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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

June 8, 2016

Tachyon artists nominated for Chesley and British Fantasy Awards

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized asfa, bfsa, british fantasy award, central station, chelsey awards, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, hannu rajaniemi, hannu rajaniemi: collected fiction, John Picacio, julie dillon, kate elliot, lavie tidhar, lius lasahido, reiko murakami, sarah anne langton, the very best of kate elliott

Both the Chesley and British Fantasy Awards announced their nominations with Tachyon artists Julie Dillon, Sarah Anne Langton, Lius Lasahido, Reiko Murakami, and John Picacio, not to mention editor Ellen Datlow all receiving recognition.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Best Cover
Illustration: Hardcover Book

Richard
Anderson THE DINOSAUR LORDS by Victor Milan (Tor, July 2015)
Lius
Lasahido HANNU RAJANIEMI: COLLECTED FICTION by Hannu Rajaniemi
(Tachycon, May 2015)
Todd
Lockwood VOYAGE OF THE BASILISK by Marie Brennan (Tor, March 2015)
Cynthia
Sheppard KAREN MEMORY by Elizabeth Bear (Tor, February 2015)
Sam Weber DUNE
by Frank Herbert (The Folio Society, April 2015)

Best Cover
Illustration: Paperback Book

Julie Dillon THE
VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT by Kate Elliott (Tachycon, February
2015)
Tyler
Jacobson BEYOND THE POOL OF STARS by Howard Andrew Jones (Tor,
October 2015)
Jeffery Alan
Love WOLFHOUND CENTURY by Peter Higgins (Gollancz, May 2015)
David
Palumbo BINTI by Nnedi Okorafer (Tor, September 2015)
John
Picacio INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS by Jack Finney (Simon &
Schuster, October 2015)

Best Cover
Illustration: Magazine

Maurizio
Manzieri ASIMOV’S, Oct/Nov 2015
Reiko
Murakami LIGHTSPEED #63, August 2015
Tran
Nguyen UNCANNY #4, May/June 2015
Greg
Ruth ALABASTER: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE BIRD #1, Dark Horse
Comics, Dec. 2015
shichigoro-shingo CLARKESWORLD #109, October 2015

Best Interior
Illustration

Galen
Dara “Tuesdays with Molakesh The Destroyer” by Megan Grey
(FIRESIDE MAGAZINE #19)
Marcel
Mercado SOUTHLANDS RPG (Kobold Press, July 2015)
Peter
Mohrbacher ANGELARIUM: BOOK OF EMANATIONS by Peter Mohrbacher &
Eli Minaya
Tran
Nguyen “Transition Management Survey” (CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER,
September 2015)
Sam Weber DUNE
by Frank Herbert (The Folio Society, July 2015)

Best Color Work:
Unpublished

Joseph
Bellofatto STAR SHIP, Oil
Donato
Giancola BERON AND LUTHIEN IN THE COURT OF THINGAL AND MELIAN, Oil
Wayne
Haag DESERT WRECK, Oil
Jessica TC
Lee ENCHANTED, Digital
Elizabeth
Leggett AFTER HOURS, Digital
Mark
Poole MEMORIES, Oil
Eric
Velhagen FELINES, Oil

Best Monochrome
Work: Unpublished

Rovina Cai COLD
WIND
Jeremy
Enecio PROGENY, Graphite on Moleskin
Travis
Lewis SYMBIOSIS, Graphite
Mark
Molchan RETURN, Graphite
Ruth
Sanderson INVOKING THE DRAGON, Ink/Scratchboard
Chris
Seaman FAMILY PORTRAITHAUSEN, Acrylic
Allen
Williams BOUND, Graphite & Gold leaf accent

Best
Three-Dimensional Art

Devon
Dorrity FLIGHT OF THE MERROW, Clay & Bronze
Thomas
Kuebler ADELPHA AND HER SISTER, Mixed
Stelios
Mousarris INCEPTION COFFEE TABLE, Wood
Forest Rogers THE
MORRIGAN, Mixed
Virginie
Ropars OKUNOSHIMA, Mixed
Vincent
Villafranca DARK DAY FOR THE METAL HEADS, Bronze

Best Product
Illustration

Linda
Adair ADOLESCENCE – Promo art for IlluXcon 2016
Mitchell
Bentley MITCHELL DAVIDSON BENTLEY 2015 CALENDAR – Albon Lake &
Atomic Fly Studios
Rovina Cai BLACK
HOLE – card for COSMOS TAROT & ORACLE DECK, The Light Grey Art
Lab
Jacob Murray A
GAME OF THRONES: THE CARD Game – 2nd edition box art, Fantasy
Flight Games
John Picacio EL
ARBOL – Loteria card, Lone Boy
Magali
Villeneuve GEORGE R.R. MARTIN: SONG OF ICE AND FIRE – 2016
calendar, Bantam

