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July 13, 2020

Celebrate Tachyon’s 25th anniversary with Hugo Award Winner Jo Walton

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“Tachyon produces books they care about with a level of loving attention to detail that really feels special.”
— Jo Walton

July 9, 2020

Celebrate Tachyon’s 25th anniversary with Brandon Sanderson

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“Happy birthday to Tachyon! It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with you, and I look forward to twenty five more years. Huzzah!”
–Brandon Sanderson

July 2, 2020

Celebrate Tachyon’s 25th anniversary with Nebula Award finalist Dave Smeds

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At Westercon 64 in the Fairmont San Jose Hotel on Saturday, 2 July 2011 (Wikimedia Commons)

“As far as I can recall, the first time I spoke with Jacob Weisman was at the 1993 worldcon in San Francisco. My Sonoma County science fiction writing workshop, the Spellbinders, had just issued a collection showcasing the fiction various members had produced over the previous couple of decades, and we were putting on a publication-launch party at the con. When Jacob was told that we had produced the trade paperback volume on our own, he began asking what methods we had used, what steps we had taken, what resources we had found essential. Jacob hadn’t yet founded Tachyon, but as he turned Spells Unbound this way and that, I could see the light in his eyes: “I can do something like this. I’M GOING to do something like this.” It was a certainty. The only question in my mind was whether the epiphany was a thing of that very moment, or if he had years earlier made it his goal to someday be a publisher of science fiction. (I assume it was the years-earlier scenario, but I’ve never actually asked him about it.)

Jacob did not overreach. He didn’t sabotage himself with an excess of ambition. He set himself a goal. Something modest and achievable. Project by project, the quality level was better than what came before, sometimes incrementally so and sometimes startlingly so. The quiet determination I saw on display in 1993 is, to my mind, the secret of his success. “Just try.” It’s not ego. It’s not even necessarily self-confidence. He sees the worthiness of each project and then he just doggedly takes care of whatever steps are necessary to make it real.

The very first Tachyon Press productions were very much learning-curve experiments. Nowadays authors brag about being published by Tachyon. It wasn’t luck that brought that about.”
–Dave Smeds

June 30, 2020

Celebrate Tachyon’s 25th anniversary with the incredible Michael Swanwick

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“Twenty-five years! Can it possibly be that long? I was involved with Tachyon Publications from its earliest years. Back then, the staff consisted of Jacob Weisman, his dog, and (I think) only one employee.

Jacob published my work in chapbook format. I wrote introductions to his more substantial books. Somewhere along the line, he started publishing my short story collections. Now, every so many years, he calls me up and asks, “Don’t you have enough short fiction for another book?” I pull up the files and count and, if the numbers come up short, write new material to cover the gap.

Somewhere along the line, our relationship became so close that I was invited to Jacob and Rina’s wedding. I saw them pledge their troth to each other with a modified version of the Green Lantern oath.

All that matters a great deal to me. Less so to you. To you, what matters is that all the while Tachyon has been carefully selecting books to publish, that all those books were worth publishing and most worth cherishing, that they’ve never stooped to putting out the merely popular over the worthwhile, that a quarter of a century after they began they’re still saving the world one book at a time.”
— Michael Swanwick

June 25, 2020

Celebrate Tachyon’s 25th anniversary with the iconic grandmaster Jane Yolen

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There Is a T

For Tachyon’s Anniversary

There is a T in my life,
small, tidy perfectly suited
to the short pieces,
small moments,
that make up my writing life.
I do not need 150,000
cheerleaders drunk on words
and rooting from the sidelines,
but the intimacy, the hand-fasting,
I have with you, T,
gives me the love and grace
to write on.

June 17, 2020

Tachyon 25th Anniversary eBooknanza! Newsletter subscribers get your free copy of THE ROBERTS by Michael Blumlein

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It’s been 25 years since Jacob Weisman started publishing books, and here we are entering the ’20s with digital giveaways for every newsletter subscriber!

For the whole of 2020 on every last Wednesday of the month, we will be giving away a free ebook to everyone subscribed to our newsletter prior to that Wednesday. This will be the only time we amp up our newsletter from quarterly announcements of new and upcoming books to monthly. The download link will be good for 48 hours, so if this is a book you’ve been meaning to get, make sure you download it as soon as you can.

This is our thanks for sticking around with us for so long. We look forward to another 25 years with you.

June 17, 2020

Celebrate Tachyon’s 25th anniversary with R. B. Lemberg, author of THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES

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“I thoroughly enjoyed working with Tachyon Books on my novella debut, THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES. The Tachyon team is lovely. I especially appreciated working with Jaymee Goh as my editor, and with Jill Roberts as the managing editor. They helped me expand and flesh out the story; by the end of this process, the book was stronger and longer without losing even a bit of its soul. I was thrilled to learn that 2020, the 25th anniversary of the press, is also their first year of publishing debuts; THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES will be the first fantasy debut to be published by Tachyon. I am honored, and am looking forward to many more years of excellent books from this team.”
— R.B. Lemberg

June 12, 2020

This month’s Tachyon 25th Anniversary eBooknanza free book will be THE ROBERTS by Michael Blumlein

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**Sign up to the Tachyon newsletter before Wednesday, June 17 to get your free copy of THE ROBERTS**
Cover design by Elizabeth Story

Blumlein has a gift for beautifully evocative prose.
—Booklist

More on THE ROBERTS by Michael Blumlein:

Robert Fairchild is a genius.
He is also lonely.

Dubbed “the one-eyed architect,” Robert and his innovative buildings are praised to the skies. Suddenly his masterpiece, a dome made from a living membrane, collapses in on its inhabitants. Meanwhile his relationships disintegrate as he chooses his work over his lovers. Reeling from failure and paralyzed by self-doubt, what Robert needs is inspiration.

Robert needs Grace.

Unable to find someone to love, Robert decides to craft his perfect woman. But creating a woman is far more complicated than creating a building. Although Robert adores the lovely and compassionate Grace, he finds himself once again subsumed by his work. Their attempt at compromise has entirely unforeseen consequences. Suddenly trapped in a game of passion and jealousy, Robert is forced to confront all that is dearest to him: his work, his love for Grace, and, hardest of all, himself.

Blumlein is beyond any genre, a genuinely great writer.
—Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love

Sign up to the Tachyon newsletter before Wednesday, June 17 to get your free copy of THE ROBERTS

June 11, 2020

Celebrate Tachyon’s 25th anniversary with Kate Elliot

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“I can think of no higher praise than to say: Tachyon makes good books. Their editors work effectively with interesting authors and stories; their publicity and marketing are dedicated and knowledgeable; their production team is exemplary; their design and covers are excellent. And they’re all just great people. They’re the whole package, a fine publishing house.”
–Kate Elliott

25th anniversary

“Tachyon produces books they care about with a level of loving attention to detail that really feels special.” — Jo Walton

“Happy birthday to Tachyon! It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with you, and I look forward to twenty five more years. Huzzah!”–Brandon Sanderson

More on THE ROBERTS by Michael Blumlein:

“Tachyon produces books they care about with a level of loving attention to detail that really feels special.”
— Jo Walton

“Happy birthday to Tachyon! It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with you, and I look forward to twenty five more years. Huzzah!”
–Brandon Sanderson