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January 26, 2017

Excitement mounts for the eagerly anticipated WICKED WONDERS by Ellen Klages

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A trio of new blurbs for Ellen Klages’ forthcoming WICKED WONDERS.

“WICKED WONDERS will realign disparate parts of your heart into quantum sympathy. Read it. Read it now.”

—William Alexander, National Book Award-winning author of GOBLIN SECRETS

“Stunning. She draws your eye to the waves at the shore then gathers the tide behind your back. Bradbury, Dahl, Jackson? No—simply incomparable Klages.”

—Karen Lord, author of THE GALAXY GAME and
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS

“A shimmering cornucopia of language, emotion, and surprises rich with meaning. No one gives us the terrible innocence and longings of childhood better than Ellen Klages. These stories are fabulous, in every sense of that multi-faceted word.”

—Nancy Kress, Nebula Award-winning author of AFTER THE FALL, BEFORE THE FALL, DURING THE FALL

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

August 29, 2016

More praise for Bruce Sterling’s wonder-romp PIRATE UTOPIA

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Gwyneth Jones, Nick Mamatas, and Paul Di Filippo join Michael Moorcock in his praise for Bruce Sterling’s forthcoming alt history, dieselpunk adventure PIRATE UTOPIA.

“A splendidly illustrated Futurist romp, reminiscent of the comedic elements in Pynchon’s GRAVITY’S RAINBOW, PIRATE UTOPIA riffs on real, recondite modern history to truly bizarre effect.”
—Gwyneth Jones, author of LIFE and THE GRASSHOPPER’S CHILD

“I don’t know why a little weirdo like me is blurbing a demigod like Bruce Sterling, but listen, little weirdos: the PIRATE UTOPIA is calling for you! Build the future before it gets built for you; read this book.”
—Nick Mamatas, author of SENSATION and I AM PROVIDENCE

“Bruce Sterling maintains that J. G. Ballard was the most accurate and brilliant prophet ever to arise from the ranks of science fiction. I have to disagree, and hereby nominate Sterling himself for that honor. Although his newest, PIRATE UTOPIA, a rigorously gonzo counterfactual, is not one of the thickly detailed futures he has often previously imagined, it nonetheless captures the feelings and vectors and strange attractors of the present day in a most startling and entertaining fashion. As politics, culture and individual lifestyles warp and mutate and shatter around us, dynamic individuals learn how to assemble new and more satisfying outlaw lives from the shards. Sterling’s intimate acquaintance with modern Europe powers this compact powerhouse of a book, and his insights into the human soul enliven the vivid, heterogenous cast. Using the powers consecrated by my ethnicity, I hereby dub Sterling an honorary Italian, and a worthy successor to our Futurist heritage!”
—Paul Di Filippo, author of A PALAZZO IN THE STARS

The PIRATE UTOPIA revolution happens this November!

For more info on PIRATE UTOPIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover and images by John Coulthart

May 12, 2016

“Michael Swanwick is a god” and other observations

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Several authors have chimed in with their affection for Michael Swanwick’s forthcoming collection NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT.

“Is
there any SF writer, living or dead or cryonically suspended, who
rivals Michael Swanwick for sheer virtuosity? I think not. From
the hard-sf poignancy of ‘The Woman Who Shook the World Tree’ to
the Borgesian high jinks of ‘The Man in Gray,’ from the beguiling
folk fantasy of ‘The Dala Horse’ to the post-cyberpunk intensity
of ‘Libertarian Russia,’ from the Bulgakov-inflected
phantasmagoria of ‘Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown’ to the
psychological realism (and biological surrealism) of ‘Passage of
Earth’—I could go on—NOT SO MUCH reveals an author who is a Jack-of-all-genres and their master as well.“
—James
Morrow author of GALÁPAGOS
REGAINED

“OK—it’s official. Michael Swanwick is a god. He makes worlds that
work, every tick and tock of them. He makes people who cry, sweat,
puke, fall in love, die in conceivable ways. He’s smart and crafty,
passionate and wily. Both trickster and life-giver. He creates and
uncreates. And yes, he brings Light. If I don’t exactly worship him,
I read every story of his I can get my hands on. So thanks, Tachyon
for bringing me more stories—some old favorites, some I hadn’t read
before. Because gods need their readers, and God knows, I need
more Swanwick.”
—Jane Yolen, author of BRIAR
ROSE

“Michael
Swanwick is one of our most reliably entertaining and provocative
writers.”

—Greg Bear, author of DARWIN’S
RADIO

“I
would effuse about the excellence of the stories within this
collection—Michael Swanwick’s eleventh such—for they are by turns
shocking, delightful, puckish, innovative, and electric… .
However, I am too busy plotting how to steal the devil’s stone
(given to him by a Siberian shaman) that Michael keeps by his
typewriter in order to unlock his writing power, all without
disturbing his cat.”
—Fran
Wilde, Nebula-nominated author of UPDRAFT and CLOUDBOUND

“This
is standard Swanwick, where the reader’s feet never quite touch the
ground. Brilliant.”
—Jack
McDevitt, author of THE ENGINES OF GOD

For more information on NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story