Best Gaming –
Related Illustration

Clint
Cearley MIND ROT – Dragons of Tarkir Magic Card, WotC
Vincent
Proce GUARDIAN AUTOMATON – Magic Origins Magic Card, WotC
Anna
Steinbauer BLESSED SPIRITS – Magic Origins Magic Card, WotC
Ryan Yee FRUIT
OF THE FIRST TREE – Fate Reforged Magic Card, WotC
Min Yum
SANDBLAST – Fate Reforged Magic Card, WotC

Best Art Director

Neil
Clarke CLARKESWORLD magazine
Irene Gallo Tor
Books & Tor.com
Jeremy
Jarvis Wizards of the Coast
Elizabeth
Leggett LIGHTSPEED magazine
Lauren
Panepinto Orbit Books & Muddy Colors contributor
Betsy Wolheim &
Shelia Gilbert DAW Books

Lifetime Artistic
Achievement

Kinuko Y. Craft
David A. Hardy
Greg Manchess
Iain McCaig
Wendy Pini
Drew Struzan

Best anthology

AFRICAN MONSTERS,
ed. Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas (Fox Spirit Books)
AICKMAN’S HEIRS,
ed. Simon Strantzas (Undertow Publications)
BEST BRITISH HORROR
2015, ed. Johnny Mains (Salt Publishing)
THE DOLL COLLECTION,
ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor Books)
THE 2ND SPECTRAL
BOOK OF HORROR STORIES, ed. Mark Morris (Spectral Press)

Best artist

Ben Baldwin
Vincent Chong
Julie Dillon
Evelinn Enoksen
Sarah Anne
Langton
Jeffrey Alan Love

Best collection

GHOST SUMMER:
STORIES, Tananarive Due (Prime Books)
MONSTERS, Paul Kane
(The Alchemy Press)
PROBABLY MONSTERS,
Ray Cluley (ChiZine Publications)
SCAR CITY, Joel Lane
(Eibonvale Press)
SKEIN AND BONE, V.H.
Leslie (Undertow Publications)
THE STARS SEEM SO
FAR AWAY, Margrét Helgadóttir (Fox Spirit Books)

Best
comic/graphic novel

BITCH PLANET, Kelly
Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV and Cris Peter
(Image Comics) (#2–5)
MS. MARVEL, VOL. 2:
GENERATION WHY, G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt and Adrian Alphona
(Marvel)
NIMONA, Noelle
Stevenson (HarperTeen)
RED SONJA, Gail
Simone and Walter Geovani (Dynamite Entertainment) (#14–18)
SAGA, Brian K.
Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics) (#25–32)
THE SANDMAN:
OVERTURE, Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III and Dave Stewart (Vertigo)

Best fantasy
novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

GUNS OF THE DAWN,
Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
HALF A WAR, Joe
Abercrombie (HarperVoyager)
THE IRON GHOST, Jen
Williams (Headline)
SIGNAL TO NOISE,
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
SORCERER TO THE
CROWN, Zen Cho (Macmillan)
UPROOTED, Naomi
Novik (Macmillan)

Best
film/television production

INSIDE NO. 9: THE
TRIAL OF ELIZABETH GADGE, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton (BBC
Two)
JESSICA JONES: AKA
WWJD?, Scott Reynolds (Netflix)
JONATHAN STRANGE &
MR NORRELL, Peter Harness (BBC One)
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD,
George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris (Warner Bros.
Pictures et al.)
MIDWINTER OF THE
SPIRIT, Stephen Volk (ITV Studios)
STAR WARS: THE FORCE
AWAKENS, by Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt (Lucasfilm
et al.)

Best horror novel
(the August Derleth Award)

A COLD SILENCE,
Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
THE DEATH HOUSe,
Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
LOST GIRL, Adam
Nevill (Pan Books)
RAWBLOOD, Catriona
Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
THE SILENCE, Tim
Lebbon (Titan Books)
WELCOME TO NIGHT
VALE, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor (Orbit)

Best independent
press

The Alchemy Press
(Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards)
Angry Robot (Marc
Gascoigne)
Fox Spirit Books
(Adele Wearing)
Newcon Press (Ian
Whates)

Best
magazine/periodical

BENEATH CEASELESS
SKIES, ed. Scott H. Andrews (Firkin Press)
BLACK STATIC, ed.
Andy Cox (TTA Press)
HOLDFAST MAGAZINE,
ed. Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee (Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee)
INTERZONE, ed. Andy
Cox (TTA Press)
STRANGE HORIZONS,
ed. Niall Harrison (Strange Horizons)

Best newcomer
(the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

Becky Chambers, for
THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL ANGRY PLANET (Hodder & Stoughton)
Zen Cho, for
SORCERER TO THE CROWN (Macmillan)
Peter Newman, for
THE VAGRANT (HarperVoyager)
Steven Poore, for
THE HEIR TO THE NORTH (Kristell Ink)
Marc Turner, for
WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL (Titan Books)

