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July 7, 2015

Happy birthday to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Jeff VanderMeer

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized Ann Monn, ann vandermeer, jacob mcmurray, jeff vandermeer, john coulthart, mark roberts, new weird, science fiction, steampunk

(Photo: Agave)

The New York Times bestselling writer, editor, teacher, and publisher, Jeff VanderMeer has won the Rhysling Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and most recently the Nebula Award for ANNIHILATION, the first volume of The Southern Reach trilogy. Other acclaimed fiction include the CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN, SHRIEK: AN AFTERWORD, and FINCH. Many of his shorter works have been collected in THE
DAY DALI DIED SECRET
LIFE, SECRET
LIVES, THE
SURGEON’S TALE AND OTHER STORIES (WITH CAT
RAMBO), and THE
THIRD BEAR.

VanderMeer co-edited several groundbreaking and popular anthologies including THE
THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD POCKET GUIDE TO ECCENTRIC & DISCREDITED
DISEASES (with Mark Roberts), THE
NEW WEIRD (with Ann VanderMeer),

STEAMPUNK (with Ann VanderMeer), STEAMPUNK
II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED (with Ann VanderMeer),

THE
WEIRD (with Ann VanderMeer), THE
TIME TRAVELER’S ALMANAC (with Ann VanderMeer), and SISTERS
OF THE REVOLUTION: A FEMINIST SPECULATIVE FICTION ANTHOLOGY (with Ann VanderMeer). Also with his wife Ann, VanderMeer produced THE
KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS.

Among his numerous nonfiction volumes are the acclaimed volumes
BOOKLIFE:
STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER, THE
STEAMPUNK BIBLE (With S. J. Chambers), and
WONDERBOOK:
THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO CREATING IMAGINATIVE FICTION.

All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted Jeff VanderMeer a very squiddly birthday!

For more info about THE THIRD BEAR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Jacob McMurray.

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

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about STEAMPUNK, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn.

For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Dan Jones (Tinketbots)

Design by Ann Monn.

For more info about THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart.

For more info about BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart.

May 22, 2014

4 Tachyon titles included on io9’s Essential Short Story Anthologies

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized Ann Monn, ann vandermeer, anthology, Charlie Jane Anders, essential, io9, isabelle rozenbaum, James Patrick Kelly, jeff vandermeer, john berry, John Kessel, list, new weird, peter s beagle, secret history of fantasy, secret history of science fiction

Over at io9, Charlie Jane Anders delivers her selection of 15 or so anthologies that “show you just how superb science fiction and fantasy storytelling can get.” Tachyon Publications is proud to have four titles among her selections.

The New Weird

The VanderMeers also put out a collection of just cutting-edge fiction in the burgeoning “New Weird” subgenre, including names like Clive Barker, Felix Gilman, Sarah Monette, Jeffrey Ford, China Mieville, and of course Michael Moorcock.

The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Lumping these together because it’s sort of a fascinating contrast — the science fiction volume takes off from an essay by Jonathan Lethem about the squandered promise of the genre. If only SF had recognized and coopted authors like Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon earlier, we might have had something more literary and less beholden to pulp traditions. (I’m paraphrasing wildly.) James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel put together a collection of what that would look like, including great literary SF writers like Gene Wolfe and Maureen McHugh alongside George Saunders and Lethem himself. The genre questions aside, this winds up being a great bunch of stories. In the fantasy volume, editor Peter S. Beagle appears to have less of an agenda, but he brings together fabulist tales by everyone from Neil Gaiman to Aimee Bender to Yann Martel to Susanna Clarke. Lovely stuff.

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

The Slipstream movement was aimed at breaking down genre divisions and introducing more weirdness — so it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that the authors featured in this book are largely the same ones as in the Secret History of Science Fiction book and the Best of Crank!. But it’s not as if you can ever get too much of Michael Chabon, Aimee Bender, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders or Karen Joy Fowler, is it? Plus this has extra Theodora Goss and Howard Waldrop. Consider this an extra helping of literary weirdness.

Be sure to check out the rest of Anders’ fascinating list at io9.

For more of Tachyon’s award-winning and acclaimed anthologies, visit the Tachyon page.

The New Weird, The Secret History of Science Fiction, and The Secret History of Fantasy covers by Ann Monn.

Feeling Very Strange cover by Isabelle Rozenbaum/PhotoAlto with design by John Berry.