her body and other parties

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

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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