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

Bruce Sterling, Jacob Weisman, and Peter Watts

In THEAKER’S QUARTERLY FICTION #59, Stephen Theaker praises Bruce Sterling’s PIRATE UTOPIA.

I
really liked one bit of dialogue from Secondari, when he says, “I
don’t have to believe any more, because it’s the truth!” I’ve
often thought that when someone says they believe in a thing, that
can be a sign that they don’t think it’s actually true (or at
least isn’t true yet), whether they realise that or not. I enjoyed
the book while finding it a bit hard to get to grips with, much like
Michael Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius and Oswald Bastable books.

Joe Milicia at THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION enjoys Jacob Weisman’s INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE.

The first thing to say about INVADERS is that it’s a good collection of sf and borderline-sf short stories. I’d argue that all but a couple of the 22 are quite worth reading: a nice percentage. The stories are recent or nearly so, with copyright dates 1990 to 2015, except for one by Max Apple published in 1975.

INVADERS  offers a range of stories whose humor varies from downright silliness and mordant satire to mere arches of the eyebrow. It remains for me to call attention to a few selections that take us into the unnerving—but not humorless—realms of Kafka or Dick. The stories in INVADERS that are the most Kafkaesque or Dickian—and I mean these adjectives as praise, not insinuations of lack of originality—involve some shift in reality, not merely a character’s perception (as in “A Precursor of the Cinema” and “Escape from Spiderhead”) but an actual plunge into altered states as in “Portal” and the four stories I haven’t yet mentioned.

LOCUS announced the 2017 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Shortlist which includes Peter Watt’s BEYOND THE RIFT. Congrats to all the nominees.

Foreign Short Fiction

• “Une brève
  histoire des formes à venir” [THE THING ABOUT SHAPES TO COME],
  Adam-Troy Castro (ANGLE MORT #11)

• Un Pont sur la brume
  [THE MAN WHO BRIDGED THE MIST], Kij Johnson (Bélial’)

• L’Homme qui mit
  fin à l’histoire [THE MAN WHO ENDED HISTORY], Ken Liu (Bélial’)

• “Honey Bear”,
  Sofia Samatar (ANGLE MORT #11)

• Infinités [THE
  WOMAN WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS A PLANET], Vandana Singh (Denoël)

• Au-delà du gouffre
  [BEYOND THE RIFT], Peter Watts (Bélial’)

For more info on PIRATE UTOPIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover and by John Coulthart

For more info on INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Goro Fujita

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For more info about BEYOND THE RIFT, visit the Tachyon page

Cover art by Hugh Sicotte

Design by Elizabeth Story