Charlie Jane Anders

August 13, 2024

Happy book birthday to NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, the new anthology from World Fantasy Award award-winning Jonathan Strahan

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Lauded by Publishers Weekly as “a gift for sci-fi lovers” and by Weightless State as “a great edition to any shelf for those who love scifi,” NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, edited by World Fantasy, Aurealis, Atheling, and Ditmar Award award-winning Jonathan Strahan, is now available from all finer booksellers or direct from Tachyon.

Cover art by Justin Van Genderen
Design by Elizabeth Story

SF readers used to seeing space opera as multi-doorstop series will find a lot to love in this collection of skillful short works in a popular subgenre.

Library Journal

NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA

Edited by Jonathan Strahan

ISBN: 978-1-61696-420-7 (print); 978-1-61696-421-4 (digital)

Available Format(s): Trade paperback and digital formats

There is no better or more expert editor working in SF; impeccable taste, great range, excellent choices. Anyone interested in space opera will want to buy NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA.

Adam Roberts, author of The This

Award-winning Australian science-fiction editor Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction of the Year series) presents the quintessential guide to the exciting New Space Opera. This skillfully curated, must-read volume gathers fifteen dramatic, newly classic interstellar adventures from some of the most highly acclaimed and popular speculative-fiction authors.

In “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” a cloud-based contractor finds a human war criminal clinging to the hull of the ship. The clones of “All the Colours You Thought Were Kings,” about to attend their coming-of-age ceremony, are also plotting treason. During “A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime,” two outlaws go on the run after stealing a device from a space cult.

Take a faster-than-light trip to the future. Discover where memes rise and fall in moments. Here are the new, adventurous, and extremely efficient takes on interstellar battles, sentient spaceships, and galactic intrigue.

A collection of a “who’s who” [in] modern science fiction and Jonathan Strahan’s focus on the selection of superb stories.

Science Fiction Short Story Reviews

“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir,” by Karin Tidbeck

“Introduction: From the New Space Opera to Here . . . ,” by Jonathan Strahan

“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” by Tobias S. Buckell

“Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee

“All the Colors You Thought Were Kings,” by Arkady Martine

“Belladonna Nights,” by Alastair Reynolds

“Metal Like Blood in the Dark,” by T. Kingfisher

“A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime,” by Charlie Jane Anders

“Immersion,” by Aliette de Bodard

“Morrigan in the Sunglare,” by Seth Dickinson

“The Old Dispensation,” by Lavie Tidhar

“A Good Heretic,” by Becky Chambers

“A Voyage to Queensthroat,” by Anya Johanna DeNiro

“The Justified,” by Ann Leckie

“Planetstuck,” by Sam J. Miller

August 6, 2024

Win a copy of NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, edited by the award-winning Jonathan Strahan with stories by Ann Leckie, Becky Chambers, Alastair Reynolds, T. Kingfisher, Charlie Jane Anders, Yoon Ha Lee, Sam J. Miller, Lavie Tidhar, Tobias S. Buckell, Arkady Martine, Aliette de Bodard, and more

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With the help of the fine folks at GoodReads we’re giving away a copy of NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, edited by World Fantasy, Aurealis, Atheling, and Ditmar Award award-winning Jonathan Strahan with contributions from Ann Leckie, Becky Chambers, Alastair Reynolds, T. Kingfisher, Charlie Jane Anders, Anya Johanna DeNiro, Yoon Ha Lee, Sam J. Miller, Lavie Tidhar, Tobias S. Buckell, Arkady Martine, Aliette de Bodard, Seth Dickinson, and Karin Tidbeck.

It’s a gift for sci-fi lovers.

Publishers Weekly

There is no better or more expert editor working in SF; impeccable taste, great range, excellent choices. Anyone interested in space opera will want to buy NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA.

Adam Roberts, author of The This

SF readers used to seeing space opera as multi-doorstop series will find a lot to love in this collection of skillful short works in a popular subgenre.

Library Journal

A collection of a “who’s who” [in] modern science fiction and Jonathan Strahan’s focus on the selection of superb stories.

Science Fiction Short Story Reviews

“Introduction: From the New Space Opera to Here . . . ,” by Jonathan Strahan
“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” by Tobias S. Buckell
“Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee
“All the Colors You Thought Were Kings,” by Arkady Martine
“Belladonna Nights,” by Alastair Reynolds
“Metal Like Blood in the Dark,” by T. Kingfisher
“A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime,” by Charlie Jane Anders
“Immersion,” by Aliette de Bodard
“Morrigan in the Sunglare,” by Seth Dickinson
“The Old Dispensation,” by Lavie Tidhar
“A Good Heretic,” by Becky Chambers
“A Voyage to Queensthroat,” by Anya Johanna DeNiro
“The Justified,” by Ann Leckie
“Planetstuck,” by Sam J. Miller
“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir,” by Karin Tidbeck

April 3, 2024

Booksellers, librarians, bloggers, and reviewers get NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, the new anthology from award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan

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Review copies of World Fantasy, Aurealis, Atheling, and Ditmar Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan’s latest anthology NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA

edited by
Jonathan Strahan

ISBN: 978-1-61696-420-7 (print); 978-1-61696-421-4 (digital)

Published: August 13, 2024

Available Format(s): Trade paperback and digital formats

There is no better or more expert editor working in SF; impeccable taste, great range, excellent choices. Anyone interested in space opera will want to buy NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA.
Adam Roberts, author of The This

Award-winning science fiction editor Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction of the Year series) presents this quintessential guide to the New Space Opera, showcasing short stories from fifteen of acclaimed speculative fiction authors, including Charlie Jane Anders, Alastair Reynolds, Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, Sam J. Miller, and more.

Take a faster-than-light trip to the future. Discover where memes rise and fall in moments. Here are the new, adventurous, and extremely efficient—takes on interstellar battles, sentient spaceships, and galactic intrigue. The future is sooner than you think, and there’s only so much time to visit.

“Introduction: From the New Space Opera to Here . . .,” by Jonathan Strahan
“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” by Tobias S. Buckell
“Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee
“All the Colors You Thought Were Kings,” by Arkady Martine
“Belladonna Nights,” by Alastair Reynolds
“Metal Like Blood in the Dark,” by T. Kingfisher
“A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime,” by Charlie Jane Anders
“Immersion,” by Aliette de Bodard
“Morrigan in the Sunglare,” by Seth Dickinson
“The Old Dispensation,” by Lavie Tidhar
“A Good Heretic,” by Becky Chambers
“A Voyage to Queensthroat,” by Anya Johanna DeNiro
“The Justified,” by Ann Leckie
“Planetstuck,” by Sam J. Miller
“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir,” by Karin Tidbeck

February 1, 2024

Tachyon tidbits featuring Patricia McKillip, Susan Palwick, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Pat Murphy, and Terry Bisson

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Patricia A. McKillip at Westercon 64 in the Fairmont San Jose Hotel on Saturday 2 July 2011 (Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons)

Catching Shadows praises THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD: SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, which is current available for pre-order directly from Tachyon and all finer booksellers.

McKillip’s work has a thoughtful, introspective and dreamlike feel, and THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD is just a powerful and thought-provoking as the first time I read it in my teens.

Susan Palwick was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

On December 1, 2023 we attended the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame event at the University of Nevada Reno to celebrate this year’s inductees. Susan Palwick was inducted into the Hall of Fame and Megan Edwards was awarded the 2023 Silver Pen award.

**Scott Edelman on episodes 214 and 215 of his podcast Eating the Fantastic met individually with Nina Kiriki Hoffman and Pat Murphy.**

We discussed the way a ghost story which left her wanting more led to her taking her writing more seriously, her early reactions to reading Robert A. Heinlein and Ursula K. Le Guin, how the Clarion workshop convinced her she could have a career as a writer, the way she wanted to grow up to be a combination of Ray Bradbury and Zenna Henderson, what she learned about characterization from Samuel R. Delany while at Clarion, the major difference she saw between the horror and science fiction communities during the early days of the Internet, how my perception of the arc her career was affected not by what she wrote but by what she sold, the lesson Ellen Datlow taught her which she passes on to her students, and much more.
214 with Nina Kiriki Hoffman

We discussed the part of Robert A. Heinlein’s famed rules of writing with which she disagrees, why she felt the need to attend the Clarion writing workshop even after having made several sales to major pro markets, the occasional difficulties in decoding what an editor is truly trying to tell you, the importance of never giving up your day jobs, why she can’t read Dylan Thomas when she’s working on a novel, the differences between the infighting we’ve seen in the science fiction vs. literary fields, what we perceive as our personal writing flaws, a Clarion critiquing mystery I’ve been attempting to solve since 1979, the science fiction connection which launched her career at the Exploratorium, and much more.
215 with Pat Murphy

Charlie Jane Anders and Meg Ellison each shared remembrances of the late Terry Bisson.

Terry was incredibly generous to me when I was starting out as a baby SFF writer, and welcomed so many new people into the field. I was privileged to publish a few of his short pieces in a magazine I worked on back in the day. SF won’t be the same without him.
Charlie Jane Anders

This morning someone texted me the news that he had died. I had time to think about all the nights I had seen him drunk at parties, laughing his ass off, telling stories of his own. I remembered all the times he had described how weird it was to find a Chinese radio play of “They’re Made of Meat” and come to grips with the legacy of a story that’s less than a thousand words long and reaches people in every language, year after year. I thought about the night at the Locus Christmas party when he had offered me one of his hand-rolled unfiltered cigarettes under the stars.

I don’t smoke, but I figured I might never again have the opportunity to smoke the spit of a genius like him.

Inhale, inhale, inhale.

Thank you, Terry.
Meg Ellison

December 8, 2023

Tachyon tidbits featuring Mia Tsai, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Sam J. Miller, Nalo Hopkinson, Elly Bangs, Izzy Wasserstein, and Terry Bisson

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Mia Tsai author photo — Mia Tsai
Photo by Rebekah Chavez Wynne

**Via their Tumblr, Powell’s shared a romantasy display featuring Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE.**

BITTER MEDICINE by Mia Tsai
“The magic system had me mesmerized in how it blends cultures. Inspired by Chinese drama, the romance & action were addictive”

**James Davis Nicoll for Tor.com includes Nicole Kornher-Stace’s FLIGHT & ANCHOR in Five Must-Read SF Books Published in 2023.**

This novella is a prequel to Kornher-Stace’s 2021’s Firebreak. In the spirit of “the dog doesn’t die,” since older versions of 06 and 22 appear in Firebreak and other works, it is unlikely either will die in this prequel. It seems odd that I would encounter two 2023 SF novels about workers being brutally exploited by ruthless corporations. What possible reason could there be for SF authors to focus on this subject in particular at this specific moment in time? This must be just one of those odd coincidences one sees from time to time in SF…

Flight & Anchor by Nicole Kornher-Stace — Cover by Elizabeth Story

Clarion Workshop announced that Sam J. Miller and Nalo Hopkinson will be teaching in 2024.

Cover art by Chuma Hill
Design by Elizabeth Story

Cover of BOYS, BEASTS, & MEN, a collection by Sam J. Miller. — Cover art by Chuma Hill
Design by Elizabeth Story

For Before We Go Bl o g in a round table interview, conducted by Dani Finn and with Ela Bambust, May Peterson, Vyria Durav, Abigail Trusity, and Devi Lacroix, Charlie Jane Anders answered the query “I don’t see as much transfeminine representation in books as I would like, but I hope we are approaching a turning point. Please drop any recommendations you might have, whether SFF or not–and do go on at as much length as you like!” by citing Elly Bangs‘ debut novel UNITY and Izzy Wasserstein’s debut collection All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From.

Umm… I just read Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas, which I highly recommend. Also recently: OK Psyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro, All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein, UNITY by Elly Bangs, and Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, off the top of my head. I also urge everyone to hunt down books by April Daniels, Roz Kaveney, and Rachel Pollack. Oh, and here’s a list I did a while back in my newsletter.

The New Yorker‘s Margret Grebowicz shares a profile of Terry Bisson.

Sometime in 1989, Terry Bisson was driving his daughter to college in upstate New York when an idea for a short story came to him. Glancing toward the highway median, he had a vision: animals sitting together, in their own world, talking to one other. The vision became a title: “Bears Discover Fire.”

September 15, 2023

Join best-selling and award winning authors Lauren Beukes and Charlie Jane Anders at Rose City Comic Con

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Tachyon authors Lauren Beukes and Charlie Jane Anders are attending the 2023 Rose City Comic Con, September 22-24 in Portland, OR.

Portland’s premier pop culture event, Rose City Comic Con is produced locally with a weird and wonderful vibe that is unique to the Pacific Northwest. Now in its eleventh year, the ultimate goal remains ever the same—to deliver the most rewarding, memorable, laughter-inducing weekend ever!

While comic books and their mega-talented creators remain the cornerstone of RCCC, fans of all ages can also gain access to top-tier celebrity guests, video and tabletop gaming, cosplay, anime, science fiction, fantasy, and everything in between!
Rose City Comic Con About

Beukes and Anders are participating in some of the abundant events at Rose City Comic Con.

Friday, September 22

2:15PM

Room E145-146

Lessons from the Future

Between the lure of interplanetary adventure and seemingly utopian societies with crumbling underbellies, how do our imagined future worlds illuminate the tarnished reflections of our own?

Panelists: NE Davenport, Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Terry Brooks, Seanan McGuire

5:15PM

Building Blocks and Foundations

Room E145-146

Whether contemporary, fantasy, or science fiction writers create the intricacies of their worlds. What are the building blocks needed to withstand the twists and turns authors put their characters through? From atmosphere to agriculture and more, what questions should writers ask themselves to bring a world to life?

Panelist: Courtney Gould, Travis Baldree, Lauren Beukes, Rosiee Thor, William Ritter

7:15PM

Room E145-146

Celebrating Queer Joy in Storytelling

Join Geeks OUT for a vibrant discussion exploring the empowering world of queer joy in stories! Discover how diverse characters and creators embrace their identities, challenge stereotypes, and illuminate the queer experience with joyful narratives.

Panelists: Jarrett Melendez, Rosiee Thor, Charlie Jane Anders, Courtney Gould and Annalee Newitz

Saturday, September 23

1:45PM

Our Opinions Are Correct

Room E145-146

A panel, but do it in the style of the Our Opinions are Correct Podcast hosted by Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz! It’s the Hugo Award winning podcast from the humans who brought you io9! Explore the meaning of science fiction, and how it’s relevant to real-life science and society. Your hosts are Annalee Newitz, a science journalist who writes science fiction, and Charlie Jane Anders, a science fiction writer who is obsessed with science. They are joined by special guests Lauren Beukes and Fonda Lee for this very special event. Don’t miss your chance to see all the opinions and just how correct they are.

Sunday, September 24

11AM

Room E145-146

The Crew: The Power of Found Family

Often forged through conflict and united goals, found family is an endearing trope featured in many of our favorite novels. Whether a fellowship, a crew, or just a bunch of misfits, these writers discuss what makes a good found family and why is it writing gold.

Panelists: William Ritter, NE Davenport, Charlie Jane Anders, Rosiee Thor, Travis Baldree

2PM

Room E145-146

The Plot Thickens

What are the elements of a good mystery? What keeps us turning the pages and running down dark alleys for clues? Join our authors as they discuss tension, atmosphere, and what keeps readers and writers on the edge of their seats.

Panelists: Courtney Gould, Rosiee Thor, Lauren Beukes, and Seanan McGuire

July 28, 2023

THIS SUNDAY Meet Charlie Jane Anders and Kate Maruyama at July SF in SF

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SF in SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes Hugo Award winner Charlie Jane Anders and the acclaimed Kate Maruyama.

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

Sunday, July 30

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

$10 at the door
$8 for students with valid high school or college ID card

All proceeds 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 Bookshop West Portal, 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

SAVE THE DATE!! UPCOMING SF IN SF EVENTS!

Sunday, August 20 – M. A. Carrick (Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms), and Brenda Clough

September – TBA

Saturday, October 14 – Nancy Kress and Jack Skillingstead

Sunday, November 12 – E. Lily Yu and Rick Wilber

July 23, 2023

Happy birthday to the amazing Charlie Jane Anders

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Writer, editor, and commentator Charlie Jane Anders established herself as a major literary forcewith the lauded first novel Choir Boy (2005), which won the prestigious Lambda Literary Award and was an Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction finalist. Her first speculative fiction novel All the Birds in the Sky (2016) won the Nebula, Locus, and Crawford Awards. Time magazine placed the novel at No. 5 on its “Top 10 Novels” of 2016 and later selected it as one of its “100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time.” The City in the Middle of the Night (2019) garnered a Locus Award as well as a Clarke Award nomination. Anders’ has produced two volumes of the young adult series Unstoppable (Victories Greater Than Death [2021; Locus Award winner], Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak [2022; Locus Award winner]).

Anders’ many short stories include the Hugo Award winner “Six Months, Three Days (2011)” and the Sturgeon Award winner “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue (2017).” These and others were collected in Six Months, Three Days, Five Others (2017) and Even Greater Mistakes (2021). In honor of the publisher’s 20th anniversary in 2011, Tachyon produced a chapbook of “Six Months, Three Days.”

Alongside Annalee Newitz, Anders founded the influential and popular blog IO9, started Other magazine, co-edited the anthology She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology & Other Nerdy Stuff (2006), and co-hosts the multi-Hugo award winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. She has been a juror for the Otherwise Award and Lambda Literary Award. Anders emcees and organizes the long-running San Francisco-based monthly reading series “Writers with Drinks.”

Her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Teen Vogue, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Catamaran Literary Reader, ZYZZYVA, and many others. Her book on writing Never Say You Can’t Survive (2021) won Anders yet another Hugo Award. Her TED Talk, “Go Ahead, Dream About the Future” has been viewed more than two million times.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Charlie Jane a happy birthday. Take the day off, will ya. You deserve it!

July 6, 2023

Naseem Jamnia, Charlie Jane Anders, Marjorie Liu, and Samantha Mills all garner Hugo Award nominations

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Chengdu Worldcon, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention announced the Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. Though no Tachyon titles were nominated Marjorie Liu and Samantha Mills both received nods while Charlie Jane Anders was a finalist for the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and Naseem Jamnia was a finalist for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

Congrats to all the finalists.

Best Novel

Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)

Best Novella

A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Cover for THE BRUISING OF QILWA by Naseem Jamnia — Cover by Elizabeth Story

Best Novelette

“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
“Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld 12/22)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
“The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)
“We Built This City”, Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld 6/22)
“The Space-Time Painter”, Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge 4/22)

Best Short Story

“The White Cliff”, Lu Ban (Science Fiction World 5/22)
“On the Razor’s Edge”, Jiang Bo (Science Fiction World 1/22)
“Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
“Resurrection”, Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World 12/22)
“Zhurong on Mars”, Regina Kanyu Wang (Frontiers 9/22)
“D.I.Y.”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)

Best Series

Rivers of London Series, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
The Founders Trilogy, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
October Daye, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
The Locked Tomb Series, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Scholomance Series, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
Children of Time Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams
DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel
Monstress, Volume 7: Devourer
Once & Future, Volume 4: Monarchies in the UK
Saga, Volume 10
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Best Related Work

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow)
Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Volume 1, Yang Feng (Chengdu Times Press)
“The Ghost of Workshops Past”, S.L. Huang (Tor.com 8/17/22)
Buffalito World Outreach Project, Lawrence M. Schoen (Paper Golem)
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir, Wil Wheaton (William Morrow)
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Avatar: The Way of Water
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
Severance, Season One
Turning Red

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Andor: “One Way Out”
Andor: “Rix Road”
The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”
For All Mankind: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: “Whose Show is This?”
Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Dear Billy”

Best Editor, Short Form

Scott H. Andrews
Neil Clarke
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Sheree Renée Thomas
Xu Wang
Feng Yang

Best Editor, Long Form

Ruoxi Chen
Lindsey Hall
Lee Harris
Sarah Peed
Huan Yan
Haijun Yao

Best Professional Artist

Sija Hong
Kuri Huang
Paul Lewin
Alyssa Winans
Jian Zhang
Enzhe Zhao

Best Semiprozine

Escape Pod
FIYAH
khōréō
PodCastle
Strange Horizons
Uncanny

Best Fanzine

Chinese Academic SF Express
Galactic Journey
Journey Planet
Nerds of a Feather
Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog
Zero Gravity Newspaper

Best Fancast

Coode Street Podcast
Hugo, Girl!
Hugos There
Kalanadi
Octothorpe
Worldbuilding for Masochists

Best Fan Writer

Chris M. Barkley
Bitter Karella
Arthur Liu
RiverFlow
Jason Sanford
Örjan Westin

Best Fan Artist

Iain J. Clark
Richard Man
Laya Rose
Alison Scott
España Sheriff
Orion Smith

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book [Not a Hugo Award]

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry)
In the Serpent’s Wake, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
Akata Woman, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, Catherynne M. Valente (McElderry)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo Award]

Travis Baldree
Naseem Jamnia
Isabel J. Kim*
Maijia Liu
Everina Maxwell*
Weimu Xin*

*Finalist in their 2nd year of eligibility.

May 1, 2023

Naseem Jamnia, R. B. Lemberg, Sam J. Miller, Lavie Tidhar, and Tachyon itself are 2023 Locus Award finalists

Rick Klaw blog Alistair Reynolds, boys beasts & men, charles vess, Charlie Jane Anders, dreams bigger than heartbreak, eileen gunn, Ellen Datlow, eversion, Geometries of Belonging: Stories & Poems From the Birdverse, John Joseph Adams, John Picacio, julie dillon, kate elliott, lavie tidhar, locus award finalists, marjorie liu, Naseem Jamnia, neom, night shift, r. b. lemberg, Sam J. Miller, samantha mills, screams from the dark, servant mage, sheila williams, the best american science fiction & fantasy, The Best of World SF: Volume 2, the bruising of qilwa, the night eaters, the unbalancing, uncanny

Locus announced the finalists for the 2023 Locus Awards. NEOM by Lavie Tidhar (alongside the anthology The Best of World SF: Volume 2), THE BRUISING OF QILWA by Naseem Jaminia, THE UNBALANCING by R. B. Lemberg (alongside their collection Geometries of Belonging), BOYS, BEASTS & MEN by Sam J. Miller, and Tachyon Publications itself all received notices. Previous and forthcoming Tachyon authors, editors, and artists John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, Kate Elliott, Eileen Gunn, Marjorie Liu, Samantha Mills, John Picacio, Alistair Reynolds, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Vess, and Sheila Williams were all honored too.

The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 24, 2023, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park in downtown Oakland, California. Join Maggie Tokuda-Hall, our MC for the awards ceremony, and special guest Connie Willis for an entertaining presentation of the awards, plus program items and a catered reception. Additional virtual events include author readings, panels with leading authors, and more. Buy your ticket today!
2023 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists

Neom by Lavie Tidhar — Cover by Elizabeth Story

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris UK)
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; Picador; HarperCollins Canada)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
NEOM, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)

FANTASY NOVEL

The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

HORROR NOVEL

Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman (Unnamed)
Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
Road of Bones, Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s; Titan UK)
The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Wildfire)
The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Titan UK)
Gwendy’s Final Task, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance; Hodder & Stoughton)
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Echo, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Nightfire; Hodder & Stoughton)
No Gods for Drowning, Hailey Piper (Agora)
The Pallbearers Club, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
The Scratch Daughters, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
The Kindred, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
Bitter, Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
Unraveller, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet 1/23)
Rust in the Root, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
Ballad & Dagger, Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)

FIRST NOVEL

Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tor; Harper Voyager UK)
THE BRUISING OF QILWA, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
THE UNBALANCING, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow; Bloomsbury)
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang (Tor)

NOVELLA

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)
Servant Mage, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
“Bishop’s Opening“, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Tread of Angels, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE

“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
“Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors)
“Solidity”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 9-10/22)
“The Six Deaths of the Saint”, Alix E. Harrow (Into Shadow)
“In Mercy, Rain“, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com 7/18/22)
“Falling Off the Edge of the World”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s 11-12/22)
“The Sadness Box“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 7/22)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
“The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)

SHORT STORY

“Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF 5-6/22)
“The Goldfish Man”, Maureen McHugh (Uncanny 3-4/22)
“Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
“Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
“Master of Ceremonies“, Frances Ogamba (The Dark 5/22)
“Beginnings”, Kristina Ten (Fantasy 4/22)
“The Coward Who Stole God’s Name”, John Wiswell (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)
“Inheritance “, Hannah Yang (Analog 9-10/22)
“A Monster in the Shape of a Boy”, Hannah Yang (Apex 5/22)

ANTHOLOGY

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang, eds. (Tordotcom)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
Screams from the Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, Rebecca Roanhorse & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (MIT Press)
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tor)
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas & Pan Morigan & Troy L. Wiggins, eds. (Third Man)
The Best of World SF: Volume 2, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
The Future is Female! Volume Two: The 1970s, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)

COLLECTION

Dark Breakers, C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Night Shift, Eileen Gunn (PM)
Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
Geometries of Belonging, R.B. Lemberg (Fairwood)
BOYS, BEASTS & MEN, Sam J. Miller (Tachyon)
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe et al. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Illuminations, Alan Moore (Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury UK)
Our Fruiting Bodies, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct)
The Best of Lucius Shepard: Vol. 2, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)

MAGAZINE

Apex
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
FIYAH
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Tor.com
Uncanny

PUBLISHER

Angry Robot
Gollancz
Harper Voyager
Neon Hemlock
Orbit
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tachyon
Tor
Tordotcom

EDITOR

Neil Clarke
Ellen Datlow
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Wendy N. Wagner
Sheila Williams

ARTIST

Tommy Arnold
Rovina Cai
Kinuko Y. Craft
Galen Dara
Julie Dillon
Bob Eggleton
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)
Queering SF: Readings, Ritch Calvin (Aqueduct)
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola)
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic, Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton (Routledge)
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Two: 1940, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter (First Fandom Experience)
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, Darieck Scott (New York University Press)
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences, Bev Vincent (Epic Ink)
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday UK)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

Visions of Beauty, Dianne Borsini-Burr, ed., art by Kinuko Y. Craft (Borsini-Burr & Imaginary Editions)
Paintings & Drawings of Rowena, Kim DeMulder, art by Rowena (self-published)
The Keeper, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, art by Marco Finnegan (Megascope)
In the Black Fantastic, Ekow Eshun (Thames & Hudson; MIT Press)
Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume Two, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
Chivalry, Neil Gaiman, art by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night, Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
Mother Christmas, Vol 1: The Muse, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, art by Vic Terra (Rosarium)
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, George Orwell, art by Omar Rayyan (Suntup)
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections, Shaun Tan (Walker Studio UK; Windy Hollow; Levine Querido)

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

Catching Shadows praises THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD: SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, which is current available for pre-order directly from Tachyon and all finer booksellers.

Susan Palwick was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

Scott Edelman on episodes 214 and 215 of his podcast Eating the Fantastic met individually with Nina Kiriki Hoffman and Pat Murphy.

Charlie Jane Anders and Meg Ellison each shared remembrances of the late Terry Bisson.

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

Via their Tumblr, Powell’s shared a romantasy display featuring Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE.

James Davis Nicoll for Tor.com includes Nicole Kornher-Stace’s FLIGHT & ANCHOR in Five Must-Read SF Books Published in 2023.

Clarion Workshop announced that Sam J. Miller and Nalo Hopkinson will be teaching in 2024.

The New Yorker‘s Margret Grebowicz shares a profile of Terry Bisson.

Tachyon authors Lauren Beukes and Charlie Jane Anders are attending the 2023 Rose City Comic Con, September 22-24 in Portland, OR.

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SF in SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes Hugo Award winner Charlie Jane Anders and the acclaimed Kate Maruyama.

Sunday, July 30

SAVE THE DATE!! UPCOMING SF IN SF EVENTS!

Congrats to all the finalists.

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**Scott Edelman on episodes 214 and 215 of his podcast Eating the Fantastic met individually with Nina Kiriki Hoffman and Pat Murphy.**

**Via their Tumblr, Powell’s shared a romantasy display featuring Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE.**

**James Davis Nicoll for Tor.com includes Nicole Kornher-Stace’s FLIGHT & ANCHOR in Five Must-Read SF Books Published in 2023.**