creates portal for science fiction fans It was easy to get reprint rights, since I'm also the managing editor. It was published in the Mount Pleasant, Tx., Daily Tribune today. Here is a copy of the story I wrote about the Tor.com web site after interviewing Tom Doherty Tuesday.
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