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Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow
One of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s demise in 1989, Datlow assumed the same role for the online Event Horizon. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to Sci Fiction, the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005.
Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, ten annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-OMNI related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”
The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won five Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] andSeventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014]), seven Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.
Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), and The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (2018),
All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday. We look forward to whatever is next.
For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Ann Monn
For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art “Voice of Shades” © 2010 by Valentina Brostean
For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by John Coulthart
For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Josh Beatman
For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Reiko Murakami
Cover design by Elizabeth Story
For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Nihil
Design by Elizabeth Story
Happy birthday to the fantastic Elizabeth Story
Photo by Jacob Weisman
The aptly named Elizabeth Story, Tachyon’s lead designer, is that rare and wondrous unicorn who combines artistic, technical, and verbal skills.
2018 Holiday Card
She came to Tachyon in 2009 as an editorial intern, having graduated with honors from the Creative Writing department at UC Santa Cruz. Her prior experience included creating motivational posters, newsletters, and comic strips for a children’s tutoring center; editing a campus literary magazine; and assisting in a perfumery.
Once Story dashed off some impromptu promotional materials in Photoshop, it became clear that she was destined to work as Tachyon as an artist instead of an editor. Since that time, Story has designed many of Tachyon’s most creative book covers and interiors, press kits, holiday cards, and catalogs.
2016 Holiday Card
Even after earning her M.F.A., Story still sleeps very little and remains wittier than most people you know. It is said that she locked her first novel, which may or may not have been illustrated, in a drawer because it tried to bite her.
Tachyon wishes the incredible Elizabeth a very happy birthday, and hopes that she doesn’t get cheated of Christmas presents just because she was born on the wrong day.
For more info on HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover design by Elizabeth Story
For more info on THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover and design by Elizabeth Story
For more info on STARLINGS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover design by Elizabeth Story
Get Hugo Award winner Peter Watts’ BEYOND THE RIFT for only $1.99
Peter Watts’ remarkable collection BEYOND THE RIFT is a Kindle Daily Deal for Sunday, December 23.
For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!
- Featuring the 2010 Hugo Award winner “The Island” and the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner “The Things”
- 2017 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Nominee
“A new book from crazy genius Watts is always cause for celebration—and this collection of short stories brings together some of his greatest work”
—io9
Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien.
The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter’s The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms.
Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.
“Canadian author Peter Watts is a biologist by training and a visionary by inclination. His novels are hard-edged yet coolly psychedelic extrapolations of our gene-modded future. Possessing the stern moral acuity of James Tiptree, he also exhibits the intellectual zest of Arthur C. Clarke…. His killer opening sentences (“First Contact was supposed to solve everything”; “Wescott was glad when it finally stopped breathing”) are rabbit holes to strange futures.”
—Paul Di Fillipo, The Barnes & Noble Review
“From the award-winning author of the Rifters trilogy (Starfish; Maelstrom; Behemoth) comes a collection that demonstrates Watts’s skill with short fiction.”
—Library Journal
“[A] sharp and incisive stylist with a rather tragic, if clear-eyed, view of human nature, and the capacity for some remarkable hard-SF inventions.”
—Gary K. Wolfe, Locus
“[T]here can be no denying Watts’s skills as a writer.”
—Publishers Weekly
“”…deep, daring, and deliberately thoughtful. He’s an author who isn’t afraid to stare off into the bleakness of space and ponder our own insignificance, but one who also isn’t afraid to look inward and question the very core of what makes us human…Beyond the Rift is deep, daring, and deliberately thoughtful”
—Beauty in Ruins
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- The Things
- The Island
- The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald
- A Word for Heathens
- Home
- The Eyes of God
- Flesh Made Word
- Nimbus
- Mayfly (with Derryl Murphy)
- Ambassador
- Hillcrest vs. Velikovsky
- Repeating the Past
- A Niche
AFTERWORD
- Outtro: En Route to Dystopia with the Angry Optimis
For more info about BEYOND THE RIFT, visit the Tachyon page
Cover art by Hugh Sicotte
Design by Elizabeth Story
Happy birthday to the multi-talented Rick Klaw
(Tachyon managing editor Jill Roberts has hijacked Tumblr. Control will be restored to the proper parties shortly.)
Photo by Brandy Whitten
Professional freelance editor, reviewer, publicist, marketing guru, geek maven, and optimistic curmudgeon, Richard “Rick” Klaw is the wearer of many hats.
For the past 20 years, Klaw has provided nigh-countless reviews, essays, and fiction for a variety of publications: The Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving Pictures Magazine, San Antonio Current, Geek Dad, San Antonio Business Journal, Conversations With Texas Writers, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, SF Site, Science Fiction Weekly, Nova Express, STEAMPUNK, Electric Velocipede, Cross Plains Universe, Red Range, and The Steampunk Bible. Many of his essays and observations were collected in Geek Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century.
Klaw co-founded the influential Mojo Press, one of the first publishers dedicated to both graphic novels and prose books for the general bookstore market, and co-edited (with Joe R. Lansdale) the groundbreaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form, Weird Business. He also served as the initial fiction editor for RevolutionSF.
Klaw edited all the volumes of the Hap and Leonard crime series by Joe R. Lansdale and co-edited PIRATE UTOPIA by Bruce Sterling for Tachyon. He is the editor of the anthologies THE APES OF WRATH and Rayguns Over Texas.
In addition to other consulting and marketing activities, Klaw currently manages and develops content for the social media presence of Tachyon Publications. Recently a first-time homeowner, Klaw lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, a perpetually confused dog, a pair of adorable, high energy cats, and an impressive collection of books.
