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December 31, 2023

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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One of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s demise in 1997, Datlow assumed the same role for the online Event Horizon. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to Sci Fiction, the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005. Since 2013, Datlow has been with Tor.com, where she edited work by Jeffrey Ford, Stephen Graham Jones, Victor LaValle, Kelly Robson, and others.

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, fifteen annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon (2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won nine Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021]), seven Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [2018], and When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson [2021]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), Edited by (2020), BODY SHOCKS: EXTREME TALES OF BODY HORROR (2021), Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022), and Christmas and Other Horrors (2023). FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR is being published by Tachyon in the fall of 2024.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday! Enjoy your fireworks and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

October 4, 2023

Get some scary tales and support HWA with Ellen Datlow’s Tales of Terror

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We’ve partnered with Bundle of Holding for Ellen Datlow’s Tales of Terror, featuring seven Datlow anthologies plus books by Lauren Beukes, Daryl Gregory, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Powers, and Mary Shelley.

Get into a Halloween mood with this all-new ebook fiction bundle, Ellen Datlow Presents Tales of Terror, featuring horror anthologies curated by masterful editor Ellen Datlow, as well as other fiction from Tachyon Publications. For more than three decades Ellen Datlow, winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, has kept her finger on the racing pulse of the horror genre, introducing readers to writers whose tales can unnerve, frighten, and terrify. This Tales of Terror offer brings you seven fine Datlow anthologies with stories by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell, and dozens more – plus a novel by Tim Powers, a best-of collection by Joe R. Lansdale, and lots more. It’s 4,700 pages of terrific reading for an unbeatable bargain price. And each title is presented in DRM-free .PDF, ePub, and Kindle versions.
Ellen Datlow’s Tales of Terror

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Ten percent of your payment (after gateway fees) will be donated to the charity designated by Tachyon Publishing, the Horror Writers Association. The HWA is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.

December 31, 2022

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

Rick Klaw birthday, blog birthday, darkness: two decades of modern horror, Ellen Datlow, hauntings, lovecraft's monsters, nightmares: a new decade of modern horror, screams from the dark, the cutting room: dark reflections of the silver screen, the monstrous, when things get dark

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, fourteen annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), Edited by (2020), BODY SHOCKS: EXTREME TALES OF BODY HORROR (2021), and Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022).

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

June 21, 2022

Tachyon tidbits featuring Sam J. Miller, Peter Watts, Sheila Finch, Marjorie Liu, and Ellen Datlow

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

At Tor.com, Sam J. (BOYS, BEASTS & MEN) Miller’s “Five Stories About Actual Movie Monsters” includes a shout out to “The Things” by Peter Watts (Collected in BEYOND THE RIFT).

Reimagining John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing from the point of view of the bloodthirsty shapeshifting alien, Watts made it into a harrowing send-up of the colonialist mentality: the Thing is incapable of seeing what makes its victims unique or different or special, and perceives only “thinking cancers” that must be brutally subjugated. It preserves everything that’s scary and horrific about the movie, while adding a deeper layer that digs into questions the film had neither the space nor the chutzpah to tackle.

This story rocked my world. And it gave me permission to go there myself, with my own (super gay) The Thing fanfic, “Things With Beards” (which, NBD, was a nominee for the Nebula and the Shirley Jackson Awards).
Five Stories About Actual Movie Monsters

Cover art by Hugh Sicotte
Design by Elizabeth Story

Paul Di Filippo for Locus reviews Sheila Finch’s new Aqueduct Press collection Forkpoints.

The stated theme of Finch’s book—”choices that change lives forever”—is almost a formula for any and all fiction, and need not be given too much heft. No point in trying to cram these varied, distinctive, and memorable tales into a thematic cubbyhole. Just revel in their brio and craft, and hope that Finch continues writing for many years ahead.
Locus

Marjorie Liu’s THE TANGLEROOT PALACE receives praise from Midu Reads and SupChina lists the collection on Emma Burleigh’s “Must-read China books for Pride Month.”

I really liked this collection of tales and not only because it had women front and center!
Midu Reads

Cover art by Sana Takeda
Design by Elizabeth Story

At Crime Reads, superstar editor Ellen Datlow contributes the essay “Monstrosity Is in the Eye of the Beholder.”

What is a “monster”? What is monstrosity? The definition depends upon who is doing the defining.

The etymology of the word “monster” is complicated.

“Monēre” is the root of “monstrum” and means to warn and instruct. Saint Augustine proposed the following interpretation, considering monsters part of the natural design of the world, deliberately created by God for His own reasons: spreading “abroad a multitude of those marvels which are called monsters, portents, prodigies, phenomena . . . They say that they are called ‘monsters,’ because they demonstrate or signify something; ‘portents’ because they portend something; and so forth . . . ought to demonstrate, portend, predict that God will bring to pass what He has foretold regarding the bodies of men, no difficulty preventing Him, no law of nature prescribing to Him His limit.”
Monstrosity Is in the Eye of the Beholder

December 31, 2021

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

Rick Klaw birthday, blog birthday, body shocks, darkness: two decades of modern horror, edited by, Ellen Datlow, hauntings, lovecraft's monsters, nightmares: a new decade of modern horror, the cutting room: dark reflections of the silver screen, the monstrous, when things goes dark

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, thirteen annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon (2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won nine Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021]), six Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [2018]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), and Edited by (2020), When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (2021), and BODY SHOCKS: EXTREME TALES OF BODY HORROR.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

December 31, 2020

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

Rick Klaw birthday, blog birthday, darkness, edited by, Ellen Datlow, final cuts, hauntings, lovecraft's monsters, nightmares: a new decade of modern horror, the cutting room: dark reflections of the silver screen, the monstrous

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, twelve annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won six Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [2018]), eight Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DA RKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), and Edited by (2020).

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

December 31, 2018

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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One of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s demise in 1989, Datlow assumed the same role for the online Event Horizon. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to Sci Fiction, the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005.

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, ten annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-OMNI related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won five Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] andSeventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014]), seven Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday. We look forward to whatever is next.

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

December 31, 2017

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized Ann Monn, birthday, darkness: two decades of modern horror, dave mckean, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, hauntings, horror, john coulthart, josh beatman, lovecraft's monsters, mad hatters and march hares, nightmares: a new decade of modern horror, nihil, reiko murakami, the cutting room: dark reflections of the silver screen, the monstrous, valentina brostean

One
of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen
Datlow first
rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped
usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William
Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford,
Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the
magazine’s demise in 1989, Datlow assumed the same role for the
online Event
Horizon.
After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to
Sci
Fiction,
the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy).
She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005.

Beginning
with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction
(1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12
collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s
Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with
Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and
beginning in 2009, nine annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year. Her first non-OMNI related anthology Blood Is Not
Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror,
which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her
as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

Art by Dave McKean

The
Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered
Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from
The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth
(1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor
(Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon
(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the
Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original
Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of
Terror and the Supernatural (2008),
and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won five Stoker (The
Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and
Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted
Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful
Symmetries [2014]), seven Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002],
Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014,
2016, 2017]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award
[2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual
Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com
[2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of
Terror And the Supernatural [2008] , Poe
[2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other
notable books include Alien
Sex
(1990), Snow
White, Blood Red
(1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing
Acts
(2000), Lovecraft
Unbound: Twenty Stories
(2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked
City: Tales of
Urban Fantasy
(2011), Blood
and
other
Cravings
(2011), After:
Nineteen Stories of
Apocalypse and
Dystopia
(2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children
of
Lovecraft
(2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), and Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017).

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday. We look forward to whatever is next.

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Nihil

Design by Elizabeth Story

September 22, 2017

Tachyon tidbits featuring Lavie Tidhar, Carmen Maria Machado, Daryl Gregory, Nalo Hopkinson, and Ellen Datlow

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

Lavie Tidhar (photo: Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013), Carmen Maria Machado, Daryl Gregory, Nalo Hopkinson (David Findlay), and Ellen Datlow

Lavie Tidhar tweeted this out after receiving his Campbell Award for CENTRAL STATION.

Carmen Maria Machado, contributor to Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman‘s acclaimed THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, was named to the longlist for National Book Award in fiction for her collection HER BODY AND OTHER
PARTIES: STORIES.

Congratulations to all the honorees.

Fiction:

Elliot Ackerman,
DARK AT THE CROSSING (Knopf / Penguin Random House)
Daniel Alarcón, THE
KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE THE PEOPLE: STORIES (Riverhead Books / Penguin
Random House)
Charmaine Craig,
MISS BURMA (Grove Press / Grove Atlantic)
Jennifer Egan,
MANHATTAN BEACH (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
Min Jin Lee, PACHINKO (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette book Group)
Carmen Maria Machado, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: STORIES (Graywolf Press)
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A KIND OF FREEDOM (Counterpoint Press)
Jesmyn Ward, SING, UNBURIED, SING (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
Carol Zoref, BARREN ISLAND (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Lisa Ko, THE LEAVERS
(Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)
Min Jin Lee,
PACHINKO (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette book Group)
Carmen Maria
Machado, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: STORIES (Graywolf Press)
Margaret Wilkerson
Sexton, A KIND OF FREEDOM (Counterpoint Press)
Jesmyn Ward, SING,
UNBURIED, SING (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
Carol Zoref, BARREN
ISLAND (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

For BOOK RIOT, Liberty Hardy’s list of 100 Must-Read Indie Press Books includes a pair of Tachyon publications.

These 100 books lists always sound easy in theory, but then when I sit down to write one I discover compiling a list of, say, 100 science fiction debuts that are worth reading is a bit more work than I imagined.

That’s not the case with this post! Indie publishers are amazing and there are sooooo many books out there worth your time. I wrote down the first 100 books that popped into my head that I have actually read and loved, and I bet I could easily do another list of 100 more. (I smell a sequel!)

I’ve included a brief description from the publisher with each title. There are so many stunners here, this list should keep you busy for a while. Tell us in the comments about which of these you’ve read or other indie books you loved. Yay, books!

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE by Daryl Gregory (Tachyon Publications): No one believes the extent of their horrific tales, not until they are sought out by psychotherapist Dr. Jan Sayer. What happens when these seemingly-insane outcasts form a support group? Together they must discover which monsters they face are within—and which are lurking in plain sight.

FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS by Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon Publications): In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens that occasionally breathe fire, Hopkinson continues to create bold fiction that transcends boundaries and borders.

THE VIRTUAL MEMORIES SHOW welcomes Ellen Datlow to their podcast.

Legendary (as in mega-award-winning) horror, science fiction and fantasy editor Ellen Datlow joins the show to talk about her career. We get into defining horror (and its subset, the conte cruel), how the business has changed and hasn’t, the proper care and feeding of writers, dealing with diversity and representation in the anthologies she edits, finding good stories in translation, the pros and cons of blurring genre boundaries, keeping up with new voices, her preference for editing short fiction over novels, the writers she wishes she solicited stories from, running the monthly Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar, the editing lesson she got from Ben Bova, and why it’s never good when an author says, “This is the best thing I’ve ever written”!