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May 27, 2024

The incomparable grandmaster Harlan Ellison was born 90 years ago

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Harlan Ellison in Boston (Credit: Barbara Alper/Getty Images/New York Times)

Once described by Robert Bloch as “the only living organism I know whose natural habitat is hot water,” the contentious writer/editor Harlan Ellison in a 60 year career produced more than 75 books, over 1,700 stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies. His many influential works included classics as Deathbird Stories, Dangerous Visions, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Strangewine, Angry Candy, Slippage, and SHATTERDAY.

In his extraordinary career, Ellison won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, Stoker, Locus, Audie awards as well as the Silver Pen, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bradbury, and American Mystery awards. He was honored with Stoker and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards and is a SFWA Grandmaster.

May 26, 2024

Happy birthday to the exceptional Caitlín R. Kiernan

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in the southeastern U.S., writer, vertebrate paleontologist, and musician Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of thirteen acclaimed novels including Silk (1998; winner of International Horror Guild Award), Threshold (2001; International Horror Guild), Murder of Angels (2004), The Red Tree (2009), The Drowning Girl (2012; Tiptree and Stoker), the Siobhan Quinn series (all as by Kathleen Tierney; Blood Oranges [2013], Red Delicious [2014], and Cherry Bomb [2015]), Tinfoil Dossier (Agents of Dreamland [2017], Black Helicopters [2018], The Tindalos Asset [2020]), and La Belle Fleur Sauvage: Plague of the Womb (2019).

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Design by Elizabeth Story

Their more than two hundred and fifty short stories have been collected in Candles for Elizabeth (1998), Tales of Pain and Wonder (1999), Wrong Things (2001 with Poppy Z. Brite), To Charles Fort, with Love (2005), A Is for Alien (2009), Two Worlds and In Between (2011), Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart (2012), The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories (2013; winner of the World Fantasy Award), Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea (2015), Dear Sweet Filthy World (2017), The Dinosaur Tourist (2018), Houses Under the Sea (2019), A Little Yellow Book of Fever Dreams (2019), THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN (2019), Comes a Pale Rider (2020), Vile Affections (2021), Bradbury Weather (2023), and several others.

Kiernan has written graphic novels for both DC/Vertigo and Dark Horse Comics including The Dreaming (1996-2001 with various artists), a spin off series from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, and the Stoker Award winning Alabaster: Wolves (2013; with artist Steve Lieber). In November 2005, they began publishing the Sirenia Digest, “a monthly subscription-only e-zine continuing Caitlín’s exploration of the fusion of erotic literature with elements of dark fantasy and science fiction, usually creating brief, dreamlike vignettes, and sometimes much longer short stories.” They fronted Death’s Little Sister, a short-lived goth-rock band.

A vertebrate paleontologist, Kiernan co-founded the Birmingham Paleontological Society (1984). They co-authored papers describing a new genus and species of an ancient marine lizard the mosasaur Selmasaurus russelli (1988) and in 2020, a new large fossil sea turtle, Asmodochelys parhami. In 2019, Kiernan became a research associate and fossil preparator at McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

Kiernan lives in Birmingham, Alabama with their partner, Kathryn Pollnac, and two very large cats, Selwyn and Lydia.

All of us at Tachyon wish the lyrical and memorable Caitlín a happy birthday, full of dark fantasy and dinosaurs.

May 25, 2024

The incomparable W. P. Kinsella was born 89 years ago

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Though now best remembered for his baseball stories, the amazing W. P. Kinsella first established his literary reputation with his humorous and gritty short stories about the Hobbema Reserve in central Alberta. These tales, largely narrated by Silas Ermineskin, usually focused sympathetically on the lives of Indigenous people in their perennial skirmishes with blundering white institutions and bureaucracies. The first of Kinsella’s many short story collections Dance Me Outside (1977) featured the Hobbema tales. His other collection of the Hobbema stories include Scars (1978), Born Indian (1981), Moccasin Telegraph (1983), The Fencepost Chronicles (1986), The Miss Hobbema Pageant (1989), Brother Frank’s Gospel Hour (1994), and The Secret of the Northern Lights (1998).

Kinsella’s first collection of baseball stories Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes To Iowa (1980) presaged his classic magic realism novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which won the Canadian Authors Association Prize, the Alberta Achievement Award, Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. The novel was adapted into the popular movie Field of Dreams (1989) and garnered three Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. He produced four other baseball novels: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986), If Wishes Were Horses (1996), Magic Time (1998), and Butterfly Winter (2011). Kinsella’s baseball stories were also collected in The Thrill of the Grass (1984), The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt (1988), The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories (1993), and Japanese Baseball and Other Stories (2000). He co-wrote the Japanese non-fiction book Ichiro Dreams: Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners (2002). Kinsella edited two baseball anthologies, the non-fiction Diamonds Forever: Reflections from the Field, the Dugout, and the Bleachers (1997) and the fiction Baseball Fantastic (2001).

His other novels and collections include Box Socials (1991), The Winter Helen Dropped By (1994), The Alligator Report (1985), Red Wolf, Red Wolf (1987), and Russian Dolls (2016). Tachyon was honored to produce THE ESSENTIAL W. P. KINSELLA (2015), the last collection to be published during Kinsella’s lifetime.

May 23, 2024

Join the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow for StokerCon 2024

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The acclaimed Ellen Datlow and Tachyon publicist Kasey Lansdale will be attending StokerCon 2024, May 30-June 2 in San Diego, CA. Be sure stop by our table to see our latest books and to visit with Ellen while she signs at the table on Saturday, June 1 at 1PM.

May 19, 2024

Win a copy of THE RUNES OF ENGAGEMENT, the new novel by New York Times bestselling author Tobias S. Buckell and Dave Klecha

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**With the help of the fine folks at The StoryGraph, we’re giving away THE RUNES OF ENGAGEMENT by World Fantasy Award winner Tobias S. Buckell and Dave Klecha**.

Fun, action-packed, occasionally gritty, and full of jokes for geeks and Marines alike.
Jim C. Hines, author of Terminal Alliance

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Design by Elizabeth Story

[STARRED REVIEW] Will be catnip to readers who love this combination of military SF, alternate history, and fantasy.
Library Journal

The Lord of the Rings meets Slaughterhouse-Five by way of World of Warcraft in this delirious mashup pitting the U. S. military against legendary monsters from fantasy novels and roleplaying games. From a science fiction award-winner and an author, former Marine, and extreme amateur-landscaper comes a riotous fantasy/military science fiction adventure that will delight fans of Terry Pratchett, J. R. R. Tolkien, and John Scalzi.

Buckell and Klecha tell their story with so much humour and gusto and so much nerd JOY. It has that Aliens vibe, but with a LOTR twist. The whole idea ‘what happens if marines/soldiers end up fighting fantasy monsters’ is handled so well here. I had a blast reading this book, and would not mind reading a sequel.
Maria Haskins, author of Wolves and Girls

No one could have been prepared for the day when orcs, trolls, and dragons fell from portals in the sky. But now a very tough but not-quite-prepared platoon of Marines is trapped on the wrong side. The enchanting world looks like Middle Earth, but to the dismay of even the geekiest soldiers, is nothing like it.

While the Marines fend off dangerous, improbable, and very rude assailants, their mission is to escort a Very Important Princess who could broker a crucial strategic alliance between worlds. What could possibly go wrong?

May 15, 2024

Booksellers, librarians, bloggers, and reviewers get JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS by the award-winning Nalo Hopkinson

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Review copies of World Fantasy, John W. Campbell, Locus, Sunburst, Prix Aurora, and Gaylactic Spectrum award winner and Damon Knight Grand Master Nalo Hopkinson’s new collection JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

Nalo Hopkinson has had a remarkable impact on popular fiction. Her work continues to question the very genres she adopts, transforming them from within through her fierce intelligence and her commitment to a radical vision that refuses easy consumption.
Globe and Mail

. . . like Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler, [Hopkinson] forces us to consider how inequities of race, gender, class and power might be played out in a dystopian future.
The News Magazine of Black America

JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS

by
Nalo Hopkinson

ISBN: 978-1-61696-426-9 (print); 978-1-61696-427-6 (digital)

Published: October 29. 2024

Available Format(s): trade paperback, ebook

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Falling in Love with Hominids) is an internationally renowned storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes. Hopkinson is at the peak of her powers, moving effortlessly between art, folklore, science, and magic.

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Nalo Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful. In her first stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien lifeform; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome.

May 13, 2024

THIS SUNDAY Meet Samantha Mills, Hana Lee, and Caitlin Chung at MAY SF in SF

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SF in SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes Nebula, Locus, and Sturgeon Award-winning author of THE WINGS UPON HER BACK Samantha Mills, the biracial Korean American author of Road to Ruin Hana Lee, and author of Foreword INDIES Finalist for Ship of Fates Caitlin Chung.

Each author will read from a selection of their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by Cliff Winnig. Schmoozing with the authors and book signing follows the end of the discussion.