Best non-fiction

THE ART OF HORROR:
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, ed. Stephen Jones (Applause Theatre &
Cinema Books)
FANTASY-FACTION, ed.
Marc Aplin and Jennie Ivins (Fantasy-Faction)
GINGER NUTS OF
HORROR, ed. Jim Mcleod (Jim McLeod)
KING FOR A YEAR, ed.
Mark West (Mark West)
LETTERS TO TIPTREE,
ed. Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
MATRILINES, Kari
Sperring (Strange Horizons)

Best novella

Albion Fay, Mark
Morris (Spectral Press)
Binti, Nnedi
Okorafor (Tor.com)
The Bureau of Them,
Cate Gardner (Spectral Press)
The Pauper Prince
and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com)
Witches of
Lytchford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com)

Best short
fiction

The Blue Room, V.H.
Leslie (SKEIN AND BONE)
Dirt Land, Ralph
Robert Moore (BLACK STATIC #49)
Fabulous Beasts,
Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
Hippocampus, Adam
Nevill (TERROR TALES OF THE OCEAN)
Strange Creation,
Frances Kay (TENEBRIS NYXIES)
When The Moon Man
Knocks, Cate Gardner (BLACK STATIC #48)

For more information on HANNU RAJANIEMI: COLLECTED FICTION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Lius Lasahido

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

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

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

August 27, 2015

Congrats to Tachyon contributors on their Hugo Awards

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized elizabeth story, epic: legends of fantasy, hugo, Hugo Award, John Joseph Adams, julie dillon, kate elliot, lightspeed, the very best of kate elliott

While no 2014 Tachyon publications won 2015 Hugo Awards, announced at Sasquan on August 22, two different Tachyon contributors went home with statues.

Julie Dillon, who produced the gorgeous cover to THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT, won her third consecutive Hugo award for Best Professional Artist.

John Joseph Adams, editor of the acclaimed EPIC: LEGENDS OF FANTASY, won the Hugo award for Best Semiprozine. Adams shared the award with his LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE co-editors Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant.

Check out the rest of the winners at the Hugo Awards site.

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 about EPIC: LEGENDS OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

June 23, 2015

Kate Elliott takes Croatia by storm

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized collection, convention, croatia, event, fantasy, kate elliot, sferakon, sirius b, the very best of kate elliott, zagreb

Kate Elliott at SFeraKon (photo by Šilović)

Zagreb’s SFeraKon, the longest running Croation science fiction convention, welcomed Kate Elliott as guest of honor. In celebration of the event, the Croation magazine SIRIUS B translated and reprinted “On the Dying Winds of the Old Year and the Birthing Winds of the New,” which originally appeared in the collection THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT.

For more information about SFeraKon, visit their page.

For more information about SIRIUS B, visit their page.

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

Cover art by Julie Dillon.

Design by Elizabeth Story.

February 4, 2015

THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT preview: “The Queen’s Garden”

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized collection, elizabeth story, excerpt, fantasy, julie dillon, kate elliot, preview, short story, The Queen’s Garden, the very best of kate elliott

In celebration of the impending release of The Very Best of Kate Elliott, we are sharing story excerpts from the collection.

Today’s preview comes from “The Queen’s Garden.“

Pleasesit down, the youngest girls in front and the older on the pillows
behind. Close the doors so no one is distracted by the blooms and by
the sunbirds and peacocks in the garden. The only blooms I want to
admire are your attentive faces. Now that I have lit the incense and
we have said the prayers to our divine ancestress, I can begin.

Listen
carefully to what I am about to tell you.

On
the day their father the king Karanadayara gravely insulted the
envoys of a powerful emperor, his daughters Princess An and Princess
Yara awoke from their complacency. In the years since their mother’s
death they had allowed his affection to lull them into thinking all
would go forward as it always had down the generations since the
first queen, the Lady Rhinoceros, had established her sacred presence
in the queen’s garden.

or

“He
has become too full of himself.” Fine lines wrinkled An’s
delicate brow as she frowned. “Ever since Mother’s death he has
forgotten to rule wisely as our regent and instead rules pridefully.
We should have seen it before it came to this.”

“But
he is right to refuse to pay tribute!” objected Yara.

“Not
so loud. That may be, but we cannot defeat the Empire of Saro in open
war. There are quieter ways to deflect the empire’s interest. When
the envoys return home, the emperor is required to avenge the insult
or he will look weak to his own court. This will be the excuse he
desires.”

Yara
fidgeting and An pensive, the sisters watched their father gesture
for the next supplicant to come forward. The king’s color was
heightened and his back straight with energy and tension, or so Yara
described him to An. The mutilation had put him in a good mood, and
with a generous smile he welcomed each new group of visitors come to
pay their respects.