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April 11, 2024

Happy birthday to the award-winning author and anthologist James Patrick Kelly

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The acclaimed James Patrick Kelly has garnered many awards including the 1996 Hugo for his novelette “Think Like a Dinosaur,” 2000 Hugo for his novelette “10 to 16 to 1,” 2007 Nebula for the novella BURN, and numerous Locus and Asimov’s Readers’ Poll for many of his short stories. Among his brilliant novels/novellas are Planet of Whispers (1984), Freedom Beach (1985 with John Kessel), Look Into the Sun (1989), Wildlife (1994), Mother Go (2017), and King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats (2020).

Kelly’s amazing short stories have been collected in Heroines (1990), Think Like A Dinosaur And Other Stories (1997), Strange But Not A Stranger (2002), The Wreck Of The Godspeed And Other Stories (2008), Ninety Percent of Everything (2011 with Kessel and Jonathan Lethem), Masters Of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly (2016), The Promise Of Space (2018), and The First Law of Thermodynamics (2021). He produced 5 issues of the ezine James Patrick Kelly’s Strangeway (2011-2012) which featured Kelly stories and essays.

Beginning in 2006, Kelly began producing a series of successful anthologies with his good friend John Kessel. The compelling books include FEELING VERY STRANGE: THE SLIPSTREAM ANTHOLOGY (2006), REWIRED: THE POST-CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY (2007), THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION (2009), KAFKAESQUE: STORIES INSPIRED BY FRANZ KAFKA (2011), DIGITAL RAPTURE: THE SINGULARITY ANTHOLOGY (2012), and Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012).

All of us at Tachyon wish the sensational Jim a happy birthday.

April 4, 2024

Stanley G. Weinbaum, the first cult science fiction writer, was born 122 years ago

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After selling the romance novel The Lady Dances (1934 as by Marge Stanley) to King Features Syndicate, Stanley G. Weinbaum in a scant eighteen months (July 1934 to December 1935), produced some of the finest science fiction stories of the 1930s. Beginning with the “A Martian Odyssey” and primarily in the legendary publications Astounding and Wonder Stories, Weinbaum sold thirteen stories, some of the genre’s most important and seminal works. After his untimely death from lung cancer in December, 1935, Weinbaum became arguably the first cult science fiction writer with many of his works published posthumously.

Before his death, Weinbaum wrote several novels including The New Adam (1939), The Dark Other (1950), and the mash up The Black Flame, which incorporated the previously unpublished short stories “Dawn of Flame” and “The Black Flame” along with new material. While the short stories individually appeared in 1936 (Dawn of Flame: The Stanley G. Weinbaum Memorial Volume) and 1939 (Startling), the novel wasn’t published until 1948 (Fantasy Press).

His story “The Adaptive Ultimate” was dramatized on the radio program Escape (1949), was adapted for episodes of Studio One (1949), Tales of Tomorrow (1952), Science Fiction Theatre (1955), and as the feature film She-Devil (1957).

Following the discovery of Weinbaum’s papers in the basement of his grandson’s house which contained a carbon copy of a substantially longer THE BLACK FLAME manuscript, Tachyon published the restored THE BLACK FLAME in 1995.

April 3, 2024

Booksellers, librarians, bloggers, and reviewers get NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, the new anthology from award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan

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Review copies of World Fantasy, Aurealis, Atheling, and Ditmar Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan’s latest anthology NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA

edited by
Jonathan Strahan

ISBN: 978-1-61696-420-7 (print); 978-1-61696-421-4 (digital)

Published: August 13, 2024

Available Format(s): Trade paperback and digital formats

There is no better or more expert editor working in SF; impeccable taste, great range, excellent choices. Anyone interested in space opera will want to buy NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA.
Adam Roberts, author of The This

Award-winning science fiction editor Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction of the Year series) presents this quintessential guide to the New Space Opera, showcasing short stories from fifteen of acclaimed speculative fiction authors, including Charlie Jane Anders, Alastair Reynolds, Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, Sam J. Miller, and more.

In “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” a cloud-based contractor finds a human war criminal clinging to the hull of the ship. The clones of “All the Colours You Thought Were Kings,” about to attend their coming-of-age ceremony, are also plotting treason. During “A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime,” two outlaws go on the run after stealing a device from a space cult.

Take a faster-than-light trip to the future. Discover where memes rise and fall in moments. Here are the new, adventurous, and extremely efficient—takes on interstellar battles, sentient spaceships, and galactic intrigue. The future is sooner than you think, and there’s only so much time to visit.