Rick can often be found pontificating on Twitter and at his award-winning blog The Geek Curmudgeon.
Tachyon wishes Rick a very happy birthday (and we thank him for allowing us to hijack his regularly scheduled social-media domination).
For info on THE APES OF WRATH, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Alex Solis
Design by Elizabeth Story
For more info on PIRATE UTOPIA, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover and by John Coulthart
For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Elizabeth Story
For more info on HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Elizabeth Story
For more info on THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Elizabeth Story
Happy birthday to the trailblazing Charles de Lint, recipient of the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
Charles de Lint with MaryAnn Harris
Novelist, poet, songwriter, performer, and folklorist Charles de Lint
helped to popularize the urban fantasy genre and is the best-selling
author of more than seventy adult, YA, and children’s books. His
most famous and popular works take place around the mythical, modern
city of Newford including Trader
(1997), Someplace
to be Flying
(1998), Forests Of
The Heart (2000), The
Onion Girl (2001),
MEDICINE ROAD (illustrated by Charles Vess; 2004), Widdershins
(2006), PROMISES TO KEEP (2007), Seven-Wild Sisters
(2014). and The
Wind in his Heart
(2017). Among his
other notable novels are Moonheart
(1984), The Little
Country (1991),
Into the Green
(1993), Memory and
Dream (1994),
and EYES LIKE LEAVES (2009).
de Lint’s numerous
short stories have been collected in several volumes including
Spiritwalk, Dreams Underfoot
(1993), The Ivory
and the Horn (1995),
Moonlight and Vines
(1999), Triskell
Tales (2000),
Woods and Waters Wild (2008),
Muse and Reverie
(2009), THE VERY BEST
OF CHARLES DE LINT (2010), and Newford Stories: Crow Girls
(2015). He’s written
comics for Dark Horse, Marvel, Malibu, and Mojo Press. In 2011, de
Lint issued his first album Old Blue Truck.
He garnered awards
for many of his publications most notably 1988 Casper (later renamed
the Aurora) for Jack the Giant-Killer (1987),
and 2000 World Fantasy Award for Moonlight and
Vines. The first (Under My Skin
[2012]) and third (Out
of this World
[2014]) volumes of the
Wildings won the 2013 and 2017 Aurora Award. In 2018, de Lint
was given the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
de Lint currently
writes a book review column for Fantasy & Science Fiction
and has served as a judge for the Nebula, the World Fantasy, Theodore
Sturgeon, and the Bram Stoker Awards.
All of us at Tachyon
wish the extraordinary Charles a happy birthday. May your music
forever fill the streets of Newford.
For more information about THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Charles Vess
For more information about PROMISES TO KEEP, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art by Mike Dringenberg
Design by Elizabeth Story
For more information about MEDICINE ROAD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Charles Vess
For more information about EYES LIKE LEAVES, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art by Lauren Kelly Small
Design by Elizabeth Story
Happy Holidays to all
Good tidings from the Tachyon gang (Jacob, Jill, Jim, Elizabeth, Jaymee, Rina, and Rick)
Image by Elizabeth Story (of course!)
Merry Bookmas! We’ve put up our tree, with books we published this year, complete with a Starlings on top!
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Happy birthday to the sensational Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson presenting a Hugo Award at Worldcon 2017 in Helsinki (Photo: Sanna Pudas)
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the acclaimed Nalo Hopkinson spent her
childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto
when she was sixteen. Her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy,
noted for diverse characters and the mixture of folklore, include the
novels Brown Girl in the Ring
(1998), Midnight
Robber (2000),
The Salt Roads (2003),
The New Moon’s Arms (2007),
The Chaos (2012),
and Sister Mine (2013).
Hopkinson’s shorter workers has been collected in Skin Folk
(2001), Report from
Planet Midnight (2012)
and FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS (2015).
As an editor,
Hopkinson has worked on many publications including Whispers from
the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
(2000), Mojo:
Conjure Stories (2003),
So Long Been Dreaming (with Uppinder Mehan; 2004), Tesseracts
9 (with Geoff Ryman; 2005), , People of Colo(U)R
Destroy Science Fiction! (with Kristine Ong Muslim; 2016), and
Particulates (2018).
Beginning with her
first novel Brown Girl in the Ring
winning the Warner Aspect First Novel contest, Hopkinson has garnered
numerous awards. Brown Girl also won a 1999 Locus Award and
that same year, the author herself won the John W. Campbell Award for
Best New Writer. Her second novel Midnight Robber was a 2000
New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Skin Folk won
the 2003 World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards as well as 2004 Gaylactic
Spectrum Award (for GLBTQ themes in science fiction and fantasy). The
New Moon’s Arms received the 2008 Sunburst and Prix Aurora
Awards. Hopkinson’s superior editing skills were acknowledged with
the 2006 Prix Aurora Award for Tesseracts 9 and a British
Fantasy Award for People of Colo(U)R Destroy Science
Fiction!
The
movie Brown Girl Begins, directed and written by
Sharon Lewis, serves a prequel to Brown Girl in the
Ring. The acclaimed film garnered several awards including
IndieFEST Film Award and Houston Black Film Festival Prize.
Hopkinson currently
teaches in the Creative Writing department at the University of
California, Riverside. In 2016, she received an Honorary Doctor of
Letters from Anglia Ruskin University.
All of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Nalo Hopkinson a happy birthday. May those incredible and insightful folktales keep flowing!
For more information on FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art by Chuma Hill
Design by Elizabeth Story