Tor books has just launched a new web site at tor.com, and it has immediately become one of the best destination sites for science fiction and fantasy on the web. Gallo has been the art director at Tor since 1992. The superb choices of illustrators, and the art direction that aligns them in in fine tuned harmony with the stories they are illustrating, is the work of Tor’s insightful art director, Irene Gallo (see my previous post on Irene Gallo and her blog The Art Department). I’ve noticed in recent years, more and more mainstream illustrators moving into the this field, and more of them turning up each year in the Spectrum collections of contemporary fantastic art.

Tor also publishes some of the very best science fiction and fantasy illustration, which is to say some of the best contemporary illustration, period.

I should probably say outstanding science fiction and fantasy titles Tor has won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher every year for the last 20 years. Tor Books is a publishing house that specializes in science fiction and fantasy titles.