It’s #AppreciateADragonDay ! though I’m not sure Rasputin will appreciate the dragons in this upcoming book… #thelasttsarsdragons #dragon #janeyolen #adamstemple #russianrevolution #fantasy #fantasybooks #alternatehistory #bookstagram #publishing #newbook #upcomingbook #tachyon #tachyonpublications #dragonbooks #tsar #romanov
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It’s been raining non stop this week! Better to stay inside with a good book
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Visit with HAP AND LEONARD creator Joe R. Lansdale at ConFusion
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Joe R. Lansdale, along with Lewis Shiner, is a Subterranean Press Special Guest at ConFusion 2019 in Detroit, MI, January 17-20.
In addition to being the longest-running fan-run sf/f convention in Michigan, ConFusion is a premier event for publishing professionals and fans alike. It is hailed as a place to experience programming and guests on the caliber you find at a WorldCon, while located in a convenient and affordable setting.
- Ada Palmer
- Dr, Jennifer Piatek
- Steve MacDonald
- David Stein
ConFusion 2019
Dearborn DoubleTree
5801 Southfield Expressway
Detroit, MI
For more info about THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by John Picacio
For more info about CRUCIFIED DREAMS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Josh Beatman
For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Elizabeth Story
For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Elizabeth Story
For more info about THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Elizabeth Story
For more info about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover design by Elizabeth Story
For more info about FLAMING ZEPPELINS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by John Coulthart
For more info about DEADMAN’S ROAD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art “The Quick and the Undead” by Travis J. Elston
Cover design by Elizabeth Story
It’s a gloomy day outside, so we made a rainbow!
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It came from the backlist for #throwbackthursday – DOGS by Nancy Kress! In this original bio-thriller from the author of Yesterday’s Kin, the threat of terrorism and biological warfare is all too real when the danger comes from a family’s most cherished pets. – “Full of suspense and creepy details…delivers on the potential of its
gripping premise.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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Tachyon titles featured in 105 Books Sci-Fi & Fantasy Editors Can’t Wait for You to Read in 2019
The annual B&N SCI-FI & FANTASY BLOG preview round up features five Tachyon titles.
THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN (February)
Kiernan is one of the preeminent horror writers of her generation. Her work has mainly been collected in limited editions, and this definitive collection is available at long-last in an affordable paperback edition. Kiernan’s gorgeously-written, powerful stories, like those of Clive Barker and Carmen Maria Machado, defy social conventions of morality, gender, and sexuality. Kiernan always takes readers straight to the heart of disquieting emotional truths.
THE UNICORN ANTHOLOGY, edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (April)
THE UNICORN ANTHOLOGY is edited by the 2018 World Fantasy Award-winning team of unicorn expert Peter S. Beagle and publisher/editor Jacob Weisman. This surprisingly wide-ranging book has been tagged as “Unicorns: Not Just For Virgins Anymore.” The Unicorn Anthology is a very unexpected and ultimately delightful volume, featuring top-notch stories by some of the most acclaimed writers in fantasy, including Garth Nix, Carrie Vaughn, Karen Joy Fowler, Patricia A. McKillip, and of course, Peter S. Beagle, with a tale that is decisively not from The Last Unicorn.
THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS, by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple (June)
During the Russian Revolution, the Cossacks were like the Tsar’s human attack-dogs. But in the deft hands of experienced writing team Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple, the Tsar’s dragons harrow the people—especially targeting the Russian Jews and Bolsheviks. In a revisionist secanrio, there is plot to redistribute the power of dragons, and the Russian Revolution hinges on machinations both in the sky and on the ground. THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS is a vivid reinvention of the fates of Nicholas II, the royal court, Rasputin, and Mother Russia herself.
THE VIOLENT CENTURY by Lavie Tidhar (July)
Israel-British author Lavie Tidhar’s career has rapidly risen in the U.S. after the publication of CENTRAL STATION and UNHOLY LAND, both selected for multiple Best of the Year lists, including Barnes & Nobles’. This year, we’re reissuing Tidhar’s tour de force novel THE VIOLENT CENTURY, a complex, Tidharian (as his reviewers call his work) novel features quantum-powered spies that fight the wars of the past. This is a book that uses superheroes to deftly explore the power of loyalty and love in times of political and moral struggle.
MEET ME IN THE FUTURE: STORIES, by Kameron Hurley (Summer)
Fan favorite Kameron Hurley (God’s War, The Geek Feminist Revolution)’s stories are intensely personal, and frequently explore—as Hurley writes—the body itself in all of its gory mushiness. Hurley is unafraid of the blood and viscera of life and death, or of strong women, men, and those who choose to be either. Her stories are also surprisingly optimistic, and always clear-eyed about both the pitfalls and the promise of technological shifts, the alien and unknown, and the essence of humanity itself.
For more info about THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Hannes Hummel
Design by Elizabeth Story
For more info about THE UNICORN ANTHOLOGY, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Thomas Canty
Design by Elizabeth Story
For more info about THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art by Anabelle Gerardy
Design by Elizabeth Story
For more info about THE VIOLENT CENTURY, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Sarah Anne Langton
Get Grandmaster Peter S. Beagle’s bewitching, impossible, and genuine IN CALABRIA for only $1.99!
Legendary Peter S. Beagle’s transformative IN CALABRIA is a Kindle Daily Deal for Wednesday, January 9.
For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!
- 2018 World Fantasy Award nominee
- 2018 Locus finalist – Best novella
- 2018 Best Czech Translation award from the Akademie of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
- 2017 Northern California Book Award -Finalist
“A novella about love in a world of hardship, loss, magic, and recovery. Beagle’s unicorns have never been more bewitching, impossible, and genuine. I cherished every page.”
—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and After Alice
From the acclaimed author of The Last Unicorn comes a new, exquisitely-told fable for the modern age.
Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy’s scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change, preferring farming and writing poetry to the company of others. But one chilly morning, an impossible visitor appears at the farm. When Claudio comes to her aid, an act of kindness throws his world into chaos. Suddenly he must stave off inquisitive onlookers, invasive media, and even more sinister influences.
Lyrical, gripping, and wise, IN CALABRIA confirms Peter S. Beagle’s continuing legacy as one of fantasy’s most legendary authors.
- A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
- A Kirkus February’s Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy title
- A Barnes and Noble Bookseller’s Pick: Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy
[STARRED REVIEW] “Acclaimed fantasist Beagle (SUMMERLONG) sets this charming, lyrical tale of unicorns and love on a poor little hillside farm in the toe of boot-shaped Italy, where 47-year-old Claudio Bianchi scratches out a meager existence for himself, old dog Garibaldi, goat Cherubino, three cows, a pig, and three cats. Claudio writes poetry, too, and one day a golden-white unicorn appears to him as a gentle reminder of the freedom animals and humans have lost. The unicorn becomes the one miracle of Claudio’s life—and the ultimate tourist attraction. He protects her as best he can from hordes of reporters, television crews and helicopters, animal rights activists, yearning yokels, and even the Calabrian ’Ndràngheta mob. After Claudio helps the unicorn deliver her colt, his heart, frozen by an earlier tragedy, warms to Giovanna, the intrepid 20-ish sister of the postman. Neatly playing the strictures of Claudio’s simple rural life against the shimmering wildness of the unicorn, Beagle’s kindly fable shows how a man who seems to have nothing can really have everything—with just a touch of magic.”
—Publishers Weekly
“At his best, [Beagle] combines earthy practicality with delight and bewildered joy, and his work usually nestles folklore and modern concerns side-by-side. IN CALABRIA upholds that pattern.”
—NPR
“Peter S. Beagle’s story of an Italian farmer encountering a gravid unicorn, is reminiscent of his 1968 masterpiece The Last Unicorn. But the new book emphasizes the interior transformations caused by this mythical animal. A simultaneous affair between 50-ish widower Claudio Bianchi and a fierce motorcyclist young enough to be his daughter reads alternately as metaphor for the irrationality and vulnerability of love and as simple wish fulfillment. The unicorn colt’s sire, black and furious, appears near the book’s end as counterbalance to the dam’s white beauty, a compelling vision of the positive masculine principle lacking in Beagle’s early work.”
—Seattle Review of Books
“For me, Peter S. Beagle is one of the essential voices in American literature, so essential that I approach each new book he writes not only with excitement but also with trepidation. Can he possibly do it again? Today I read IN CALABRIA from cover to cover. He does it again.”
—Kevin Brockmeier, bestselling author of The Brief History of the Dead
For more info about IN CALABRIA, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover design by Elizabeth Story
Stephanie Law visited the office today! She signed some more copies of The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey, which she illustrated. You can get a signed copy when you order directly from Tachyon’s website! (link in profile)
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Lavie Tidhar’s gripping thriller UNHOLY LAND appears on even more Best of the Year lists
Further accolades for Lavie Tidhar’s damn good UNHOLY LAND.
Joining previous notices from NPR, LIBRARY JOURNAL, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, THE GUARDIAN, B&N SCI-FI & FANTASY BLOG, CRIME TIME, and THE SPECULATIVE SHELF, both FANTASY LITERATURE (without comment) and THE ENDLESS BOOKSHELF name the novel as one of the best of 2018.
Science fiction is that mode of literature in which the metaphor is to be taken literally. Lavie Tidhar’s gripping thriller follows writer Lior Tirosh on a return visit to his native land, Palestina, a Jewish state established in east Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. All the writings by Tidhar that I have read are deeply intertextual, playing with the ideas of literature, science fiction tropes, and the identity of the writer. Unholy Land is explicitly Clutean in its intertextuality, employing terms and conceits introduced by John Clute in the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997). It is great fun, very tricky : a smile painted upon a skull. Tidhar’s other characteristic is fearlessness and UNHOLY LAND is a look into the dark heart of a nation founded upon exclusions and barriers.
Maxim Jakubowski at CRIME TIME says the book is a must.
A novel which can be read on all sorts of levels, each as rewarding as each other, whether as sheer entertainment or serious speculation, making Tidhar a rather unique writer who seldom comes up with the expected and for whom each book is a challenge to the imagination. This is damn good (as was his A MAN LIES DREAMING, which flirted with the dangerous premise of an alternative reality Hitler as both sleuth and second class author…). A must.
In WORLD LITERATURE TODAY, Sean Guynes-Vishniac praises the story.
Like Tidhar’s other work, UNHOLY LAND is a complex and metatextual narrative, moving between first-, second-, and third-person narrators, that theorizes the work speculative fiction does—the possibilities and alternatives it imagines—and questions the worth of the “fantasy” writer in a world where nation-states maintain and legitimize their existence through the oppression of whole groups of people. It is, unsurprisingly, a powerful meditation on the ethics of history and the power of borders, an analogy, no doubt, to the border walls both on the West Bank and in Trump’s presidential promises as much as to the ideologized divides that drive military and state conflict. UNHOLY LAND is a call to imagine and fight for alternatives.
Howard Freedman for THE JEWISH NEWS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA enjoys the challenging UNHOLY LAND.
At one level, the novel functions as a sort of hard-boiled thriller, but Tidhar, raised on a kibbutz and now living in Britain and writing in English, is no run-of-the-mill novelist. Rather, he is a significant figure in today’s science fiction scene, and this dimension infuses the novel. The borders in question in Palestina turn out to be not only ones dividing territories, but ones separating different spheres of reality. It gets complicated, and the unconventional storytelling (the narrative is in the first, second and third person) can sometimes make it difficult to assess what’s happening. But the bumpy ride is quite worthwhile.
For more info on UNHOLY LAND, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Sarah Anne Langton
Hiding from Monday
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