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May 15, 2024

Booksellers, librarians, bloggers, and reviewers get JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS by the award-winning Nalo Hopkinson

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Review copies of World Fantasy, John W. Campbell, Locus, Sunburst, Prix Aurora, and Gaylactic Spectrum award winner and Damon Knight Grand Master Nalo Hopkinson’s new collection JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

Nalo Hopkinson has had a remarkable impact on popular fiction. Her work continues to question the very genres she adopts, transforming them from within through her fierce intelligence and her commitment to a radical vision that refuses easy consumption.
Globe and Mail

. . . like Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler, [Hopkinson] forces us to consider how inequities of race, gender, class and power might be played out in a dystopian future.
The News Magazine of Black America

JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS

by
Nalo Hopkinson

ISBN: 978-1-61696-426-9 (print); 978-1-61696-427-6 (digital)

Published: October 29. 2024

Available Format(s): trade paperback, ebook

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Falling in Love with Hominids) is an internationally renowned storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes. Hopkinson is at the peak of her powers, moving effortlessly between art, folklore, science, and magic.

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Nalo Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful. In her first stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien lifeform; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome.

December 20, 2023

Happy birthday to the magnificent grandmaster Nalo Hopkinson

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Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the acclaimed Nalo Hopkinson spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto when she was sixteen. Her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy, noted for diverse characters and the mixture of folklore, include the novels Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), The Salt Roads (2003), The New Moon’s Arms (2007), The Chaos (2012), and Sister Mine (2013). Hopkinson’s shorter workers has been collected in Skin Folk (2001), Report from Planet Midnight (2012), and FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS (2015). She wrote 22 issues of House of Whispers, a comic book series set in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Universe. The series was collected in The House of Whispers Vol. 1: Power Divided (2019), The House of Whispers Vol. 2: Ananse (2020), and House of Whispers Vol. 3: Watching the Watchers (2020).

As an editor, Hopkinson has worked on many publications including Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (2000), Mojo: Conjure Stories (2003), So Long Been Dreaming (with Uppinder Mehan; 2004), Tesseracts 9 (with Geoff Ryman; 2005), People of Colo(U)R Destroy Science Fiction! (with Kristine Ong Muslim; 2016), and Particulates (2018).

Beginning with her first novel Brown Girl in the Ring winning the Warner Aspect First Novel contest, Hopkinson has garnered numerous awards. Brown Girl also won a 1999 Locus Award and that same year, the author herself won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her second novel Midnight Robber was a 2000 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Skin Folk won the 2003 World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards as well as 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for GLBTQ themes in science fiction and fantasy). The New Moon’s Arms received the 2008 Sunburst and Prix Aurora Awards. Hopkinson’s superior editing skills were acknowledged with the 2006 Prix Aurora Award for Tesseracts 9 and a British Fantasy Award for People of Colo(U)R Destroy Science Fiction! Her short story “Broad Duffy Water” (2021) won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. In 2016, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University. In 2021, she became the youngest recipent of the SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master. Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (2023) collects 21 interviews, from 1999-2021, with the fascinating and unique author.

Cover art by Chuma Hill
Design by Elizabeth Story

The movie Brown Girl Begins, directed and written by Sharon Lewis, serves as a prequel to Brown Girl in the Ring. The acclaimed film garnered several awards including IndieFEST Film Award and Houston Black Film Festival Prize.

All of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Nalo Hopkinson a happy birthday. May those incredible and insightful folktales keep flowing!

December 8, 2023

Tachyon tidbits featuring Mia Tsai, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Sam J. Miller, Nalo Hopkinson, Elly Bangs, Izzy Wasserstein, and Terry Bisson

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**Via their Tumblr, Powell’s shared a romantasy display featuring Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE.**

BITTER MEDICINE by Mia Tsai
“The magic system had me mesmerized in how it blends cultures. Inspired by Chinese drama, the romance & action were addictive”

**James Davis Nicoll for Tor.com includes Nicole Kornher-Stace’s FLIGHT & ANCHOR in Five Must-Read SF Books Published in 2023.**

This novella is a prequel to Kornher-Stace’s 2021’s Firebreak. In the spirit of “the dog doesn’t die,” since older versions of 06 and 22 appear in Firebreak and other works, it is unlikely either will die in this prequel. It seems odd that I would encounter two 2023 SF novels about workers being brutally exploited by ruthless corporations. What possible reason could there be for SF authors to focus on this subject in particular at this specific moment in time? This must be just one of those odd coincidences one sees from time to time in SF…

Flight & Anchor by Nicole Kornher-Stace — Cover by Elizabeth Story

Clarion Workshop announced that Sam J. Miller and Nalo Hopkinson will be teaching in 2024.

