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May 2, 2023

Highly recommended, THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE is amazing

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Some two weeks until its official release, THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE (Volumes I and II) continues to elicit pre-pub praise from places such as Sarah Evermotion’s Book Thoughts (and BookTube) and the Spanish site Cuentos para Algernon. Over on File 770 in Today Birthday’s, Cat Eldridge names their favorite Peter S. Beagle books.

The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Voulmes 1 & 2 — Cover art by Stephanie Law
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Though not coming out until May, both volumes (VOLUME I: LILA THE WEREWOLF AND OTHER STORIES and VOLUME II: OAKLAND DRAGON BLUES AND OTHER STORIES) of THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE are available directly from Tachyon and all finer booksellers.

Also available for pre-order direct from Tachyon: single volume limited in both letter and numbered editions.

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“This was an amazing collection, and I cannot recommend it enough for existing fans of Mr. Beagle or fans of fantasy shorts or cozy fantasy.” Sarah Evermotion’s Book Thoughts

I’m going to start with the book I’ve enjoyed the most in quite some time. Peter S. Beagle is a veteran and great writer, although lately he is somewhat forgotten among us. And with this collection he shows us that he is a master of short fiction.
Cuentos para Algernon (Translation from Spanish courtesy of Google)

My favorite works? Tamsin, SUMMERLONG and IN CALABRIA. He won the Novelette Hugo at L.A. Con IV for “Two Hearts”. And he has a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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April 20, 2023

Happy birthday to the incomparable grandmaster Peter S. Beagle

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A recipient of the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award and creator of the iconic The Last Unicorn (1968), Peter S. Beagle’s has thrilled and entertained multiple generations of fans. His other book length works include A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE (1960), The Folk of the Air (1986, winner of the Mythopoeic Award), The Innkeeper’s Song (1993, winner of the Locus Poll Award), The Unicorn Sonata (1996), Tamsin (1999, winner of the Mythopoeic Award), SUMMERLONG (2016), IN CALABRIA (2017), and THE LAST UNICORN: THE LOST JOURNEY (2018). He returned to the beloved world of The Last Unicorn in 2023 with The Way Home.

Beagle’s numerous award-winning short fiction have been collected in Giant Bones (1997), THE RHINOCEROS WHO QUOTED NIETZSCHE AND OTHER ODD ACQUAINTANCES (1997), THE LINE BETWEEN (2006), Strange Roads (2008), WE NEVER TALK ABOUT MY BROTHER (2009), Mirror Kingdoms: The Best or Peter S. Beagle (2010), SLEIGHT OF HAND (2011), THE OVERNEATH (2017). THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE a massive overview of the legendary author’s career, comes out in May as both a two volume trade hardback (Volume I and Volume II) and single volume limited (letter and numbered) editions. The story “My Son Heydari and the Karkadann” was published alongside ”The Unicorn Triangle” by Patricia A. McKillip in the limited edition chapbook THE KARKADANN TRIANGLE (2018).

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He began working in TV and film by writing episodes of Thirty-Minute Theater (1967 “Come Death”) and Apple’s Way (1974 “The Zoo”) and the feature films The Dove (1974 with Adam Kennedy, based on the book by Robin Lee Graham and Derek Gill) and The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977; based on the book by Don Robertson). Beagle followed up the screenplay (with Chris Conkling) for the Ralph Bakshi-helmed Lord of the Rings (1978) with his own script for The Last Unicorn (1982), the Bass and Rankin interpretation of the beloved book. Among Beagle’s other writing credits are teleplays for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990; “Sarek,” one of the most influential and acclaimed episodes of the popular series) and The Little Mermaid TV series (1992). The film adaption of his story “The Bridge Partner” (shot in 2015) was included in the anthology film Grave Intentions (2020).

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Beagle has edited several acclaimed anthologies: Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn (1995 with Janet Berliner and Martin H. Greenberg), THE SECRET HISTORY OF FANTASY (2010), THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY (2011 with Joe R. Lansdale), THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY (2017 with Jacob Weisman; winner of the World Fantasy Award), and THE UNICORN ANTHOLOGY (2019 with Weisman).

Everyone at Tachyon wishes the beloved Peter a happy birthday. May it be magical.

April 19, 2023

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nalo Hopkinson, Marjorie Liu, Marie Brennan, R. B. Lemberg, and Jacob Weisman

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**For their Book Riot list, K. W. Colyard includes Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS among The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of the Past 10 Years.**

Authors of color swept the Hugos in 2016, but Nalo Hopkinson’s collection was sadly not among the winners — not because of any failure on the author’s fault, but simply because there is no Hugo Award for best anthology or collection. Despite that little oversight, FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS has been a fan favorite since its publication in 2015. Here, post-apocalyptic monsters mingle with ghosts stranded in shopping malls. It’s an eye-opening look at what science fiction can do.

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Forever and Everly recommends Marjorie Liu’s THE TANGLEROOT PALACE as one of 12 Books to Read When You’re in a Slump.

Short story collections are truly a savior for me whenever I’m struggling to read, and this one is one of my favorites! I adore a majority of these stories, and they are wholly captivating with their rich fantasy (and often fairytale-like) settings, magical weirdness, and focus on female characters and voices. Marjorie Liu has such a unique take on fantasy, and if you’re a fan of the genre, I think you’ll really enjoy her fresh twists on typical tropes and storylines!

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**Nina Shepardson on Outside of a Dog praises Marie Brennan’s DRIFTWOOD.**

While an individual person can move into other parts of Driftwood, their birth-home will inevitably fall to the Crush. Some become despairing, others bitter, but a few manage to maintain hope. Some do this by preserving what they can of their homeworlds, others by intermarrying with people from other worlds and building a new home in the multispecies society of the Drifters. The characters in DRIFTWOOD are diverse, not just in appearance and customs, but in their outlook and reactions to what has happened to them. My only complaint is that I wish the book had been longer so I could have seen more of the world Brennan created.

Nourish-n-Cherish recalls a conversation with their son about Peter S. Beagle’s use of poetry in IN CALABRIA.

We chuckled at the feeble attempts of poetry and I told him about the way poetry was woven into the book written by that mastermind of unicorn stories, Peter S Beagle. In the book, IN CALABRIA. In the book, a farmer writes poems and reads poetry (not his own but famous poets) out to his goats and cows.

Rick reads some books, I dunno loves R. B. Lemberg’s Nebula Award-nominated THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES to a rating of 5 out 5.

This book throws you in at the deep end of its world and its magic, and is all the better for it. Lemberg weaves exposition and conceptual brilliance into their narration with such ease that I immediately let myself go into the dream-logic of cloths woven from change, wanderlust, hope, and death. It all made deep intuitive sense. The magic within this book, within this world, was palpable, hungry, too brilliant to encompass in mere words on the page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story based on initial concepts by Francesca Myman

Suhail Rafidi was excited to visit with Tachyon publisher Jacob Weisman at San Francisco Writer’s Conference 2023.

I had the opportunity, for the second time ever, to speak with Jacob Weisman, the founder of Tachyon Publications. And he remembered me! Well, he mostly remembered my friend David Gill (“The Philip K. Dick Guy”). The first time I met Mr. Weisman was at an SF in SF event, when the featured guest was Robert Silverberg. At the conference, we stood by the bookstore table and spoke of everything from sci-fi novellas to the next SF in SF event at the Bookbinder’s Museum. I love a friendly chat among nerds.

September 1, 2022

Tachyon tidbits featuring Peter S. Beagle, David Liss, David Ebenbach, Lavie Tidhar, and Joe R. Lansdale & Kasey Lansdale

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Professor Mondo enjoys Peter S. Beagle’s IN CALABRIA.

Honestly, things happen about the way I would expect them to happen, but as ever, there is so much charm and grace in PSB’s writing that it would be churlish to complain.

I’ve said before that Beagle is a writer for whom I can’t even feel envy. There are very fine writers out there, and while I try not to compare myself to anyone else, I sometimes find myself thinking “That’s like something I could have done, had I thought of it,” or “That’s something I could have done, but s/he did it better than I would have.” But I never feel that when I read Peter Beagle. Complaining about not writing like that is like complaining that you don’t fly as naturally and beautifully as a falcon, or that you have to use technology to do what a spider does naturally. It’s not a difference in degree — it’s a difference in kind.

After listening to the audio book, Booksie’s Blog praises THE PECULIARITIES by David Liss.

David Liss is a well-known historical fiction author. His trademark is meticulous research. In this new genre for him, the story is still accurate historically while adding the fantastic elements that make the story fall more in the fantasy genre. Readers will cheer for Thomas as he grows from a feckless young man to someone ready to take on horrendous events. I listened to this novel and found the narrator to be a good match. The only quibble I had was that I found Thomas’ voice too nasal to enjoy listening to. This book is recommended for fantasy readers.

**David Ebenbach, author of HOW TO MARS, sat down with Scott Edelman for cheesecake and conversation on Eating the Fantastic.**

We discussed the way he started writing science fiction without realizing he was writing science fiction, the final line of the worst thing he’s ever written, how his first scribbling as a kid was a violent spy novel about The Smurfs, why it’s important to root for an author and not merely our own reading experience, the cliches some in the literary and science fiction worlds believe about each other, the newspaper article which sparked his novel HOW TO MARS, the way he’s managed to carve himself out a bifurcated writing life, the philosophical differences between those writing novels and short stories, and much more.

How to Mars cover — Cover by Elizabeth Story

**The French site Les Chroniques du Chroniqueur in a lengthy review recommends Lavie Tidhar’s CENTRAL STATION.**

Through different slices of life of the characters point of view of his stories, the author shows in my opinion how Weird Fiction and Cyberpunk can intersect, through the encounters and relationships that can unite a cyborg soldier to a civilian, or even a cybernetic vampire to a man whose data she cannot steal.

I highly recommend reading this collection!
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In an exclusive, Matt Ligeti for The Comic Book Yeti shares a profile on indie comic publisher Dead Sky Publishing. Among the many goodies are a 5-page preview adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard novel Mucho Mojo and news about a new Joe and Kasey Lansdale creative endeavor.

Additionally, we’re developing another comic with Joe R. Lansdale (Moon Lake), and his daughter Kasey Lansdale (Terror Is Our Business), with artist Daniele Serra (Hellraiser (BOOM!)), but we’re keeping that title to ourselves for now.

April 20, 2022

Happy birthday to the incomparable grandmaster Peter S. Beagle

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Beagle’s numerous award-winning short fiction have been collected in Giant Bones (1997), THE RHINOCEROS WHO QUOTED NIETZSCHE AND OTHER ODD ACQUAINTANCES (1997), THE LINE BETWEEN (2006), Strange Roads (2008), WE NEVER TALK ABOUT MY BROTHER (2009), Mirror Kingdoms: The Best or Peter S. Beagle (2010), SLEIGHT OF HAND (2011), and THE OVERNEATH (2017). The story “My Son Heydari and the Karkadann” was published alongside ”The Unicorn Triangle” by Patricia A. McKillip in the limited edition chapbook THE KARKADANN TRIANGLE (2018).

Everyone at Tachyon wishes the beloved Peter a happy birthday. May it be magical.

September 23, 2021

Join Peter S. Beagle and Michael Swanwick at Capclave 2021

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Tachyon authors Peter S. Beagle and Michael Swanwick are attending Capclave 2021 in Rockville, Maryland, October 1-3.

