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July 6, 2023

Naseem Jamnia, Charlie Jane Anders, Marjorie Liu, and Samantha Mills all garner Hugo Award nominations

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Chengdu Worldcon, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention announced the Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. Though no Tachyon titles were nominated Marjorie Liu and Samantha Mills both received nods while Charlie Jane Anders was a finalist for the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and Naseem Jamnia was a finalist for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

Congrats to all the finalists.

Best Novel

Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)

Best Novella

A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Cover for THE BRUISING OF QILWA by Naseem Jamnia — Cover by Elizabeth Story

Best Novelette

“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
“Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld 12/22)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
“The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)
“We Built This City”, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld 6/22)
“The Space-Time Painter”, Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge 4/22)

Best Short Story

“The White Cliff”, Lu Ban (Science Fiction World 5/22)
“On the Razor’s Edge”, Jiang Bo (Science Fiction World 1/22)
“Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
“Resurrection”, Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World 12/22)
“Zhurong on Mars”, Regina Kanyu Wang (Frontiers 9/22)
“D.I.Y.”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)

Best Series

Rivers of London Series, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
The Founders Trilogy, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
October Daye, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
The Locked Tomb Series, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Scholomance Series, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
Children of Time Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams
DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel
Monstress, Volume 7: Devourer
Once & Future, Volume 4: Monarchies in the UK
Saga, Volume 10
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Best Related Work

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow)
Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Volume 1, Yang Feng (Chengdu Times Press)
“The Ghost of Workshops Past”, S.L. Huang (Tor.com 8/17/22)
Buffalito World Outreach Project, Lawrence M. Schoen (Paper Golem)
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir, Wil Wheaton (William Morrow)
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Avatar: The Way of Water
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
Severance, Season One
Turning Red

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Andor: “One Way Out”
Andor: “Rix Road”
The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”
For All Mankind: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: “Whose Show is This?”
Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy”

Best Editor, Short Form

Scott H. Andrews
Neil Clarke
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Sheree Renée Thomas
Xu Wang
Feng Yang

Best Editor, Long Form

Ruoxi Chen
Lindsey Hall
Lee Harris
Sarah Peed
Huan Yan
Haijun Yao

Best Professional Artist

Sija Hong
Kuri Huang
Paul Lewin
Alyssa Winans
Jian Zhang
Enzhe Zhao

Best Semiprozine

Escape Pod
FIYAH
khōréō
PodCastle
Strange Horizons
Uncanny

Best Fanzine

Chinese Academic SF Express
Galactic Journey
Journey Planet
Nerds of a Feather
Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog
Zero Gravity Newspaper

Best Fancast

Coode Street Podcast
Hugo, Girl!
Hugos There
Kalanadi
Octothorpe
Worldbuilding for Masochists

Best Fan Writer

Chris M. Barkley
Bitter Karella
Arthur Liu
RiverFlow
Jason Sanford
Örjan Westin

Best Fan Artist

Iain J. Clark
Richard Man
Laya Rose
Alison Scott
España Sheriff
Orion Smith

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book [Not a Hugo Award]

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry)
In the Serpent’s Wake, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
Akata Woman, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, Catherynne M. Valente (McElderry)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo Award]

Travis Baldree
Naseem Jamnia
Isabel J. Kim*
Maijia Liu
Everina Maxwell*
Weimu Xin*

*Finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility.

July 5, 2023

Happy birthday to the wondrous Nancy Springer

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The award-winning author of more than fifty novels, Nancy Springer’s prodigious output includes Books of Isle, Tales of Rowan Hood, and Sea King fantasy series, and a plethora of magical realism, women’s fiction, contemporary young adult and other titles. She received the James Tiptree Jr. Award for Larque on the Wing (1994), the Edgar Allan Poe Award for her juvenile mysteries Toughing It (1994) and Looking for Jamie Bridger (1995), Carolyn W. Field Award for I am Mordred (1998), and has been a frequent nominee for the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and Mythopoeic awards. Recent works include THE ODDLING PRINCE (2018), her long awaited return to fantasy genre, GrandGhost (2018), a haunted house tale, and the ninth novel in her popular YA series, Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose coming in September.

Cover art by Brian Giberson
Design by Elizabeth Story

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown produced and starred in two well-regarded Enola Holmes movies, the screen adaptation of Springer’s acclaimed mystery series about Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister. The movies also featured the talents of Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Helen Bonham Carter as Mrs. Holmes, and Sam Claflin as Mycroft Holmes.

Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) with older brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill, left) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin) in *Enola Holmes*

Much of her short fiction and poetry have been collected in Chance and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate (1987) and Stardark Songs (1993). Springer edited the anthologies Prom Night (1999) and Ribbiting Tales (2000).

All of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Nancy a happy birthday, full of magic, mystery, and mirth.

June 29, 2023

Happy birthday to Tachyon’s awesome managing editor Jill Roberts

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Neom by Lavie Tidhar — Cover by Elizabeth Story

Since joining Tachyon in 2002 as the managing editor, Jill Roberts has overseen the remaking of the press from one that originally published 2-3 titles a year and only sold to specialty bookstores into its present incarnation of 8-10 books a year and mainstream distribution. Tachyon titles under her watch have won Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, Campbell, Neukom, Sturgeon, and Locus awards and routinely make “best of the year” lists. Among the numerous acclaimed titles Roberts oversaw include HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER by James Tiptree Jr., THE EMPEROR’S SOUL by Brandon Sanderson, WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE by Daryl Gregory, STEAMPUNK edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND by Kage Baker, THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION by Peter Watts, and THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by R. B. Lemberg.

Cover by Elizabeth Story based on initial concepts by Francesca Myman

She is the book editor responsible for many of Tachyon’s Lavie Tidhar books including the award-winning CENTRAL STATION, the return to that universe NEOM, UNHOLY LAND, and THE ESCAPEMENT.

Prior to Tachyon, Roberts worked within the gaming, fashion, and health industries. She has been a columnist for Books to Watch Out For and the Thirteenth Moon, as well as a consulting editor at the nonprofit writing program Streetside Stories.

Everyone at Tachyon wishes the amazing Jill a happy birthday. And not just because we’re scared of her.

June 28, 2023

The incredible Michael Blumlein was born 75 years ago

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Photo by Francesca Myman (*Locus Magazine*)

Formerly a practicing M.D and faculty member at the University of California in San Francisco, the insightful and witty Michael Blumlein’s modest, yet impactful output included The Movement Of Mountains (1987), The Healer (2005), THE ROBERTS (2011), and Longer (2019). His novel X,Y (1993) was the basis for the 2004 movie of the same name.

Many of his short stories and essays have been collected in the Readercon Award winner and World Fantasy Award nominated The Brains of Rats (1990), What the Doctor Ordered (2013), All I Ever Dreamed (2018), and Thoreau’s Microscope (2018). Blumlein also wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed short film Decodings (1988).

June 26, 2023

Happy birthday to the singular and amazing Daryl Gregory

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Author of the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award winning WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE (2014), Daryl Gregory also wrote the Crawford award winning novel Pandemonium (2008), and many other acclaimed works including The Devil’s Alphabet (2009), Raising Stony Mayhall (2011), Afterparty (2014), Harrison Squared (2015; the young adult prequel to WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE), Spoonbenders (2017), Nine Last Days on Planet Earth (2018), The Album of Dr. Moreau (2021), and Revelator (2021).

Gregory has written several comics and graphic novels including Legenderry: Green Hornet, Secret Battles of Genghis Khan, Dracula: Company of Monsters (co-written with Kurt Busiek) , and an acclaimed run on Planet of the Apes. Many of his stories were collected in Unpossible and Other Stories (2011).

All of us at Tachyon wish the magnificent Daryl an extraordinary birthday. Now matter how terrible things are, we hope it all stays fine.

June 24, 2023

Happy birthday to the dynamic Kasey Lansdale

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Master of many skills, Tachyon publicist Kasey Lansdale is an acclaimed singer, actor, author, editor, and publisher.

Following the popular response to her first two records No More Rain and Back of My Smile (both 2007), Lansdale’s first band Kasey Lansdale & The Daletones opened for country music legend, Ray Price, at several of his concerts throughout Texas. Her albums Know Me (2007) and Never Say Never (2010) appeared before she relocated briefly to Nashville from her native Nacodoches, TX. While there, Lansdale recorded her first full-length album Restless (2013) under the stewardship of executive producer John Carter Cash. The single “Sorry Ain’t Enough” (2013) debuted at #4 on the National MPE Downloads Chart. She opened for Wyonna Judd in 2016. A member of the Country Music Association, her music has been featured in the film Cold in July and Hap and Leonard TV series.

Lansdale brought her acting talents to Christmas with the Dead (2012), Hap and Leonard (2017), and Lovers in a Dangerous Time (2021). She lent her voice talents to the animated series The Reflection (2017) and for audio readings of George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards. Lansdale appeared as herself and sang on the Animal Planet show Finding Bigfoot (2016).

Her first short story publication, “The Companion” (1995), co-written when she was eight years old with her brother Keith and her famous father Joe R., was adapted for the Shudder TV series Creepshow. Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts’ Casebook of Horrors (2018) and Dark Kin (2023) collects stories co-written with her father. As an editor, Lansdale helmed Fresh Blood & Old Bones (2012) and Impossible Monsters (2013). Because apparently she doesn’t believe in sleep, Lansdale is also the publisher of Pandi Press. Originally created to publish Joe R.’s work, the press has recently began to publish others beginning with books by Del Howison.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the amazing, dizzifying Kasey a happy birthday. Try and take the day off to enjoy your birthday. You’ve earned it.

June 23, 2023

Join Mia Tsai, author of the much loved BITTER MEDICINE, at Columbus Book Festival

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Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai — Cover art by Jia-Ling Pan
Design by Elizabeth Story

Mia Tsai, whose debut novel BITTER MEDICINE wowed both critics and fans, is attending the Columbus Book Festival, July 15-16 in Columbus, OH.

Stay cool inside Main Library and hear 135 popular authors talk about their work. Check out over 50 panel discussions about your favorite genres and get your books signed.

Shop local by buying featured authors’ new books from the Official Festival Bookstore and get great deals on used books at the Big Book Sale tent.

Head outdoors to Kaufman Plaza and Topiary Park for entertainment, food vendors, dozens of exhibitors and new and used book sales.

Meet and greet over 70 independent authors at Indie Author Alley.

Hosted by the Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation and presented by Battelle, the Columbus Book Festival will be a highlight of the library’s 150th anniversary celebration in 2023.
About the Columbus Book Festival

Mia Tsai author photo — Copyright (c) Rebekah Chavez Wynne

Mia Tsai is participating in the varied and extensive Columbus Book Festival programming.

Saturday July 15

4 PM

Author Speed-Matching
(Main Library, Meeing Room 2B)

Small groups spend 5 minutes with each author to hear all about their book before moving to another author’s table. Find your perfect literary match!
Denny Bryce, Tori Eldridge, Julie Anne Lindsey, Lauren Thoman, Mia Tsai, and Shannon Watters

Sunday July 16

12 PM

WorldBuilding
(Topiary Park Author Stage 2)

Explore the intricacies of playing God in this discussion on the cornerstone of the fantasy genre. From cultures to cartography, plants to politics, fantasy authors dive into how they build their worlds.
Wesley Chu, C.L. Clark, Mia Tsai, Kayla Toon (moderator)

June 23, 2023

Happy birthday to the sensational Eileen Gunn

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Acclaimed author and editor, Eileen Gunn won the 2004 Nebula Award for her short story “Coming to Terms” and was twice nominated for the Hugo Award (“Stable Strategies for Middle Management,” 1989 and “Computer Friendly,” 1990). Her stories were collected in the World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick Award nominated STABLE STRATEGIES AND OTHERS (2004; the Japanese translation was given the 2006 Sense of Gender Award), Steampunk Quartet (2011), Questionable Practices (2014), and Night Shift Plus Ursula and the Author Plus Promised Lands and Much More (2022). Gunn produced a pair of chapbooks (co-written by Michael Swanwick), The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree (2011) and Zeppelin City (2011), and the solo endeavor What Are Friends for? (2021).

From 2001-08, she served as the editor/publisher of the acclaimed webzine The Infinite Matrix. Alongside L. Timmel Duchamp, Gunn co-edited The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative Essays on Feminism, Race, Revolution, and the Future (2008). She also produced The Difference Dictionary, an Organic History Supplement to The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Eileen a happy birthday.

June 21, 2023

THINGS GET UGLY: THE BEST CRIME STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE is one of the best collections of crime fiction ever

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We’re still some two months away from the August publication of THINGS GET UGLY: THE BEST CRIME STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE and the positive reviews have begun to roll in such as these from Andrew Gulli at The Strand Magazine and David Writes and Draws. Paul Finch includes (without comment) the book among Dark treats coming between now and 2024. Lansdale, his ownself, contributed Humour in Fiction to Crime Fiction Lover.

SIGNED copies of THINGS GET UGLY: THE BEST CRIME STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE are available for pre-order from Murder by the Book.

Things Get Ugly, cover by John Coulthart — Design by John Coulthart

As Matt Damon’s character Sonny Vaccaro says in his final climactic pitch to Michael Jordan in AIR, “the rest of us just want a chance to touch that greatness.”

When you read THINGS GET UGLY, you will do just that.
The Strand Magazine

My friends, mark down August 16, 2023, on your calendar, app, post-it note, written it in lipstick on your medicine cabinet mirror, or however you keep track of such things—that’s when THINGS GET UGLY: THE BEST CRIMES STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE releases. You’ll want to take the day off, settle into a comfortable chair (or onto a barstool, you do you) with a tumbler of good scotch within reach, and prepare yourself to get lost in one of the best collections of crime fiction I’ve ever read.
David Writes and Draws

Humor in fiction is not writing a story and having a few jokes inserted, or writing jokes and then writing a story around them.

Fact is, stories that are mostly jokes aren’t stories. The idea of inserting humor into crime fiction, or any kind of fiction, isn’t the idea. The idea of blending humor into it ‘naturally’ is the more workable and satisfying method. It’s a blend, not a fruit salad.
Crime Fiction Lover

June 20, 2023

Josh Rountree’s captivating THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH comes highly recommended

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One month from it July publication, Josh Rountree’s debut novel THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH generates rave reviews from Gary K Wolfe for Locus, The Book on the High Shelf, Book Reviews Forevermore, and Speculiction. At Paper Cuts, C. S. Humble includes the book within 50 Books You Should Read to Become a Better Writer.

THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH is available for pre-order directly from Tachyon and all finer booksellers.

Rountree’s description of the storm is nothing less than harrowing, and the whole affair is framed by chapters narrated by an older Nellie in 1932, as another hurricane approaches. Her voice, which is that of a resourceful and scrappy teenager filtered through the memories of the haunted survivor she has become, lends a surprising resonance to a tale that is more complex than it at first seems.
Locus

In addition to the chapter structure, the stakes and anticipation steadily rise as the little family is pursued by Finn and Jim, and Galveston city is under threat from a storm that only gets worse and worse. Their story is captivating enough, but add in the backdrop of the Great Storm, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, and you’ve got a real nail-biter. While I really appreciate the technical aspects and construction of the story, what I love most of all is how well it reads, how fast I care about the characters, and how the story sweeps me away.

Highly recommended for my fellow Texans, but also for western and literary fantasy fans!
The Book on the High Shelf

The characters really came to life, even the ones we love to hate. I felt like I was watching the scenes in person. The plotting, perhaps, was the least strong aspect, as it was largely predictable until the ending. The emotional content and build was spot-on. There are a couple of fun moments that flavor that tension perfectly.
Book Reviews Forevermore

In the end, The Legend of Charlie Fish is an enjoyable paradox in that it tells a tall tale on top of real-world catastrophe. The effect is to make the catastrophe all the more catastrophic—to give its legend more awe and revere. Rountree’s style is solid, taking readers on a tight, well crafted journey to get to the catastrophe. While I personally wish he had inserted a little more Texas into the proceedings, there are zero problems engaging with what’s on the page for a bit of light, legend making.
Speculiction

The Legend of Charlie Fish – Josh Rountree
How to seamlessly blend a normal genre into the weird.
50 Books You Should Read to Become a Better Writer

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