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May 1, 2017

Goodbye to the amazing Grania Davis

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized death, grania davis, obiturary

All of us at Tachyon are saddened by the news of our long time friend Grania Davis’s death.

Jack Vance and Grania Davis in 2005 at the Tachyon 10th Anniversary Party (Photo: Jeremy Lassen/LOCUS)

Editor and writer Davis penned THE RAINBOW ANNALS and MOONBIRD. With Davidson, she co-wrote MARCO POLO AND THE SLEEPING BEAUTY and THE BOSS IN THE WALL, which received a World Fantasy Award nomination. Davis’ short fiction has been collected in TREE OF LIFE, BOOK OF DEATH.

Davis has edited several collections of Davidson’s work including THE AVRAM DAVIDSON TREASURY (with Robert Silverberg), THE INVESTIGATIONS OF AVRAM DAVIDSON (with Richard A. Lupoff), and EVERYBODY HAS SOMEBODY IN HEAVEN: ESSENTIAL JEWISH TALES OF THE SPIRIT (with Jack Dann). She (alongside Gene Van Troyer) is responsible for the anthology SPECULATIVE JAPAN: OUTSTANDING TALES OF JAPANESE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.

Our thoughts are with her loved ones.

September 19, 2016

Goodbye to the iconic W. P. Kinsella

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized death, rip, shoeless joe, the essential w. p. kinsella, w. p. kinsella

All of us at Tachyon are saddened by the news of the legendary W. P. Kinsella’s death.

(Photo by Ed Steer)

The incomparable Kinsella was the author of SHOELESS JOE, the basis for the acclaimed film FIELD OF DREAMS. His other novels included THE IOWA BASEBALL CONFEDERACY, BOX SOCIALS, BUTTERFLY WINTER, and the forthcoming RUSSIAN DOLLS. Kinsella’s eclectic short fiction has been collected in ME OUTSIDE, THE FENCEPOST CHRONICLES, THE THRILL OF THE GRASS, and THE ESSENTIAL W. P. KINSELLA. Widely considered one of the great baseball writers, Kinsella also garnered wide praise for his award-winning and controversial First Nation stories, humorous and gritty tales of the complex lives of indigenous Canadians.

He is survived by his daughters, Erin Kinsella, who cared for him in his final years, and Shannon Kinsella, stepchildren, Scarlet and Aaron Gaffney, and Lyn Calendar, grandchildren Dennis Christopher Gane, Jason Kirk Kinsella, Kurtis William Kinsella, Max Knight Kinsella, as well as his best friends Lee and Maggie Harwood.

Our thoughts are with his loved ones.

January 21, 2016

Goodbye to the legendary David G. Hartwell

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized David G. Hartwell, david hartwell, death, jacob weisman, james cummins bookseller, kathryn cramer, obit, obiturary, rina weisman, rip

All of us at Tachyon are saddened by the news of the influential David G. Hartwell’s death.

David Hartwell with Jacob and Rina Weisman at James Cummins Bookseller (photo: Ellen Datlow)

A recipient of the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Eaton awards, David G. Hartwell was a senior editor at Tor/Forge Books and the publisher of the NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION. He chaired the board of directors of the World Fantasy Convention and, with Gordon Van Gelder, is the administrator of the Philip K. Dick Award. Hartwell wrote AGE OF WONDERS. His nearly 50 anthologies included THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION, THE ASCENT OF WONDER: THE EVOLUTION OF HARD SF (with Kathryn Cramer), THE SCIENCE FICTION CENTURY, NORTHERN SUNS (with Glenn Grant), THE DARK DESCENT, THE HARD SF RENAISSANCE (with Cramer), THE SWORD & SORCERY ANTHOLOGY (with Jacob Weisman), and TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SCIENCE FICTION (Patrick Nielsen Hayden). Hartwell has edited 18 volumes of YEAR’S BEST SF (11 with Cramer) and with Cramer, eight volumes of YEAR’S BEST FANTASY.

After time at Signet and Berkley, Hartwell moved onto Pocket Books, where he founded the Timescape imprint and created the Pocket Books Star Trek publishing line. He edited the best-novel Nebula Award-winners TIMESCAPE by Gregory Benford (1980), THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR by Gene Wolfe (1981), and NO ENEMY BUT TIME by Michael Bishop (1982), as well as the best-novel Hugo Award-winner HOMINIDS by Robert J.Sawyer (2002).

Our thoughts are with his wife and children.