Orb Books is the trade paperback reprint imprint of Tor Books, dedicated to keeping in-print the working backlist of classic and out-of-print science fiction and fantasy that Tor's hardcover and mass-market lines do not actively maintain. Orb reissues major works including Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, classic Frank Herbert, Robert Silverberg, Greg Bear, and many other working backlist titles in handsome trade paperback editions for the modern SF reader.
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