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June 18, 2019

Get Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s stellar award-winner THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY for only $1.99!

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Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s World Fantasy Award winner THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY is a Kindle Daily Deal for Tuesday, June 18.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

[STARRED REVIEW] “A stellar anthology that proves not only that fantasy is alive and well, but that it will be for years to come.”
—Kirkus

What would you do if a tornado wanted you to be its Valentine? Or if a haunted spacesuit banged on your door? When is the ideal time to turn into a tiger? Would you post a supernatural portal on Craigslist?

In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of fantasy have entered the building—a love-starved, ambulatory skyscraper. The New Voices of Fantasy tethers some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five years. Their tales were hand-picked by the legendary Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) and genre expert Jacob Weisman (The Treasury of the Fantastic).

So go ahead, join the Communist revolution of the honeybees. The new kids got your back.

2018 World Fantasy Award winner
io9 – August Reading List
Booklist – August – SF/Fantasy/Horror Spotlight: The Top 10 Science fiction/Fantasy from Aug-July 2017
Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of August 2017
Geekiverse 8 Hot Sci-fi and Fantasy Releases For the Hot Days of August
A Bookish Hot New Release

[STARRED REVIEW] “This anthology represents some of the most exciting and interesting work in the fantasy field today, and anyone interested in the genre should read it immediately.”
—Booklist

[STARRED REVIEW]“This excellent anthology showcases up-and-coming speculative fiction writers, many of whom have received award nominations and critical attention to support their status as future influencers of the genre.
—Publishers Weekly

“Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong Nebula and World Fantasy Award Winner
“Selkie Stories are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar
“Tornado’s Siren” by Brooke Bolander
“Left the Century to Sit Unmoved” by Sarah Pinsker
“A Kiss with Teeth” by Max Gladstone
“Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon Nebula Award Winner
“The Cartographer Wasps and Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
“The Practical Witch’s Guide to Acquiring Real Estate” by A. C. Wise
“The Tallest Doll in New York City” by Maria Dahvana Headley
“The Haunting of Apollo A7LB” by Hannu Rajaniemi
“Here Be Dragons” by Chris Tarry
“The One They Took Before” by Kelly Sandoval
“Tiger Baby” by JY Yang
“The Duck” by Ben Loory
“Wing” by Amal El-Mohtar
“The Philosophers” by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
“My Time Among the Bridge Blowers” by Eugene Fischer Original publication
“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado
“The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” by Usman T. Malik British Fantasy Award Winner

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

May 10, 2018

James Morrow’s THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI garners a Shirley Jackson Award nomination

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized black feathers, carmen maria machado, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, her body and other parties, James Morrow, shirley jackson award, the asylum of dr caligari

The Shirley
Jackson Award nominations have been announced with James Morrow’s
provocative THE
ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI receiving nomination for best novella. Frequent Tachyon editor Ellen Datlow and THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY contributor Carmen Maria Machado were also honored.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

NOVEL

Ill
Will,
Dan Chaon (Ballantine Books)
The
Bone Mother,
David Demchuk (ChiZine Publications)
The
Changeling,
Victor Lavalle (Spiegel & Grau)
The
Hole,
Hye-young Pyun (Arcade Publishing)
The
Night Ocean,
Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)

NOVELLA

Fever
Dream,
Samantha Schweblin (Riverhead Books)
Mapping
the Interior,
Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI ,
James Morrow (Tachyon Publications LLC)
The
Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion,
Margaret Killjoy (Tor.com)
The
Lost Daughter Collective,
Lindsey Drager (Dzanc Books)
The
Murders of Molly Southbourne,
Tade Thompson (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE

“Take
the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street,” Chavisa Woods
(Things
to Do When You’re Goth in the Country)
“The
Resident,” Carmen Maria Machado (Her
Body and Other Parties)
“Sun
Dogs,” Laura Mauro (Shadows
and Tall Trees Volume 7)
“The
West Topeka Triangle,” Jeremiah Tolbert (Lightspeed
Magazine)
“You
Will Always Have Family: A Triptych,” Kathleen Kayembe (Nightmare
Magazine)