Sunday, May 19

Doors and cash bar open 6:00PM
Event begins at 6:30 PM
American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina
San Francisco, CA

$10 at the door
$8 for students with valid high school or college ID card

All proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

There will be an opportunity to have books signed at the end of the event. Books will be for sale courtesy of Bookshop West Portal, and attendees are welcome to bring books from home for signatures. There is no charge for autographs.

Podcasted by SOMA FM – SF’s internet radio station

May 7, 2024

Booksellers, librarians, bloggers, and reviewers get FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR, the new anthology from Ellen Datlow, the quintessential editor of horror fiction

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Review copies of Hugo, Stoker, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow’s latest anthology FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

Ellen Datlow has long ago earned her place as the premier anthologist of fantasy and horror. Appearing in one of her unique volumes is recognized as a significant honor, and Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror is no different.
—Joe R. Lansdale, author of In the Mad Mountains

For decades, Ellen Datlow has set the bar. One of the most influential editors in the history of genre fiction, the gold standard of anthologists, and the ultimate tastemaker for Horror stories. Datlow’s career and reputation are entirely unique—there’s only one Ellen.
—Christopher Golden, author of Ararat

FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

Edited by
Ellen Datlow

ISBN: 978-1-61696-422-1 (print); 978-1-61696-423-8 (digital)

Published: September 10, 2024

Available Format(s): Trade paperback and digital

Bestselling horror editor Ellen Datlow (Body Shocks) returns with her most eclectic anthology. Here are twenty-one stories of extreme psychological dread from horror icons such as Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Simon Bestwick, and more. The unsettling tales explore the nature of fear as it stirs in dysfunctional families, toxic friendships, and mismatched lovers, and culminates in relentless stalkers, remorseless killers, and perpetrators of savage rituals.

Your grandfather confesses his heinous crime to you alone. You try to save a young girl from sexual assault, but she’s not really a victim. Your child is sacrificed in compensation for your social misstep. You compete in a sick game to save your loved ones. Your mom is insane, your dad is dying, your brother is not your brother, and you’re stuck in the same house until one or all of you are dead.

Far below the unlikeliness of the supernatural lives something worse: the depths of human depravity. We live in fear of the cruelties of respected leaders and of the despicable crimes of neighbors who seem normal. We live with anxiety about our innermost desires and the unforgivable things we might do in a moment of passion. Or, if we fail to curb our urges, we live with the terrible secrets of our unfettered resentments.

In this uniquely unsettling anthology, editor Ellen Datlow has unearthed twenty-one exemplary tales of what humanity fears most: People.

“Bait” by Simon Bestwick
“The Pelt” by Annie Neugebauer
“A Sunny Disposition” by Josh Malerman
“The Donner Party” by Dale Bailey
“White Noise in a White Room” by Steve Duffy
“Singing My Sister Down” by Margo Lanagan
“Back Seat” by Bracken MacLeod
“England and Nowhere” by Tim Nickels
“Endless Summer” by Stewart O’Nan
“My Mother’s Ghosts” by Priya Sharma
“The Wink and the Gun” by John Patrick Higgins
“One of These Nights” by Livia Llewellyn
“LD50” by Laird Barron\
“Cavity” by Theresa DeLucci
“Souvenirs” by Sharon Gosling
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
“The Wrong Shark” by Ray Cluley
“21 Brooklands: next to Old Western, opposite the burnt out Red Lion” by Carole Johnstone
“Unkindly Girls” by Hailey Piper
“A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” by Charles Birkin
“Teeth” by Stephen Graham Jones

May 2, 2024

Booksellers, librarians, bloggers, and reviewers get IN THE MAD MOUNTAINS: STORIES INSPIRED BY H. P. LOVECRAFT by horror grandmaster Joe R. Lansdale

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Review copies of Stoker, Edgar, British Fantasy, Spur, and Herodotus award-winner Joe R. Lansdale’s latest collection IN THE MAD MOUNTAINS: STORIES INSPIRED BY H. P. LOVECRAFT are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

Joe Lansdale squares up to the Great Old Ones—and taps into rich veins of awe and wit, with always a backbeat thrumm of cosmic terror.
—Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series

Cover art by Mi k e Mignola
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IN THE MAD MOUNTAINS:
STORIES INSPIRED BY H. P. LOVECRAFT

by
Joe R. Lansdale

ISBN: 978-1-61696-424-5 (print); 978-1-61696-425-2 (digital)

Published: October 15, 2024

Available Format(s): trade paperback, ebook

Ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep) returns with this wicked short story collection of his irreverent Lovecraftian tributes. Lansdale is scarily down-home in these tales, merging his classic gonzo stylings with the eldritch vibes of H. P. Lovecraft. Knowingly skewering Lovecraft’s paranoid mythos, Lansdale embarks upon haunting yet sly explorations of the unknown, capturing the essence of cosmic dread.

A sinister blues recording pressed on vinyl in blood conjures lethal shadows with its unearthly wails. In order to rescue Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn traverses the shifting horrors of the aptly named Dread Island. In the weird Wild West, Reverand Jebidiah Mercer rides into a possessed town to confront the unspeakable in the crawling sky. Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin uncovers the gruesome secrets of both the blue lightning bug and the Necronomicon.

Exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, here is a lethally entertaining journey through Joe Lansdale’s twisted landscape, where ancient evils lurk and sanity hangs by a rapidly fraying thread.

Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale
“The Bleeding Shadow”
Dread Island
“The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning”
“The Tall Grass”
“The Case of the Stalking Shadows”
“The Crawling Sky”
“Starlight, Eyes Bright”
In the Mad Mountains

April 23, 2024

The extraordinary Avram Davidson was born 101 years ago

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Born on April 23, 1923, Avram Davidson was a medic in the Navy during World War II, fought with the Israeli Army in the 1948 war for independence, and began writing in the early 1950s as a Talmudic scholar. He eventually produced nineteen acclaim novels including Joyleg (1962 with Ward Moore), Mutiny in Space (1964), Masters of the Maze (1965), Kar-Chee [Rogue Dragon [1965], The Kar-Chee Reign [1966]) , a pair of mysteries as by Ellery Queen (And on the Eighth Day [1964] and The Fourth Side of the Triangle [1965]), Clash of Star-Kings (1966), Vergil Magus (The Phoenix in The Mirror [1969], Vergil in Averno [1987], The Scarlet Fig ; or, Slowly through a Land of Stone [2005]), The Island Under the Earth (1969), Peregrine (Peregrine: Primus [1971], Peregrine: Secundus [1981]), Ursus of Ultima Thule (1973), Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty (1988 with Grania Davis), and THE BOSS IN THE WALL (1998 with Grania Davis).

His more than two hundred short stories and essays were collected in Crimes & Chaos (1962), Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962), What Strange Stars and Skies (1965), Strange Seas and Shores(1971), The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy (1975; World Fantasy Award Winner), Polly Charms, The Sleeping Woman (1977), The Redward Edward Papers (1978), The Best of Avram Davidson (1979), Avram Davidson: Collected Fantasies (1982), And Don’t Forget the One Red Rose (1986), Weird Tales no. 293 (Winter 1988-1989, special Avram Davidson issue), The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy (1990), Adventures in Unhistory (1993), The Avram Davidson Treasury (1998), The Investigations of Avram Davidson (1999), The Last Wizard; with A Letter of Explanation (1999), El Vilvoy de las Islas (2000), Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven (2000), The Other Nineteenth Century (2001), The Beasts of the Elysian Fields by Conrad Amber (2001), ¡Limekiller! (2003), David & Son: Peregrine Parentus and Other Tales (2016), and Beer! Beer! Beer! (2021). Produced by the official Avram Davidson site, The Avram Davidson Universe podcast features a reading of many of these shorter works alongside a discussion of with a special guest.

While at the helm of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964, Davidson also edited three volumes of The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction (13-15) and later Magic for Sale (1983).

His work garnered Davidson two Hugo (1958 Best Short Story “Or All the Seas with Oysters”; 1963 Best Professional Magazine The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) two World Fantasy (1976 Best Anthology/Collection The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy; 1979 Best Short Fiction “Naples”), and an Edgar (1962 Best Short Story “Affair at Lahore Cantonment) award. In 1986, he was given the prestigious World Fantasy Award For Life Achievement.Turn On Builder

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The acclaimed Ellen Datlow and Tachyon publicist Kasey Lansdale will be attending StokerCon 2024, May 30-June 2 in San Diego, CA. Be sure stop by our table to see our latest books and to visit with Ellen while she signs at the table on Saturday, June 1 at 1PM.

With the help of the fine folks at The StoryGraph, we’re giving away THE RUNES OF ENGAGEMENT by World Fantasy Award winner Tobias S. Buckell and Dave Klecha.

Review copies of World Fantasy, John W. Campbell, Locus, Sunburst, Prix Aurora, and Gaylactic Spectrum award winner and Damon Knight Grand Master Nalo Hopkinson’s new collection JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

byNalo Hopkinson

Sunday, May 19

Doors and cash bar open 6:00PMEvent begins at 6:30 PMAmerican Bookbinders Museum355 ClementinaSan Francisco, CA

Review copies of Hugo, Stoker, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow’s latest anthology FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

Edited byEllen Datlow

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