Sponsored by the Washington Science Fiction Association, Capclave is a small relaxed literary convention with a program that usually focuses on the short fiction form. Guests of Honor and other notable authors, editors, artists, and fans of the short fiction form will explore the creation and enjoyment of short fantasy and science fiction genre stories.

Both Beagle and Swanwick will be participating in many of Capclave’s large selection of readings, signings, and panels.

Friday Oct 1

7PM

I’ve Done My Research & You’re Going to Like It

Participants: Mark Huston, Alan Smale (M), Michael Swanwick, Darcy Wold
Writers will often do extensive (and possibly even excessive) background research in the service of worldbuilding, character development and setting description. How much of this research is safe to include in the final story? How do you avoid pulling the readers down the rabbit hole of unneeded detail? What can you do to make the results of your research intriguing and entertaining, rather than boring?

Saturday Oct 2

11AM

Non-Traditional Protagonists

Participants: Peter S. Beagle, Mary Fan, Aliza Greenblatt, J. S. Kelley, Jennifer Povey (M)
The typical protagonist is an unmarried young white male (or more recently female). But what about protagonists who don’t fit this mold. What about older characters, non-white characters, and characters with disabilities or handicaps? How does changing the protagonist change the story? And are there stories that require such a character to be told?

1PM

Yesterday’s Tomorrows and Today’s Futures

Participants: Eric Flint, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Sarah Pinsker, Michael Swanwick, David Walton (M), Ted Weber
Writers of SF’s golden age considered the year 2021 to be the distant future. How does our present compare with what they envisioned? What did they get right and wrong? Why did they imagine this future world as they did? What did they never imagine changing and what unconscious assumptions proved to be completely incorrect? How are today’s writers making similar mistakes with the unconscious assumptions about today’s world? What futures might emerge from our own day?

2PM

All Writing is Political

Participants: Natalie Luhrs, Michael Swanwick, Caias Ward, Joy Ward, A.C. Wise (M)
Some critics say SF, Fantasy, and Comics have become too political. Has there been a change in the political content from the days of Brave New World, 1984, and Starship Troopers? Should entertainment be free from politics? Is it even possible? When something claims to be apolitical, what is it actually supporting? How can we be more conscious of the political implications of our own work?

3PM

Guest of Honor Interview — Peter S. Beagle

Ghost Stories

Participants: Tom Doyle, Dina Leacock, Darrell Schweitzer (M), Michael Swanwick, A.C. Wise
Humans have been telling ghost stories since the first campfire. Peter S. Beagle has ghosts in ‘A Fine and Private Place’ and ‘Tamsin’. What is so attractive about ghosts? How are ghosts used in fiction – both in scary stories and non-horror fantasies? Are ghosts more important in cultures with religions focused on the afterlife? What are some of the best ghost stories in fiction? Do you believe in ghosts and if so why?

4PM

Author Reading — Michael Swanwick

Sunday Oct 3

11AM

A Century of Robots

John Ashmead (M), Jennifer Povey, Michael Swanwick, Joy Ward
The play RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots) premiered in January 1921. This play was the first to use the word robot for a scientifically created mechanical worker. Why has the concept of robots been so popular? How have robots evolved in fiction?

Convincing Fantasies

Participants: Scott H. Andrews, Peter S. Beagle, Leah Cypess, Karlo Yeager Rodriguez, Jean Marie Ward (M)
Some fantasies ring true while others just lie flat. What makes some fantasies work and others not? Is it the background? The magic system? The political or economic structure? Or the writing? What can writers do to make their worlds more convincing?

April 20, 2021

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Beagle’s numerous award-winning short fiction have been collected in Giant Bones (1997), THE RHINOCEROS WHO QUOTED NIETZSCHE AND OTHER ODD ACQUAINTANCES (1997), THE LINE BETWEEN (2006), Strange Roads (2008), WE NEVER TALK ABOUT MY BROTHER (2009), Mirror Kingdoms: The Best or Peter S. Beagle (2010), SLEIGHT OF HAND (2011), and THE OVERNEATH (2017). The story “My Son Heydari and the Karkadann” was published alongside ”The Unicorn Triangle” by Patricia A. McKillip in the limited edition chapbook THE KARKADANN TRIANGLE (2018).