SHORT
FICTION

“Blur,”
Carmen Maria Machado (Tin
House,
issue 72, Summer 2017)
“Live
Through This,” Nadia Bulkin (Looming
Low)
“The
Convexity of Our Youth,” Kurt Fawver (Looming
Low)
“The
Mouse Queen,” Camilla Grudova (The
Doll’s Alphabet)
“The
Second Door,” Brian Evenson (Looming
Low)

SINGLE-AUTHOR
COLLECTION

Her
Body and Other Parties,
Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
She
Said Destroy,
Nadia Bulkin (Word Horde)
The
Dark Dark,
Samantha Hunt (FSG Originals)
The
Doll’s Alphabet,
Camilla Grudova (Coffee House Press)
Things
to Do When You’re Goth in the Country,
Chavisa Woods (Seven Stories Press)

EDITED
ANTHOLOGY

Black
Feathers: Dark Avian Tales,
edited by Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
The
Djinn Falls in Love,
edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Rebellion Publishing /
Solaris Books)
Looming
Low,
edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan (Dim Shores)
Shadows
and Tall Trees Volume 7,
edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
Tales
From a Talking Board,
edited by Ross E. Lockhart (Word Horde)

For more info on THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

May 9, 2018

Locus Award finalists are littered with contributors from Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized camille andre, carmen maria machado, elizabeth story, her body and other parties, jacob weisman, jy yang, locus awards, max gladstone, peter s beagle, sarah pinsker, sofia samatar, tender, the black tides of heaven, the new voices of fantasy, the red threads of fortune, the ruin of angels

Though Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY was not among the recently announced 2018 Locus Awards finalists, anthology contributors Max Gladstone, Carmen Maria Machado, Sarah Pinsker, Sofia Samatar, and JY Yang were all honored.

FANTASY NOVEL

The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing; Orbit UK)
Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)

NOVELLA

In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
“And Then There Were (N-One)“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells, (Tor.com Publishing)
The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

“Children of Thorns, Children of Water“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 7-8/17)
“The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF 9-10/17)
“Come See the Living Dryad“, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
“The Worshipful Society of Glovers“, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny 7-8/17)
“Extracurricular Activities“, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 2/15/17)
“The Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu (The Book of Swords)
“The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire (Black Feathers)
“Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
“The Lamentation of Their Women“, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 8/24/17)
“Waiting on a Bright Moon“, JY Yang (Tor.com 7/12/17)

COLLECTION

Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com Publishing)
The Overneath, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
Strange Weather, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

Congratulations to all the finalists

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

February 8, 2018

Tachyon tidbits featuring Ellen Datlow, Brandon Sanderson, Carmen Maria Machado, and Lavie Tidhar

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized alexander nanitchkov, best of 2017, brandon sanderson, camille andre, carmen maria machado, central station, dragons zombies and aliens, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, hipinion, lavie tidhar, lubimyczytać.pl, nightmares: a new decade of modern horror, nihil, noticias de zallar, nuno ferreira, polish, portuguese, review, sarah anne langton, the emperor's soul, the husband stitch, the new voices of fantasy

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

Ellen Datlow, Brandon Sanderson (credit: Ceridwen via Wikimedia Commons), Carmen Maria Machado, and Lavie Tidhar (Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013)

DRAGONS, ZOMBIES AND ALIENS praises Ellen Datlow’s NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR.

Anthologies are, by their nature, hit-or-miss, but I can honestly say that most of the stories in here were very good. There was suspense, creeps, and a couple of them even managed to be funny. It made me laugh one minute and squirm in my seat the next, which was undoubtedly very confusing to anyone who happened to be in the room with me at the time.

My favorite top five stories from NIGHTMARES are:

“The Atlas of Hell” by Nathan Ballingrud
“Ambitious Boys Like You” by Richard Kadrey
“Our Turn Too Will One Day Come” by Brian Hodge
“Sob in the Silence” by Gene Wolfe
“Strappado” by Laird Barron

I recommend this book to everyone, even those who, like me, honestly aren’t that interested in horror literature. It’s well worth the read.

On the Portuguese site NOTICIAS DE ZALLAR, Nuno Ferreira enjoys Brandon Sanderson’s Hugo Award winner THE EMPEROR’S SOUL.

Much remained to be seen of the relations that could come between them, even because they are characters that, developed, surely marked more than they already did. Which, for me, was enough.

