Ivy is a normal girl…until a Sprite decides to make a home inside her body and throw her life into chaos. And that’s not even the worst of it. A stranger is charming Ivy’s sisters, and she’s asking some suspicious questions about Ivy’s favorite book. The book her Great-Aunt wrote before mysteriously vanising from the public eye. A book called Ivory Apples… #books #bookstagram #2019books #2019reads #newbooks #arc #advancereaderscopy #advancedreadercopy #galley #ivoryapples #upcomingbooks #fantasy #fantasybooks #modernfantasy #urbanfantasy #lisagoldstein #publishing #tachyon #tachyonpublications #red #septemberreads #septemberbooks #womenwriters #womenauthors #femaleauthors #reads
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByYwwt0AP32/?igshid=1pkgrbh2iy2ir
arc
The Violent Century galley’s are here! Lavie Tidhar’s alternate-history tale of the secret superheroes in WW2 is “Like Watchmen on crack.”—io9
#lavietidhar #theviolentcentury #violentcentury #books #newbooks #advancereaderscopy #advancereadercopy #arc #galley #scifibooks #fantasybooks #scififantasy #superhero #superherobooks #alternatehistory #bookstagram #publishing #tachyon #tachyonpublications
https://www.instagram.com/p/BumfLNyg1Dn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=199mybe30hwh3
New ARCs are here! THE VERY BEST OF CAITLIN R. KIERNAN galleys are in the office, ready to be shipped out to reviewers. Reviewers, booksellers, and libriarians can also request digital galleys on netgalley and edelweiss!
#arc #galley #advancereaderscopy #caitlinrkiernan #newbook #upcomingbook #darkfantasy #horror #books #bookstagram #publishing #unboxing #blueandorange #tachyon #tachyonpublications #shortstories #womenwriters #netgalley #edelweiss
https://www.instagram.com/p/BozVt6hFs6D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nj4yptgbot85
Reviewers, bloggers, and librarians journey to the outer limits of literature with the tales of INVADERS
Review copies of the World Fantasy Award nominee Jacob Weisman’s extraordinary new anthology INVADERS: 22 TALES
FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE are now available via NetGalley.
These copies are only for reviewers and librarians. For more details, visit NetGalley.
And while you are there, check out the other Tachyon titles for review.
INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE
Edited by Jacob Weisman
ISBN: 9781616962104
Published: July 2016
Available Format(s): Trade Paperback and Digital Books
The invasion of the future has begun.
“For
almost forty years I’ve believed and practiced and preached that
there’s no necessary distance between ‘high literature’ and
‘science fiction.’ INVADERS is convincing proof. Funny, absurd, frightening, streetwise, probing, heartbreaking — the fiction collected here touches all registers.”
—Carter Scholz, author of THE AMOUNT TO CARRY: STORIES and RADIANCEE
Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diáz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology gone wrong and mandated that pulp fiction must finally grow up.
“Well,
damn. From the first page to the last, INVADERS surprised
and intoxicated me, offering one stirring, visionary, warm-hearted,
funny, probing story after another. Reading them in quick succession
made me feel as if the world was flickering before my eyes,
ricocheting from one possible reality to another, beneath a dozen
different suns. It would be hard to devise a better survey of those
contemporary short fiction writers, both celebrated and undersung,
who have worked to smuggle the methods of science fiction into the
mainstream.”
—Kevin Brockmeier, author of A FEW SECONDS
OF RADIANT FILMSTRIP
In these wildly-speculative stories you will discover the company that controls the world from an alley in Greenwich Village. You’ll find nanotechnology that returns memories to the residents of a nursing home. You’ll rally an avian-like alien to become a mascot for a Major League Baseball team.
Table of Contents
- “Portal” by J. Robert Lennon
- “Beautiful Monsters” by Eric Puchner
- “The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun” by Ben Loory.
- “Five Fucks” by Jonathan Lethem
- “LIMBs” by Julia Elliott
- “We Are The Olfanauts” by Deji Bryce Olukotun
- “The Region of Unlikeness” by Rivka Galchen
- “A Precursor of the Cinema” by Steven Millhauser
- “In the Bushes” by Jami Attenberg
- “Fugue State” by Brian Evenson
- “Reports Concerning the Death of the Seattle Albatross Are Somewhat Exaggerated” by W. P. Kinsella
- “Lambing Season” by Molly Gloss
- “Conrad Loomis & The Clothes Ray” by Amiri Baraka.
- “Topics in Advanced Rocketry” by Chris Tarry
- “The Inner City” by Karen Heuler
- “Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders
- “Amorometer” by Kelly Luce
- “The Yogurt of Vasirin Kefirovsky” by Max Apple
- “Monstros” by Junot Díaz
- “Minotaur” by Jim Shepard
- “Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover” by Robert Olen Butler
- “Near Flesh” by Katherine Dunn
For more information about INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Goro Fujita
Design by Elizabeth Story
Reviewers, bloggers, and librarians get World Fantasy Award Winner Patricia A. McKillip’s DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES
“McKillip’s is the first name that comes to mind when I’m asked whom I read myself, whom I’d recommend that others read, and who makes me shake my grizzled head and say, ‘Damn I wish I’d done that.’”