Cover of BOYS, BEASTS, & MEN, a collection by Sam J. Miller. — Cover art by Chuma Hill
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For Before We Go Bl o g in a round table interview, conducted by Dani Finn and with Ela Bambust, May Peterson, Vyria Durav, Abigail Trusity, and Devi Lacroix, Charlie Jane Anders answered the query “I don’t see as much transfeminine representation in books as I would like, but I hope we are approaching a turning point. Please drop any recommendations you might have, whether SFF or not–and do go on at as much length as you like!” by citing Elly Bangs‘ debut novel UNITY and Izzy Wasserstein’s debut collection All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From.

Umm… I just read Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas, which I highly recommend. Also recently: OK Psyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro, All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein, UNITY by Elly Bangs, and Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, off the top of my head. I also urge everyone to hunt down books by April Daniels, Roz Kaveney, and Rachel Pollack. Oh, and here’s a list I did a while back in my newsletter.

The New Yorker‘s Margret Grebowicz shares a profile of Terry Bisson.

Sometime in 1989, Terry Bisson was driving his daughter to college in upstate New York when an idea for a short story came to him. Glancing toward the highway median, he had a vision: animals sitting together, in their own world, talking to one other. The vision became a title: “Bears Discover Fire.”

October 26, 2023

THE RADICAL SF BUNDLE, curated by Nick Mamatas, features Elly Bangs, Carol Emshwiller, Nalo Hopkinson, James Patrick Kelly, Michael Moorcock, Bruce Sterling, and others in support of Médecins Sans Frontières

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The Radical SF Bundle from the fine folks at StoryBundle features 12 extraordinary explorations into the status quo collapsing and new paradigms emerging. Includes UNITY by Elly Bangs, Big Girl by Meg Elison, I LIVE WITH YOU by Carol Emshwiller, RUIN by Cara Hoffman, FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS by Nalo Hopkinson, BURN and The First Law of Thermodynamics by James Patrick Kelly, You Might Sleep by Nick Mamatas (StoryBundle Exclusive), THE BEST OF MICHAEL MOORCOCK, Talk Like a Man by Nisi Shawl, PIRATE UTOPIA by Bruce Sterling, and Utopias of the Third Kind by Vandana Singh.

For *StoryBundle*, you decide what price you want to pay.

Science fiction is the genre of change. There can be any number of SF plots, and a dizzying array of SF themes, and plenty of themes, but the genre is almost definitionally about the status quo collapsing and something new taking its place. History will never end, and the future lasts forever.

Change is most dramatic when it’s radical—when it starts at the very root of society, or what we know about science. The Radical SF Bundle collects stories that explore these roots, and pull them out of the thematic ground. The only constant is flux, the only guarantee is that nothing will ever be the same again.

Amazingly, these radical visions have also proven to be predictive. Cara Hoffman’s Ruin presages the world events filling our screens and thoughts right now. Meg Elison’s almost supernatural weight-loss pill is available for prescription from your local physician. James Patrick Kelly’s Burn is about a planet aflame, and for sale. And these tales are just the beginning. There are multiple utopias of the future…and the past, shocking short fiction, outspoken interviews, and much more.

Ready to change the world? Buy the bundle, and support the border-hopping health charity Médecins Sans Frontières while you’re at it!

