Kathleen Bartholomew

March 3, 2021

Tachyon and Humble Bundle combine forces for the Supermassive Sci-fi, Fantasy, & Horror bundle in support of Electronic Frontier Foundation and Carl Brandon Society

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June 10, 2017

The beloved Kage Baker was born 65 years ago

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized ancient rockets: treasures and trainwrecks of the silent screen, Ann Monn, birthday, company, in the company of thieves, kage baker, Kathleen Bartholomew, the hotel under the sand, thomas cany

Best known for her Company time travel series, Kage Baker won the Theodore Sturgeon and Nebula Awards for her novellas “The Empress of Mars” and THE WOMEN OF NELL GWYNNE’S. Her 13 novels include the eight volumes of the COMPANY sequence, beginning with IN THE GARDEN OF IDEN
(1997) and concluding with the THE SONS OF HEAVEN
(2007), the three books that make up the Anvil of the World
Universe series (THE ANVIL OF THE
WORLD [2003], THE HOUSE OF THE
STAG [2008], THE BIRD OF THE
RIVER [2010]), THE EMPRESS OF MARS
(2008), NOT LESS THAN GODS
(2009), and THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND (2009).

Her numerous short stories and essays have been collected in BLACK PROJECTS,
WHITE KNIGHTS: THE COMPANY DOSSIERS (2002), MOTHER AEGYPT AND
OTHER STORIES (2004), DARK MONDAYS (2006), GODS AND PAWNS
(2007), NELL GWYNNE’S SCARLET SPY (2010), ANCIENT ROCKETS: TREASURES AND TRAINWRECKS OF THE SILENT SCREEN THE BEST OF KAGE
BAKER (2012), and IN THE COMPANY OF THIEVES (2013).

Sadly, the amazing Kage Baker died from uterine cancer on January 31, 2010. She is missed.

For more info about THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about IN THE COMPANY OF THIEVES, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info about ANCIENT ROCKETS: TREASURES AND TRAINWRECKS OF THE SILENT SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

May 19, 2017

Meet Peter S. Beagle, Tad Williams, and Kathleen Bartholomew

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Peter S. Beagle (IN CALABRIA), Tad Williams (THE VERY BEST OF TAD WILLIAMS), and Kathleen Bartholomew (ANCIENT ROCKETS: TREASURES AND TRAINWRECKS OF THE SILENT SCREEN) are attending BayCon 2017 in San Mateo, CA, May 26-29.

Peter S. Beagle (photo: Rina Weisman), Tad Williams, and Kathleen Bartholomew (MidAmericaCon)

The trio will be participating in several events.

Friday, May 26

1:30 PM Longevity Of The Craft

Our panelists look back over writing careers that span decades and discuss what keeps them writing in the long term.

Heather Rose Jones | Peter Beagle | Diana L. Paxson | Tad Williams | Katharine Kerr

4:30 PM Including animals as main figures in your work

Doing it right versus just writing another human in animal form

ElizaBeth Gilligan | Tad Williams | Kevin Andrew Murphy | Jacquelyn Bartel

8 PM Peter Beagle and Friends Jam Session

And by friends, we mean YOU! Join Peter Beagle to kick off our music track. Sing, play and make merry as we celebrate our filk community.

Saturday, May 27

10 AM Building Utopia

A group panel looking at the different ways a society tries to build utopias after an apocalypse.

Prof. David McGaffey | Kathleen Bartholomew | Bradford Lyau | Gregg Castro

10 AM Peter Beagle reading

10:45 AM Tad Williams reading

11:30 AM Autism and Asperger’s In Fandom

Panelists on the spectrum discuss their experiences in fandom.

Thaddeus Howze | Fr John Blaker | Jonathan Fortin | Kathleen Bartholomew | ElizaBeth Gilligan

1 PM High Fantasy

Big, beautiful and bold. What is compelling about high fantasy and why is it formative for so many in our community? Authors of high fantasy discuss why this genre moves them to create and what their favorite stories are to read and to write.

Peter Beagle | Tad Williams | Diana L. Paxson | Daniel Abraham

3 PM Signing: Peter Beagle

4 PM Signing: Tad Williams

4 PM Writing in Someone Else’s World

How to be true to the creator’s vision while still telling your own story.