“Introduction: From the New Space Opera to Here . . .,” by Jonathan Strahan
“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” by Tobias S. Buckell
“Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee
“All the Colors You Thought Were Kings,” by Arkady Martine
“Belladonna Nights,” by Alastair Reynolds
“Metal Like Blood in the Dark,” by T. Kingfisher
“A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime,” by Charlie Jane Anders
“Immersion,” by Aliette de Bodard
“Morrigan in the Sunglare,” by Seth Dickinson
“The Old Dispensation,” by Lavie Tidhar
“A Good Heretic,” by Becky Chambers
“A Voyage to Queensthroat,” by Anya Johanna DeNiro
“The Justified,” by Ann Leckie
“Planetstuck,” by Sam J. Miller
“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir,” by Karin Tidbeck

April 2, 2024

Happy birthday to the sensational and magical Mia Tsai

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

A Taiwanese American author of speculative fiction, Mia Tsai quickly rose to prominence with her debut novel BITTER MEDICINE (2023). The xianxia-inspired contemporary fantasy received abundant praise the New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal,Buzzfeed, Ms. Magazine, Mochi Magazine, and many others.

She has been quoted in Glamour and Washington Post‘s The Lily and, in her other lives, is a professional editor, photographer, and musician.

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

Tsai lives in Atlanta with her family, and, when not writing, is a hype woman for her orchids and devoted cat gopher. Her favorite things include music of all kinds and taking long trips with nothing but the open road and a saucy rhythm section.

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing powerhouse that is Mia, a happy birthday!

March 25, 2024

THIS SATURDAY! The Outspoken and the Incendiary: A Literary Celebration of the Life and Work of Terry Bisson

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City Lights, PM Press, and Locus Magazine invite you to celebrate the life and work of Terry Bisson on Saturday, March 30, 7PM at The Lost Church in San Francisco.

Luminaries Ramsey Kanaan, Peter Maravelis, Diana Block, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Nick Mamatas, Kim Stanley Robinson, Rudy Rucker, and Carter Scholz will be on hand to discuss the truly unique life and works from the late author, editor, and political activist.

There is a $15 admission and registration is required.

March 20, 2024

Happy birthday to the award-winning Nina Kiriki Hoffman

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The acclaimed Nina Kiriki Hoffman began selling short stories in the late 1970s and after co-writing with Tad Williams Child of an Ancient City (1992), she finally published the first of her many solo novels The Thread That Binds the Bones in 1993, which garnered her a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. She followed the first of what became known as the Chapel Hollow series with The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) and Spirits That Walk in Shadow (2006). Hoffman’s Haunted House & Nathan the Ghost books are comprised of A Red Heart of Memories (1999), Past The Size of Dreaming (2001), and A Stir of Bones (2003). Thresholds (2010) and Meeting (2011) make up Magic Next Door duology. The Lazelle sequence consists of A Fistful of Sky (2002) and Fall of Light (2009). Alongside series creator R. L. Stine, she co-wrote three volumes of Ghosts of Fear Street: Body Switchers from Outer Space (#14; 1996), Why I’m Not Afraid of Ghosts (#23; 1997), and I Was A Sixth Grade Zombie (#30; 1998). Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Hoffman crafted the Star Trek: Voyager novel Echoes (1998). Other books include CATALYST (2006) and The Other Side Secret (2015).

Her many short stories, including the Nebula award-winning “Trophy Wives” have been collected in several volumes: Legacy of Fire (1990), Permeable Borders (2012), Faint Heart, Foul Lady (2014), Antiquities (2015), Wild Talents (2015), The Skeleton Key and Bright Streets Of Air (2015), Savage Breasts and Other Misbehaving Body Parts (2016), Short, Sharp Snacks (2018), Short, Sharp Snacks Volume 2 (2022) and others. In the early 1990s when there were too many Hoffman stories in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction‘s inventory, she adopted the Robin Aurelian pseudonym. Those tales, many of which are far stranger than the stories written under her own name, were collected in Stories My Pseudonym Wrote (2020).

Alongside Dean Wesley Smith, Hoffman edited the anthologies Silent Music (1987), Christmas Guests (2002), and Eating Our Way Through Christmas (2003).

All of us at Tachyon wish the impressive Nina an awesome birthday.

March 19, 2024

Happy birthday to the fantastic Josh Rountree

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Beginning with “Fool Tile” in Glyph #10 (2002), Josh Rountree quickly established a reputation for producing off beat literary stories with a genre bent. His over 60 stories have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Realms of Fantasy, Bourbon Penn, Polyphony 6, PseudoPod, PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, A Punk Rock Future, Rayguns over Texas, The Deadlands, Found, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 5. Many of these shorties were collected in Can’t Buy Me Faded Love (2008), Fantastic Americana: Stories (2021), and the forthcoming Death Aesthetic.

