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June 30, 2020

Tachyon tidbits featuring Ellen Datlow, John Picacio, Charlie Jane Anders, Kameron Hurley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, Tim Powers, and Brandon Sanderson

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

LOCUS MAGAZINE announced the winners of their annual awards with Ellen Datlow nabbing the Best Editor and John Picacio for Best Artist. Check out LOCUS for the complete award list. Congratulations to all the winners.

Congratulations to Charlie Jane Anders (The City in the Middle of the Night) and Kameron Hurley (The Light Brigade) for making the 34th Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist.

The shortlist for the 34th Arthur C. Clarke Award is:

The City in the Middle of the Night – Charlie Jane Anders
The Light Brigade – Kameron Hurley
A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine
The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell
Cage of Souls – Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Last Astronaut — David Wellington

GALAXY PRESS shared the news: Writers and Illustrators of the Future Announces a Combined Event with the 36th and 37th Annual Award-Winners in 2021. Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, Tim Powers, and Brandon Sanderson number among the judges for the annual.

As the top names in the science fiction and fantasy world, Contest judges include Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, David Farland, Eric Flint, Brian Herbert, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, Katherine Kurtz, Todd McCaffrey, Rebecca Moesta, Larry Niven, Jody Lynn Nye, Nnedi Okorafor, Tim Powers, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Brandon Sanderson, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Dean Wesley Smith, and Sean Williams. Illustrator judges include Laura Freas Beraha, Echo and Lazarus Chernik, Ciruelo, Vincent Di Fate, Diane Dillon, Bob Eggleton, Craig Elliott, Larry Elmore, Val Lakey Lindahn, Stephan Martiniere, Gary Meyer, Mike Perkins, Sergey Poyarkov, Rob Prior, Dan dos Santos, Shaun Tan, and Stephen Youll.

Every quarter, three writers and three illustrators are selected by a panel of leading authors and artists of science fiction and fantasy. With no entry fee and judging done on an anonymous basis, the criterion is strictly merit. Beside first time publication, benefits include over $30,000 in cash prizes and royalties, a week-long workshop with top professionals of the genre as well as book signings, radio, and TV interviews organized by the Contest administrators to assist the winners in launching their careers

June 1, 2020

Kameron Hurley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Tachyon itself are 2020 Locus Award finalists

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Cover by Hannes Hummel
Design by Elizabeth Story

The finalists for the 2020 Locus Awards were announced. Kameron Hurley’s MEET ME IN THE FUTURE, THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, and Tachyon Publications itself all received notices. Previous Tachyon authors, editors, and artists John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, John Picacio, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Swanwick, Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Vess, Michael Whelan, and Sheila Williams were all honored too.

Congratulations to all the finalists.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor)
The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (Orbit US & UK)
Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)

FANTASY NOVEL

Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit US & UK)
Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit US & UK)
Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
The Iron Dragon’s Mother, Michael Swanwick (Tor)
Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)

HORROR NOVEL

Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
Prisoner of Midnight, Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US & UK)
The Institute, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju, Kim Newman (Titan US & UK)
The Pursuit of William Abbey, Claire North (Orbit US & UK)
The Toll, Cherie Priest (Tor)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
The Wicked King, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
Destroy All Monsters, Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
Angel Mage, Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
Shadow Captain, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)

FIRST NOVEL

The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (Tor)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
Finder, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)

NOVELLA

“A Time to Reap“, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 12/19)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com Publishing)
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com Publishing)
Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds (Tor.com Publishing)
The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
The Ascent to Godhood, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

“Erase, Erase, Erase”, Elizabeth Bear (F&SF 9-10/19)
“For He Can Creep“, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
“Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
“A Country Called Winter”, Theodora Goss (Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
“Late Returns”, Joe Hill (Full Throttle)
“Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)
“The Justified”, Ann Leckie (The Mythic Dream)
“Phantoms of the Midway”, Seanan McGuire (The Mythic Dream)
“Binti: Sacred Fire”, Nnedi Okorafor (Binti: The Complete Trilogy)
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)

SHORT STORY

“The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders (A People’s Future of the United States)
“Lest We Forget“, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 5-6/19)
“The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex”, Tobias S. Buckell (New Suns)
“It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning“, Ted Chiang (New York Times 5/27/19)
“Fisher-Bird”, T. Kingfisher (The Mythic Dream)
“I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married“, Fonda Lee (MIT Technology Review 12/27/19)
“The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear“, Kelly Link (Tin House ’19)
“Thoughts and Prayers“, Ken Liu (Future Tense 1/26/19)
“A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
“A Catalog of Storms“, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)’

ANTHOLOGY

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
Mission Critical, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, eds. (Subterranean)
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

COLLECTION

Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf; Picador)
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
The Best of Greg Egan, Greg Egan (Subterranean)
Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium)
Full Throttle, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
MEET ME IN THE FUTURE, Kameron Hurley (Tachyon)
THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tachyon)
The Best of R.A. Lafferty, R.A. Lafferty (Gollancz)
Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US & UK)
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)

Cover by Carl Sutton
Design by Elizabeth Story

November 6, 2019

Meet Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz at the November SF IN SF

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized annalee newitz, borderlands books, Charlie Jane Anders, SF in SF, soma fm, Terry Bisson, the american bookbinders museum, the city in the middle of the night, the future of another timeline

SF IN SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes the Hugo and Nebula award winning author of The City In the Middle of the Night Charlie Jane Anders and the acclaimed journalist, editor, and author of The Future of Another Timeline Annalee Newitz.

Each
author will read from a selection of their work, followed by Q&A
with the audience, moderated by Terry Bisson. Schmoozing with the
authors and book signing follows the end of the discussion.*

*Due Ms. Anders’ tour travel requirements, and the need to leave a bit
early, only presigned copies of her new book will be available for sale
at the event. Annalee will be present afterwards to sign her new book in
person.

Sunday, November 10
Doors and cash bar open 6:00PM
Event begins at 6:30 PM
The American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina
San Francisco, CA

$10 at the door
$8 for students with valid high school or college ID card

All donations benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

There will be an opportunity to have books signed at the end of the event. Books will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books, and attendees are welcome to bring books from home for signatures. There is no charge for autographs.

Podcasted by SOMA FM – SF’s internet radio station

February 25, 2019

Meet HAP AND LEONARD creator Joe R. Lansdale and Hugo Award Winner Charlie Jane Anders at the TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized best of joe r lansdale, blood and lemonade, Charlie Jane Anders, cold in july, crucified dreams, deadman's road, elizabeth story, flaming zepplins, hap and leonard, Joe R. Lansdale, john coulthart, John Picacio, josh beatman, six months three days, the big book of hap and leonard, the city in the middle of the night, Travis J. Elston, tucson festival of books

Joe R. Lansdale (photo: Karen Lansdale) and Charlie Jane Anders (Tristan Crane

Edgar and Stoker Award winner Joe R. Lansdale and Charlie Jane Anders, author of The City in The Middle of the Night and SIX MONTHS, THREE DAYS, are attending the TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS, March 2-3.

The Tucson Festival of Books, a registered non-profit organization established to support and fund literacy advancement in southern Arizona, debuted in March 2009 after two years of planning. More than $1,650,000 has been raised for local literacy organizations. Founders of the Tucson Festival of Books include business, university and philanthropic leaders.

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Picacio

For more info about CRUCIFIED DREAMS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about FLAMING ZEPPELINS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about DEADMAN’S ROAD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “The Quick and the Undead” by Travis J. Elston

Cover design by Elizabeth Story