Deborah J. Ross | Alex Westmore | Kathleen Bartholomew | A.E. Marling | R. L. King

Sunday, May 28

10 AM Collaborations

Are two heads better than one or do too many writers spoil the plot?

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff | Mark Gelineau | Sheryl Hayes | Kathleen Bartholomew

4 PM Historical Writing

Knowing Your Character’s Cultural Priorities and Personal Rebellions

Lillian Csernica | Kathleen Bartholomew | Heather Rose Jones | Jay Hartlove | Gregg Castro

5:30 PM The Truth About Stuff

Come ask our panelists for the truth about various topics and learn the secrets of the dark conspiracies behind each! If you ever wanted to know why stoplights are red, clockwise is to the left or the real story behind the moon landing, now is your chance to ask.

*BayCon regrets that we cannot be responsible for the veracity of the answers given. Please use this information at your own risk.

Monday, May 29

11:30 AM The Eternal Importance of Research

SO, what would have happened if the Brits won the War of 1812? Well, actually – they kind of did. Research before you write alternatives to the wrong history. What’s Greek Fire? Or fusion vs fission? The Schwarzschild radius? The Great Californian Mulberry Collapse? Find out before you write your foot into your mouth. Research matters – Also, someone may have thought of your idea before you.

Kathleen Bartholomew | Karen Brenchley | Bradford Lyau | Laurel Anne Hill | Gregg Castro

For more info on THE VERY BEST OF TAD WILLIAMS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Kerem Beyit.

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about IN CALABRIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about ANCIENT ROCKETS: TREASURES AND TRAINWRECKS OF THE SILENT SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

September 14, 2016

Tachyon tidbits featuring Patricia A. McKillip, Nalo Hopkinson, Kage Baker, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized chuma hill, dreams of distant shores, falling in love with hominids, james tiptree jr award, kage baker, Kathleen Bartholomew, mendoza in hollywood, nalo hopkinson, patricia a mckillip, review, the company, the warbler, tor.com

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

Patricia A. McKillip (photo: Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons), Nalo Hopkinson (David Findlay) and Kage Baker

THE WARBLER praises Patricia A. McKillip’s DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES.

Tachyon Publications has a knack for putting out excellent collections of short stories—in fact, it seems to be their specialty. This week’s “flavor” is Patricia Mckillip’s DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES, an excellent anthology that spans modern fiction, slipstream, and urban fantasy.

But the story that shines brightest in the anthology is, without a doubt, Something Rich and Strange. Here, McKillip enters a Haruki Murakami-esque state, building a world and a “normal” life for her characters, then blurring the edges of reality slowly, until you’re plunged alongside the characters into the surreal and mythological. It’s a magnificent story, truly wonderful, and even if the rest of the stories were mediocre—they aren’t, the whole anthology is great—this story would be well worth picking up the whole book for.

Something Rich and Strange takes its name and much of its symbolism from Shakespeare’sThe Tempest, dealing with sea-gods, temptation, betrayal, love, trust, and bravery. It’s a whirlwind story that buffeted me like a hurricane. The transition into surreality was so smoothly done that I looked at the world around me, confused and unsure of whether I, too, was falling into some kind of fey. Something Rich and Strange is brilliant. That’s the long and the short of it.

Inda Lauryn of CORNER STONE PRESS was blown away by Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS.

I’ve been following Nalo Hopkinson for a while and got around to reading BROWN GIRL IN THE RING earlier this year. So I trusted when I got FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS that I would not be disappointed. And how I was not disappointed! I love short story collections and this one shows the extent of Hopkinson’s talent and imagination, both of which are unmatched by anyone in her genre. I was especially taken with the stories “Left Foot, Right” and “A Young Candy Daughter.” The former story took an unexpected turn that blew me away and the latter was a charming and unique Christmas story. One of the best things about this collection is that no matter what type of SFF you like, there’s something for you.

At TOR.COM, Kathleen Bartholomew continues her reread of the works of Kage Baker with MENDOZA IN HOLLYWOOD.

It’s Tuesday, and this is Tor.com, so it must be time for another installment of the Kage Baker Company Series reread! Whoop-whoop and other assorted expressions of enthusiasm! In today’s post, we’ll be covering “chapters” 8 through 11 of Mendoza in Hollywood, meaning from the end of the previous post right up to the end of Part One, “Establishing Shot”, meaning next week we’ll get started on Part Two, “Babylon is Fallen”.

You can (and should) recommend works for the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award!

For more info on DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more information on FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Chuma Hill

Design by Elizabeth Story

August 11, 2016

Tachyon tidbits featuring Hannu Rajaniemi, Daryl Gregory, Kage Baker, and James Tiptree, Jr.

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

Hannu Rajaniemi (Photo: Uránia Filmszínház), Daryl Gregory, Kage Baker, James Tiptree, Jr.

ARS LIVE #4 featured Hannu Rajaniemi.

Ars contributor Tiffany Kelly and I asked him about his double career in science and sci-fi. He said it all started with a Jules Verne obsession. He wanted to build a vessel like Captain Nemo’sNautilus, so he decided to become a physicist. At the same time, he became fascinated by role-playing games and LARPing (live-action role-playing), which is treated like an art form in Finland and other Nordic countries. He told us some terrifying tales about gaming and then discussed his transition into a fiction writer and entrepreneur in Scotland. Along the way, he regaled us with stories about how his work in science and fiction have fed into each other in some surprising ways (he once got a gig because the hiring manager had read one of Rajaniemi’s novels and wanted to develop some of the sci-fi tech in the book). We asked whether there’s any science fiction that he’s excited about, and Rajaniemi said he loved the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 anthology, edited by John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill (he also liked Hill’s new novel,The Fireman). As for TV, he recommended that everyone watch Person of Interest, the recently concluded CBS series about the emergence of AI.

BABELIO reviewed Daryl Gregory’s NOUS ALLONS TOUS
TRÈS BIEN, the French edition of his World Fantasy Award-winning book WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE.

So when this short text, we’re all fine, thank you , with this intriguing title and fourth this Uncover ‘teaser has arrived in stores, I automatically added to my stack of reading. And I do not regret, it’s one of my biggest favorites of this year, with the fabulous The way of the kings, song Blood and Dark Eden which lit my 2015 readings (not counting the new works Jaworski , needless to say)..

(Translation from the French courtesy of Google.)

At TOR.COM, Kathleen Bartholomew continues her reread of the works of Kage Baker with SKY COYOTE.

SKY COYOTE is Kage Baker’s second novel, and the book that turned her initial idea of the Company into a series. It’s not one of the best loved of her novels, except maybe by me; it’s gotten some weird dismissals in its varied career but it was a very important step for Kage as a writer. This story was rewritten a dozen times before it became the definitive second stanza in her long Company saga.

LADY BUSINESS list of 60 Essential Science Fiction & Fantasy Reads includes James Tiptree, Jr.’s HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER and selections from Tachyon authors Kate Elliott, Nalo Hopkinson, and Nancy Kress.

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Picacio

June 23, 2016

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nalo Hopkinson, Kage Baker, and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

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

Nalo Hopkinson, Kage Baker, and Jeff & Ann VanderMeer (photo: David Backman)

Nalo Hopkinson was a guest on THE
CANDY PALMATER SHOW.

“One of the things that science fiction and fantasy do is look at what it means to be human—like any literature, of course. It teaches you about [how] the world changes and how that affects both systems and people. So it really is a lot of looking at people as social beings,” Nalo told Candy.

The author talked to Candy about the ways she’s fighting to keep the genre of science fiction growing.

At TOR.COM in the latest installment of the Rereading Kage Baker series, the late author’s sister Kathleen Bartholomew recounts the beginnings of the Company Series.

So Kage decided to write something more classical. She decided on Time Travel because it interested her more than rockets and aliens. Over breakfast one morning, reading about yet another animal presumed to be extinct but found inexplicably flourishing somewhere, Kage suddenly invented The Company: Dr. Zeus, who loots the past to enrich the future, and uses immortal agents to walk all its loot forward through Time.

Mendoza was a figure envisioned one evening on the side of the I-5—a woman in a broad-brimmed dark hat and a Clint Eastwood serape, looking at a huge turnip-style pocket watch and saying “Okay, as long as you get me out of here before 1906, when the quake hits San Francisco.” Then she ended up beginning her adventures in the England of Mary Tudor—because Kage was deeply embroiled in the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, and believed in the axiom Write what you know. Most of what she knew was scholarship, and pretending to be a Tudor Englishwoman, so that’s what Mendoza knew, too.

At the shared universe site NATION STATES, an anonymous user shares a history of Steampunk.

Nick Gevers’s original anthology EXTRAORDINARY
ENGINES (2008) features newer steampunk stories by some of the genre’s writers, as well as other science fiction and fantasy writers experimenting with neo-Victorian conventions. A retrospective reprint anthology of steampunk fiction was released, also in 2008, by Tachyon Publications; edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer and appropriately entitled STEAMPUNK, it is a collection of stories by James Blaylock, whose “Narbondo” trilogy is typically considered steampunk; Jay Lake, author of the novel Mainspring, sometimes labeled “clockpunk”;[61] the aforementioned Michael Moorcock; as well as Jess Nevins, known for his annotations to
THE
LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (first published in 1999).

For more info about FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Chuma Hill

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about IN THE COMPANY OF THIEVES, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info about STEAMPUNK, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

June 10, 2015

The acclaimed creator of the Company time travel series, Kage Baker was born 63 years ago

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized ancient rockets, ancient rockets:treasures and trainwrecks of the silent screen, Ann Monn, birthday, company, elizabeth story, in the company of thieves, kage baker, Kathleen Bartholomew, science fiction, the hotel under the sand, Thomas Canty, time travel

Best known for her Company time travel series, the late Kage Baker was born 63 years ago. A multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards, she won the Theodore Sturgeon and Nebula Awards for her novellas "The Empress of Mars" and THE
WOMEN OF NELL GWYNNE’S. Baker’s many books included IN THE GARDEN
OF IDEN, MENDOZA IN HOLLYWOOD, NELL GWYNNE’S ON LAND AND AT SEA, IN
THE COMPANY OF THIEVES, THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND, and ANCIENT
ROCKETS: TREASURES AND TRAINWRECKS OF THE SILENT SCREEN.

Sadly, the beloved Kage Baker died from uterine cancer on January 31, 2010.

For more info about IN THE COMPANY OF THIEVES, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info about THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about ANCIENT ROCKETS: TREASURES AND TRAINWRECKS OF THE SILENT SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

August 1, 2014

Tachyon donates Kage Baker’s THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND to Worldreader

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Kathleen Bartholomew, sister and sometime co-writer of the late Kage Baker, writers about her sister, charity, and the sharing of The Hotel Under The Sand in her blog entry “It Has To Go Around, First” at Kathleen, Kage and the Company.

Kage Baker held, as one of her core philosophies, the venerable axiom: What goes around, comes around.

<snip>

She wasn’t, ever, anything close to rich. But she did what she could. On Federal tax forms, when they ask you if you want to donate to causes, Kage chose things like education, national parks, endangered animals, veteran’s care. And she never, ever contributed anything to the government’s Presidential campaign slush funds – she said she wasn’t going to encourage politicians by letting them think their power grabs were a legitimate public charity.

Whenever Kage got an advance or a royalty, we went shopping for the local Food Bank. Big checks meant cases of canned tuna and chicken – protein’s hard to come by at Food Banks. Smaller checks went to peanut butter, pasta, rice, beans and other sturdy carbs. The guys at the warehouse got to know us by sight. That made Kage proud.

<snip>

Today, I got a call from Jacob Weisman, the splendid head of Tachyon Publications. Jacob was good for Kage, and he’s been good for me, too. He’s a joy to work with; he and all his fine folks at Tachyon.

Jacob had been contacted by a non-profit charity called Worldreader, which can be found, Dear Readers, at (http://www.worldreader.org/). These good people supply ebooks to developing countries, to phones and tablets and Kindles. Most of them are in the keeping of schools and teachers, and the books are supplied to them for the use of their students. Especially little girls … So when Jacob asked me how I felt about donating The Hotel Under the Sand (published by him) to this project – I said YES!

Yes, yes, and yes again. This is the sort of thing Kage wrote the book for: our niece Emma, a little girl in a bad spot, who needed to know the world could be better if she was strong and brave and true. The Emma for whom she wrote it is a young woman now – in Annapolis, studying to be (surprise!) a naval officer. Blue water and gold braid run deep in our family …

Read the rest of Bartholomew’s essay at Kathleen, Kage and the Company.

To learn more about Worldreader, visit their site.

For more on The Hotel Under the Sand, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn