Forge is an imprint of Tor Books, a venerable publisher of fiction and historical novels. Tom Doherty founded Tor Books in 1980 and sold it to St. Martin's Press in 1986, which became part of Macmillan Publishers. Tor and Forge have published books by authors such as Orson Scott Card, Philip K. Dick, Robert Jordan, and Douglas Adams. In summer of 2014, they published 24: Deadline to coincide with the upcoming 24: Live Another Day, followed by two futher novels in 2015 and 2016.