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February 2, 2021

Tachyon well represented at Boskone 58

Rick Klaw blog, Events adam stemple, alastair reynolds, boskone, Carrie Vaughn, content: selected essays on technology creativity copyright and the future of technology and the future of the future, cory doctorow, driftwood, Ellen Datlow, James Patrick Kelly, Jane Yolen, julie dillon, kitty's mix tape, marie brennan, michael swanwick, nesfa, nightmares: a new decade of modern horror, not so much said the cat, slow bullets, the last tsar's dragons, the very best of kate elliott

Marie Brennan, Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Alastair Reynolds, Adam Stemple, Michael Swanwick, Carrie Vaughn, and Jane Yolen will all be attending the virtual online convention Boskone 58, February 12-14.

Brought to you by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA), Boskone is an annual science fiction convention, the oldest in New England. NESFA is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation and both NESFA and Boskone are run and put on entirely by fan volunteers.
What is Boskone?

Guest of Honor: Joe Abercrombie
Official Artist: Julie Dillon
Special Guest: Sheree Renée Thomas
Musical Guest: Marc Gunn
NESFA Press Guest: Ursula Vernon
Hal Clement Science Speaker: Mike Brotherton
Hal Clement Science Speaker: Christian Ready

Boskone offers a massive selection of readings and panels. To find any of these authors, check out the entire schedule.

June 1, 2020

Kameron Hurley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Tachyon itself are 2020 Locus Award finalists

Rick Klaw blog alastair reynolds, ann vandermeer, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Charlie Jane Anders, charlies jane, dead astronauts, echoes: the saga anthology of ghost stories, Ellen Datlow, jeff vandermeer, John Joseph Adams, julie dillon, kameron hurley, locus award finalists, meet me in the future, michael swanwick, permafrost, shadow captain, the big book of classic, the city in the middle of the night, the iron dragon's mother, the light brigade, the very best of caitlin r kiernan

Cover by Hannes Hummel
Design by Elizabeth Story

The finalists for the 2020 Locus Awards were announced. Kameron Hurley’s MEET ME IN THE FUTURE, THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, and Tachyon Publications itself all received notices. Previous Tachyon authors, editors, and artists John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, John Picacio, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Swanwick, Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Vess, Michael Whelan, and Sheila Williams were all honored too.

Congratulations to all the finalists.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor)
The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (Orbit US & UK)
Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)

FANTASY NOVEL

Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit US & UK)
Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit US & UK)
Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
The Iron Dragon’s Mother, Michael Swanwick (Tor)
Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)

HORROR NOVEL

Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
Prisoner of Midnight, Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US & UK)
The Institute, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju, Kim Newman (Titan US & UK)
The Pursuit of William Abbey, Claire North (Orbit US & UK)
The Toll, Cherie Priest (Tor)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
The Wicked King, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
Destroy All Monsters, Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
Angel Mage, Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
Shadow Captain, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)

FIRST NOVEL

The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (Tor)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
Finder, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)

NOVELLA

“A Time to Reap“, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 12/19)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com Publishing)
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com Publishing)
Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds (Tor.com Publishing)
The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
The Ascent to Godhood, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

“Erase, Erase, Erase”, Elizabeth Bear (F&SF 9-10/19)
“For He Can Creep“, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
“Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
“A Country Called Winter”, Theodora Goss (Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
“Late Returns”, Joe Hill (Full Throttle)
“Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)
“The Justified”, Ann Leckie (The Mythic Dream)
“Phantoms of the Midway”, Seanan McGuire (The Mythic Dream)
“Binti: Sacred Fire”, Nnedi Okorafor (Binti: The Complete Trilogy)
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)

SHORT STORY

“The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders (A People’s Future of the United States)
“Lest We Forget“, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 5-6/19)
“The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex”, Tobias S. Buckell (New Suns)
“It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning“, Ted Chiang (New York Times 5/27/19)
“Fisher-Bird”, T. Kingfisher (The Mythic Dream)
“I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married“, Fonda Lee (MIT Technology Review 12/27/19)
“The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear“, Kelly Link (Tin House ’19)
“Thoughts and Prayers“, Ken Liu (Future Tense 1/26/19)
“A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
“A Catalog of Storms“, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)’

ANTHOLOGY

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
Mission Critical, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, eds. (Subterranean)
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

COLLECTION

Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf; Picador)
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
The Best of Greg Egan, Greg Egan (Subterranean)
Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium)
Full Throttle, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
MEET ME IN THE FUTURE, Kameron Hurley (Tachyon)
THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tachyon)
The Best of R.A. Lafferty, R.A. Lafferty (Gollancz)
Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US & UK)
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)

Cover by Carl Sutton
Design by Elizabeth Story

July 27, 2018

Happy birthday to the extraordinary Kate Elliott

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized alis a rassmussen, birthday, buried heart, court of fives, elizabeth story, julie dillon, kate elliott, night flower, poisoned blade, the very best of kate elliott

Photo: April Quintanilla

Following the
disappointing sales of her acclaimed first books The Labyrinth
Gate (1988) and the Highroad trilogy (beginning with A
Passage of Stars
[1990]), Alis A.
Rassmussen assumed the pen name Kate Elliott and began a string of
bestselling, groundbreaking works with the popular Jaran
series (beginning with Jaran
[1992]). Since then
she has garnered innumerable fans with the trilogies Crossroads
(beginning with Spirit Gate
[2006]) and
Spiritwalker (beginning with Cold Magic
[2010]).

Elliott received her
first World Fantasy Award nomination for The Golden Key (1996;
co-written with Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson). King’s
Dragon (1997),
the first volume of her The Crown Of Stars septology, received
a Nebula Award nomination for best novel. Her first young adult novel
Court Of Fives (2015),
was nominated for the Andre Norton Award.

Many of her shorter
works were collected in THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT (2015). Her
most recent title, Buried Heart
(2017), completed
Court of Fives series.

All of us at Tachyon
wish the amazing Alis a happy birthday.

For more information on THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Julie Dillon

Design by Elizabeth Story

February 22, 2018

Daryl Gregory, Ellen Klages, Sarah Pinsker, and JY Yang all receive Nebula Award nominations

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized and then there were (n-one), daryl gregory, ellen klages, julie dillon, jy yang, nebula award, passing strange, sarah pinsker, spoonbenders, the black tides of heaven, wind will rove

While no Tachyon
titles were nominated for the 2017 Nebula Award, Daryl Gregory, Ellen
Klages and THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY contributors Sarah Pinsker
(twice!) and JY Yang all received recognition.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Novel

Amberlough,
Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)

The Strange Case
of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)

Spoonbenders,
Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)

The Stone Sky,
N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Six Wakes,
Mur Lafferty (Orbit US)

Jade City,
Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Autonomous,
Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)

Novella

River of Teeth,
Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)

Passing Strange,
Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)

“And Then There
Were (N-One)”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)

Barry’s Deal,
Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion Press)

All Systems Red,
Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

The Black Tides
of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelette

“Dirty Old Town”,
Richard Bowes (F&SF 5-6/17)

“Weaponized Math”,
Jonathan P. Brazee (The Expanding Universe, Vol. 3)

“Wind Will Rove”,
Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)

“A Series of
Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld 1/17)

“A Human Stain”,
Kelly Robson (Tor.com ¼/17)

“Small Changes
Over Long Periods of Time”, K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 5-6/17)

Art: Julie Dillon’s “Submerged City”

Short Story

“Fandom for
Robots”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)

“Welcome to Your
Authentic Indian ExperienceTM”, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex
8/17)

“Utopia, LOL?”,
Jamie Wahls (Strange Horizons 6/5/17)

“Clearly Lettered
in a Mostly Steady Hand”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)

“The Last Novelist
(or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)”, Matthew Kressel (Tor.com
3/15/17)

“Carnival Nine”,
Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

The Ray Bradbury
Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Get Out
(Written by Jordan Peele)

The Good Place:
“Michael’s Gambit” (Written by Michael Schur)

Logan
(Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green)

The Shape of
Water (Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor)

