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Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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One of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s demise in 1989, Datlow assumed the same role for the online Event Horizon. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to Sci Fiction, the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005.

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, ten annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-OMNI related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won five Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] andSeventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014]), seven Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), and The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (2018), 

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday. We look forward to whatever is next.

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “Voice of Shades” © 2010 by Valentina Brostean

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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One
of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen
Datlow first
rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped
usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William
Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford,
Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the
magazine’s demise in 1989, Datlow assumed the same role for the
online Event
Horizon.
After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to
Sci
Fiction,
the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy).
She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005.

Beginning
with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction
(1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12
collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s
Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with
Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and
beginning in 2009, nine annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year. Her first non-OMNI related anthology Blood Is Not
Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror,
which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her
as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

Art by Dave McKean


The
Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered
Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from
The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth
(1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor
(Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon
(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the
Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original
Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of
Terror and the Supernatural (2008),
and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won five Stoker (The
Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and
Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted
Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful
Symmetries [2014]), seven Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002],
Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014,
2016, 2017]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award
[2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual
Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com
[2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of
Terror And the Supernatural [2008] , Poe
[2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other
notable books include Alien
Sex
(1990), Snow
White, Blood Red
(1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing
Acts
(2000), Lovecraft
Unbound: Twenty Stories
(2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked
City: Tales of
Urban Fantasy
(2011), Blood
and
other
Cravings
(2011), After:
Nineteen Stories of
Apocalypse and
Dystopia
(2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children
of
Lovecraft
(2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), and Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017).

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday. We look forward to whatever is next.

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “Voice of Shades” © 2010 by Valentina Brostean

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

Tachyon tidbits featuring Lavie Tidhar, Carmen Maria Machado, Daryl Gregory, Nalo Hopkinson, and Ellen Datlow

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

Lavie Tidhar (photo: Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013), Carmen Maria Machado, Daryl Gregory, Nalo Hopkinson (David Findlay), and Ellen Datlow

Lavie Tidhar tweeted this out after receiving his Campbell Award for CENTRAL STATION.


Carmen Maria Machado, contributor to Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman‘s acclaimed THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, was named to the longlist for National Book Award in fiction for her collection HER BODY AND OTHER
PARTIES: STORIES.

Congratulations to all the honorees.



Fiction:

  • Elliot Ackerman,
    DARK AT THE CROSSING (Knopf / Penguin Random House)
  • Daniel Alarcón, THE
    KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE THE PEOPLE: STORIES (Riverhead Books / Penguin
    Random House)
  • Charmaine Craig,
    MISS BURMA (Grove Press / Grove Atlantic)
  • Jennifer Egan,
    MANHATTAN BEACH  (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
  • Min Jin Lee, PACHINKO (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette book Group)
  • Carmen Maria Machado, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: STORIES (Graywolf Press)
  • Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A KIND OF FREEDOM (Counterpoint Press)
  • Jesmyn Ward, SING, UNBURIED, SING (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
  • Carol Zoref, BARREN ISLAND (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
  • Lisa Ko, THE LEAVERS
    (Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)
  • Min Jin Lee,
    PACHINKO (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette book Group)
  • Carmen Maria
    Machado, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: STORIES (Graywolf Press)
  • Margaret Wilkerson
    Sexton, A KIND OF FREEDOM (Counterpoint Press)
  • Jesmyn Ward, SING,
    UNBURIED, SING (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
  • Carol Zoref, BARREN
    ISLAND (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

For BOOK RIOT, Liberty Hardy’s list of 100 Must-Read Indie Press Books includes a pair of Tachyon publications.

These 100 books lists always sound easy in theory, but then when I sit down to write one I discover compiling a list of, say, 100 science fiction debuts that are worth reading is a bit more work than I imagined.

That’s not the case with this post! Indie publishers are amazing and there are sooooo many books out there worth your time. I wrote down the first 100 books that popped into my head that I have actually read and loved, and I bet I could easily do another list of 100 more. (I smell a sequel!)

I’ve included a brief description from the publisher with each title. There are so many stunners here, this list should keep you busy for a while. Tell us in the comments about which of these you’ve read or other indie books you loved. Yay, books!

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE by Daryl Gregory (Tachyon Publications): No one believes the extent of their horrific tales, not until they are sought out by psychotherapist Dr. Jan Sayer. What happens when these seemingly-insane outcasts form a support group? Together they must discover which monsters they face are within—and which are lurking in plain sight.

FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS by Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon Publications): In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens that occasionally breathe fire, Hopkinson continues to create bold fiction that transcends boundaries and borders.

THE VIRTUAL MEMORIES SHOW welcomes Ellen Datlow to their podcast.

Legendary (as in mega-award-winning) horror, science fiction and fantasy editor Ellen Datlow joins the show to talk about her career. We get into defining horror (and its subset, the conte cruel), how the business has changed and hasn’t, the proper care and feeding of writers, dealing with diversity and representation in the anthologies she edits, finding good stories in translation, the pros and cons of blurring genre boundaries, keeping up with new voices, her preference for editing short fiction over novels, the writers she wishes she solicited stories from, running the monthly Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar, the editing lesson she got from Ben Bova, and why it’s never good when an author says, “This is the best thing I’ve ever written”!

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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

Cover art by Chuma Hill

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

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Meet legendary editor Ellen Datlow at Conflux 13

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Ellen Datlow, editor of NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, THE MONSTROUS, THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, HAUNTINGS, and DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, is the International Guest of Honour for Conflux 13, September 29-Oct 2.


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  • International Guest of Honour: Ellen Datlow
  • Guest of Honour: Angela Slatter
  • MC: Kaaron Warren
  • Music Guest: Meri Amber


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Datlow is scheduled for several panels and events at the con. The final program will be available in the con magazine.

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

Tachyon tidbits featuring Jeff VanderMeer, Ellen Datlow, Michael Swanwick, and Susan Palwick

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

Jeff VanderMeer (photo: Kyle Cassidy), Ellen Datlow, Michael Swanwick (Beth Gwynn), and Susan Palwick


In his TOR.COM article Remade Bodies and Surreal Spaces: Where to Start With the Work of Jeff VanderMeer, Tobias Carroll discusses THE THIRD BEAR.

THE THIRD BEAR, VanderMeer’s 2010 short story collection, offers a fine survey of the many sides of his fiction. In some cases, that means a side of his work that his novels haven’t yet explored: “Finding Sonoria,” about a detective hired to locate a possibly imaginary country, and “Errata,” a foray into experimental narratives, obsession, and conspiracies, recall the metafictional and metaphysical pulp fiction of Brian Evenson.

Readers of VanderMeer’s longer work will find strange echoes of some of his novels here, as well. “The Situation,” about dangerous office politics in a company dedicated to bizarre genetic experiments, reads like a precursor to some of the themes and settings that VanderMeer would develop in BORNE. (Impossibly huge, existentially menacing bears show up in a couple of places in the collection, in fact.) And there’s also “The Quickening,” in which arguably the least threatening animal imaginable–a pet rabbit–accumulates a dense air of mystery and menace.


Daniel Kraus for BOOKLIST includes Ellen Datlow’s  NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR among Top 10 Horror: 2017.

Queen of the horror anthology Datlow follows up DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010) with this 2005–15 compendium, which delightfully showcases the modern breadth of horror, from psychologically chilling to all-out terrorizing. A perfect discovery tool. 

BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS mentions Michael Swanwick’s NOT SO MUCH SAID THE CAT in Exciting New Books For August Part 2.

Michael Swanwick is one of the most elegant and consistently satisfying short story writers working today, and this latest collection is everything you might expect. Darger and Surplus put in an appearance, as do AIs and time travellers and rogues and more. A daring woman enters hell to bring her father back, only to find that hell is nothing like she had imagined. Time travellers from pre-history are having a party to welcome the end of time. An intelligent spacesuit tells of an encounter with centipede-like aliens. And fairy tale characters tell us why they prefer to remain in a book. There are 17 stories here, wildly different in subject but all alike in their invention and wit.

The August 2017 issue (87) of LIGHTSPEED spotlights Susan Palwick’s (THE FATE OF MICE) new short story “The Shining Hills” and a discussion between the author and Jason Ridler about the story.

I enjoyed that both Niff and Seamus tried to rationalize the fantastic of Arthur’s Seat, but from different viewpoints (optimist and cynic). Was that a conscious choice from the beginning, or did it develop over the execution of the story?

It grew out of their characters. Niff desperately wants to leave and Seamus is determined to stay, so their different interpretations arise from that.

I enjoyed the duplicitous nature of authority in Seamus, a sheen that hid his own weirdness and subterfuge on gaining Niff’s trust. I’ve read about those attempts in works on predators of various kinds. Do you think there is a clear link between authority and the need to build trust through lies?

I think there’s a clear link between deceit and the need to build trust through lies. Seamus isn’t acting in an official capacity here; he’s just pretending to. He’s doing this on his own time. His desire to protect Niff is real, but his motivations are personal and might draw scrutiny from his superiors. Certainly anything like objectivity is compromised. I see Seamus as a very private person, someone who usually plays things close to the chest. I doubt he’s opened up to anyone else the way he has to Niff, and I’m not sure he’d have talked to her so freely if he didn’t already know, on a gut level, that she’d be gone soon. He’s having the conversation he wasn’t able to have with his daughter.

It may be worth mentioning here that the idea from the story came from a real incident. After the 1988 World Fantasy Convention in London, I took the train up to Edinburgh, which is one of my favorite cities, and stayed there for a week. One day I was hiking by myself on Arthur’s Seat and heard someone ask, “Are you all right?” When I turned, I found a cop next to me. He and his partner patrolled the base of the park, and when they saw a woman alone, he left the patrol car to climb up and assess the situation. He stayed with me, chatting pleasantly, until we met another hiking party. I don’t know if there’d just been an assault on Arthur’s Seat or if this was standard procedure, but he clearly didn’t like my being up there by myself.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

The Shining Hills

by SUSAN PALWICK

“Are you all right?”

The voice, sharp and worried, shot out of the pocket of shadow to her left. Startled, she turned and found herself blinking at a cop, one of the ones who patrolled the park on foot. In the last light of dusk, she could just make out his half-frown, his badge, the hand resting on a nightstick. He reminded her of her father.

She shivered and pulled her sweatshirt more tightly around her. She should have brought warmer clothing, but she wasn’t going to be here long. “I’m fine. Why wouldn’t I be?” Her father would have said she was being rude, and foolish beside: You didn’t talk back to cops, especially in foreign countries. She didn’t care. Cops were cops.

“It’s getting dark. Where are you going?”

None of your fucking business. Even she knew better than to say that. Anyway, couldn’t he figure it out? She didn’t answer, just gestured with her chin. When she glanced at the top of Arthur’s Seat now, she couldn’t make out the glowing lights she’d seen before. She wondered if the cop would have been able to see them. Only the Chosen saw them, supposedly. That was why the rest of the world thought they were crazy.

She hoped she hadn’t missed her chance.

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

Cover by Jacob McMurray

For more info NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE FATE OF MICE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, Ursula Vernon, and Amal El-Mohtar win Hugo Awards

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The 2017 Hugo base was designed by Finnish artist Eeva Jokinen. Photo by Michael Lee


At the The 75th World Science Fiction Convention ceremony, Ellen Datlow garnered her incredible 8th Hugo Award. Other Tachyon contributors so honored included Julie Dillon (cover artist, THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT), Ursula Vernon, and Amal El-Mohtar (both in THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY).


Congrats to all the winners.


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2017 Hugo Award Winners

BEST NOVEL

THE OBELISK GATE, by
N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books)

BEST NOVELLA

EVERY HEART A
DOORWAY, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com publishing)

BEST NOVELETTE

“The Tomato
Thief”, by Ursula Vernon (APEX MAGAZINE, January 2016)

BEST SHORT STORY

“Seasons of
Glass and Iron”, by Amal El-Mohtar (THE STARLIT WOOD: NEW FAIRY
TALES, Saga Press)

BEST RELATED WORK

WORDS ARE MY MATTER:
WRITINGS ABOUT LIFE AND BOOKS, 2000-2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small
Beer)

BEST GRAPHIC
STORY

MONSTRESS, VOLUME 1:
AWAKENING, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda
(Image)

BEST DRAMATIC
PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

ARRIVAL, screenplay
by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by
Denis Villeneuve (21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava
Bear Films)

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BEST DRAMATIC
PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

THE EXPANSE:
“Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby,
directed by Terry McDonough (SyFy)

BEST EDITOR,
SHORT FORM

Ellen Datlow

BEST EDITOR, LONG
FORM

Liz Gorinsky

BEST PROFESSIONAL
ARTIST

Julie Dillon

BEST SEMIPROZINE

UNCANNY MAGAZINE,
edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota,
Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven
Schapansky

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BEST FANZINE

LADY BUSINESS,
edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan

BEST FANCAST

TEA AND JEOPARDY,
presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

BEST FAN WRITER

Abigail Nussbaum

BEST FAN ARTIST

Elizabeth Leggett

BEST SERIES

(Special Category
added by option of Worldcon 75)

THE VORKOSIGAN SAGA,
by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

THE JOHN W.
CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (Not a Hugo Award, but
administered along with the Hugo Awards)

Ada
Palmer

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more information on THE VERY BEST OF KATE ELLIOTT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Julie Dillon

Design by Elizabeth Story

Meet legendary editor Ellen Datlow at NecronomiCon Providence

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Ellen Datlow, editor of NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, THE MONSTROUS, THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, HAUNTINGS, and DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, is a Guest of Honor for NecronomiCon Providence, August 17-20.


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Guests of Honor

  • Ellen Datlow
  • Richard Stanley
  • John Jude Palencar
  • Donald Sidney-Fryer
  • Steve Mariconda
  • Kij Johnson
  • Stephen Graham Jones
  • Nnedi Okorafor
  • Peter Straub

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Datlow is scheduled for several panels and events at the con.


Saturday, August 19

3:00-4:15pm EDITING HORROR

They are one of the most prolific parts of the horror genre: anthologies. But, how does one go about creating one? What are the challenges and difficulties in assembling material and giving an anthology its own unique character? Join a panel of award winning editors as they discuss how they create an anthology of sublime weird.

Panelists: Ellen Datlow, Mike Davis, Michael Kelly, Leslie Klinger, Peter Straub, Douglas E. Winter


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Sunday, August 20

10:30-11:45am SOUTHERN GOTHIC HORROR: Yesterday and Today – 

From Faulkner and McCarthy to today’s luminaries like Stephen Graham Jones and Kristi Demeester, the Southern Gothic has cast a long shadow over Horror and Weird fiction. Come and explore the influence and persistence of the Southern Gothic on Weird and Horror fiction.

Panelists: Ellen Datlow, Jeff Shanks, Steve Rasnic Tem, Michael Wehunt


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4:30-5:45pm THE FUTURE OF WEIRD FICTION and NECRONOMICON-PVD 

Join our panel of experts as they discuss the most vital Weird Fiction of today and the direction they see it moving towards in the future. The panel concludes with some thoughts on this year’s convention and future plans…

Panelists: s.j. bagley (moderator), Sam Cowan, Ellen Datlow, Ruthanna Emrys, Michael Kelly, and… Niels Hobbs (if he’s still alive)

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “Voice of Shades” © 2010 by Valentina Brostean

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

Ellen Datlow’s anthologies feature great stories

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At ELITIST BOOK REVIEWS, Dan Smyth likes Ellen Datlow’s  THE MONSTROUS.

There is a certain way that little old ladies look at you when they find you reading books with covers like this one. There were several times while reading the book, however, that not only did I catch some of those little-old-lady glances, but I caught myself looking at the book itself with what I imagine to be a very similar facial expression to those ladies. It’s been a while since I’ve come across quite so many great stories as those that have been contained in these horror anthologies compiled by Ellen Datlow. The best part is that I have one more of these beauties sitting on my shelf, waiting for me to sink my claws into it. And after this one, I can’t wait to do just that.

THE MONSTROUS is the second in a string of horror anthologies recently put together by Ellen Datlow through Tor and Tachyon Publications. They revolve around the idea of “monstrous” things, in all shapes, flavors, and sizes, and how the “regular” humans react. Herein were absolutely some of the creepiest horror shorts that I’ve ever read, and judging from the author list, this shouldn’t surprise any of you that are familiar with the genre. The writing varied some, as is wont to happen in these books, from decent to REALLY good, with the majority tending toward awesome.

Lovers of horror will love this anthology. A great one to bury you teeth in.

SCI-FI & SCARY praises NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR.

Generally Ellen Datlow’s anthologies are themed. This one is a follow up to her NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR anthology. They don’t really have a ‘theme’ exactly. Just a general collection of horror stories. So! Let’s get started.

First off, I love the cover. Even though I read the e-book this would be one I would want for the cover.

The stand-outs for me were Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files, Mr. Pigsny by Reggie Oliver and Ambitious People Like You by Richard Kadry. Spectral Evidence because I am a total sucker when it comes to document-type or epistolary type stories and books. And this was a good one. I loved Mr. Pigsny because it had an interesting demonic story and a creepy painting. Horror gold for me. Ambitious Boys Like You interested me because it starts with the often used ‘robbing the mysterious old man’ theme (which we all know does not end well for the would-be robbers, usually) and I was interested in seeing which way this one would go.

4 out of 5 Skulls

Josh Schlossberg on his JOSH’S WORST NIGHTMARE pens a haiku inspired by LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS.

FROM THE BRINY DEEP

AND THE OUTER DIMENSIONS

THEY COME ONCE AGAIN

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

Meet legendary editor Ellen Datlow at StokerCon 2017

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Ellen Datlow and Robert McCammon at StokerCon 2016

Join the acclaimed Ellen Datlow, editor of NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, THE MONSTROUS, THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, HAUNTINGS, and DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, at StokerCon on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA, April 27-30.



Datlow is scheduled for several panels and events at the con.


Friday, April 28

1pm – 3pm Don’t Do
Public Readings Until You’ve Been to This

Panel /Moderator:
Tom Monteleone

Panelists: Tori
Eldridge, F. Paul Wilson, Heather Graham, Dennis Etchison, Lisa
Manetti, Ellen Datlow

Description: If
you’re thinking about bringing your story to life for an audience, be
sure to attend this panel. The
performance you save could be your own! Panel discussion is followed
by reading/signing.

3pm – 4pm Mini
Mass Signing

Description: Yvonne
Navarro / Weston Ochse / Ellen Datlow / Patricia V. Davis / Tracy
Carbone / Linda Addison
Sycorax’s Daughters/ Tish Jackson Sycorax’s Daughters / Barbara
Barnett

5pm – 6pm High Tea
at StokerCon (Ticketed Event)

Ellen Datlow,
Elizabeth Hand, Jonathan Maberry, Tananarive Due, Dennis Etchison,
Gretchen McNeil, Heather Graham

Description: Join
our special guests for conversation and tea. You’ll be served your
own personal pot of gourmet loose leaf
tea, a series of delightful tea sandwiches, freshly baked scones with
locally sourced clotted cream and homemade jam and a sweet array of
petit fours.

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Saturday, April 29

12pm – 1pm Editing
the Themed Anthology

Moderator: Alex
Scully 

Panelists: Jonathan Maberry, Michael Bailey, Tom
Monteleone, Lisa Morton, Ellen Datlow

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Be sure to stop by and say hi.

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “Voice of Shades” © 2010 by Valentina Brostean

Happy Birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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One
of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose
to prominence as the fiction editor of OMNI, where she helped usher
in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson,
Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael
Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s
demise in 1989, Datlow assumed the same role for the online EVENT
HORIZON. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a
similar role to SCI FICTION, the freshly created online venue from
the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s
shuttering in 2005.

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Beginning
with THE FIRST OMNI BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (1984), Datlow has edited
over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21
annual volumes of THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR (1988-2008;
Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and
Kelly Link), and eight annual volumes of THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR
(2009-2016). Her first non-OMNI related anthology BLOOD IS NOT ENOUGH
(1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which
eventually led to PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY referring to her as “horror
anthologist extraordinaire.”

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THE
YEAR’S BEST FANTASY: FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION (1989) garnered Datlow
her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from THE
YEAR’S BEST FANTASY SECOND (1990) and FOURTH (1992) ANNUAL
COLLECTIONS, LITTLE DEATHS (1995), editor (Special Award,
Professional 1995), SILVER BIRCH, BLOOD MOON (2000), THE GREEN MAN:
TALES FROM THE MYTHIC FOREST (2003), SALON FANTASTIQUE: FIFTEEN
ORIGINAL TALES OF FANTASY (2007), INFERNO: NEW TALES OF TERROR AND
THE SUPERNATURAL (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also
won five Stoker (THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY & HORROR: THIRTEENTH
[2000] and SEVENTEENTH [2004] ANNUAL COLLECTIONS,  HAUNTED LEGENDS
[2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], FEARFUL SYMMETRIES [2014]), six
Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], SCI FICTION [2005], Best
Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016])  and three Shirley
Jackson (INFERNO: NEW TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL [2008] ,
POE [2010], FEARFUL SYMMETRIES [2015]) awards.

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Other
notable books include ALIEN SEX (1990), SNOW WHITE, BLOOD RED (1993
w Terri Windling), VANISHING ACTS (2000), LOVECRAFT UNBOUND: TWENTY
STORIES (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010),
NAKED CITY: TALES OF URBAN FANTASY (2011), BLOOD AND OTHER CRAVINGS
(2011), AFTER: NINETEEN STORIES OF APOCALYPSE AND DYSTOPIA (2012 w
Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE DOLL COLLECTION (2015),
THE MONSTROUS (2015), CHILDREN OF LOVECRAFT (2016), and
NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016).

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All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday. We look forward to whatever is next.

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “Voice of Shades” © 2010 by Valentina Brostean

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

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