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November 18, 2019

Meet the iconic Jane Yolen

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Grandmaster Jane Yolen will be appearing at Massachusetts Book Awards Holiday Dozen – Valley Edition.

Photo: Jason Stemple

Representatives Mindy Domb, Natalie Blais, and, Lindsay Sabadosa,
working with Massachusetts Center for the Book, Jones Library, and
Amherst Books, invite you to kick off this holiday season in literary style. Join twelve Valley writers, all recently honored by
the Massachusetts Book Awards, for an afternoon book party at the
Jones Library in Amherst on December 7, from 2 to 4 pm.

The event begins
with lightning talks by each writer, followed by an opportunity to
mix and mingle, buy books from local bookseller Amherst Books, and
have them signed by the authors.

Participating authors: Heather Abel, Lisa Brooks, George Howe Colt,
Anne Fadiman, Noy Holland, Natasha Lowe, Richard Michelson, Sabina
Murray, Ilan Stavans, Ellen Doré Watson, Dara Weir, and Jane Yolen.

Massachusetts Book Awards Holiday Dozen – Valley Edition
Saturday, December 7
2-4 PM
Jones Library
Amherst, MA

For more info on THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover 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

June 26, 2019

Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple’s THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS proves everything’s better with dragons including Russian history

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For the ELITIST BOOK REVIEWS, Jane Funk declares Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple’s THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS is a well-written, clever novella that’s worth your time.

Emily Schneider at JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL highly recommends the book for young adult readers as well as for adults.

In the NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS, Marie Brennan provides an insightful review of the story.

For more info about THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Anabelle Gerardy
Design by Elizabeth Story

June 4, 2019

History buffs and dragon fans will enjoy the mix of reality and fantasy in Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple’s THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS

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The recently published THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple continues to receives praise.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY likes the book.

However, the familiar events are still made more intense by their fantastic underpinnings. The weight of the historical events is eased by the anyman bureaucrat, a masterful encapsulation of the court into an individual. History buffs and dragon fans will enjoy this mix of reality and fantasy.

QUEERLY DIFFERENT enjoys the tale.

I have to say that the title is what drew me to this strange but enjoyable little novella. How on earth, I thought, can one make dragons relevant to the Russian Revolution?

Somehow, mother and son team Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple weave together myth and history into a compelling tale of the last days of the Tsar Nicholas II and his family, their relentless hatred of both the Jews and the peasants, and their eventual fall from power.

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All in all, I found THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS to be an intriguing tale, and it was rather refreshing to see a story told successfully in the form of the novella. At the same time, however, I for one am left hungering for more, precisely because the central conceit begs so many questions. Where did the dragons come from? Were there other places that used them other than Russia? If not, why not?

Perhaps the authors will one day pursue these questions, but in the meantime, we can savour what they have provided us, a glimpse into how the real world of history might have been impacted had the mythical played a larger part in it.

The cover drew in THE BOOK CANARIES.

This week, I’m hijacking the blurb features with this pretty, pretty cover. Even if I wasn’t already a sucker for fantasy set in Russia, this would have absolutely caught my eye. I am intrigued. I am excited. Bring on the Ruski Dragons!

For more info about THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Anabelle Gerardy
Design by Elizabeth Story

April 16, 2019

This Friday to Sunday, meet grandmaster Jane Yolen, award winning Jo Walton, and the acclaimed Adam D. Stemple at Minicon 54

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Jane Yolen, Jo Walton, and Adam D. Stemple will all be attending Minicon 54, April 19-21, in Minneapolis, MN.

Jo Walton (photo: Eric Jentile) and Adam Stemple & Jane Yolen

Minicon is Minneapolis’s longest running science fiction convention! We hope you’ll join us this year. You’ll be in the company of about 700 other fans of not only science fiction, but fantasy, horror, anime, gaming, music, and many other pursuits.

Minicon features panel discussions, readings, signings, costuming, films, gaming, an art show, a dealers’ room, kids’ programming, a teen lounge and teen programming, a science room, music, a consuite and bar, room parties, and various other special events. For all that, most people say they don’t come for what we have scheduled, but because they want to hang out with others like them in a place that feels like home.

Guests of Honor

Naomi Kritzer
Dave DeVries
Tom Fleming (featured artist)

Several of Minicon’s many panels and events feature Jane Yolen, Jo Walton, and Adam D. Stemple.

