Tor Double Novels

{{Short description|Science fiction series}} '''Tor Doubles''' are a series of science fiction books published by Tor Books between 1988 and 1991, mostly in tête-bêche format. The series was inspired by the Ace Doubles, published between 1952 and 1973.

== Titles in the series ==

This list is complete and includes ISBN numbers for the United States. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! #!! First book !! Second book !! Publication date !! ISBN |- | 1 | Arthur C. Clarke ''A Meeting with Medusa'' || Kim Stanley Robinson ''Green Mars'' || October 1988 || 0-8125-3362-3 |- | 2 | Greg Bear ''Hardfought'' || Timothy Zahn ''Cascade Point'' || November 1988 || 0-8125-5971-1 |- | 3 | Robert Silverberg ''Born With The Dead'' || Brian W. Aldiss ''The Saliva Tree'' || December 1988 || 0-8125-5952-5 |- | 4 | John Varley ''Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo'' || Samuel R. Delany ''The Star Pit'' || January 1989 || 0-8125-5956-8 |- | 5 | Poul Anderson ''No Truce With Kings'' || Fritz Leiber ''Ship of Shadows'' || February 1989 || 0-8125-5958-4 |- | 6 | Barry B. Longyear ''Enemy Mine'' || John Kessel ''Another Orphan'' || March 1989 || 0-8125-5963-0 |- | 7 | Vonda N. McIntyre ''Screwtop'' || James Tiptree, Jr. ''The Girl Who Was Plugged In'' || April 1989 || 0-8125-4554-0 |- | 8 | Leigh Brackett ''The Nemesis From Terra'' || Edmond Hamilton ''Battle for the Stars'' || May 1989 || 0-8125-5960-6 |- | 9 | Isaac Asimov ''The Ugly Little Boy'' || Theodore Sturgeon ''The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff'' || June 1989 || 0-8125-5966-5 |- | 10 | Robert Silverberg ''Sailing to Byzantium'' || Gene Wolfe ''Seven American Nights'' || July 1989 || 0-8125-5924-X |- | 11 | James Tiptree, Jr. ''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'' || Joanna Russ ''Souls'' || August 1989 || 0-8125-5962-2 |- | 12 | Roger Zelazny ''He Who Shapes'' || Kate Wilhelm ''The Infinity Box'' || September 1989 || 0-8125-5879-0 |- | 13 | Kim Stanley Robinson ''The Blind Geometer'' || Ursula K. Le Guin ''The New Atlantis'' || October 1989 || 0-8125-0010-5 |- | 14 | Poul Anderson ''The Saturn Game'' || Gregory Benford and Paul A. Carter ''Iceborn'' || November 1989 || 0-8125-0277-9 |- | 15 | Jack Vance ''The Last Castle'' || Robert Silverberg ''Nightwings'' || December 1989 || 0-8125-0194-2 |- | 16 | James Tiptree, Jr. ''The Color of Neanderthal Eyes'' || Michael Bishop ''And Strange At Ecbatan The Trees'' || January 1990 || 0-8125-5964-9 |- | 17 | L. Sprague de Camp ''Divide and Rule'' || Leigh Brackett ''The Sword of Rhiannon'' || February 1990 || 0-8125-0362-7 |- | 18 | C.L. Moore ''Vintage Season'' || Robert Silverberg ''In Another Country''<ref group="note" name="sequel">This is a sequel to the first book, and is bound together the same way up: i.e. not in tête-bêche format</ref> || February 1990 || 0-8125-0193-4 |- | 19 | Fritz Leiber ''Ill Met in Lankhmar'' || Charles de Lint ''The Fair in Emain Macha'' || March 1990 || 0-8125-0821-1 |- | 20 | L. Sprague de Camp ''The Wheels of If'' || Harry Turtledove ''The Pugnacious Peacemaker'' <ref group="note" name="sequel"/> || April 1990 || 0-8125-0202-7 |- | 21 | Roger Zelazny ''Home is the Hangman'' || Samuel R. Delany ''We, In Some Strange Power's Employ, Move On A Rigorous Line'' || May 1990 || 0-8125-0983-8 |- | 22 | Leigh Brackett ''The Jewel of Bas'' || Karen Haber ''Thieves' Carnival'' <ref group="note" name="sequel"/> || June 1990 || 0-8125-0272-8 |- | 23 | Norman Spinrad ''Riding The Torch'' || Joan D. Vinge ''The Tin Soldier'' || July 1990 || 0-8125-0551-4 |- | 24 | Roger Zelazny ''The Graveyard Heart'' || Walter Jon Williams ''Elegy For Angels And Dogs'' <ref group="note" name="sequel"/> || August 1990 || 0-8125-0275-2 |- | 25 | John M. Ford ''Fugue State'' || Gene Wolfe ''The Death of Doctor Island'' || September 1990 || 0-8125-0813-0 |- | 26 | John Varley ''Press Enter■'' || Robert Silverberg ''Hawksbill Station'' || October 1990 || 0-8125-5948-7 |- | 27 | Orson Scott Card ''Eye For Eye'' || Lloyd Biggle, Jr. ''The Tunesmith'' <ref group="note" name="not">This is not in tête-bêche format</ref> || November 1990 || 0-8125-0854-8 |- | 28 | Kim Stanley Robinson ''A Short Sharp Shock'' || Jack Vance ''The Dragon Masters'' || December 1990 || 0-8125-0895-5 |- | 29 | Ian Watson ''Nanoware Time'' || John Varley ''The Persistence of Vision'' || January 1991 || 0-8125-5940-1 |- | 30 | Poul Anderson ''The Longest Voyage'' || Steve Popkes ''Slow Lightning'' || March 1991 || 0-8125-1170-0 |- | 31 | Gordon R. Dickson ''Naked To The Stars'' || Gordon R. Dickson ''The Alien Way'' || February 1991 || 0-8125-0396-1 |- | 32 | Harlan Ellison ''Run For The Stars'' || Jack Dann and Jack C. Haldeman II ''Echoes of Thunder'' || April 1991 || 0-8125-1180-8 |- | 33 | Mike Resnick ''Bwana'' || Mike Resnick ''Bully'' || May 1991 || 0-8125-1246-4 |- | 34 | Damon Knight ''Rule Golden'' || Damon Knight ''Double Meaning'' || June 1991 || 0-8125-1294-4 |- | 35 | Dean Ing ''Silent Thunder'' || Robert A. Heinlein ''Universe'' || July 1991 || 0-8125-0265-5 |- | 36 | Fritz Leiber ''Conjure Wife'' || Fritz Leiber ''Our Lady Of Darkness'' <ref group="note" name="not">This is not in tête-bêche format</ref> || August 1991 || 0-8125-1296-0 |}

At least one more in the series was prepared but never published: Esther Friesner's ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids'' paired with Lawrence Watt-Evans's ''The Final Folly of Captain Dancy'' would have been series number 37.<ref>{{cite web|last=Watt-Evans|first=Lawrence|title=How The Final Folly of Captain Dancy Got Published|url=https://www.watt-evans.com/thefinalfollyofcaptaindancy.html#origin|accessdate=19 August 2012}}</ref>

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Category:Science fiction novel series Category:Tor Books books Category:Tête-bêche books