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March 6, 2023

Happy birthday to the extraordinary, groundbreaking editor Ann VanderMeer

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The editor (or co-editor alongside her husband Jeff) of over a dozen anthologies, Ann VanderMeer served as Weird Tales editor-in-chief for five years (2007-2012) and is currently an acquiring editor for Tor.com. Her acclaimed anthologies include the Steampunk trilogy (STEAMPUNK [2008], STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED [2010], STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION [2012]), THE NEW WEIRD (2008), The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015), The Bestiary (2015), The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology (2019), The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019), and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020). Her efforts have garnered numerous awards including the Hugo, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and LOCUS.

VanderMeer co-wrote (with Jeff) THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010). She crafted the short story “Best Kosher Imaginary Animals Recipes” and many of the essays.

She founded the groundbreaking Buzzcity Press, publisher of the magazine The Silver Web, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel Dradin, In Love, and International Horror Guild Award-winning The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco. With Jeff, VanderMeer started the press Cheeky Frawg which specializes in “quality, self-aware e-books.” Beyond the titles crafted by the duo, they have done the laudable work of publishing fiction from international writers that deserve more attention among English-language readers.

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Ann, a fantastically weird birthday.

December 22, 2022

Happy birthday to the multi-talented Rick Klaw

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(Tachyon managing editor Jill Roberts has hijacked the Tachyon blog. Control will be restored to the proper parties shortly.)

Tachyon’s Publicity Manager Richard “Rick” Klaw is the wearer of many hats. Fortunately, he looks good in all of them.

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Design by Elizabeth Story

Klaw is a professional editor, reviewer, publicist, marketing guru, geek maven, and optimistic curmudgeon. He has provided nigh-countless reviews, essays, and fiction to a variety of publications: The Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving PicturesMagazine, San Antonio Current, Geek Dad, San Antonio Business Journal, Conversations With Texas Writers, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, SF Site, Science Fiction Weekly, Nova Express, STEAMPUNK, Electric Velocipede, Cross Plains Universe, Red Range, and The Steampunk Bible. Many of his essays and observations were collected in Geek Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century (2003).

Klaw also co-founded the influential Mojo Press, one of the first publishing houses dedicated to both graphic novels and prose books for the general bookstore market. For Mojo, he co-edited (with Joe R. Lansdale) the groundbreaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form, Weird Business (1995). He also served as the first fiction editor for RevolutionSF.

Klaw has edited all the volumes of the Tachyon Hap and Leonard crime series by Joe R. Lansdale most recently, BORN FOR TROUBLE: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF HAP AND LEONARD. He is editing the forthcoming 2023 titles THINGS GET UGLY: The BEST CRIME STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE and the debut novel THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH by Josh Rountree. He edited Bruce Sterling’s Italian fantascienza collection, ROBOT ARTISTS & BLACK SWANS; he also co-edited Sterling’s PIRATE UTOPIA (2016). Additionally, Klaw is the editor of two anthologies that were published in 2013: THE APES OF WRATH and Rayguns Over Texas.

In addition to his many other activities, Klaw manages Tachyon’s publicity team, and he develops content for Tachyon’s social media. He is Tachyon’s resident expert on remote technology, and he organizes and facilitates many of the company’s virtual events.

The Legend of Charlie Fish; cover by John Coulthart — Cover by John Coulthart

Things Get Ugly, cover by John Coulthart — Cover by John Coulthart

Klaw lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, a perpetually confused dog, a pair of adorable, high–energy cats, and an impressive collection of books.

Tachyon wishes Rick a very happy birthday (and we thank him for allowing us to undermine his regularly scheduled social-media domination).

July 7, 2022

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

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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, Nebula Award, and Shirley Jackson Award. His acclaimed novels include Dradin, in Love (1996), Veniss Underground (2003), Shriek: An Afterword (2006), South China Sea (2008), Finch (2009), The Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation [2014], Authority [2014] and Acceptance [2014]), Borne (2017), The Strange Bird (2017), Dead Astronauts (2019), A Peculiar Peril (2020), and Hummingbird Salamander (2021). The film Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson and based on the VanderMeer novel, premiered in 2018.

Many of his shorter works have been collected in The Book of Frog (1989), Lyric of the Highway Mariner: A Collection of Poems (1991), The Book of Lost Places (1996), City of Saints and Madmen (2001), The Day Dali Died (2003), Secret Life (2004), Ein Herz für Lukretia [German] (2007), Secret Lives (2008), The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories (2007; with Cat Rambo), THE THIRD BEAR (2010), Balzac’s War (2011), and The Compass of his Bones and Other Stories (2011).

VanderMeer co-edited (unless otherwise noted all alongside award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer) several groundbreaking and popular anthologies including Leviathan, Volume One: Into the Gray (1996 with Luke O’Grady), Leviathan 2 (1998 with Rose Secrest), Leviathan 3 (2002 with Forrest Aguirre), The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (2003; with Mark Roberts), Best American Fantasy (2007; Vol 2 2008), Fast Ships, Black Sails (2008), THE NEW WEIRD (2008), STEAMPUNK (2008), Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity (2009), STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED (2010), ODD? (2011), The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), The Weird (2011), The Time Traveler’s Almanac (2013), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015), The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019), and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020). Also with Ann, he created THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010).

Among his numerous nonfiction volumes are the acclaimed Why Should I Cut Your Throat? Excursions in the World of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror (2004), BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER (2009), Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy through Essays, Articles and Reviews (2011), The Steampunk Bible (2011; with S. J. Chambers), Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (2013), and The Steampunk User’s Manual: An Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-Futurist Dreams (2014 with Desirina Boskovich).

All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted Jeff a squidastic birthday, full of fungi and other things that creep in the darkness.

March 6, 2022

Happy birthday to the extraordinary, groundbreaking editor Ann VanderMeer

Rick Klaw birthday, blog ann vandermeer, birthday, steampunk, steampunk ii: steampunk reloaded, steampunk iii: steampunk revolution, the big book of classic fantasy, the big book of modern fantasy, the kosher guide to imaginary animals, the new weird

VanderMeer co-wrote (with Jeff) THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010). She crafted the short story “Best Kosher Imaginary Animals Recipes” and many of the essays.

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Ann, a fantastically weird birthday.

December 22, 2021

Happy birthday to the multi-talented Rick Klaw

Rick Klaw birthday, blog birthday, blood and lemonade, born for trouble, hap and leonard, of mice and minestrone, pirate utopia, Rick Klaw, robot artists & black swans, steampunk, the apes of wrath, the big book of hap and leonard

(Tachyon managing editor Jill Roberts has hijacked the blog. Control will be restored to the proper parties shortly.)

Tachyon’s Publicity Manager Richard “Rick” Klaw is the wearer of many hats. Fortunately, he looks good in all of them.

Klaw is a professional editor, reviewer, publicist, marketing guru, geek maven, and optimistic curmudgeon. He has provided nigh-countless reviews, essays, and fiction to a variety of publications: The Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving Pictures Magazine, San Antonio Current, Geek Dad, San Antonio Business Journal, Conversations With Texas Writers, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, SF Site, Science Fiction Weekly, Nova Express, STEAMPUNK, Electric Velocipede, Cross Plains Universe, Red Range, and The Steampunk Bible. Many of his essays and observations were collected in Geek Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century (2003).

Klaw also co-founded the influential Mojo Press, one of the first publishing houses dedicated to both graphic novels and prose books for the general bookstore market. For Mojo, he co-edited (with Joe R. Lansdale) the groundbreaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form, Weird Business (1995). He also served as the first fiction editor for RevolutionSF.

Klaw has edited all the volumes of the Tachyon Hap and Leonard crime series by Joe R. Lansdale, including the forthcoming BORN FOR TROUBLE: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF HAP AND LEONARD. He edited Bruce Sterling’s Italian fantascienza collection, ROBOT ARTISTS & BLACK SWANS; he also co-edited Sterling’s PIRATE UTOPIA (2016). Additionally, Klaw is the editor of two anthologies that were published in 2013: THE APES OF WRATH and Rayguns Over Texas.

In addition to his many other activities, Klaw currently manages Tachyon’s publicity team, and develops content for Tachyon’s social media. He is Tachyon’s resident expert on remote technology, and organizes and facilitates many of the virtual events.

Klaw lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, a perpetually confused dog, a pair of adorable, high energy cats, and an impressive collection of books. He can often be found pontificating on Twitter and at his award-winning blog The Geek Curmudgeon.

Tachyon wishes Rick a very happy birthday (and we thank him for allowing us to hijack his regularly scheduled social-media domination).

July 7, 2021

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

Rick Klaw birthday, blog ann vandermeer, birthday, booklife, hummingbird salamander, jeff vandermeer, steampunk, steampunk ii: steampunk reloaded, the big book of modern fantasy, the kosher guide to imaginary animals, the new weird, the third bear

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, Nebula Award, and Shirley Jackson Award. His acclaimed novels include Dradin, in Love (1996), Veniss Underground (2003), Shriek: An Afterword (2006), South China Sea (2008), Finch (2009), The Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation [2014], Authority [2014] and Acceptance [2014]), Borne (2017), The Strange Bird (2017), Dead Astronauts (2019), A Peculiar Peril (2020), and Hummingbird Salamander (2021). The film Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson and based on the VanderMeer novel, premiered in 2018 to rave reviews.

VanderMeer co-edited (unless otherwise noted all alongside award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer) several groundbreaking and popular anthologies including Leviathan, Volume One: Into the Gray (1996 with Luke O’Grady), Leviathan 2 (1998 with Rose Secrest), Leviathan 3 (2002 with Forrest Aguirre), The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (2003; with Mark Roberts), Best American Fantasy (2007; Vol 2 2008), Fast Ships, Black Sails (2008), THE NEW WEIRD (2008), STEAMPUNK (2008), Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity (2009), STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED (2010), ODD? (2011), The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), The Weird (2011), The Time Traveler’s Almanac (2013), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015), The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019), and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020). Also with Ann, he created THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010).

All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted Jeff a squidastic birthday, full of fungi and other things that creep in the darkness.

March 6, 2021

Happy birthday to the extraordinary, groundbreaking editor Ann VanderMeer

VanderMeer co-wrote (with Jeff) THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010). She crafted the short story “Best Kosher Imaginary Animals Recipes” and many of the essays.

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Ann, a fantastically weird birthday.

December 22, 2020

Happy birthday to the multi-talented Rick Klaw

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(Tachyon managing editor Jill Roberts has hijacked the blog. Control will be restored to the proper parties shortly.)

Professional freelance editor, reviewer, publicist, marketing guru, geek maven, and optimistic curmudgeon, Richard “Rick” Klaw is the wearer of many hats.

For the past 20 years, Klaw has provided nigh-countless reviews, essays, and fiction for a variety of publications: The Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving Pictures Magazine, San Antonio Current, Geek Dad, San Antonio Business Journal, Conversations With Texas Writers, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, SF Site, Science Fiction Weekly, Nova Express, STEAMPUNK, Electric Velocipede, Cross Plains Universe, Red Range, and The Steampunk Bible. Many of his essays and observations were collected in Geek Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century (2003).

Klaw co-founded the influential Mojo Press, one of the first publishers dedicated to both graphic novels and prose books for the general bookstore market, and co-edited (with Joe R. Lansdale) the groundbreaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form, Weird Business (1995). He also served as the first fiction editor for RevolutionSF.

Klaw has edited all the volumes of the Tachyon Hap and Leonard crime series by Joe R. Lansdale, including the recent Hap and Leonard coming-of-age collection (including recipes), OF MICE AND MINESTRONE. He is currently editing Bruce Sterling’s Italian fantascienza collection, ROBOT ARTISTS & BLACK SWANS; he also co-edited Sterling’s PIRATE UTOPIA (2016). Additionally, Klaw is the editor of two anthologies that were published in 2013: THE APES OF WRATH and Rayguns Over Texas.

In addition to his other editing, consulting, and marketing activities, Klaw currently manages and develops content for Tachyon’s social media. He is Tachyon’s resident expert on remote technology, and he organizes and facilitates all virtual events.

Klaw lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, a perpetually confused dog, a pair of adorable, high energy cats, and an impressive collection of books.

He can often be found pontificating on Twitter and at his award-winning blog The Geek Curmudgeon.

Tachyon wishes Rick a very happy birthday (and we thank him for allowing us to hijack his regularly scheduled social-media domination).

July 7, 2020

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

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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, Nebula Award, and Shirley Jackson Award. His acclaimed novels include Dradin, in Love (1996), Veniss Underground (2003), Shriek: An Afterword (2006), South China Sea (2008), Finch (2009), The Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation [2014], Authority [2014] and Acceptance [2014]), Borne (2017), The Strange Bird (2017), Dead Astronauts (2019), and A Peculiar Peril (2020). The film Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson and based on the VanderMeer novel, premiered in 2018 to rave reviews.

Many of his shorter works have been collected in The Book of Frog (1989), Lyric of the Highway Mariner: A Collection of Poems (1991), The Book of Lost Places (1996), City of Saints and Madmen (2001), The Day Dali Died (2003), Secret Life (2004), Ein Herz für Lukretia [German] (2007), Secret Lives (2008), The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories (2007; with Cat Rambo), THE THIRD BEAR (2010), Balzac’s War (2011), and The Compass of his Bones and Other Stories (2011).

VanderMeer co-edited (unless otherwise noted all alongside award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer) several groundbreaking and popular anthologies including Leviathan, Volume One: Into the Gray (1996 with Luke O’Grady), Leviathan 2 (1998 with Rose Secrest), Leviathan 3 (2002 with Forrest Aguirre), The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (2003; with Mark Roberts), Best American Fantasy (2007; Vol 2 2008), Fast Ships, Black Sails (2008), THE NEW WEIRD (2008), STEAMPUNK (2008), Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity (2009), STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED (2010), ODD? (2011), The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), The Weird (2011), The Time Traveler’s Almanac (2013), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015), The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), and The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019). Also with Ann, he created THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010).

Among his numerous nonfiction volumes are the acclaimed Why Should I Cut Your Throat? Excursions in the World of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror (2004), BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER (2009), Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy through Essays, Articles and Reviews (2011), The Steampunk Bible (2011; with S. J. Chambers), and Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (2013), and The Steampunk User’s Manual: An Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-Futurist Dreams (2014 with Desirina Boskovich).

All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted Jeff a squidastic birthday, full of fungi and other things that creep in the darkness.

March 6, 2020

Happy birthday to the extraordinary, groundbreaking editor Ann VanderMeer

Rick Klaw birthday, blog ann vandermeer, birthday, steampunk, steampunk ii: steampunk reloaded, steampunk iii: steampunk revolution, the new weird 0

The editor (or co-editor alongside her husband Jeff) of over a dozen anthologies, Ann VanderMeer served as Weird Tales editor-in-chief for five years (2007-2012) and is currently an acquiring editor for Tor.com. Her acclaimed anthologies include the Steampunk trilogy (STEAMPUNK [2008], STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED [2010], STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION [2012]), THE NEW WEIRD (2008), The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015), The Bestiary (2015), The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology (2019), and The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019). Her efforts have garnered numerous awards including the Hugo, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and LOCUS.

VanderMeer co-wrote (with Jeff) THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010). She crafted the short story “Best Kosher Imaginary Animals Recipes” and many of the essays.

She founded the groundbreaking Buzzcity Press, publishers of the magazine The Silver Web, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel Dradin, In Love, and International Horror Guild Award-winning The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco. With Jeff, VanderMeer started the press Cheeky Frawg which specializes in “quality, self-aware e-books.” Beyond the titles crafted by the duo, they have done the laudable work of publishing fiction from international writers that deserve more attention among English-language readers.

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Ann, a fantastically weird birthday.

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