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November 18, 2018

Happy birthday to the incredible Michael Swanwick

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One of the most acclaimed science-fiction and fantasy short-story
writers of his generation, Michael Swanwick won an extraordinary five
Hugo Awards in six years (1999-2000 and 2002-2004). His stories also
garnered World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, Asimov’s Readers’
Awards, Locus, and SF Chronicle awards. Swanwick’s Stations Of
The Tide (1991) won the prestigious nebula award for best novel.

His other novels
include In The Drift (1985), Vacuum Flowers (1987),
Jack Faust (1997), and Bones of the
Earth (2002). The many collections of Swanwick’s numerous
acclaimed short tales include GRAVITY’S ANGELS (1991), TALES OF OLD EARTH (2000), CIGAR-BOX FAUST AND OTHER MINATURES (2003), MICHAEL SWANWICK’S FIELD GUIDE TO THE MESOZOIC MEGAFAUNA (2004), THE DOG SAID BOW-WOW(2007), The Best of Michael Swanwick
(2008), Solstice Fire (2013), Season’s Greetings
(2014), and NOT SO MUCH SAID THE CAT (2016).

Omni,
Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov’s Science Fiction,
New Dimensions, and Full Spectrum number among the many
venues with Swanwick’s short fiction. A frequent contributor to the
New York Review of Science Fiction, he
previously published the controversial essays on the state of the
science fiction and fantasy fields: The User’s Guide to the
Postmoderns (1986) and “In the Tradition…” (1994). Both essays
were collected in THE POSTMODERN ARCHIPELAGO (1997). Swanwick
contributed to the serialized The Witch Who Came in
from the Cold
(2017).

All of us at Tachyon
wish the extraordinary and amazing Micheal a spectacular birthday.

For more information on NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT, visit the Tachyon page.

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For more info on MICHAEL SWANWICK’S FIELD GUIDE TO THE MESOZOIC MEGAFAUNA, visit the Tachyon page.

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October 29, 2018

Happy birthday to the award-winning Sheila Finch

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Sheila Finch is best known for her many stories about members of the Guild of Xenolinguists, the translators for the languages in the worlds we will explore in the future. In 1998, she won the Nebula Award for her novella set in the Xenolinguists universe, “Reading The Bones,” which she later expanded to a novel of the same name. Finch’s first novel, Infinity’s Web (1985), received the Compton Crook award and her young adult book, Tiger in the Sky (1999;Book 2 of David Brin’s Out of Time), won the San Diego Book award for best juvenile fiction. Other novels include Triad (1986), The Shaper Exile trilogy (The Garden of the Shaped [1987], Shaper’s Legacy [1989], Shaping the Dawn [1989]), and Birds (2004). She also penned the acclaimed Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction: Ancient Roots of the
Literature of the Future (2014) and most recently A Villa Far From Rome (2016).

Now retired, she spent many years as a teacher of college creative writing in southern California as well as at conferences and conventions around the world. Many of her students became published authors.

All of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Sheila a fabulous birthday!

For more info about READING THE BONES, visit the Tachyon page.

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August 3, 2018

The influential grandmaster Clifford Simak was born 114 years ago

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Born in Millville, Wisconsin on August 3, 1904, Clifford Simak began his lengthy career as a science fiction writer with his story “The World of the Red Sun,” in the December 1931 issue of Wonder Stories. Over the next 55 years, Simak produced many novels and short stories including the science fiction classics Way Station and City. Several collections of his shorter works exist, most notably Strangers in the Universe, The Worlds of Clifford Simak, The Best of Clifford Simak, and OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS: THE BEST SHORT FICTION OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK.

He was named a Grand Master by both the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Horror Writers Association and won the Hugo, Nebula, International Fantasy, Locus, and Jupiter awards. A newspaperman by trade, Simak excelled at clean economical prose. Like those of Ray Bradbury, many of his best stories incorporate the rural Midwest of his childhood.

Frank R. Paul’s image that accompanied Clifford Simak’s “The World of the Red Sun” in Wonder Stories, December 1931

I sometimes think that despite the fact that my boyhood spanned part of the first and second decades of the 20th century that I actually lived in what amounted to the tail end of the pioneer days. I swam in the big hole in the creek. I rode toboggans down long hills, I went barefoot in the summer, I got out of bed at four o’clock in the morning during summer vacations to do the morning chores. For four years, I rode a horse to high school.

—Clifford Simak, from Seekers of Tomorrow by Sam Moskowitz

For more info on OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS: THE BEST SHORT FICTION OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK, visit the Tachyon page.

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July 17, 2018

The amazing Grania Davis was born 75 years ago

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Jack Vance and Grania Davis in 2005 at the Tachyon 10th Anniversary Party (Photo: Jeremy Lassen/LOCUS)

Editor and writer Grania Davis penned the novels The Rainbow Annnals (1980) and Moonbird (1986). With Avram Davidson, she co-wrote Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty (1988) and THE BOSS IN THE WALL (1998), which received a World Fantasy Award nomination. Davis’ short fiction has been collected in Tree of Life, Book pf Death (2013).

Davis co-edited several collections of Davidson’s work including The Avram Davidson Treasury (1998 with Robert Silverberg), The Investigations of Avram Davidson (1999 with Richard A. Lupoff), and Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit (2000 with Jack Dann). She (alongside Gene Van Troyer) is responsible for the anthology Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (2007).

The beloved Grania passed away in 2017. She is missed.

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May 22, 2018

Nebula-nominated short story writer Bob Leman was born 96 years ago

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Prior to his first
short story “Bait” appearance in The Magazine of Fantasy and
Science Fiction (January 1967), Bob Leman’s contributions to
fandom were mostly as part of First Fandom and the Fantasy Amateur Press
Association (FAPA). He produced several fanzines during that period including The
American Journal of Oculenteratology (renamed The Vinegar Worm with
it’s second issue), Inquiry into Certain Little-Known Consequences
of the Berlin-Bagdad Pact, Nematode, and Bulletin of the Dorcas Bagby
Society.

The acclaimed
Leman’s modest output of just 15 published short stories, 13 of
which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,
included INSTRUCTIONS, “Come
Where My Love Lies Dreaming,” and “Loob.” “How Dobbstown Was Saved” was originally slated for Harlan Ellison’s infamous The Last Dangerous Visions
and finally appeared in the collection Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories,
alongside all his other stories.

His most well-known work was the Nebula-nominated “Window.” Filmed as part of Night Visions, the renamed “A View through the Window” aired in July 2001 and starred Bill Pullman.

For more in on INSTRUCTIONS, visit the Tachyon page.

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April 26, 2018

Golden Age great A. E. van Vogt was born 106 years ago

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Born April 26, 1912,
the popular and influential writer A. E. van Vogt began his long and
illustrious career writing for “true confession” style pulps.
Shortly after, he decided to pursue a career as a science fiction
writer. Van Vogt’s first sci fi short “The Black Destroyer”
appeared in the July 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.
The story remained one of his most popular stories, often cited as a
source for the film Alien.

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In a career that
spanned five decades, van Vogt produced numerous legendary and
acclaimed novels including Slan, The Weapon Makers, The
World of Null-A, The Voyage of the
Space Beagle, and The Weapon Shops of Isher.
The first of his many short story collections, Out of
the Universe was published in 1948.

Tachyon was honored to publish FUTURES PAST, the last of his books to see print before the author’s death in 2000.

For more info about FUTURES PAST, visit the Tachyon page.

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April 23, 2018

The extraordinary Avram Davidson was born 95 years ago

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Born on April 23,
1923, Avram Davidson was a medic in the Marine Corps during World War
II, fought with the Israeli Army in the 1948 war for independence,
and began writing in the early 1950s as a Talmudic scholar. He
eventually produced nineteen acclaim novels including The Phoenix
in The Mirror, Clash of
Star-Kings, The Island under the
Earth, Rogue Dragon, Ursus of Ultima
Thule, and THE BOSS IN THE WALL (with Grania Davis).

His
more than two hundred short stories and essays were collected in Or
All the Seas with Oysters, What Strange Stars and Skies,
The Redward Edward Papers, The Best of Avram Davidson,
Avram Davidson: Collected Fantasies, The Avram Davidson
Treasury, The Investigations of Avram Davidson, and The
Other Nineteenth Century.

While at the helm of The Magazine of Fantasy and
Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964, Davidson also edited three
volumes of The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction
(13-15) and later
Magic for Sale (1983).

His works garnered
Davidson two Hugo, two World Fantasy, and an Edgar award. In 1986, he
was given the prestigious World Fantasy Award For Life Achievement.

For more information about THE BOSS IN THE WALL, visit the Tachyon page.

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April 20, 2018

Happy birthday to the incomparable grandmaster Peter S. Beagle

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A recipient of the
prestigious World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement and The
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Peter S. Beagle created the
iconic The Last Unicorn. His other novels include A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE, The Folk of the Air
(winner of the Mythopoeic Award), The Innkeeper’s Song
(winner of the Locus Poll Award), The Unicorn Sonata, Tamsin
(winner of the Mythopoeic Award), and The Last Unicorn: The Lost
Version. Over the
past year, following his first two novel length books in over a
decade, SUMMERLONG and IN CALABRIA, Beagle finds hims in the midst of
a career renaissance.

Beagle’s numerous
award-winning short fictionhave been collected in Giant Bones, THE RHINOCEROS WHO QUOTED NIETZSCHE AND OTHER ODD ACQUAINTANCES
(winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire), THE LINE BETWEEN, Strange Roads, WE NEVER TALK ABOUT MY BROTHER, Mirror Kingdoms: The Best
of Peter S. Beagle, SLEIGHT OF HAND, and THE OVERNEATH.

He edited several
acclaimed anthologies: Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn (with
Janet Berliner and Martin H. Greenberg), THE SECRET HISTORY OF FANTASY, THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY (with Joe R. Lansdale), and THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY (with Jacob Weisman).

Everyone at Tachyon wishes the beloved Peter a happy birthday. May it be magical.

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April 4, 2018

Stanley G. Weinbaum, the 1st cult science fiction writer, was born 116 years ago

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Born on April 4,
1902, the late Stanley G. Weinbaum, produced some of the finest
science fiction of the 1930s. In a brief 18 month period
(7/34-12/35), 13 acclaimed stories appeared primarily in the
legendary publications Astounding
and Wonder. After
his untimely death from lung cancer in December, 1935, Weinbaum
became arguably the first cult science fiction writer with many other
works published posthumously.

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Before his death,
Weinbaum wrote the mash up novel The
Black Flame, incorporating the previously unpublished
short stories “Dawn of Flame” and “The Black Flame” along
with new material. While the short stories individually appeared in
1936 (Dawn of
Flame: The Stanley G. Weinbaum Memorial Volume) and 1939
(Startling), the
novel wasn’t published until 1948 (Fantasy Press).

Following the
discovery of Weinbaum’s papers in the basement of his grandson’s
house which contained a carbon copy of a substantially longer THE
BLACK FLAME manuscript, Tachyon published the restored THE BLACK
FLAME in 1995.

For more information
on THE BLACK FLAME, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Michael
Dashow

January 20, 2018

Happy birthday to the Hugo and Nebula award winner Nancy Kress

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Nancy Kress accepting the Nebula for YESTERDAY’S KIN. Jody Lyn Nye stands at right. Photo by Kathi Overton. (Source: File 770)

Nancy Kress achieved
her first great notice with the Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella
Beggars In Spain. Several of her other works have won Nebula
Awards including Fountain Of Age (2007), AFTER THE FALL,
BEFORE THE FALL, DURING THE FALL (2013), YESTERDAY’S KIN (2015).
Among Kress’ other award-winning stories are Probability Space
(2003, John W. Campbell Memorial Award) and The Erdmann Nexus
(2009 Hugo Awards). Other books of note include An Alien Light
(1988), Oaths And Miracles (1996), Maximum Light
(1997), DANCING ON AIR (1997), Probability Moon (2000), and
DOGS (2008).

Last year saw the publication of Tomorrow’s Kin, which expands upon the tale began in YESTERDAY’S KIN.

In addition to her novels, Kress has produced numerous short stories and contributes a column for Writer’s Digest. A regular at the Clarion writing workshops and at The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, she was, during the Winter of 2008/09, the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig’s Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.

All of us a Tachyon wish the extraordinary Nancy, a happy birthday.

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