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August 27, 2020

The fine folks at BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES are giving away R. B. Lemberg’s heartbreaking and beautiful THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES

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Cover by Elizabeth Story based on initial concepts by Francesca Myman

The good folks at BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES are giving away two copies of of R. B. Lemberg’s acclaimed debut THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES. The first contest occurs on their site and runs through Wednesday, September 9, and then the second happens on Twitter, Wednesday, September 2.

In conjunction with the release of BCS author R.B. Lemberg’s new book THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES, out Sep. 4 from Tachyon Publications, BCS is giving away two copies.

The Four Profound Weaves is set in R.B.’s lushly imagined and culturally rich fantasy world Birdverse. BCS readers may know Birdverse from the five BCS novelettes and novellas set there, including “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” in BCS #175, which was a finalist for the Nebula Awards.

The Four Profound Weaves is a brand-new novella of Birdverse, featuring one of the characters from “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds.” It’s published by Tachycon Publications in digital and as a trade paperback with this lovely cover.

One giveaway is on the BCS website in this post. (The other will be on the BCS Twitter feed @BCSmagazine, on Wed. Sep. 2.)

To enter the giveaway that’s in this very post, comment on this post (here) and tell us what your favorite R.B. Lemberg piece of short fiction is. Whether a Birdverse story or one of their other stories; whether published in BCS or elsewhere.Your comment will enter you in a random drawing for the copy of The Four Profound Weaves. This giveaway ends Wed. Sep. 9.

The Twitter giveaway for the copy of The Four Profound Weaves will take place Wed. Sep. 2 on the BCS Twitter feed @BCSmagazine. It will run from 2 PM EST until 5 PM EST.

To enter, all you need to do is tweet what your favorite R.B. Lemberg short story is. Whether a Birdverse story or one of their many other stories; whether published in BCS or elsewhere. (Full Rules are here, at the end of this post.)

To get you started, here are R.B.’s stories in BCS, and you can peruse our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts for work by them in other venues:

“To Balance the Weight of Khalem” in BCS #300
“A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power” in BCS #229 and podcast BCS 200
“The Book of How to Live” in BCS #209
“Geometries of Belonging” in BCS #183
“Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” in BCS #175
“Held Close in Syllables of Light” in BCS #80
Good luck!

July 31, 2020

Win a copy of the exciting DRIFTWOOD by Marie Brennan

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The good folks at BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES are giving away two copies of Marie Brennan’s fascinating DRIFTWOOD. The first contest is hosted on their site and runs through Wednesday, August 12, and then the second happens on Twitter, Wednesday, August 5 2PM EST until 5PM EST.

In honor of the release of BCS author Marie Brennan’s new book DRIFTWOOD, Aug. 14 from Tachyon Publications, BCS is giving away two copies.

BCS readers may know the Driftwood world from the three BCS short stories set there:“The Ascent of Unreason” in BCS #104, “Remembering Light” in BCS #44, “Driftwood” in BCS #14.

Driftwood is made up of shattered fragments of other worlds, and the new book DRIFTWOOD, as Marie explains on her website, appropriately combines all the existing Driftwood short fiction, embedded in and given context by a frame story, plus a brand-new novelette to flesh it out.

One giveaway is on the BCS website in this post. (The other will be on the BCS Twitter feed @BCSmagazine, on Wed. Aug. 5; details here.)

To enter the giveaway that’s in this very post, comment on this post (here) and tell us what your favorite Marie Brennan short story is. Whether a Driftwood story or one of her many other stories; whether published in BCS or elsewhere.

Your comment will enter you in a random drawing for the signed copy of Driftwood. This giveaway ends Wed. Aug. 12. (Full Rules are here, at the end of this post.)
First Marie Brennnan DRIFTWOOD book giveaway

One giveaway will be on the BCS Twitter feed @BCSmagazine. (The other is on the BCS website in a News post, here.)

The Twitter giveaway for the copy of DRIFTWOOD will take place Wed. Aug 5 on the BCS Twitter feed @BCSmagazine. It will run from 2 PM EST until 5 PM EST.

To enter, all you need to do is tweet what your favorite Marie Brennan short story is. Whether a Driftwood story or one of her many other stories; whether published in BCS or elsewhere. (Full Rules are here, at the end of this post.)
Second Marie Brennan DRIFTWOOD Book Giveaway, on Twitter Aug. 5

April 16, 2020

It’s probably safe to say that R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES will be one of the highlights of 2020

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Though not due until September (but available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller or direct from Tachyon), R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES garners a lot of praise.

TO OTHER WORLDS highly recommends the book.

But to me, by far the biggest surprise was that the length felt exactly right. I found I don’t like novellas very much – they often feel as if they’re missing something, as if either there’s too many ideas or plot crammed into too small of a space or as if there’s not enough. Not so here; Lemberg hit the precarious balance perfectly. THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES feels complete. It needs nothing more and nothing less than what is already there. It’s probably safe to say this will be one of the highlights of 2020 for me and I most highly recommend it.

Enjoyment: 5/5
Execution: 5/5

Marissa Lingen on NOVEL GAZING REDUX feels much the same.

I picked up THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES after reading a long book about horrible people, and it was incredibly restorative. It was fun and gripping and a very fast read, and the book design was beautiful. But along with all those things it was refreshing at a time when my heart needed to be refreshed. Highly recommended.

At IT’S A JUMBLE, Vanessa Fogg adds their thoughts.

THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES is both beautiful and profound. It speaks of love in various ways, and of how love can hurt and bind as well as nourish and bring joy. It speaks of various forms of oppression, and the different boundaries (in some cases, literal walls) that people concoct for themselves, the limits that some seek to transcend and the prisons that others willingly accept. There’s a literal prison in this slim book, a dungeon filled with speaking bones and ghosts, a torturer, and a tyrant. There’s darkness and truly creepy, striking imagery. There’s an intimate realism to the characters and their struggles, but there’s also a fable-like quality to the plot. The mix works; this novella is lovely, luminous, and moving.

October 15, 2018

Meet Rudy Rucker and Gregory Norman Bossert at October SF in SF

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SF IN SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes the legendary Rudy Rucker and World Fantasy Award winner Gregory Norman Bossert.

Each author will read from a selection of their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by Terry Bisson. Schmoozing with the authors and book signing follows the end of the discussion.

Beneath Ceaseless Sky cover by Mats Minnhagen

Sunday, October 21
Doors and cash bar open 6:00PM
Event begins at 6:30 PM
The American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina
San Francisco, CA

$10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds).

All donations 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 Borderlands Books, 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

October 12, 2018

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nick Mamatas, Nalo Hopkinson, Jaymee Goh, Michael Swanwick, and Kathryn Cramer

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The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Nick Mamatas, Nalo Hopkinson (photo: David Findlay), Jaymee Goh, Michael Swanwick (Beth Gwynn), and Kathryn Cramer

In their Worldcon 76 Report, LOCUS interviews Tachyon publisher Jacob Weisman.

Shahid Mahmoud of Phoenix Pick reported “good traffic with above average sales” and Jacob Weisman of Tachyon said, “Many of our authors signed at the tables and hung out, sitting on the couch and comfy chairs we brought for them. Nick Mamatas’ early book release party for THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING was definitely a highlight at the booth, but we sold enough of everything we brought to make the convention an unqualified success.”

SU lauds Nalo Hopkinson’s foreword to FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS.

I was introduced to Nalo Hopkinson during my first semester of college in my mandatory writing seminar. We read a short story of hers, and I loved it. She’s been a favorite writer of mine for some time now.

The foreword to her short story collection Falling in Love with Hominids is one of my favorite texts. It is brief but poignant.

Every human being should read it.

BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES (Issue #262, Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue II) offers Jaymee Goh’s “Magic Potion Behind-the-Mountains” in print and audio.

When the magistrate arrives in Immen, the first thing he does is summon Grandmother Seung, druidess of Yang Village Behind-the-Mountains, to ask for her magic potion. (This is, of course, after putting into order the work his predecessor left behind, after examining the roster of his new officers, after a good night’s rest. The magistrate understands the perfect order of things.)

He is not thrilled about being assigned to this northern district, snowed-in for half the year and too close to the tundra for his comfort. The land of Yaoha is known for its pristine snows, but there are reasons why the capital is not in the mountains. When he thinks about how the elder brother called the Adjudicator told him about his new assignment, he feels blood rising in his cheeks and he pictures the smug smile on the Adjudicator’s face at having disrupted a younger brother’s promising military career. The Adjudicator claimed that the northern district needed someone savvy enough to understand the delicate politics on the border, and a court-raised official would be perfect. The magistrate is a middling scion of the royal family, but he doesn’t think he deserves to be sent away like that. He has never hurt anyone, least of all any of his brothers.

Cover by Mats Minnhagen

TOR.COM reveals Michael Swanwick’s new novel The Iron Dragon’s Mother.

The urban edge of The Magicians meets Gene Wolfe’s The Wizard Knight in Michael Swanwick’s new adventure fantasy. A return to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of Swanwick’s previous novels The Iron Dragon’s Daughter and The Dragons of Babel, The Iron Dragon’s Mother publishes June 2019 from Tor Books!

Cover by Gregory Manchess

Also at TOR.COM, James Davis Nicoll includes Kathryn Cramer among
Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1980s, Part III.

Kathryn Cramer has written short fiction but she may be best known for co-helming YEAR’S BEST FANTASY from 2001 to 2009 and The Year’s Best SF from 2002 to 2012.

For more info on THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more information on FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Chuma Hill

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on YEAR’S BEST FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover designs by Ann Monn