Forgery is yet another magic system to join Brandon Sanderson’s super-original creations. The author got the idea by observing a technique of carving Chinese stamps in a museum in Taiwan , and it turned out. This novella has one more story full of potential and would like to see, in a brief future, a correlation between the story of THE EMPEROR’S SOUL and that of Elantris, since they occur in the same world.

Rating: 8/10

(Translation from the Portuguese, courtesy of Google)

On HIPINION, there is an entire thread devoted to Carmen Maria Machado’s short story “The Husband Stitch,” which appears in Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY.

by Catullus » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:50 pm

I’m going to put a general warning that there are some uncomfortable scenes and moments in this, and that it has sexual imagery etc.

https://granta.com/the-husband-stitch/

I’ve never read it before and I am still not over it. I love it and yet it made me feel wildly uncomfortable and yet its familiar at the same time.

Somehow it captures something about being a woman that I don’t know that I’ve seen before. It’s very cis-focused, and white, though there’s something to it that serves as a critique of that.

I somehow like that I know the ending of the story and yet it still comes as a cruel surprise in a way.

I’d love to hear people’s takes.

by big zorb » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:01 pm

oh whoa i remember this. it’s a really fantastic story. the control in the writing i remember thinking was really remarkable–there are a million places where it would be easy to lose control of the narrative/tone/voice/themes but she doesn’t. she holds it all together. excellent stuff.

by Catullus » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:05 pm

I think it’s just that the writing immediately feels slightly dangerous and yet familiar. I can tell what you mean by controlled. It’s like no part of it is unnecessary and all of it advances to fold together nicely, which is kind of a rarity in writing.

The pay off is both heartbreaking and also you get this sense of righteous anger that makes you want to share it, so naturally that makes it something I love because ya’ll know I love being angry for righteous reasons heh

At the Polish site LUBIMYCZYTAĆ.PL, Lavie Tidhar’s John W. Campbell Award winner CENTRAL STATION is nominated for the best science fiction book of the year.

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more on THE EMPEROR’S SOUL, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Alexander Nanitchkov

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

October 6, 2017

Carmen Maria Machado’s HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES deserves attention

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized camille andre, carmen maria machado, elizabeth story, her body and other parties, jacob weisman, kirkus prize, national book award, nicole y chung, parul sehgal, peter s beagle, the husband stitch, the new voices of fantasy, the new york times, the washington post

Carmen Maria Machado’s first collection HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES is garnering amazing acclaim.

Carmen Maria Machado follows up being honored as a finalist for The Kirkus Prize with being similarly honored for the prestigious National Book Award.

Kirkus Prize Fiction FINALISTS:

WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A
MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY: STORIES by Lesley Nneka Arimah

EXIT WEST by Mohsin
Hamid

WHITE TEARS by Hari
Kunzru

THE NINTH HOUR by
Alice McDermott

HER BODY AND OTHER
PARTIES: STORIES by Carmen Maria Machado

SING, UNBURIED, SING
by Jesmyn Ward

National Book Award Fiction FINALISTS:

Elliot Ackerman,
DARK AT THE CROSSING

Lisa Ko, THE LEAVERS

Min Jin Lee,
PACHINKO

Carmen Maria
Machado, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: STORIES

Jesmyn Ward, SING,
UNBURIED, SING

Congratulations to all the finalists.

For THE NEW YORK TIMES, Parul Sehgal praises the work.

“Her Body and Other Parties,” by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to an obstinate genre that won’t be gentrified. It’s a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, and borrowing from science fiction, queer theory and horror.

Published just this week, “Her Body and Other Parties” was released in the wake of its success: It’s been named a finalist for the National Book Award and for the Kirkus Prize, and its publisher, Graywolf, has already gone back for a third printing. Not since Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” in 2006, has a debut collection of short stories from a relatively unknown author garnered such attention, or deserved it more.

Sehgal gives special attention to “The Husband Stitch,” which also appears in Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman‘s acclaimed anthology THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY.

The strongest and scariest story here, “The Husband Stitch” — look up the term if you dare — follows a character through marriage, childbirth and childrearing. Running parallel are the gossip and ghost stories she hears about unlucky brides, unlucky pregnant women, women who got in the wrong car, who trusted the wrong doctor, married the wrong man, married the right man. “Stories have this way of running together like raindrops in a pond,” the narrator thinks. “Each is borne from the clouds separate, but once they have come together, there is no way to tell them apart.”

