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July 6, 2016

Tachyon well represented at the legendary Readercon

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Many Tachyon authors in including co-Guest of Honor Tim Powers will join Tachyon head honcho Jacob Weisman this coming weekend (July 7-10) for Readercon 27 in Burlington, Massachusetts.

The famed “imaginative literature” event is the only convention ever to be honored by a World Fantasy Award nomination (Special Award, Non-Professional, 2010) for its organizers.

Joining Powers as this years Guest of Honor is Catherynne M. Valente with Memorial Guest of Honor Diana Wynne Jones.

John Kessel and Jacob Weisman at Readercon 23 (Photo: Ellen Datlow)

Other Tachyon creators scheduled to appear include Suzy McKee Charnas, Ellen Datlow, Daryl Gregory, James Patrick Kelly, James Morrow, Gordon Van Gelder, and Rick Wilber.

Readercon offers a massive selection of readings, signings, and panels. To find any of these authors, check out the entire schedule on their site. And be sure to visit the Tachyon table in the dealer’s room.

For more info about INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Goro Fujita

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more information on THE STRESS OF HER REGARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

November 5, 2015

Tachyon well represented at the annual World Fantasy Convention

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized Charles de Lint, Charlie Jane Anders, daryl gregory, David G. Hartwell, eileen gunn, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, ellen klages, Gordon Van Gelder, jacob weisman, James Patrick Kelly, james patrick kleyy, John Joseph Adams, peter v brett, Rick Wilber, saratoga springs, sheila williams, six months three days, suzy mckee charnas, we are all completely fine, world fantasy convention

Many Tachyon authors will join Tachyon head honcho Jacob Weisman this weekend (November 5-8) for the 2015 World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY.

The legendary event, held annually since 1975, showcases the fantastic in literature and art. This years convention features Guests of Honor Steven Erikson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Toastmaster Paul Di Filippo, and Special Guests Glen Cook, David Drake, Lloyd Currey, Rick Lieder, and Kathe Koja.

Tachyon creators scheduled to appear include
John
Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Peter V. Brett, Suzy McKee Charnas, Ellen Datlow,
Charles
de Lint, Daryl Gregory, Eileen Gunn, David G. Hartwell, Gordon Van Gelder,
James
Patrick Kelly, Ellen Klages, Rick Wilber, and Sheila Williams.

The World Fantasy Convention offers a massive selection of readings, signings, and panels. To find any of these authors, check out the entire schedule on their site. And be sure to visit the Tachyon table in the dealer’s room, featuring the world premiere of the limited edition chapbook SIX MONTHS, THREE DAYS by Charlie Jane Anders and Daryl Gregory’s World Fantasy Award nominee WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE.

For more info on SIX MONTHS, THREE DAYS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

September 4, 2015

Happy birthday to the award-winning writer and editor Rick Wilber

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A journalism professor at the University of South Florida, Rick Wilber has penned more than fifty science-fiction short stories, several college textbooks, including MAGAZINE FEATURE
WRITING (St. Martin’s Press), THE WRITER’S HANDBOOK FOR
EDITING and REVISION (McGraw-Hill), and MODERN MEDIA
WRITING (Cengage), and two novels THE COLD ROAD and RUM POINT. His story “Something Real” won the 2013 Sidewise Award.

Wilber edited the three anthologies SUBTROPICAL SPECULATIONS: ANTHOLOGY OF FLORIDA SCIENCE
FICTION (with Richard Mathews), FUTURE MEDIA, and FIELD OF FANTASIES: BASEBALL STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND
SUPERNATURAL. His book length memoir about his dad, baseball player Del Wilber, MY FATHER’S GAME: LIFE, DEATH, BASEBALL garnered notices from a diversity of people including Peter Golenbock, Peter Straub, and Bill Plaschke.

All of us at Tachyon wish Rick a happy baseball-filled birthday!

For more info about FUTURE MEDIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

July 6, 2015

Tachyon well represented at the legendary Readercon

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Many Tachyon authors will join Tachyon head honcho Jacob Weisman this coming weekend (July 9-12) for Readercon 26 in Burlington, Massachusetts.

The famed “imaginative literature” event is the only convention ever to be honored by a World Fantasy Award nomination (Special Award, Non-Professional, 2010) for its organizers.

This years Guests of Honor are Nicola Griffith and Gary K. Wolfe with Memorial Guest of Honor Joanna Russ.

John Kessel and Jacob Weisman at Readercon 23 (Photo: Ellen Datlow)

Tachyon creators scheduled to appear include Suzy McKee Charnas, Ellen Datlow, Daryl Gregory, Eileen Gunn, David G. Hartwell, John Kessel, James Morrow, Gordon Van Gelder, Rick Wilber, and Sheila Williams.

April 15, 2015

Visit FIELD OF FANTASIES editor Rick Wilber and contributors Kim Stanley Robinson and Jacob Weisman

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Though not a Tachyon book, FIELD OF FANTASIES has several associations. Editor Rick Wilber previously produced FUTURE MEDIA for Tachyon and contributors Karen Joy Fowler, John Kessel, and W. P. Kinsella have their own titles. Our fearless leader and founder Jacob Weisman, alongside his TREASURY OF THE FANTASTIC cohort David Sandner, has a story as well.

On Saturday, April 18th at 3:00 pm, Wilber, Weisman, and Kim Stanley Robinson will all be at Borderlands in San Francisco, celebrating the book and the new baseball season.

Visit the Borderlands site for more details.

Cover design by Rain Saukas.

January 23, 2015

Win a copy of THE ESSENTIAL W. P. KINSELLA

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In conjunction with the fine folks at Goodreads, we are giving away an Advanced Reading Copy of The Essential W. P. Kinsella.

Visit Goodreads for all the details.

“Kinsella defines a world in which magic and reality combine to make us laugh and think about the perceptions we take for granted.”

—New York Times

This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball’s greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe), as well as the 25th anniversary of Field of Dreams, the film that he inspired.

In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer. His satiric wit has been celebrated with numerous honors, including the Order of British Columbia.

Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the “real” story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic.

Eclectic, dark, and comedic by turns, The Essential W. P. Kinsella is a living tribute to an extraordinary raconteur.

“Mystery and homegrown magic realism at its best and most satisfying. Kinsella is a storyteller of the first order.”

—Joe R. Lansdale, author of Cold in July

Table of Contents

Introduction by Rick Wilber
Truth
How I Got My Nickname
The Night Manny Mota Tied the Record
First Names and Empty Pockets
Searching for January
Lieberman in Love
The Grecian Urn
The Fog
Beef
Distances
How Manny Embarquadero Overcame and Began His Climb to the Major Leagues
The Indian Nation Cultural Exchange Program
K Mart
The Firefighter
Dr. Don
Brother Frank’s Gospel Hour
The Alligator Report—with Questions for Discussion
King of the Street
Wavelengths
Do Not Abandon Me
Marco in Paradise
Out of the Picture
The Lightning Birds
Punchlines
The Last Surviving Member of the Japanese Victory Society
The Job
Risk Takers
The Lime Tree
Doves and Proverbs
Waiting on Lombard Street
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa
Afterward – Where It Began: Shoeless Joe

For more info about The Essential W. P. Kinsella, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Thomas Canty.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story.