Star Wars: The
Last Jedi (Written by Rian Johnson)

Wonder Woman
(Screenplay by Allan Heinberg)

The Andre Norton
Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

Exo, Fonda
Lee (Scholastic Press)

Weave a Circle
Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)

The Art of
Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)

Want, Cindy
Pon (Simon Pulse)

January 8, 2018

Have drinks with Kate Elliott

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized buried heart, Charlie Jane Anders, elizabeth story, julie dillon, kate elliot, the very best of kate elliott, writers with drinks

Photo: April Quintanilla

Kate Elliott joins Amelia Gray, Rob Reid, Brontez Purnell, Frances Stroh and mc Charlie Jan Anders for Writers With Drinks, an ambitious blend of poetry, science fiction, brave storytelling and humor.

When: Saturday, January 13 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.
Where: Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA
How Much: $5 to $20, no-one turned away. All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.

For more information on THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Julie Dillon

Design by Elizabeth Story

August 16, 2017

Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, Ursula Vernon, and Amal El-Mohtar win Hugo Awards

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized amal el-mohtar, camille andre, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, Hugo Award, julie dillon, nightmares, nightmares: a new decade of modern horror, nihil, reiko murakami, the monstrous, the new voices of fantasy, the very best of kate elliott, ursula vernon

The 2017 Hugo base was designed by Finnish artist Eeva Jokinen. Photo by Michael Lee

At the The 75th World Science Fiction Convention ceremony, Ellen Datlow garnered her incredible 8th Hugo Award. Other Tachyon contributors so honored included Julie Dillon (cover artist, THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT), Ursula Vernon, and Amal El-Mohtar (both in THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY).

Congrats to all the winners.

2017 Hugo Award Winners

BEST NOVEL

THE OBELISK GATE, by
N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books)

BEST NOVELLA

EVERY HEART A
DOORWAY, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com publishing)

BEST NOVELETTE

“The Tomato
Thief”, by Ursula Vernon (APEX MAGAZINE, January 2016)

BEST SHORT STORY

“Seasons of
Glass and Iron”, by Amal El-Mohtar (THE STARLIT WOOD: NEW FAIRY
TALES, Saga Press)

BEST RELATED WORK

WORDS ARE MY MATTER:
WRITINGS ABOUT LIFE AND BOOKS, 2000-2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small
Beer)

BEST GRAPHIC
STORY

MONSTRESS, VOLUME 1:
AWAKENING, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda
(Image)

BEST DRAMATIC
PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

ARRIVAL, screenplay
by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by
Denis Villeneuve (21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava
Bear Films)

BEST DRAMATIC
PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

THE EXPANSE:
“Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby,
directed by Terry McDonough (SyFy)

BEST EDITOR,
SHORT FORM

Ellen Datlow

BEST EDITOR, LONG
FORM

Liz Gorinsky

BEST PROFESSIONAL
ARTIST

Julie Dillon

BEST SEMIPROZINE

UNCANNY MAGAZINE,
edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota,
Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven
Schapansky

BEST FANZINE

LADY BUSINESS,
edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan

BEST FANCAST

TEA AND JEOPARDY,
presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

BEST FAN WRITER

Abigail Nussbaum

BEST FAN ARTIST

Elizabeth Leggett

BEST SERIES

(Special Category
added by option of Worldcon 75)

THE VORKOSIGAN SAGA,
by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

THE JOHN W.
CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (Not a Hugo Award, but
administered along with the Hugo Awards)

Ada
Palmer

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 NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more information on THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Julie Dillon

Design by Elizabeth Story

July 27, 2017

Happy birthday to the extraordinary Kate Elliott

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized alis rasmussen, birthday, elizabeth story, julie dillon, kate elliott, the very best of kate elliott

Photo: April Quintanilla

Following the disappointing sales of her acclaimed first books THE LABYRINTH GATE and the HIGHROAD trilogy (beginning with A PASSAGE OF STARS), Alis Rassmussen assumed the pen name Kate Elliott and began a string of bestselling, groundbreaking works with the popular JARAN series (beginning with JARAN). Since then she has garnered innumerable fans with the trilogies CROSSROADS (beginning with SPIRIT GATE) and SPIRITWALKER (beginning with COLD MAGIC).

Elliott received her first World Fantasy Award nomination for THE GOLDEN KEY (co-written with Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson). KING’S DRAGON, the first volume of her THE CROWN OF STARS septology, received a Nebula Award nomination for best novel. Her first young adult novel COURT OF FIVES, was nominated for the Andre Norton Award

Many of her shorter works were collected in THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT. BURIED HEART, the final volume of COURT OF FIVES trilogy, was recently published.

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Alis a happy birthday.

For more information on THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Julie Dillon

Design by Elizabeth Story

April 24, 2017

Sarah Anne Langton’s cover to CENTRAL STATION and other Tachyon artists receive Chesley Award nominations

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized asfa, association of science fiction & fantasy artists, central station, chesley, John Picacio, julie dillon, lavie tidhar, michael whelan, sarah anne langton

The Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists announced the 2017 Chesley Award Final Nomination List with Sarah Anne Langton for her cover to Lavie Tidhar’s acclaimed CENTRAL STATION and Tachyon contributors John Picacio, Julie Dillon, and Michael Whelan all receiving recognition.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Best Cover
Illustration: Hardcover

Dan dos Santos
FABLES: CUBS IN TOYLAND by Bill Willingham Vertigo, September 2016
Todd Lockwood SUMMER
DRAGON by Todd Lockwood DAW, May 2016
Tran Nguyen
KUSHIEL’S DART by Jacqueline Carey Subterranean Press, October 2016
Cliff Nielsen LADY
MIDNIGHT by Cassandra Clare McElderry Books, March 2016
David Palumbo
ARCANUM UNBOUNDED by Brandon Sanderson Tor, November 2016
John Picacio IN
THE HOUSE OF THE WORM by George R.R. Martin Baltimore Science Fiction
Society, May 2016

John Picacio IN THE HOUSE OF THE WORM

Best Cover
Illustration: Paperback or Ebook

Tommy Arnold A
TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson Tor.com Publishing, October 2016
Julie Dillon
BEYOND THE STARS: AT GALAXY’S EDGE by Assorted Authors Astral books
Amazon Digital Services, August 2016
Sarah Anne
Langton CENTRAL STATION by Lavie Tidhar Tachyon Publications, May
2016
Gene Mollica BREATH
OF EARTH by Beth Cato Harper Voyager, August 2016
Victo Ngai FOREST OF
MEMORY by Mary Robinette Kowal Tor, March 2016

Julie Dillon BEYOND THE STARS

Best Cover
Illustration: Magazine

Galen Dara UNCANNY
Issue 10, May/June 2016
Elizabeth Leggett
LIGHTSPEED #69, February 2016
David Palumbo
SWALLOWED WHOLE, ALIENS – LIFE AND DEATH #1 Dark Horse, September
2016
Paolo Rivera HELLBOY
AND THE B.P.R.D. 1953 Dark Horse, February 2016
Jeremy Wilson
CHIMERA BRIGADE #1 By Serge Lehman and Fabrice Colin Titan Comics,
October 2016

Best Interior
Illustration

Rovina Cai “Tom,
Thom” by K.M. Ferebee Tor.com, February 2016
Kari Christensen
Gethsemoni, COURT OF THE DEAD: CHRONICLE OF THE UNDERWORLD by Tom
Gilliland Sideshow Collectibles 2016
Tran Nguyen
KUSHIEL’S DART by Jacqueline Carey Subterranean Press 2016
Greg Ruth “Freedom
is Space for the Spirit” by Glen Hirshberg Tor.com, April 2016
Ivica Stevanovic THE
BESTIARY edited by Ann Vandermeer Centipede Press, March 2016

Best Gaming
Related Illustration

Mauricio Calle
Encounter at Stygeon Prime- STAR WARS: THE CARD GAME Fantasy Flight
Games 2016
Cliff Childs
Long-Finned Skywhale KALADESH card set WotC, Sept. 2016
Ryan Pancoast
Inventor’s Apprentice KALADESH card set WotC, Sept. 2016
Matthew Stewart
Mastertrinketeer KALADESH card set WotC, Sept. 2016
Ryan Yee Die Young
KALADESH card set WotC, Sept. 2016

John Picacio La Corona (The Crown)

BEST PRODUCT
ILLUSTRATION

Donato Giancola
Portal Promotional art for Illuxcon
Clark Huggins
Advertisement for RECKLESS DECK Imagine FX, February 2016
John Picacio La
Corona (The Crown) LOTERIA Lone Boy
Cynthia Sheppard
2017 LLEWELLYN’S ASTROLOGICAL CALENDAR
Greg Spalenka banner
art to promote Roxana Illuminated Perfume 2016

Michael Whelan In a World of Her Own

Best Color Work: Unpublished

John Harris The Ark, Oil
Vanessa Lemen Holding On and Letting Go, Oil on canvas
Miranda Meeks December, Oil
Shreya Shetty The Dragon Charmer, Digital
Michael Whelan In a World of Her Own, Acrylic

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover and image by Sarah Anne Langton

April 6, 2017

Tachyon tidbits featuring Peter S. Beagle, Jane Yolen, Kate Elliott, Gordon Van Gelder, and James Tiptree, Jr.

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized a reader of fictions, aliette de bodard, cuentos para algernon, elizabeth story, james tiptree jr, Jane Yolen, john berry, julie dillon, kate elliott, marek oziewicz, oxford research encyclopedia of literature, peter s beagle, so long been dreaming: postcolonial science fiction and fantasy, the book smugglers, the emerald circus, the overneath, the very best of fantasy & science fiction volume 2, Thomas Canty, whispers from the cotton tree root: caribbean fabulist fiction

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

Peter S. Beagle (photo: Rina Weisman), Jane Yolen (Jason Stemple), Kate Elliott (April Quintanilla), Gordon Van Gelder (Houari Boumedienne), and James Tiptree, Jr.

A READER OF FICTIONS latest cover snark column reviews the covers for Peterr S. Beagle’s THE OVERNEATH and Jane Yolen’s THE EMERALD CIRCUS.

32. The Overneath – Peter S. Beagle

Thoughts: Clever title and font like whoa. Not quite a unicorn but close.

33. The Emerald Circus – Jane Yolen

Thoughts: Absinthely beautiful.

For THE BOOK SMUGGLERS, Aliette De Bodard’s list of favorite dragons includes THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT.

In Kate Elliott’s Spiritwalker trilogy, dragons aren’t human (well, mostly not): they’re forces of nature in the spirit world, so huge and so full of magic that they reshape reality in their passage. Julie Dillon’s wonderful cover of THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT captures the sheer, crushing, awesome size of them.

The Spanish-language CUENTOS PARA
ALGERNON recommends Gordon Van Gelder’s THE VERY BEST OF
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, VOLUME 2.

Second anthology of the best stories published in this long-running magazine throughout its more than sixty-five years of life. The result is a volume that includes twenty-seven stories of very popular authors, and an almost perfect combination of classics and lesser-known pieces in which there is a bit of everything: light stories, deep, sad, sinister and funny; Science fiction and fantasy; Stories that, at least in my case, have been all a discovery, and others I had read, but it is always a pleasure to reread. A joy of a book.

Translation from Spanish courtesy of Google.

Marek Oziewicz in his article on speculative fiction for OXFORD RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE includes THE JAMES TIPTREE AWARD ANTHOLOGY 3 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith as well as the pair of Nalo Hopkinson anthologies: WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT: CARIBBEAN FABULIST FICTION and SO LONG BEEN DREAMING: POSTCOLONIAL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.

For more info on THE OVERNEATH, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Julie Dillon

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, VOLUME 2, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info about THE JAMES TIPTREE AWARD ANTHOLOGY 3, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Berry

January 31, 2017

Tachyon tidbits featuring Lauren Beukes, Daryl Gregory, Alyssa Wong, Nalo Hopkinson, Ellen Klages, Pat Murphy, and Tim Powers

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

Lauren Beukes, Daryl Gregory, Alyssa Wong, and Nalo Hopkinson (photo: David Findlay)

Ellen Klages (photo: Scott R. Kline), Pat Murphy (Lawrence Person), and Tim Powers (Matt Gush)

For PANK, Gabino Iglesias names Lauren Beukes’ SLIPPING: STORIES, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITING as one of the best books of 2016.

One of the first authors to come to mind when thinking about writers who can move in and out of a plethora of genres while simultaneously sounding fresh and unique, Beukes has become a household name thanks to novels that are a bizarre, scary, wildly entertaining mix of science fiction, crime, and horror, and this collection offers more of that.

Ian Rogers named, without comment, Daryl Gregory’s WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE as one of his favorite novellas of 2016 and Alyssa Wong’s “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” which will be in the forthcoming Peter S. Beagle/Jacob Weisman anthology THE NEW FANTASY, as a favorite short story.

UNCANNY shares both text and audio versions of Nalo Hopkinson’s “Can’t Beat ‘Em.”

“Yeah, that’s some clog,” the plumber said. She pulled the metal–and–rubber snake out of the bathroom sink. Marisella wrinkled her nose at the gunk sticking to it. Whatever it had caught on in her drain had warped the metal and torn away bits of the rubber.

Marisella asked, “Can you fix it?” and, more softly, “Will it cost much?”

Cover art by Julie Dillon

The plumber smiled at her. “Not a thing, hon. This one is Management’s liability. They’ll pick up the tab.”

Well, that was a relief.

Leah Schnelbach at TOR.COM compiled Leave Your Heart in San Francisco with 10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories! While no Tachyon titles were included, the list did feature works by Ellen Klages, Pat Murphy, and Tim Powers.

San Francisco has always been a beacon of hope for non-conformists, artists, and poets. Set in 1940, Klages’ San Francisco features whimsical cities within the City—The Magic City of the World’s Fair glitters atop an island created from artifice and illusion; Chinatown is a self-contained world bursting with “exotic” food and enticing nightclubs—where people can experience pulp adventures and find true love away from the prying eyes of conventional society.

In this San Francisco, six women will discover that their lives are entangled in ways they never could have predicted, and that life and love in this city are far more mysterious than they ever thought possible.

Twenty years after a plague wipes out Earth’s population, San Francisco has become a utopian haven for artists and non-conformists who are seeking a meaningful life in the midst of death. Unfortunately, an autocratic general nicknamed Fourstar is building a military empire in the Valley—he already has Sacramento, Fresno, and Modesta, and he plans to annex San Francisco next. A young woman follows a vision to the city, and warns the inhabitants of the General’s plans… but what hope is there for a group of peaceful artists against an army?

Luckily, the ghosts of San Francisco have no intention of giving up on their city, and soon the artists are finding help in a most unusual place: the city’s past.

So many of the titles on this list riff on San Francisco’s noir tradition that it’s nice to find one that explores the city’s relationship to poetry. Richard Blanzac is a rare book dealer living in 2012, and he’s used to sifting through piles of dross in search of literary classics. When he receives a box from the niece of a little-known poet Sophia Greenwald, he’s ecstatic to find an autographed copy of Howl under a pile of cigarette butts. There is also an old Ace Double Novel, and copies of Greenwald’s own poetry.

Before he can figure out what to do with it, however, Greenwald’s literary executor insists that he must destroy every copy of the poems (which seems an odd request from a literary executor) and before he can process that, he realizes his office is dissolving around him, and finds himself in San Francisco, in 1957, speaking to the much-younger literary executor, who turns out to be Sophia Greenwald herself. And she still needs him to destroy her poetry, because an apocalyptic cult is determined to use it to end all of existence. Which is a lot to process, and that’s before the Sumerian god gets involved…

For more information about SLIPPING: STORIES, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITING, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Clara Bacou

Design by Elizabeth Story

For information on WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE NEW FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camilla André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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