Co-written with Lon Prather, Alamo Rising (2013) was his first endeavor into novel length fiction. His second, THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH (2023) marked his solo novel debut and garnered abundant acclaim, making several best of the year lists.

Living somewhere in the untamed wilds of Texas with his wife and children, Rountree obsessively collects albums, roots for the World Champion Texas Rangers, and plays board games.

Everyone at Tachyon wishes the affable Josh a happy birthday. May the day be just as you always like it – full of music, games, and monster movies.

March 17, 2024

Happy birthday to the enigmatic James Morrow

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Satirist James Morrow initially focused his prodigious storytelling skills into making 8MM genre films with his friends. The dozen or so films included The Revenge Of The Monster Maker, Cagliostro the Sorcerer, and two literary adaptations, The Ancient Mariner and The Tell-Tale Heart. Their efforts garnered a CINE Golden Eagle for the 16mm short film, Children Of The Morning and the Francis Scott Key Award at the Baltimore Film Festival, the Judge’s Prize at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, the Jury’s Prize at the Columbus Film Festival, and the Audience Prize at the Midwest Film Festival, all for the short film A Political Cartoon.

After receiving degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, Morrow taught and worked on various odd writing jobs including as a contributor to TV Guide, creator of the murder-mystery board game Suspicion, and the graphics designer and script doctor for the video game Fortune Builder, often regarded as a forerunner to SimCity. His first two novels The Wine Of Violence (1981) and The Continent Of Lies (1994) received positive reviews but it was the third novel This Is The Way The World Ends (1986) that proved to be his breakout work with a Nebula award nomination and lots of acclaim. If the previous work got peoples attention, Morrow’s next cemented his reputation as an explorer into the enigma of religious faith. Only Begotten Daughter (1990) earned a World Fantasy Award. Next came the Godhead Trilogy with Towing Jehovah (1994; winner of the World Fantasy and Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire), Blameless In Abaddon (1996), and The Eternal Footman (1999). Other novels include The Last Witchfinder (2006), The Philosopher’s Apprentice (2008), Galápagos Regained (2015, winner of he Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire), Lazare attend (2021 French Lazarus Is Waiting), and Behold the Ape (2023).

Morrow has had five novellas published as books: The Adventures of Smoke Bailey (1983), City of Truth (1991), SHAMBLING TOWARDS HIROSHIMA (2009; winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award), THE MADONNA AND THE STARSHIP (2014), and THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI (2017). In 2018, his acclaimed novelette BIGFOOT AND THE BODHISATTVA (2009) also enjoyed a separate edition. Morrow’s numerous short stories including the Nebula award-winning “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge” are collected in Swatting at the Cosmos (1990), Bible Stories for Adults (1996), THE CAT’S PAJAMAS & OTHER STORIES (2004), and Reality By Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow (2015).

All of us at Tachyon wish the enlightening Jim an entertaining birthday. Keep watching the skies and ponder, is any of this really happening?

March 16, 2024

Happy birthday to the award-winning, thought-provoking David Liss

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A member of the International Thriller Writers, David Liss has penned over a dozen acclaimed novels plus numerous novellas, short stories, and comics. His novels include A Conspiracy of Paper (2000; winner of the Barry, Macavity, and Edgar Awards and a New York Times Notable Book), The Coffee Trader (2003; New York Times Notable Book and was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the year’s 25 Books to Remember), A Spectacle of Corruption (2004), The Ethical Assassin (2006), The Whiskey Rebels (2008), The Devil’s Company (2009), The Twelfth Enchantment (2011), The Day of Atonement (2014), Randoms (2015), Rebels (2016), Renegades (2017), Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover (2018), and THE PECULIARITIES (2021). For comics, he’s written stories featuring Black Panther, The Spider, The Shadow, Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes, and others.

He received a BA degree from Syracuse University, an MA from Georgia State University, and an M. Phil from Columbia University. He left his post-graduate studies of 18th Century British literature and his unfinished dissertation to write full-time. He lives in San Antonio, TX with his wife and children.

All of us at Tachyon wish the fascinating David a happy birthday. Watch out for those warped bunnies. Things are not always as them seem.

March 14, 2024

Meet Izzy Wasserstein, Amy Sundberg, and Gail Carriger at March SF in SF

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SF in SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes the bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate, Finishing School, and Tinkered Stars series Gail Carriger, author of the acclaimed My Stars Shine Darkly Amy Sundberg, and Izzy Wasserstein, whose recently published debut novella THESE FRAGILE GRACES, THIS FUGITIVE HEART marks her as “A voice to watch out for” (Publishers Weekly).

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, March 24

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

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