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

Peter S. Beagle (photo: Rina Weisman), Jane Yolen (Jason Stemple), Kate Elliott (April Quintanilla), Gordon Van Gelder (Houari Boumedienne), and James Tiptree, Jr.

A READER OF FICTIONS latest cover snark column reviews the covers for Peterr S. Beagle’s THE OVERNEATH and Jane Yolen’s THE EMERALD CIRCUS.

32. The Overneath – Peter S. Beagle

Thoughts: Clever title and font like whoa. Not quite a unicorn but close.

33. The Emerald Circus – Jane Yolen

Thoughts: Absinthely beautiful.

For THE BOOK SMUGGLERS, Aliette De Bodard’s list of favorite dragons includes THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT.

In Kate Elliott’s Spiritwalker trilogy, dragons aren’t human (well, mostly not): they’re forces of nature in the spirit world, so huge and so full of magic that they reshape reality in their passage. Julie Dillon’s wonderful cover of THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT captures the sheer, crushing, awesome size of them.

The Spanish-language CUENTOS PARA
ALGERNON recommends Gordon Van Gelder’s THE VERY BEST OF
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, VOLUME 2.

Second anthology of the best stories published in this long-running magazine throughout its more than sixty-five years of life. The result is a volume that includes twenty-seven stories of very popular authors, and an almost perfect combination of classics and lesser-known pieces in which there is a bit of everything: light stories, deep, sad, sinister and funny; Science fiction and fantasy; Stories that, at least in my case, have been all a discovery, and others I had read, but it is always a pleasure to reread. A joy of a book.

Translation from Spanish courtesy of Google.

Marek Oziewicz in his article on speculative fiction for OXFORD RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE includes THE JAMES TIPTREE AWARD ANTHOLOGY 3 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith as well as the pair of Nalo Hopkinson anthologies: WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT: CARIBBEAN FABULIST FICTION and SO LONG BEEN DREAMING: POSTCOLONIAL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.

For more info on THE OVERNEATH, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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 on THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, VOLUME 2, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info about THE JAMES TIPTREE AWARD ANTHOLOGY 3, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Berry