Nick Mamatas

April 19, 2023

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nalo Hopkinson, Marjorie Liu, Marie Brennan, R. B. Lemberg, and Jacob Weisman

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**For their Book Riot list, K. W. Colyard includes Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS among The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of the Past 10 Years.**

Authors of color swept the Hugos in 2016, but Nalo Hopkinson’s collection was sadly not among the winners — not because of any failure on the author’s fault, but simply because there is no Hugo Award for best anthology or collection. Despite that little oversight, FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS has been a fan favorite since its publication in 2015. Here, post-apocalyptic monsters mingle with ghosts stranded in shopping malls. It’s an eye-opening look at what science fiction can do.

Forever and Everly recommends Marjorie Liu’s THE TANGLEROOT PALACE as one of 12 Books to Read When You’re in a Slump.

Short story collections are truly a savior for me whenever I’m struggling to read, and this one is one of my favorites! I adore a majority of these stories, and they are wholly captivating with their rich fantasy (and often fairytale-like) settings, magical weirdness, and focus on female characters and voices. Marjorie Liu has such a unique take on fantasy, and if you’re a fan of the genre, I think you’ll really enjoy her fresh twists on typical tropes and storylines!

Cover art by Sana Takeda
Design by Elizabeth Story

**Nina Shepardson on Outside of a Dog praises Marie Brennan’s DRIFTWOOD.**

While an individual person can move into other parts of Driftwood, their birth-home will inevitably fall to the Crush. Some become despairing, others bitter, but a few manage to maintain hope. Some do this by preserving what they can of their homeworlds, others by intermarrying with people from other worlds and building a new home in the multispecies society of the Drifters. The characters in DRIFTWOOD are diverse, not just in appearance and customs, but in their outlook and reactions to what has happened to them. My only complaint is that I wish the book had been longer so I could have seen more of the world Brennan created.

Nourish-n-Cherish recalls a conversation with their son about Peter S. Beagle’s use of poetry in IN CALABRIA.

We chuckled at the feeble attempts of poetry and I told him about the way poetry was woven into the book written by that mastermind of unicorn stories, Peter S Beagle. In the book, IN CALABRIA. In the book, a farmer writes poems and reads poetry (not his own but famous poets) out to his goats and cows.

Rick reads some books, I dunno loves R. B. Lemberg’s Nebula Award-nominated THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES to a rating of 5 out 5.

This book throws you in at the deep end of its world and its magic, and is all the better for it. Lemberg weaves exposition and conceptual brilliance into their narration with such ease that I immediately let myself go into the dream-logic of cloths woven from change, wanderlust, hope, and death. It all made deep intuitive sense. The magic within this book, within this world, was palpable, hungry, too brilliant to encompass in mere words on the page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story based on initial concepts by Francesca Myman

Suhail Rafidi was excited to visit with Tachyon publisher Jacob Weisman at San Francisco Writer’s Conference 2023.

I had the opportunity, for the second time ever, to speak with Jacob Weisman, the founder of Tachyon Publications. And he remembered me! Well, he mostly remembered my friend David Gill (“The Philip K. Dick Guy”). The first time I met Mr. Weisman was at an SF in SF event, when the featured guest was Robert Silverberg. At the conference, we stood by the bookstore table and spoke of everything from sci-fi novellas to the next SF in SF event at the Bookbinder’s Museum. I love a friendly chat among nerds.

March 10, 2023

Tachyon tidbits featuring Sam J. Miller, R. B. Lemberg, Brandon Sanderson, David Ebenbach, Nalo Hopkinson, and David Sandner

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In both of their Year in Review 2022 pieces for Locus, Paula Guran and Charles Payseur (who receives bonus points for mentioning R. B. Lemberg’a first collection Geometries of Belonging) praise Sam J. Miller’s debut collection BOYS, BEASTS & MEN.

There are always great single-author collections every year. Probably (I have a nagging feeling I am forgetting something) my three favorites were Breakable Things (Undertow) by the ever-unsettling Cassandra Khaw BOYS, BEASTS & MEN by Sam J. Miller, who has a knack for striking deep into both a reader’s heart and gut, and the richly imaginative (and often dark) Our Fruiting Bodies: Short Fiction by the legendary Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct).
Paula Guran

Both Sam J. Miller (with BOYS, BEASTS & MEN) and R.B. Lemberg (with Geometries of Belonging) came out with collections that capture for me a lot of what hooked me on short speculative fiction. These were the two authors who, upon discovering their work, changed the way I viewed reading, showing me what I had been missing and what I was most hungry for. Their collections are treasures, gems that shine brightly even among the hordes of works released this year.
Charles Payseur

**Booktuber Shades of Orange is engrossed by her now-favorite Brandon Sanderson tale, THE EMPEROR’S SOUL.**

Review starts at 10:10

Jacob Licklider enjoys THE EMPEROR’S SOUL.

THE EMPEROR’S SOUL is brilliant at exploring the nature of art and how society often overlooks art that doesn’t fit into the confines of a certain dominant worldview which is refreshing. As a novella, you can see why it won the Hugo Award in 2013, although there are places that are itching to be expanded upon in a way that a sequel wouldn’t necessarily be able to accomplish. 8/10.

Cover of The Emperor's Soul — Cover art by Alexander Nanitchkov
Design by Elizabeth Story

**Dr. Mattew Yap in the New Straits Times lauds David Ebenbach’s HOW TO MARS.**

HOW TO MARS is an out-of-this-world human migration story that’s wonderfully weird, stylistically creative, darkly funny and unexpectedly moving.

At MI Book Reviews, Isaiah Roby though much the same about the book.

Irreverent, poignant, and perfectly weird, David Ebenbach’s debut science-fiction outing, like a mission to Mars, is an incredible trip you will never forget.

How to Mars cover — Cover by Elizabeth Story

**Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS excites Lis Carey at File 770.**

This is a wonderful collection of short stories, and Nalo Hopkinson kept me reading stories that were just straight up horror that I would ordinarily just skip right over. Along with the horror, there’s dark fantasy, lighter, happier fantasy, and even a couple of stories that can fairly be called science fiction. There’s a reworking of the story of Caliban, and a new Bordertown story. It’s an impressive range.

**Lanterfish Press announces David Sandner’s new anthology The Afterlife of Frankenstein: A Century of Mad Science, Automata, and Monsters Inspired by Mary Shelley, 1818-1918.**

Lanternfish Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of The Afterlife of Frankenstein: A Century of Mad Science, Automata, and Monsters Inspired by Mary Shelley, 1818-1918, edited by David Sandner, for publication in Fall 2023.

Dr. Frankenstein’s monster is one of the most iconic figures in English literature, popularized through decades of writing, film, and comedy. But even before the invention of film, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein profoundly impacted scores of writers, gathering force for the genre that would ultimately become what we know as science fiction.

In this anthology, scholar of the fantastic David Sandner explores the first hundred years of Frankenstein’s influence. This collection of short stories and excerpts from work published between 1818 to 1918 demonstrates what a pioneering myth Frankenstein has always been—from the very day when lightning first struck and it opened its eyes on the world.

February 14, 2023

Tachyon well represented at Boskone 60

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Guest of Honor Nalo Hopkinson, Naseem Jamnia [Virtual], James Patrick Kelly, Adam Stemple, Michael Swanwick, and Jane Yolen will all be attending Boskone 60, February 17-19 in Boston, MA.

Cover for THE BRUISING OF QILWA by Naseem Jamnia — Cover art by Chuma Hill
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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 isBoskone?

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

December 20, 2022

Happy birthday to the magnificent grandmaster Nalo Hopkinson

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Beginning with her first novel Brown Girl in the Ring winning the Warner Aspect First Novel contest, Hopkinson has garnered numerous awards. Brown Girl also won a 1999 Locus Award and that same year, the author herself won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her second novel Midnight Robber was a 2000 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Skin Folk won the 2003 World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards as well as 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for GLBTQ themes in science fiction and fantasy). The New Moon’s Arms received the 2008 Sunburst and Prix Aurora Awards. Hopkinson’s superior editing skills were acknowledged with the 2006 Prix Aurora Award for Tesseracts 9 and a British Fantasy Award for People of Colo(U)R Destroy Science Fiction! Her short story “Broad Duffy Water” (2021) won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. In 2016, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University. Hopkinson was named the 2021 SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master.

All of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Nalo Hopkinson a happy birthday. May those incredible and insightful folktales keep flowing!

December 20, 2021

Happy birthday to the magnificent grandmaster Nalo Hopkinson

Rick Klaw birthday, blog birthday, brown girl in the ring, falling in love with hominids, house of whispers, nalo hopkinson, particulates

Beginning with her first novel Brown Girl in the Ring winning the Warner Aspect First Novel contest, Hopkinson has garnered numerous awards. Brown Girl also won a 1999 Locus Award and that same year, the author herself won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her second novel Midnight Robber was a 2000 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Skin Folk won the 2003 World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards as well as 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for GLBTQ themes in science fiction and fantasy). The New Moon’s Arms received the 2008 Sunburst and Prix Aurora Awards. Hopkinson’s superior editing skills were acknowledged with the 2006 Prix Aurora Award for Tesseracts 9 and a British Fantasy Award for People of Colo(U)R Destroy Science Fiction! In 2016, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University. Hopkinson was named the 2021 SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master.

All of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Nalo Hopkinson a happy birthday. May those incredible and insightful folktales keep flowing!

January 26, 2021

Tachyon tidbits featuring Joe R. Lansdale, Nalo Hopkinson, Lavie Tidhar, and Ward Moore

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At PAPER KINGDOM, Michael Channing enjoys Joe R. Lansdale’s OF MICE AND MINESTRONE – HAP AND LEONARD: THE EARLY YEARS. He obviously needs to read HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE which chronicled the duo’s first meeting.

OF MICE AND MINESTRONE contains a few short stories about the early years of Hap and Leonard. Mostly Hap, actually, though they are the full blood brothers we know them as by the book’s end. We don’t get the tale of their actual meeting, though. Maybe Joe is saving that for a later day. The final story is a good reminder of why I fell in love with those two characters and Joe’s writing in general. It’s a meditative piece full of shadowed, weary hope.

For CBC Radio, THE CURRENT‘s Matt Galloway interviews Nalo Hopkinson, the first black woman to win the Damon Knight Grand Master award.

As the first Black woman to receive one of science fiction writing’s most prestigious awards, Nalo Hopkinson says she takes a “joyful” responsibility in her work.

“I know I represent a lot to people who didn’t think they could do what I’m doing for various reasons,” said Hopkinson, author of several award-winning books, including Brown Girl in the Ring and The New Moon’s Arms.

“People from marginalized experiences like I am, being Black, being an immigrant to North America, being female, being queer, being over a certain age, having some level of disability,” she told The Current’s Matt Galloway. “It’s something I do take seriously.”

The Jamaican-born Canadian was named Damon Knight Grand Master last month, a lifetime achievement honour presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). She is now based in California, where she is a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside.

The 60-year-old is not only the first Black woman to be honoured with the title, but is the youngest ever Grand Master. A tribute video for the award included appearances from SFWA members and Star Trek: The Next Generation star LeVar Burton.

“There’s a fine line, in my view, between humanity and divinity, and you dance between them with effortless ease and grace,” Burton said in the video.

Hopkinson said his tribute was humbling.

“You know that thing you do when you’re shocked — you put your hands over your mouth and your mouth is open? That’s what I was doing all the way through it,” she told Galloway.

“I hope I manage the humanity part, and the rest I would think of as being something I’m trying for in my writing, to sort of hit some of the more profane and sublime aspects of being human.”

Camestros Felapton, on his eponymous site, praises Lavie Tidhar’s UNHOLY LAND.

I was both entranced and deeply impressed by this book. It loves its ideas and there is a love of science fiction and pulp and weird ideas (a brief mention of a kind Jewish Tarzan visiting a Pellucidar knock-off, Shelley’s Ozymandis, lost Nazi soldier appearing in an African jungle…) and just a great big pile of everything and yet somehow in a neat package. It is very much a story that unfolds.

Unholy Land; cover by Sarah Anne Langton — Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

FAR OUT compiles a list of Jimi Hendrix’s favorite books and science fiction that changed his life. Includes Ward Moore’s innovated story “Lot,” which Tachyon published as LOT & LOT’S DAUGHTER.

Jimi Hendrix’s favourite books:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Urantia Book
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus by Brian Wilson Aldiss
Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Night of Light by Philip José Farmer
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Lot by Ward Moore
Earth Abides by George Stewart
Secret Places of the Lion: Alien Influences on Earth’s Destiny by George Hunt Williamson

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Review copies of World Fantasy, John W. Campbell, Locus, Sunburst, Prix Aurora, and Gaylactic Spectrum award winner and Damon Knight Grand Master Nalo Hopkinson’s new collection JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

byNalo Hopkinson

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

Via their Tumblr, Powell’s shared a romantasy display featuring Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE.

James Davis Nicoll for Tor.com includes Nicole Kornher-Stace’s FLIGHT & ANCHOR in Five Must-Read SF Books Published in 2023.

Clarion Workshop announced that Sam J. Miller and Nalo Hopkinson will be teaching in 2024.

The New Yorker‘s Margret Grebowicz shares a profile of Terry Bisson.

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

For their Book Riot list, K. W. Colyard includes Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS among The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of the Past 10 Years.

Forever and Everly recommends Marjorie Liu’s THE TANGLEROOT PALACE as one of 12 Books to Read When You’re in a Slump.

Nina Shepardson on Outside of a Dog praises Marie Brennan’s DRIFTWOOD.

Nourish-n-Cherish recalls a conversation with their son about Peter S. Beagle’s use of poetry in IN CALABRIA.

Rick reads some books, I dunno loves R. B. Lemberg’s Nebula Award-nominated THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES to a rating of 5 out 5.

Suhail Rafidi was excited to visit with Tachyon publisher Jacob Weisman at San Francisco Writer’s Conference 2023.

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

In both of their Year in Review 2022 pieces for Locus, Paula Guran and Charles Payseur (who receives bonus points for mentioning R. B. Lemberg’a first collection Geometries of Belong­ing) praise Sam J. Miller’s debut collection BOYS, BEASTS & MEN.

Booktuber Shades of Orange is engrossed by her now-favorite Brandon Sanderson tale, THE EMPEROR’S SOUL.

Jacob Licklider enjoys THE EMPEROR’S SOUL.

Dr. Mattew Yap in the New Straits Times lauds David Ebenbach’s HOW TO MARS.

At MI Book Reviews, Isaiah Roby though much the same about the book.

Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS excites Lis Carey at File 770.

Lanterfish Press announces David Sandner’s new anthology The Afterlife of Frankenstein: A Century of Mad Science, Automata, and Monsters Inspired by Mary Shelley, 1818-1918.

Guest of Honor Nalo Hopkinson, Naseem Jamnia [Virtual], James Patrick Kelly, Adam Stemple, Michael Swanwick, and Jane Yolen will all be attending Boskone 60, February 17-19 in Boston, MA.

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

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Nalo Hopkinson

**Via their Tumblr, Powell’s shared a romantasy display featuring Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE.**

**James Davis Nicoll for Tor.com includes Nicole Kornher-Stace’s FLIGHT & ANCHOR in Five Must-Read SF Books Published in 2023.**

**For their Book Riot list, K. W. Colyard includes Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS among The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of the Past 10 Years.**

**Nina Shepardson on Outside of a Dog praises Marie Brennan’s DRIFTWOOD.**

In both of their Year in Review 2022 pieces for Locus, Paula Guran and Charles Payseur (who receives bonus points for mentioning R. B. Lemberg’a first collection Geometries of Belonging) praise Sam J. Miller’s debut collection BOYS, BEASTS & MEN.

**Booktuber Shades of Orange is engrossed by her now-favorite Brandon Sanderson tale, THE EMPEROR’S SOUL.**

**Dr. Mattew Yap in the New Straits Times lauds David Ebenbach’s HOW TO MARS.**

**Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS excites Lis Carey at File 770.**

**Lanterfish Press announces David Sandner’s new anthology The Afterlife of Frankenstein: A Century of Mad Science, Automata, and Monsters Inspired by Mary Shelley, 1818-1918.**