Saturday

2:30PM

Jane Yolen and Adam
Stemple Reading

3:30PM

Jo Walton Reading

10PM

Concert: Adam Stemple

Adam Stemple first
played music in Minnesota in 1987 at Minicon 22. He was the music
Guest of Honor at Minicon 50. In between, he played in a lot of
bands, won some awards, and lost all his hair.

Sunday

1:30PM

Kaffeklatch with Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
(seating is limited to 10 people)

Minicon 54
April 19-21
DoubleTree Park Place
Minneapolis, MN

For more info on STARLINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover 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

February 20, 2019

Reviewers, booksellers, and librarians get Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple’s THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS

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Review copies of THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS are now available via NETGALLEY and EDELWEISS.

These copies are only for reviewers and librarians. For more details, visit NETGALLEY and EDELWEISS.

And while you are there, check out other Tachyon titles for review on NETGALLEY.

“Vivid, gripping and actually riveting, as the Red Danger takes a whole new meaning here. Loved it.” —The Book Smugglers

It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies—Jews and Bolsheviks—his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the mad monk Rasputin schemes for the Tsar’s ear, and the desperate queen takes drastic measures to protect her family.

Revolution is in the air—and the Red Army is hatching its own weapons.

Discover Russia’s October Revolution reimagined in flight, brought to life by the acclaimed mother-and-son writing team of the Locus Award-winning novel, Pay the Piper, and the Seelie Wars series.

For more info about THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Anabelle Gerardy
Design by Elizabeth Story

February 11, 2019

Happy 80th birthday to the iconic grandmaster Jane Yolen

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Photo: Jason Stemple

Hailed as both the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of
the twentieth century, Jane Yolen, with her first publication, the
non-fiction book about women pirates Pirates In Petticoats
(1963), embarked on amazing career of over three hundred and seventy
books (and counting). Her impressive and acclaimed output includes
children’s fiction, poetry, short stories, graphic novels,
nonfiction, fantasy, and science fiction.

Among her many
honors are the Caldecott Medal (Owl Moon [1988]), Christopher
Medal (The Seeing Stick [1977], How Do Dinosaurs Say
Goodnight? [2000]), Nebula (“Sister Emily’s Lightship”
[1998], Lost Girls [1999]), World Fantasy (Favorite Folktales From
Around The World [1987], THE EMERALD CIRCUS [2018]), Mythopoeic
(Cards Of Grief [1985], Briar Rose [1993], The Young
Merlin Trilogy [1998, Passager, Hobby, and
Merlin]), Golden Kite (The Girl Who Cried Flowers &
Other Tales [1974]), and National Jewish Book Award (The
Devil’s Arithmetic [1989]). Yolen received the World Fantasy
Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Rhysling Science
Fiction Poetry Grand Master Award, the Damon Knight Memorial Grand
Master Award, and Jeremiah Ludington Memorial Award.

Many of Yolen’s
shorter works have been collected in numerous works including The
Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales
(1974), The
Hundredth Dove and Other Tales
(1977), Dream
Weaver (1979),
The Whitethorn Wood and Other Magicks
(1984), Storyteller
(1992), Twelve
Impossible Things Before Breakfast
(1997), Sister
Emily’s Lightship and Other Stories (2000),
Once Upon A Time (She Said) (2005),
The Last Selchie Child
(2012), THE EMERALD
CIRCUS (2017), and HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE (2018). Several volumes of her poetry exist
including The Three Bears Rhyme Book (1987), The
Originals: Animals that Time Forgot (1998), Least Things:
Poems about Small Natures (2003), Before the Vote After
(2017), On Gull Beach (2018), Fly with Me: A Celebration of
Birds Through Pictures, Poems, and Stories
(2018,
with Heidi E.Y. Stemple, Adam Stemple, and Jason Stemple).

Her editorial
endeavors include the anthologies Zoo 2000
(1973), Favorite
Folktales from Around the World
(1986), Werewolves:
A Collection of Original Stories (1988
with Martin H. Greenberg), 2041: Twelve Short Stories About
the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers
(1991), Xanadu
(1993), The Haunted House: A Collection of
Original Stories (1995 with Martin H. Greenberg), Fearless
Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in
Folktales from Around The World (1998 with Kathleen
Ragan), Gray Heroes: Elder Tales from Around
the World (1999),
and Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for
Strong Boys (2003).

The prolific Yolen
continues to produce acclaimed, award winning work at a prodigious
pace. In 2018 alone she published 10 books: Crow Not Crow,
Finding Baba Yaga, Fly With Me, Mapping the Bones,
Meet Me at the Well: the Girls and Women of the Bible
(with Barbara Diamond Goldin), A Mixtie-Maxtie Motley Squad,
Monster Academy (with Heidi E. Y. Stemple), On Gull Beach,
Sanctuary (with Adam Stemple), and HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY
TALE. Her first book for 2019, THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS (with Adam
Stemple) comes your way in June.

Because she
apparently never sleeps, Yolen is also a teacher of writing and a
book reviewer. She lives in Western Massachusetts and St. Andrew,
Scotland.

All of us at
Tachyon, wish the incredible Jane a happy birthday. May your mythic
journeys never end.

For more info on THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover 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

February 5, 2019

Meet several Tachyon creators and pick up a Special Preview Edition of THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS at Boskone 56

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Ellen Datlow, Kate Elliott, James Patrick Kelly, Adam Stemple, Michael Swanwick, and Jane Yolen will all be attending Boskone 56, February 15-17, in Boston.

Brought to you by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA), Boskone is an annual science fiction convention, the oldest in New England.

A 50 copy Limited Special Preview Edition of THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple will be available for sale at Old Earth Books table. Yolen and Stemple are scheduled to sign at the table on Saturday, February 16th from 3:00 to 3:50.

Guest of Honor: Elizabeth Hand
Special Guest: Christopher Golden
Official Artist: Jim Burns
Young Adult Fiction Guest: Cindy Pon
Hal Clement Science Speaker: Vandana Singh
NESFA Press Guest: Gardner Dozois (in memoriam)

In honor of Gardner’s memory, Gardner Dozois will remain the NESFA Press Guest for Boskone 56.

Boskone offers a massive selection of readings, signings, and panels. To find any of these authors, check out the entire schedule.

For more info about THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Anabelle Gerardy

Design by Elizabeth Story

January 10, 2019

Tachyon titles featured in 105 Books Sci-Fi & Fantasy Editors Can’t Wait for You to Read in 2019

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized adam stemple, anabelle gerardy, b&n sci-fi & fantasy blog, Caitlín R. Kiernan, elizabeth story, hannes hummel, jacob weisman, Jane Yolen, kameron hurley, lavie tidhar, meet me in the future, peter s beagle, sarah anne langton, the last tsar's dragons, the unicorn anthology, the very best of caitlin r kiernan, the violent century, Thomas Canty, zine preview

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

December 13, 2018

Experience the majestic cover to Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple’s new novella THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS

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The fine folks at B&N SCI-FI & FANTASY BLOG were the first to reveal the fantastical cover to SFWA Grandmaster Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple latest collaboration THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS.

As the author of well more than 300 books—many of them in the genres we all love best—Jane Yolen is a veritable institution in sci-fi and fantasy, and yet any new book from her warrants excitement for any number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that you never know quite what to expect when you crack one of them open (her most recent is a novella-length prose poem about a contemporary Baba Yaga).

Today, we’re happy to bring you news—and the cover—for one of her next releases. Co-written with her regular collaborator (and son) Adam Stemple (Singer of Souls), THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS is a fantastical alternate history that brings dragons into the true story of the waning days of the Russian monarchy.

Check out the official summary below, followed by the cover, with art by Anabelle Gerardy and design by Elizabeth Story.

It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Although the Tsar continues to send his reign of fire to scorch his enemies—Jews and Bolsheviks—instead he lays waste to his entire country.

Even dragons are cannot quell the conspiracies arising around the Tsar, from the ranks of the oppressed, political operatives, and one nameless functionary watching power slip away. Even the Tsar’s foreign-born wife believes that his tactics are tantamount to evil. But revolution is in the air—and the Red Army is hatching its own weapons.

Discover the crux of Russian history as it is radically and entertainingly re-imagined by dynamic writing team Jane Yolen ( THE EMERALD CIRCUS) and Adam Stemple.

For more info on THE LAST TSAR’S DRAGONS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Anabelle Gerardy

Design by Elizabeth Story

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