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February 20, 2022

Happy birthday to the award-winning writer and editor Nick Mamatas

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The acclaimed author and editor Nick Matamas has, by his own count, written 8 and a half novels including Move Under Ground (2004), Under My Roof (2007), Sensation (2011), The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham (2011 with Brian Keene), Bullettime (2012), Love Is the Law (2013), The Last Weekend (2014), I Am Providence (2016), Sabbath (2019), and The Second Shooter (2021). His short fiction has appeared in genre publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction and Tor.com, lit journals including New Haven Review and subTERRAIN, and anthologies such as Hint Fiction and Best American Mystery Stories 2013. Many of these have been collected in 3000 MPH in Every Direction at Once (2003), You Might Sleep… (2009), The Nickronomicon (2014), THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING (2018), and The Planetbreaker’s Son (2021).

He gained a level of notoriety following the publication of his essay “The Term Paper,” which described how Mamatas funded his early writing career by producing term papers for college students. His numerous other non-fiction works have appeared in Razor Magazine, The Village Voice, BenBella Books’ Smart Pop Books anthologies, and others. Mamatas non-fiction books include Starve Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life (2011), Insults Every Man Should Know (2011), and Quotes Every Man Should Know (2013).

Mamatas has been nominated for the Bram Stoker award five times, the Hugo Award twice, the World Fantasy Award twice, and the Shirley Jackson, International Horror Guild, and Locus Award. He won the Bram Stoker Award for Haunted Legends (2010 with Ellen Datlow). His other anthologies include The Urban Bizarre (2004), Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (2007 with Sean Wallace), Spicy Slipstream Stories (2008 with Jay Lake), Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (2010 with Sean Wallace), Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan (2014 with Masumi Washington), The Battle Royale Slam Book (2014 with Masumi Washington), Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan (2015 with Masumi Washington), Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader) (2017 with Molly Tanzer), and Wonder & Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction (2020).

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Nick a happy birthday! Hope you enjoy your libations with the Old Ones. But please drink responsibly, those ancient critters are not to be trusted.

September 23, 2021

THE SINGULARITY STORYBUNDLE, curated by Lavie Tidhar, features Kameron Hurley, Nick Mamatas, Bruce Sterling, Kimberly Unger, Peter Watts, and others

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THE SINGULARITY BUNDLE from the fine folks at STORYBUNDLE offers 10 extraordinary journeys into some of the fundamental questions about our place in the universe: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, The Outside by Ada Hoffmann, MEET ME IN THE FUTURE by Kameron Hurley, The Planetbreaker’s Son by Nick Mamatas, The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker, ROBOT ARTISTS & BLACK SWANS by Bruce Sterling, Cloud Permutations by Lavie Tidhar, NUCLEATION by Kimberly Unger, BEYOND THE RIFT by Peter Watts, and Spring Festival by Jia Xia.

Nick Mamatas suggested a bundle looking at that nebulous concept, the “singularity”, and I thought it would be fun to take a wide-ranging approach to it, encompassing the post-human, A.I., space opera and much more. We have two Cyberpunk legends: Bruce(!) Sterling(!) and Rudy(!) Rucker(!) here, whose work needs no introduction. I mean, if that doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will. I love the variety of novels and authors in this bundle.

And what is the Singularity anyway? A silly hypothetical concept beloved by the neo-libertarian tech rich? A utopian vision? A dystopian one? Or is it a convenient shorthand for the possible convergence of human and machine that we already have?

The fun is in the asking. And I think each of the authors here grapple with some fundamental questions about human and others and our place in the universe. And, you know – they’re also terrific fun!

So without further ado, welcome to the Singularity Bundle!
Lavie Tidhar

**For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay.**

A Note About The Charity

I thought this being a hard SF-ish bundle, it would be appropriate to nominate as my charity of choice the Locus Foundation. Locus Magazine was established in 1968, and became the single most important news source for the SF/F field, offering unparalleled cover, in-depth reviews and author interviews, and so much more. They have won the Hugo Award more times than I can mention. As a non-profit organization they rely on a mixture of traditional revenue and on donations. Times are hard for everyone right now, and this seems a good cause to support!
Lavie Tidhar

February 20, 2021

Happy birthday to the award-winning writer and editor Nick Mamatas

Rick Klaw birthday, blog birthday, Nick Mamatas, sabbath, the people's republic of everything, the planetbreaker's son plus..., wonder & glory forever

The acclaimed author and editor Nick Matamas has, by his own count, written 7 and a half novels including Move Under Ground (2004), Under My Roof (2007), Sensation (2011), The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham (2011 with Brian Keene), Bullettime (2012), Love Is the Law (2013), The Last Weekend (2014), I Am Providence (2016). and most recently Sabbath (2019). His short fiction has appeared in genre publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction and Tor.com, lit journals including New Haven Review and subTERRAIN, and anthologies such as Hint Fiction and Best American Mystery Stories 2013. Many of these have been collected in 3000 MPH in Every Direction at Once (2003), You Might Sleep… (2009), The Nickronomicon (2014), THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING (2018), and The Planetbreaker’s Son Plus… (2021).

All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Nick a happy birthday! Hope you enjoy your libations with the Old Ones. But please drink responsibly, those ancient critters are not to be trusted.

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