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December 19, 2019

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Kress, R. B. Lemberg, Joe R. Lansdale, and Carrie Vaughn

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

Nancy Kress (photo: Ellen Datlow), R. B. Lemberg, Joe R. Lansdale (Karen Lansdale), and Carrie Vaughn (Helen Sittig)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY praises SEA CHANGE by Nancy Kress.

Kress wisely keeps her global catastrophe on a human scale, eschewing superheroic action for tense realism. This urgent, deeply satisfying story is as tenacious and inspiring as its heroine.

Ann Leckie recommends R. B. Lemberg’s forthcoming THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES.

This is one of R’s Birdverse stories, which I’ve recommended before. Their writing is lovely, their worldbuilding wonderful, their characters real and resonant. If you haven’t acquainted yourself with Birdverse yet, by all means do, and then be ready for this novella to come out next year.

Cover by Elizabeth Story based on initial concepts by Francesca Myman

Pamela Scott of THE BOOK LOVER’S BOUDOIR serves up the first review for Joe R. Lansdale’s OF MICE AND MINESTRONE.

I’ve read some things featuring Hap and Leonard before but wouldn’t say that I’m a massive fan. That may about to change because I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

NEW BOOK IN FANTASY AND ADVENTURE podcast selects THE IMMORTAL CONQUISTADOR by Carrie Vaughn as their March book.

Cover art by Rebecca Harp
Cover design by Elizabeth Story

December 18, 2019

Booksellers, librarians, and reviewers get R. B. Lemberg’s thoughtful and deeply moving THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES

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Review copies of R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND W EAVES are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death itself in order to defeat an evil ruler—in the first full length tale set in R. B. Lemberg’s award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe

I am staggered by the richness and intricacy of R. B. Lemberg’s imagination. The Four Profound Weaves is an intense and emotional story of a journey of change, growth, and courage.”
—Kate Elliott, New York Times bestselling author of the Court of Fives series

Wind: To match one’s body with one’s heart
Sand: To take the bearer where they wish
Song: In praise of the goddess Bird
Bone: To move unheard in the night

The Surun’ nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya must find her aunt in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.

Among the Khana in the springflower city of Iyar, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter, as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother. As his past catches up, the man must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya – while Uiziya must discover how to challenge the evil Ruler of Iyar, and to weave from deaths that matter.

In this breathtaking debut set in R. B. Lemberg’s beloved Birdverse, THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES hearkens to Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, and offers a timeless chronicle of claiming one’s identity ina hostile world.