Tor Books announces that their long-anticipated new web site will launch on 20 July 2008. The revamped tor.com will have “original fiction from star authors. Galleries of images from the field’s best artists. Topical coverage of major events like San Diego Comic Con and the World Science Fiction Convention. Weblog posts and guest appearances by some of the most interesting personalities and thinkers around. And your own feedback and discussions, plus tools to enable you to track the subjects and conversations you care about the most.”
Prior to that launch, they’re continuing to offer weekly free downloads of a book and two pieces of wallpaper. This week’s book offering is Flash by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., available as a pdf file, an html file, or as a Mobi format download.
The free wallpapers are Chris McGrath’s cover art for Red by Jordan Summers, and John Harris’s cover art for Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi.
As always, last week’s book is still available, but the wallpapers are a “this week only” deal. To sign up to have the download links e-mailed to you, see the new Tor web site (still under construction). And next week’s book is sceduled to be Soul by Tobsha Learner. In the final week of their giveaway program, Tor will make all the books they’ve given away under this program available for one final time.