In the old myths, women were fenced in by forests, towers, spells. In Machado’s work, cautionary tales are all that’s required. Fear keeps women in line. Their own minds act in the place of moats.

Fairy tales were meant to inoculate us against dread, or so the theory goes; to offer children controlled exposure to frightening things — to jealousy, to adult sexuality. Terror in doses. Even Angela Carter, who claimed with characteristic relish that her work “cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man’s penis,” wrote some joyous endings. In her telling, Red Riding Hood and the wolf make the loveliest couple.

Machado offers a more complicated solace. She doesn’t contain our terror, she stokes it and teaches us about it.

Nicole Y. Chung in THE WASHINGTON POST includes the book among 9 short-story collections we can’t wait to read this fall.

Blending science fiction, comedy and fantasy, Machado explores violent acts committed against women. From a wife refusing to let her husband control her body to a woman attracting unwanted attention after weight-loss surgery, Machado’s stories inspire horror as well as sympathy. Longlisted for the National Book Award in fiction and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize.

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

September 22, 2017

Tachyon tidbits featuring Lavie Tidhar, Carmen Maria Machado, Daryl Gregory, Nalo Hopkinson, and Ellen Datlow

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized book riot, campbell, carmen maria machado, central station, chuma hill, daryl gregory, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, falling in love with hominids, her body and other parties, interview, john coulthart, josh beatman, lavie tidhar, liberty hardy, lovecraft's monsters, nalo hopkinson, national book award, nightmares, nihil, podcast, reiko murakami, the cutting room, the monstrous, the virtual memories show, tweet, we are all completely fine

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

Lavie Tidhar (photo: Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013), Carmen Maria Machado, Daryl Gregory, Nalo Hopkinson (David Findlay), and Ellen Datlow

Lavie Tidhar tweeted this out after receiving his Campbell Award for CENTRAL STATION.

Carmen Maria Machado, contributor to Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman‘s acclaimed THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, was named to the longlist for National Book Award in fiction for her collection HER BODY AND OTHER
PARTIES: STORIES.

Congratulations to all the honorees.

Fiction:

Elliot Ackerman,
DARK AT THE CROSSING (Knopf / Penguin Random House)
Daniel Alarcón, THE
KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE THE PEOPLE: STORIES (Riverhead Books / Penguin
Random House)
Charmaine Craig,
MISS BURMA (Grove Press / Grove Atlantic)
Jennifer Egan,
MANHATTAN BEACH (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
Min Jin Lee, PACHINKO (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette book Group)
Carmen Maria Machado, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: STORIES (Graywolf Press)
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A KIND OF FREEDOM (Counterpoint Press)
Jesmyn Ward, SING, UNBURIED, SING (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
Carol Zoref, BARREN ISLAND (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Lisa Ko, THE LEAVERS
(Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)
Min Jin Lee,
PACHINKO (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette book Group)
Carmen Maria
Machado, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: STORIES (Graywolf Press)
Margaret Wilkerson
Sexton, A KIND OF FREEDOM (Counterpoint Press)
Jesmyn Ward, SING,
UNBURIED, SING (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
Carol Zoref, BARREN
ISLAND (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

For BOOK RIOT, Liberty Hardy’s list of 100 Must-Read Indie Press Books includes a pair of Tachyon publications.

These 100 books lists always sound easy in theory, but then when I sit down to write one I discover compiling a list of, say, 100 science fiction debuts that are worth reading is a bit more work than I imagined.

That’s not the case with this post! Indie publishers are amazing and there are sooooo many books out there worth your time. I wrote down the first 100 books that popped into my head that I have actually read and loved, and I bet I could easily do another list of 100 more. (I smell a sequel!)

I’ve included a brief description from the publisher with each title. There are so many stunners here, this list should keep you busy for a while. Tell us in the comments about which of these you’ve read or other indie books you loved. Yay, books!

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE by Daryl Gregory (Tachyon Publications): No one believes the extent of their horrific tales, not until they are sought out by psychotherapist Dr. Jan Sayer. What happens when these seemingly-insane outcasts form a support group? Together they must discover which monsters they face are within—and which are lurking in plain sight.

FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS by Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon Publications): In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens that occasionally breathe fire, Hopkinson continues to create bold fiction that transcends boundaries and borders.

THE VIRTUAL MEMORIES SHOW welcomes Ellen Datlow to their podcast.

Legendary (as in mega-award-winning) horror, science fiction and fantasy editor Ellen Datlow joins the show to talk about her career. We get into defining horror (and its subset, the conte cruel), how the business has changed and hasn’t, the proper care and feeding of writers, dealing with diversity and representation in the anthologies she edits, finding good stories in translation, the pros and cons of blurring genre boundaries, keeping up with new voices, her preference for editing short fiction over novels, the writers she wishes she solicited stories from, running the monthly Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar, the editing lesson she got from Ben Bova, and why it’s never good when an author says, “This is the best thing I’ve ever written”!

For info on WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design 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 about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

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September 16, 2017

A week’s worth of THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY previews with Maria Dahvana Headley, Kelly Sandoval, Eugene Fischer, and Carmen Maria Machado

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized camille andre, carmen maria machado, elizabeth story, eugene fischer, jacob weisman, kelly sandoval, maria dahvana headley, peter s beagle, preview, the new voices of fantasy

In celebration of the recently released THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, Tachyon and editors Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman present glimpses into the future of fantasy from several of the volume’s magnificent tales.

This week’s previews included

The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley

The One They Took Before by Kelly Sandoval

My Time Among the Bridge Blowers by Eugene Fischer

The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado

Last week’s trio of previews from THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY.

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

September 14, 2017

THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY preview: “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized camille andre, carmen maria machado, elizabeth story, excerpt, jacob weisman, peter s beagle, the husband stitch, the new voices of fantasy

The
Husband Stitch

Carmen
Maria Machado

(If
you read this story out loud, please use the following voices:
Me:
as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the same.
The
boy who will grow into a man, and be my spouse: robust with his own
good fortune.
My father: like your father, or the man you wish
was your father.
My son: as a small child, gentle, rounded with
the faintest of lisps; as a man, like my husband.
All other
women: interchangeable with my own.)

In
the beginning, I know I want him before he does. This isn’t how
things are done, but this is how I am going to do them. I am at a
neighbor’s party with my parents, and I am seventeen. Though my
father didn’t notice, I drank half a glass of white wine in the
kitchen a few minutes ago, with the neighbor’s teenage daughter.
Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting.

The
boy is not facing me. I see the muscles of his neck and upper back,
how he fairly strains out of his button-down shirts. I run slick. It
isn’t that I don’t have choices. I am beautiful. I have a pretty
mouth. I have a breast that heaves out of my dresses in a way that
seems innocent and perverse all at the same time. I am a good girl,
from a good family. But he is a little craggy, in that way that men
sometimes are, and I want.

I
once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from
her paramour that he told her family and they had her hauled her off
to a sanitarium. I don’t know what deviant pleasure she asked for,
though I desperately wish I did. What magical thing could you want so
badly that they take you away from the known world for wanting it?

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

May 24, 2017

Impressive THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY is recommended

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized a c wise, adam ehrlich sachs, alyssa wong, amal el-mohtar, anthology, ben loory, brad k horner, brooke bolander, camilla andré, carmen maria machado, chris tarry, e lily yu, elizabeth story, eugene fischer, hannu rajaniemi, infinite text, jacob weisman, jy yang, kelly sandoval, maria dahvana headley, max gladstone, peter s beagle, review, sarah pinsker, sofia samatar, the new voices of fantasy, the reading life, ursula vernon, usman t malik

Reviews for Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s new anthology, THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, have started appearing.

Peter S. Beagle (photo: Rina Weisman) and Jacob Weisman

INFINITE TEXT praises the anthology.

What Beagle does with this anthology is an elegant passing of the writing pen to a younger generation of fantasy writers, and he presents them to us, the readers, without rigidity as his teachers before him have. He accepts them as they are and is in awe of their risk-taking, creativity, and courage. I cannot imagine how many works Beagle must have read through to select these top 19 stories, but I had a hard time selecting my favourites, as each one of them brings something completely unique to the Fantasy cornucopia. His selection includes a great balance of men and women writers, as well as various backgrounds.

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I recommend this anthology to anyone who loves fantasy and wants to try some of the new emerging voices. I have no doubt that each one of these writers will continue to write and publish larger works in the future, and this anthology is a great introduction to them. I would especially recommend this to readers who are new to fantasy and want to sample shorter works without committing to an entire series and/or trilogy.

Brad K. Horner on his eponymous site enjoys the book.

I really liked, sometimes loved the stories in this volume. A lot of them are reprints, if not all, and I remember a number of them quite fondly from previous reads, such as, and especially, Alyssa Wong and Brooke Bolander.

However, there were a number of newcomers (the definition is flexible) that I really enjoyed or I’ve already had the pleasure of reading some of their actual novels, such as stories from Hannu Rajaniemi, Sofia Samatar, and Max Gladstone. Hannu is a personal favorite author of mine, and Max is rapidly getting there, too, for me.

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All in all, though, I am very impressed and pleased by this collection and if its primary intention is to say, “Hey, look at these authors and revel in their glory!”, then I think it did a wonderful job. Most of them have quite a few awards under their wings, too.

I totally recommend this for all modern fantasy lovers. (And btw, there’s a TON of great OLD fantasy retellings, usually quite unique and unusual tales in their own right. If you love hard to find legends retold for modern sensibilities wrapped and layered in fantastic characters, this is ALSO your book.)

THE READING LIFE really likes the book’s lead story “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong.

A few days ago I as kindly given a review copy of a forthcoming soon anthology, THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman. I was completely shocked by how much I liked the beautiful lead story, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong. Last month I first read the surrealistic short fiction of Leonora Carrington. If April 2017 was for me the month I "discovered” Leonora Carrington, then quite possibly May will be observed as the month I first read Alyssa Wong. I know this sounds hyperbolic but I can for sure visualize Leonora being stunned by “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” i certainly was. I was on first reading mesmerized by the sheer elegance of Wong’s prose combined with the very ugly and evil story she tells.

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If just a few of the stories in THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY are close to this good, it is well worth acquiring.

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camilla André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

May 15, 2017

Win a copy of Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY

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With the help of fine folks over at GOODREADS, we’re giving away a signed advance reading copy of the new anthology, edited by the legendary Peter S. Beagle and acclaimed Jacob Weisman, THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY.

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THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY

Edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman

Eugene Fisher, Brooke Bolander, Amal El-Mohtar, Maria Dahvana Headley, Max Gladstone, Ben Loory, Carmen Maria Machado, Usman T. Malik, Sarah Pinsker, Hannu Rajaniemi, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Sofia Samatar, Kelly Sandoval, Chris Tarry, A. C. Wise, Alyssa Wong, JY Yang, E. Lily Yu

In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of fantasy have entered the building—a love-starved, ambulatory skyscraper. The New Voices of Fantasy tethers some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five years. Their tales were hand-picked by the legendary Peter S. Beagle (THE LAST UNICORN) and genre expert Jacob Weisman (THE TREASURY OF THE FANTASTIC).

So go ahead, join the Communist revolution of the honeybees. The new kids got your back.

“Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong
“Selkie Stories are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar
“Tornado’s Siren” by Brooke Bolander
“Left the Century to Sit Unmoved” by Sarah Pinsker
“A Kiss with Teeth” by Max Gladstone
“Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon
“The Cartographer Wasps and Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
“The Practical Witch’s Guide to Acquiring Real Estate” by A. C. Wise
“The Tallest Doll in New York City” by Maria Dahvana Headley
“The Haunting of Apollo A7LB” by Hannu Rajaniemi
“Here Be Dragons” by Chris Tarry
“The One They Took Before” by Kelly Sandoval
“Tiger Baby” by JY Yang
“The Duck” by Ben Loory
“Wing” by Amal El-Mohtar
“The Philosophers” by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
“My Time Among the Bridge Blowers” by Eugene Fischer
“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado
“The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” by Usman T. Malik

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camilla André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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With the help of fine folks over at GOODREADS, we’re giving away a signed advance reading copy of the new anthology, edited by the legendary Peter S. Beagle and acclaimed Jacob Weisman, THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY.