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July 26, 2016

Tachyon tidbits featuring Bruce Sterling, Nalo Hopkinson, and Cory Doctorow

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized afrofuturism, Ann Monn, ardi alspach, b&n sci-fi & fantasy blog, brown girl in the ring, bruce sterling, content, content: selected essays on technology creativity copyright and the future of technology and the future of the future, context, context: further selected essays on productivity creativity parenting and politics in the 21st century, cory doctorow, daniel pelavin, eff, electron frontier foundation, elizabeth story, john coulthart, Marty Halpern, More Red Ink, nalo hopkinson, pirate utopia, rudy gutierrez, The Guardian

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

Bruce Sterling (photo: VERGE), Nalo Hopkinson (David Findlay), and Cory Doctorow (NK Guy, nkguy.com.tiff)

Marty Halpern on his MORE RED INK delivers redux of his some hard facts about Bruce Sterling’s PIRATE UTOPIA, now with information about a special sale price.

Shortly after posting that blog I learned about the caveat: the $14.95 price tag is indeed correct, but it’s the Amazon-onlypre-publication price. Order the book from any other source and the price will be $19.95, which will also be the retail price after publication.

Now the problem with buying from Amazon is a) some people prefer not to support Amazon, and b) with a $14.95 purchase, you have to pay shipping, because $25 is the minimum purchase amount for free shipping on books (unless you are a Prime member).

But, I have an alternative solution:

With the assistance of Tachyon Publications, you can now purchase the Pirate Utopia hardcover through the Tachyon online store at the $14.95 price – but you must use a coupon code at checkout, and this coupon code is only valid through Sunday, August 7. And if you reside in these United States and select media mail as the shipping option, shipping will be free.

A $14.95 hardcover, free media mail shipping, and you are supporting an independent publisher…It doesn’t get any better than that.

On the B&N SCI-FI & FANTASY BLOG, Ardi Alspach included Nalo Hopkinson’s BROWN GIRL IN THE RING in her primer Defining the Genre: 7 Novels of Afrofuturism.

The debut novel by award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson draws heavily on the lore and traditions of Afro-Caribbean culture, bringing elements of magical realism into a dystopic vision of downtown Toronto. Ti-Jeanne is a single mother who has recently given birth to a baby boy and is forced by circumstance to live with her grandmother, Gros-Jeanne, a well-respected herbalist and spiritualist. The baby’s father, Tony, finds himself in trouble and seeks out Gros-Jeanne for help, requiring Ti-Jeanne to come to terms with her heritage and embrace her grandmother’s spirituality, which she had previously rejected. In a bleak future, traditions of the past come alive and two strong women take charge of their own destinies.

Cory Doctorow’s piece in THE GUARDIAN about an EFF lawsuit discusses many of concepts and ideas espoused in his essay collections CONTENT: SELECTED ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVITY, COPYRIGHT, AND THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE and CONTEXT: FURTHER SELECTED ESSAYS ON PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY, PARENTING, AND POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit on Thursday that American copyright wonks, technologists and security researchers have been hotly awaiting for nearly 20 years.

If they succeed, one of America’s most controversial technology laws will be struck down, and countries all over the world who have been pressured by the US trade representative to adopt this American rule will have to figure out whether they’ll still enforce it, even after the US has given up on it.

The rule is section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998, the “anti-circumvention” rule that makes it illegal to break an “access control” for copyrighted works. These “access controls” often manifest as “digital rights management” (DRM), and the DMCA gives them unique standing in law.

EFF is suing the US government, arguing that section 1201 of the DMCA is unconstitutional, and also that the Library of Congress and the copyright office have failed to perform their duties in the three-year DMCA 1201 exemption hearings.

For more info on PIRATE UTOPIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

BROWN GIRL IN THE RING cover illustration and design by Rudy Gutierrez with custom lettering by Daniel Pelavin

For more info on CONTENT: SELECTED ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVITY, COPYRIGHT, AND THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Ann Monn

For more info on CONTEXT: FURTHER SELECTED ESSAYS ON PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY, PARENTING, AND POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

July 13, 2016

Tachyon tidbits featuring Michael Swanwick, James Tiptree, Jr. Nalo Hopkinson, and Chris Tarry

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized book riot, brown girl in the ring, chris tarry, chris urie, clarkesworld, daniel pelavin, elizabeth story, falling in love with hominids, foreward reviews, her smoke rose up forever, how to carry bigfoot home, indiefab, interview, invaders, invaders: 22 tales from the outer limits of literature, james tiptree jr, John Picacio, michael swanwick, nalo hopkinson, nikki steele, not so much said the cat, rudy gutierrez

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

Michael Swanwick, James Tiptree, Jr., Nalo Hopkinson, and Chris Tarry

For CLARKESWORLD, Chris Urie interviews Michael Swanwick about his forthcoming collection NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT.

Why does the cat say “not so much?”

He’s a character in a story about a young teenaged girl’s attempt to rescue her father from Hell. Beelzebub is there for whatever reasons a cat would be sent to perdition, and when he delivers that line he’s telling the girl that she might be lovely to look at for other humans, but for a cat … Which he does simply because he’s a contrarian and in Hell honesty is an offense to local community standards.

I hadn’t thought of this before, but Beelzebub—“Not the famous one, obviously,” as he says—and I have a lot in common. We both enjoy telling the truth in unexpected ways.

In this collection, you pull inspiration from cultures and folk tales from around the world. What keeps you coming back to tales from Northern and Eastern Europe?

Simply the fact that in my early decades those were the areas where the literature was richest and easiest to come by. I’m trying to up my game in other cultures—African cultures, in particular. But it’s not something you can get simply by reading a book. You have to read a lot of books, be moved by them, and then let their contents percolate through the subconscious for years before the stories will appear.

Do you ever travel for research or does the travel instead provide the inspiration?

Both. My Russian stories were inspired by things I saw and heard and felt on my visits there, The Dala Horse was inspired by my visit to Sweden, and so on. But when I decided to write Dancing With Bears, set largely in Moscow, a city I’d only ever spent four hours in, I knew I had to go. I stayed long enough that I dared go out into the city and get deliberately lost, knowing I’d be able to find my way back to my flat on the Garden Ring. A few weeks is far from enough time to enable someone to write a serious novel about Russia. But the Darger & Surplus books are comic, so all I really needed was a sense of the city and the complex emotions that various locations in it arouse in you.

When I decided to write Chasing the Phoenix, Marianne and I arranged to tour China to research the book, but the day before the flight, I came down with a minor viral infection. Beijing International has thermometer gates and whoever passes through one running a fever gets thrown in quarantine. Marianne went without me and took copious notes, which helped immensely. And last year, after the novel was written, we went on a tour with a group that included Ellen Datlow and Eileen Gunn, so I got to see some of that great country—but none of it was tax-deductible, alas!

Nikki Steele at BOOK RIOT names her 100 MUST-READ SCI-FI FANTASY NOVELS BY FEMALE AUTHORS. The list included without comment James Tiptree, Jr.’s HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER and FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS writer Nalo Hopkinson’s BROWN GIRL IN THE RING.

How to Carry Bigfoot Home: The Animated Trailer

INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE contributor Chris Tarry’s collection HOW TO CARRY BIGFOOT HOME was named the Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award for Short Stories.

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Picacio

BROWN GIRL IN THE RING cover by Rudy Gutierrez with custom lettering by Daniel Pelavin