Everyone at Tachyon wishes the beloved Peter a happy birthday. May it be magical.

January 15, 2021

Tachyon tidbits featuring Carrie Vaughn, Lauren Beukes, and Peter S. Beagle

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Ian Hunter for THE BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY enjoys Carrie Vaughn’s THE IMMORTAL CONQUISTADOR.

[F]ans of Vaughn’s Kitty series will be well-pleased to learn more about the origins and adventures of a much-loved supporting character.

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At REDDIT r/Fantasy, BitterSprings praises Lauren Beukes’ SLIPPING: STORIES, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITING in /r/Fantasy Review Tuesday – Review what you’re reading here! – January 05, 2021.

This is a collection of Beukes’ shorter works and like most short story collections there are the ones that grabbed me and the ones that didn’t. Thankfully the hits vastly out number the misses. A lot of the stories focus on the theme of commodification – of bodies, of the poor, of women. A lot of them are harrowing. Hits include The Green and the titular story.

Don’t skip the non-fiction section, especially if you’ve read her previous novels, there’s some interesting reflections on her research for Shining Girls and Zoo City. 4/5

FEVERED SCRIBBLINGS mentions Peter S. Beagle’s IN CALABRIA among 4 Random Fantasy Books You Should Totally Read.

Were you a fan of The Last Unicorn book/comic/movie? If you were, you should totally check out Beagle’s 2017 unicorn book. An Italian farmer, Claudio Bianchi, starts noticing a pregnant unicorn visiting his farm. An aloof man, he decides to ignore it, but finds out the unicorn might have come to him for help.

On the Romanian site POST MODERN, Adriana Gionea names the fantasy as one of the 33 books to read during the winter holidays.

The winter holidays are also the ideal respite that allows you to plan your next summer vacation. For many, Calabria is an attractive destination. It is no coincidence that they will be attracted by the title of the novel IN CALABRIA. This novel combines inspired picturesqueness, the suspense of gangster movies, love and magical realism.
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December 9, 2020

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nalo Hopkinson, Carrie Vaughn, Peter S. Beagle, Michael Blumlein, Kameron Hurley, and Patricia A. McKillip

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Congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson on being named the 37th SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) is pleased to announce that Nalo Hopkinson has been named the 37th Damon Knight Grand Master for her contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.

The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recognizes “lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.” Hopkinson joins the Grand Master ranks alongside such legends as C. J. Cherryh, Peter S. Beagle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, Ray Bradbury, and Joe Haldeman. The award will be presented at the 56th Annual Nebula Conference and Awards Ceremony, held online the weekend of June 4–6, 2021.
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SOUTHERN TODAY GONE TOMORROW enjoys Carrie Vaughn’s KITTY’S MIX-TAPE.

Absolutely I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Urban Fantasy, who likes some stakes in their stories, or even those who like some re-imagined historical fantasy.

Dennis Callegari in SF COMMENTARY 104 praises a pair of Peter S. Beagle titles.

IN CALABRIA

A unicorn appears in a field beside the home of a man who lives in Calabria. At first this is his secret; the pain begins after other people discover his secret. The suspenseful climax to the story is heart-stopping. Everything works out for the best eventually, but his main characters have experienced the best and the worst aspects of human behaviour in sunny Calabria.

THE OVERNEATH

The most memorable historical fantasy in the collection is ‘The Queen Who Could NotWalk’ (first published in 2013), which has a wonderful surprising-yet-inevitable ending. Other special favourites from this collection are ‘The Story of Kao Yu’ (2016) and ‘The Way It Works Out andAll’ (2011). There are other authors who can write a sentence as well as Beagle, but there are very few who keep inventing sparkling fantasy ideas for decade after decade.

Ian Sales on IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE RIGHT… in his review of Michael Blumlein’s collection All I Ever Dream mentions THE ROBERTS.

The three novellas are probably the strongest works. THE ROBERTS is available separately from Tachyon Publications, and is typical of Blumlein’s work: dense, intense and set somewhere at the intersection of science and technology and human relationships.

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At REDDIT r/printsf, Kameron Hurley’s Apocalypse Nyx books get an unexpected mention in Speculative Fiction for mental health?

at first i laughed when i saw “Stars are Legion and The Light Brigade” because i thought you were going to be listing fun, lighthearted reads. but actually Kameron Hurley’s Apocalypse Nyx books (God’s War) helped me a lot with my mental health. They’re gruesome and brutal at times but the main character is such a badass that she makes you feel like you could do anything. It’s a cool series and feels very cinematic.
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Patricia A. McKillip for TOR.COM crafts the essay Gingerbread Bricks, Cherry-Stealing Cats, and Other Culinary Disasters.

I’ve been asked if I cook as well as I write about cooking.

It’s a fair question: I’ve been cooking almost as long as I’ve been writing. Writing was something I fell into, much like Alice down the rabbit-hole, when I was fourteen. I sat down one day to write myself a story instead of reading one, and thirty-two pages later—pencil and lined paper tablet—I finished my tale and realized that my predictable world had expanded wildly, enormously, with endlessly diverging and intriguing paths running every which way into an unknown I suddenly knew existed. Having ended one story (which is locked away, guarded by dragons and evil-eyed basilisks, and will never see the light of day if I have anything to say about it), I wanted to start all over again on another.

When or why I decided I needed to inflict culinary disasters on my long-suffering family and others, I don’t remember.

My most vivid cooking memory, even after so many years, is setting my brother on fire with my Cherries Jubilee.

November 25, 2020

Tachyon 25th Anniversary eBooknanza! Newsletter subscribers get your free copy of grandmaster Peter S. Beagle’s compelling IN CALABRIA

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It’s been 25 years since Jacob Weisman started publishing books, and here we are entering the ’20s with digital giveaways for every newsletter subscriber!

For the whole of 2020 on every last Wednesday of the month, we will be giving away a free ebook to everyone subscribed to our newsletter prior to that Wednesday. This will be the only time we amp up our newsletter from quarterly announcements of new and upcoming books to monthly. The download link will be good for 48 hours, so if this is a book you’ve been meaning to get, make sure you download it as soon as you can.

This is our thanks for sticking around with us for so long. We look forward to another 25 years with you.

Peter S. Beagle’s story of an Italian farmer encountering a gravid unicorn, is reminiscent of his 1968 masterpiece THE LAST UNICORN. But the new book emphasizes the interior transformations caused by this mythical animal. A simultaneous affair between 50-ish widower Claudio Bianchi and a fierce motorcyclist young enough to be his daughter reads alternately as metaphor for the irrationality and vulnerability of love and as simple wish fulfillment. The unicorn colt’s sire, black and furious, appears near the book’s end as counterbalance to the dam’s white beauty, a compelling vision of the positive masculine principle lacking in Beagle’s early work.
—Seattle Review of Books

From the acclaimed author of The Last Unicorn comes a new, exquisitely-told fable for the modern age.

Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy’s scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change, preferring farming and writing poetry to the company of others. But one chilly morning, an impossible visitor appears at the farm. When Claudio comes to her aid, an act of kindness throws his world into chaos. Suddenly he must stave off inquisitive onlookers, invasive media, and even more sinister influences.

Lyrical, gripping, and wise, In Calabria confirms Peter S. Beagle’s continuing legacy as one of fantasy’s most legendary authors.

A novella about love in a world of hardship, loss, magic, and recovery. Beagle’s unicorns have never been more bewitching, impossible, and genuine. I cherished every page.
—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and After Alice

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