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February 17, 2017

Tachyon tidbits featuring Jacob Weisman, Daryl Gregory, Nancy Kress, Lavie Tidhar, and Joe R. Lansdale

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized central station, daryl gregory, elizabeth story, goro fujita, hap and leonard: blood and lemonade, interview, invaders, invaders: 22 tales from the outer limits of literature, jacob weisman, Joe R. Lansdale, lavie tidhar, Nancy Kress, podcast, rainforest writers village, sarah anne langton, the english bookshop, Thomas Canty, we are all completely fine, writer types podcast, yesterday's kin

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

Jacob Weisman, Daryl Gregory, Nancy Kress (photo: Ellen Datlow), Lavie Tidhar (Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013), and Joe R. Lansdale (Karen Lansdale)

Jacob Weisman (INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE), Daryl Gregory (WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE), and Nancy Kress (YESTERDAY’S KIN) are all attending Rainforest Writers Village, Lake Quinault, WA on February 22-26.

The first writers retreat was held in February 2007. The idea was to create at least one time and place in the year where all but writing was put aside. The objective was to create an annual writers’ gathering that focused on:

solitary and community writing…

in an isolated environment…

supported by a collective of contemporaries of like mind and pursuits.

Writers gather at a location of minimized outside interference or influence, ready to spend an intensive four or five days on their own work, with others involved in the same who were present for support and interactive development of written creative work as art, craft, and science. Balanced against this is a schedule of events aimed at supporting this process, with the number of retreat guests and attendees kept to a limit.

The Rain Forest Resort Village is situated on Lake Quinault, nestled in the Olympic Pennisula, and the Quinault Rainforest. Local populations are small and centers of civilization are approximately 50 miles from the resort. Close enough for those who wish to seek them out, and far enough for others not to have to seek escape from them. The resort has no phones in the rooms or cabins, and has spotty cell phone service. It is its own little village, with a restaurant, general store, gift shop, lounge, post office, and laundromat on site.

Participants get writing time free of work and daily social life. They get professional advice from, and interaction with, guests who have had success in the writing business.

The English Bookshop featured Lavie Tidhar’s CENTRAL STATION, both online and in the store.

The WRITER TYPES PODCAST interviews Joe R. Lansdale.

Episode 2 just went live today, featuring interviews with Joe R. Lansdale, Reed Farrel Coleman and Jess Lourey. We also hear about favorite P.I.s from Danny Gardner, Paul D. Marks and Kris Calvin. We’ve got an interview with literary agent, Amy Moore-Benson, short fiction from Erik Arneson and, of course, we check in with our reviewers, Kate and Dan Malmon!

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

Cover art by Goro Fujita

Design by Elizabeth Story

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on YESTERDAY’S KIN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

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

Cover by Elizabeth Story

February 16, 2017

Tachyon tidbits featuring Ellen Datlow, Jeff VanderMeer, Mary Shelley, and Lavie Tidhar

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized central station, elle fanning, Ellen Datlow, horror writers of america, interview, jeff vandermeet, lavie tidhar, mary shelley, slate, sweden, the english bookshop, the hollywood reporter, trump land, trump story project, uppsala

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

Ellen Datlow (photo: Scott Edelman), Jeff VanderMeer (Agave), Mary Shelley (Richard Rothwell), and Lavie Tidhar (Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013)

As part of their Women in Horror celebration, the HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION interviews Ellen Datlow.

Tell us a little about your Bram Stoker Award-winning work(s). Inspirations? Influences? Anecdotes about the writing or critical reaction?

ED: I’ve won twice for original anthologies: Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas) and Fearful Symmetries and twice for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (one of those with Terri Windling and one with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link).

As an editor I’ve been inspired by three people:

Maxwell Perkins, the mainstream editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other American greats. He inspired me by his relationships with his authors-his nurturing and pushing them to create their best work.

Judith Merril, the great sf/f editor (and writer) inspired me by being generous in her definition of science fiction and her perspicacity in embracing mainstream writers works of the fantastic in her Year’s Best Science Fiction reprint series.

Harlan Ellison (also, a brilliant writer) for his two seminal anthologies Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions. They broke boundaries, they smashed taboos and many of the stories in those books have become classics.

Credit: Lisa Larson-Walker/SLATE

As part of SLATE’s Trump Story Project, Jeff VanderMeer contributes the original tale “TRUMP LAND.”

Maybe it sounds like a joke. A slow, old joke, coming to you out of the past. Trump Land. But it wasn’t a joke. Not really. Even though you entered Trump Land through the ass—Trump’s asshole, to be clear. This was not metaphorical any more than Trump Land was metaphorical. But the place had a complicated history and there were good reasons why the people who came there visited through the back. Structural reasons. Ideological reasons. Reasons of state security. Reasons that changed over time.

I remember Trump Land because my dad worked as head of a construction crew, or as he sometimes put it, “deconstruction” on the site, and as the idea of the building waxed and waned due to people fighting about it far, far away, my young teen self would receive reports and updates and cursing. Lots of cursing.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER shares an exclusive image from Dakota Fanning’s forthcoming Mary Shelley biopic.

Elle Fanning is searching for Gothic literary inspiration in THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER’s exclusive first-look image from MARY SHELLEY.

The actress stars as the famed titular FRANKENSTEIN author in the drama, which was previously titled A STORM IN THE STARS. It is being directed by Saudi filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour, who rose to fame with her debut feature WADJDA.

Mary Shelley tells the story of the author’s early relationship with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and also stars Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Maisie Williams, Joanne Froggatt and Tom Sturridge.

Elle Fanning in MARY SHELLEY

Sci-Fi Reading Group of The English Bookshop in Uppsala, Sweden selects Lavie Tidhar’s CENTRAL STATION for their February title.

Tuesday 21st February at 19:15
Price: 165 kr for the book + 60 kr for the tea, cake and company

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton