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April 15, 2023

Happy birthday to the enigmatic and acclaimed Nicole Kornher-Stace

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Nicole Kornher-Stace as envisioned by Elizabeth Story

Following the acclaimed but sadly little seen Desideria (2008), Nicole Kornher-Stace exploded on the scene with the popular Norton Award finalist Archivist Wasp (2015) and its sequel, Latchkey (2018). She followed that up with the adult sci-fi novel Firebreak (2021) and the middle grade JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET (2021). This June, Kornher-Stace returns to the world of Firebreak in FLIGHT & ANCHOR.

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

Her numerous award-nominated short stories have appeared in several venues including Fantasy, Best American Fantasy, Jabberwocky, Clarkesworld, Clockwork Phoenix, Uncanny, Steam-Powered 2: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories, and The Mammoth Book of Steampunk. In 2021, her short story “Getaway” was selected for LeVar Burton Reads. Kornher-Stace‘s poem “The Changeling Always Wins” placed second in the 2010 Rhysling Award for Short Form.

She can often be found on Twitter, where she is probably semi-coherently yelling about board games, video games, hiking, a romantic representation, good books she’s read recently, or her cat. Kornher-Stace lives in New Paltz, New York with her family.

Everyone at Tachyon wishes the gummy worm-loving Nicole a happy birthday! Watch out for those worms. They’ll rot your teeth (and your likely brains).

July 13, 2021

Celebrate the book birthday of the acclaimed Nicole Kornher-Stace’s freaking delightful JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET by winning your very own copy

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With the help of the fine folks at GOODREADS, we’re giving away Nicole Kornher-Stace’s thrilling middle-grade sci-fi novel JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET.

Look out Heinlein, here comes Nicole Kornher-Stace! In her middle grade novel, Jillian vs Parasite Planet, she not only does a Heinlein space explorer, but her young female hero, with hands full of science and parasites, manages to grow up as well. Huzzah! Great space fun with a lot of ick thrown in as well.
―Jane Yolen, author of Owl Moon

Eleven-year-old Jillian hates surprises. Even fun ones make her feel all panicky inside. But, she’s always dreamed of joining her space-explorer parents on a mission. It’s Take Your Kid to Work Day, and Jillian finally has her chance to visit an alien world!

The journey to Planet 80 UMa c is supposed to be just a fun camping trip. But then the local wildlife starts acting really dangerous. Only the onboard computer SABRINA sorta knows what’s happening—at least when it’s not goofing off or telling bad jokes.

Looks like it’s Jillian vs Parasite Planet—and Jillian is determined to win!

Fantastic worldbuilding, a hero you can’t help but root for, and the best sidekick this side of the galaxy.
—Katie Slivensky, author of The Countdown Conspiracy

July 12, 2021

Join Nicole Kornher-Stace for her REDDIT AMA while simultaneously wishing a happy book birthday of her new book JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET

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The acclaimed Nicole Kornher-Stace discusses her new book (and first middle grade publication) JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET in a REDDIT AMA at r/books on Tuesday, July 13 at 1PM ET.

July 8, 2021

Join JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET writer Nicole Kornher-Stace and artist Scott Brown for a special Facebook Live event

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Nicole Kornher-Stace and Scott Brown discuss their new the middle grade book JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET on FACEBOOK LIVE, Saturday July 17 at 3PM ET.

Nicole Kornher-Stace as envisioned by Elizabeth Story

April 15, 2021

Happy birthday to the enigmatic and acclaimed Nicole Kornher-Stace

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Nicole Kornher-Stace as envisioned by Elizabeth Story

Following the acclaimed but sadly little seen Desideria (2008), Nicole Kornher-Stace exploded on the scene with the popular Norton Award finalist Archivist Wasp (2015) and its sequel, Latchkey (2018). 2021 features two new books: the adult sci-fi novel Firebreak and the middle grade JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET.

Kornher-Stace’s numerous award-nominated short stories have appeared in several venues including Fantasy, Best American Fantasy, Jabberwocky, Clarkesworld, Clockwork Phoenix, Uncanny, Steam-Powered 2: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories, and The Mammoth Book of Steampunk. In 2021, her short story “Getaway” was selected for LeVar Burton Reads. Kornher-Stace‘s poem “The Changeling Always Wins” placed second in the 2010 Rhysling Award for Short Form.

Everyone at Tachyon wishes the gummy worm-loving Nicole a happy birthday! Watch out for those worms. They’ll rot your teeth (and your likely brains).

February 23, 2021

Booksellers, librarians, bloggers, and reviewers get the freaking delightful JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET by Norton Award finalist Nicole Kornher-Stace

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Review copies of Nicole Kornher-Stace’s thrilling middle-grade sci-fi novel JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET

by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Cover and Interior Illustrations by Scott Brown

ISBN: Print ISBN: 9781616963454; Digital: 9781616963552

Published: July 2021

Available Format(s): Hardcover and Digital

Can an anxious eleven-year-old find her chill and save her family from creepy aliens? Only if she’s the most awesome, super-brave astronaut since Spaceman Spiff! So take a deep breath, grab your sidekick, and blast off with Jillian to Parasite Planet.

Look out Heinlein, here comes Nicole Kornher-Stace! In her middle grade novel, JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET, she not only does a Heinlein space explorer, but her young female hero, with hands full of science and parasites, manages to grow up as well. Huzzah! Great space fun with a lot of ick thrown in as well.
—Jane Yolen, author of The Midnight Circus

The journey to Planet 80 UMa c is supposed to be just a fun camping trip. But then the local wildlife starts acting really dangerous. Only the onboard computer SABRINA sorta knows what’s happening—at least when it’s not goofing off or telling bad jokes.

Looks like it’s Jillian vs Parasite Planet—and Jillian is determined to win!

Fantastic worldbuilding, a hero you can’t help but root for, and the best sidekick this side of the galaxy.
—Katie Slivensky, author of The Countdown Conspiracy

I like a book that keeps the reader posted on what everybody has to eat. Also, I like a book with worms, (in the story, not in the physical book). Not many books have worms. This one does. It’s a romp. It’s a space romp. It’s a romping story in which food is mentioned, and there are worms, and a neat kid who’s realer than some kids you meet in books.
—Daniel Pinkwater, author of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

Freaking delightful.
—Blogendorff

February 11, 2021

The recommended JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET by Nicole Kornher-Stace is freaking delightful

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Though not due until July, Nicole Kornher-Stace’s JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET is already generating excitement. You can pre-order JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET via all finer booksellers or directly from Tachyon.

BLOGENDORFF enjoys the book.

I didn’t know what to expect going into this book. On one hand, Nicole Kornher-Stace wrote one of my favourite novels in recent years (see Archivist Wasp), on the other hand it was aimed at middle school readers and didn’t know if it’d be too simple for me. Either way, I figured it would be a quick read and decided to give it a go (I was contacted by the publisher to read it, just so you know).

Anyway, I didn’t expect it to be so freaking delightful. It’s just such a lovely story, with such well rounded and very likeable characters, which made it easy to read and easy to enjoy.

[…]

Finally, even though this book is aimed at middle school kids, I feel like the author takes her audience seriously. I didn’t feel like too much was explained or dumbed down, it was just a well crafted narrative that happened to be about a kid. I would have loved this book at that age, and very much enjoyed it now.

Anyway, if you have a middle school kid, or if you just want to have a delightful read about a girl and a semi-autonomous nanobot system, then I recommend you pick this up.

THE LITTLE RED REVIEWER is very excited.

EPIC WIN, I scored an ARC of Nicole Kornher-Stace’s JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET, which I also can’t wait to get to, because I love everything she writes. This one doesn’t hit bookstore shelves until July so I guess I could wait a month or two to read it. My husband loves her work too, so there’s a good chance he’ll get to read this book before I do! Not fair! but, actually pretty fair.

As was Nicole M. Hewitt on FEED YOUR FICTION ADDICTION.

JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET by Nicole Kornher-Stace was a fun surprise, and it even came with candy! (Who doesn’t love candy?)

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October 15, 2020

Cover Reveal: JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET by Norton Award finalist Nicole Kornher-Stace

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Coming your way in July 2021, JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET introduces eleven-year-old Jillian, the most awesome, super-brave astronaut since Spaceman Spiff, who must find her chill and save her family from creepy aliens. So take a deep breath, grab your sidekick, hop in a pod, and blast off with Jillian to Parasite Planet.

JILLIAN VS. PARASITE PLANET

by Nicole Kornher-Stace

ISBN: Print ISBN: 9781616963454; Digital: 9781616963552

Published: July 2021

Available Format(s): Hardcover and Digital

Nicole Kornher-Stace is a genius.
—Tiffany Trent, author of The Unnaturalists

Can an anxious eleven-year-old finally find her chill and save her family from creepy aliens? Only if she’s the most awesome, super-brave astronaut since Spaceman Spiff! So take a deep breath, grab your sidekick, hop in a pod, and blast off with Jillian to Parasite Planet.

Fierce, blazing, brilliant.
—Jacqueline West, New York Times–bestselling author of The Books of Elsewhere

Eleven-year-old Jillian hates surprises. Even fun ones make her feel all panicky inside.

Jillian’s always dreamed of joining her space-explorer parents on a mission. Now it’s Take Your Kid to Work Day, and she finally has her chance to visit an alien planet! Why isn’t she excited?

When Jillian feels unprepared, she gets scared. Really scared. But she really wants to be a daring adventurer!

So Jillian sets off with her parents to Planet 80 Uma, it’s supposed to be an easy camping trip. But then the local wildlife starts acting super weird…

It’s Jillian versus Parasite Planet, and Jillian is determined to win!

Nicole Kornher-Stace is the author of the Norton Award finalist, Archivist Wasp, and its sequel, Latchkey, which are about a postapocalyptic ghosthunter, the ghost of a near-future supersoldier, and their adventures in the underworld. She has two more books due out in 2021: the sci-fi thriller, Firebreak, and of course, Jillian Vs. Parasite Planet. You can find Nicole on Twitter @wirewalking, where she is probably semicoherently yelling about board games, video games, hiking, aromantic representation, good books she’s read recently, or her cat. She lives in New Paltz, New York with her family.

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With the help of the fine folks at GOODREADS, we’re giving away Nicole Kornher-Stace’s thrilling middle-grade sci-fi novel JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET.

The acclaimed Nicole Kornher-Stace discusses her new book (and first middle grade publication) JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET in a REDDIT AMA at r/books on Tuesday, July 13 at 1PM ET.

Review copies of Nicole Kornher-Stace’s thrilling middle-grade sci-fi novel JILLIAN VS PARASITE PLANET are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

by Nicole Kornher-StaceCover and Interior Illustrations by Scott Brown

by Nicole Kornher-Stace

by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Cover and Interior Illustrations by Scott Brown