—Peter S. Beagle, author of THE LAST UNICORN and SLEIGHT OF HAND
Review copies of the endlessly astonishing and impressive fantasist Patricia A. McKillip’s new collection of lyrical and powerful stories DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES are now available via NetGalley.
These copies are only for reviewers and librarians. For more details, visit NetGalley.
And while you are there, check out the other Tachyon titles for review.
Dreams of Distant Shores
by Patricia A. McKillip
ISBN: 9781616962180
Published: June 2016
Available Format(s): Trade Paperback and Digital Books
A
youthful artist is possessed by both his painting and his muse.
Seductive travelers from the sea enrapture distant lovers. The statue
of a mermaid comes suddenly to life. Two friends are transfixed by a
haunted estate.
“I
love Patricia McKillip’s novels, but even more, I am passionate
about her brilliant short stories—those coruscating jewels that are
both remarkable for their language, their power, their wit, and their
depth. She writes pure fantasy and historical fantasy with equal
ease. More, more please.”
–Jane Yolen, author of BRIAR
ROSE, SISTER EMILY’S LIGHTSHIP, DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC, SISTER
LIGHT/SISTER DARK
Bestselling
author Patricia A. McKillip (THE RIDDLE-MASTER OF HED) is one of the
most lyrical writers gracing the fantasy genre. With the debut of
three brand-new stories, DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES is a true ode to
her many talents. Fans of McKillip’s ethereal fiction will delight
in these previously-uncollected tales; those new to her work will
find much to enchant them.
“World
Fantasy Award winner McKillip can take the most common fantasy
elements—dragons and bards, sorcerers and shape-shifters—and
reshape them in surprising and resonant ways.”
—Publishers
Weekly,
starred review
“I
read—and reread—McKillip eagerly. She reminds me that fantasy is
worth writing.”—Stephen R. Donaldson, author of
the Chronicles
of Thomas Covenant
“Cool
elegance.”—Chicago
Sun-Times
“Dreamlike…colorful…evocative….”
—Locus
“Patricia
McKillip is the real thing and always has been. She shows the rest of
us that magic can be made with words and air; that is it worth doing
and worth doing well.”—Ellen Kushner, author
of SWORDSPOINT and THOMAS
THE RHYMER
“Lush
imagery and wry humor…McKillip’s rich language conveys real
strangeness and power.”—Starlog
“McKillip
skillfully knits disparate threads into a rewardingly rich and
satisfying story.”—Amazon.com
“McKillip’s
luminous prose and compelling characters combine to produce a
masterwork of style and substance.”—Library
Journal
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Weird
- Mer (Original Story)
- The Gorgon in the Cupboard
- Which Witch
- Edith and Henry Go Motoring (Original Story)
- Alien (Original Story)
- Something Rich and Strange
- Writing High Fantasy (Essay)
For more info on DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Thomas Canty
Reviewers, bloggers, and librarians get World Fantasy Award Winner Lavie Tidhar’s CENTRAL STATION
Review copies of the British Science Fiction award winner Lavie Tidhar’s CENTRAL STATION are now available via NetGalley.
These copies are only for reviewers and librarians. For more details, visit NetGalley.
And while you are there, check out the other Tachyon titles for review.
CENTRAL STATION
by Lavie Tidhar
ISBN: 9781616962142
Published: May 2016
Available Format(s): Trade Paperback and Ebooks
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap and data is cheaper.
“If you want to know what SF is going to look like in the next decade, this is it.”
—Gardner Dozois, editor of the best-selling Year’s Best Science Fiction series
When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover Miriam is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the data stream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin Isobel is infatuated with a robotnik—a cyborg ex-Israeli soldier who might well be begging for parts. Even his old flame Carmel—a hunted data-vampire—has followed him back to a planet where she is forbidden to return.
“A dazzling tale of complicated politics and even more complicated souls. Beautiful.”
—Ken Liu, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy winner and author of The Grace of Kings
Rising above all is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful entities who, through the Conversation—a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness—are just the beginning of irrevocable change.
“Lavie Tidhar weaves the threads of classic and modern science fiction tropes with the skills of a gene surgeon and creates a whole new landscape to portray a future both familiar and unsettling. A unique marriage of Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, C. L. Moore, China Miéville, and Larry Niven with 50 degrees of compassion and the bizarre added. An irresistible cocktail.”
—Maxim Jakubowski, author of the Sunday Times bestselling Vina Jackson novels
For more information about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover design by Elizabeth Story