Thomas Canty

August 29, 2023

Booksellers, librarians, bloggers, and reviewers get THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD: SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY by Patricia A. McKillip with new intro by Marjorie Liu and original illustrations by Stephanie Law

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Review copies of THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD: SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY, Patricia A. McKillip’s classic World Fantasy Award novel with a new introduction by Hugo Award Winner Marjorie Liu and original art by the acclaimed Stephanie Law, are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

This is my favorite book of all time. If I had to pick a desert island book, it would be this one.
Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate

Cover art by Thomas Canty
Design by Elizabeth Story

Before Daenerys was Mother of Dragons, Sybel commanded beasts of all kinds. McKillip offers up a powerful character full of passion, determination, obsession, and love.
A. C. Wise, author of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories

THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD: SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY

by
Patricia A. McKillip
New Introduction by Marjorie Liu
Original introduction by Gail Carriger
Cover art by Thomas Canty
Illustrations by Stephanie Law

ISBN: 978-1-61696-410-8 (print); 978-1-61696-411-5 (digital)

Published: February 29, 2024

Available Format(s): Hardcover. Digital

WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER
SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY HARDCOVER EDITION

Fifty years ago, the soon-to-be celebrated young author Patricia A. McKillip (the Riddle-Master trilogy) penned the tale of an iron-willed young sorceress. Brought vividly to life by McKillip’s gorgeously lush prose, Sybel, living with her captivating menagerie, is powerful and resourceful, yet headstrong and flawed. Sybel and The Forgotten Beasts of Eld continue to enrapture new generations of readers, and they continue to inspire generations of new fantasy writers.

Rich and regal.
The New York Times

Sybel, the heiress of powerful wizards, needs the company of no-one outside her gates. In her exquisite stone mansion, she is attended by exotic, magical beasts: Riddle-master Cyrin the boar; the treasure-starved dragon Gyld; Gules the Lyon, tawny master of the Southern Deserts; Ter, the fiercely vengeful falcon; Moriah, feline Lady of the Night. Sybel only lacks the exquisite and mysterious Liralen, which continues to elude her most powerful enchantments.

But when a soldier bearing an infant arrives, Sybel discovers that the world of man and magic is full of both love and deceit, and the possibility of more power than she can possibly imagine.

This is what great literature looks like: bold, self-incisive, powerfully feminist without drawing attention to anything but the prose, the characters, and the story.
Usman T. Malik, author of The Pauper Prince and The Eucalyptus Jinn

December 4, 2019

Tachyon tidbits featuring Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Patricia A. McKillip, and Jeff VanderMeer

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

Caitlín R. Kiernan (photo: Kyle Cassidy, Joe R. Lansdale (Karen Lansdale), Patricia A. McKillip (Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons), and Jeff VanderMeer (Kyle Cassidy)

Jessica Avery of BOOK RIOT names Caitlín R. Kiernan as one of

15 Authors Like Stephen King You Need to Add to Your TBR.

Am I ever going to stop talking about Caitlín R. Kiernan’s collection? Probably not. THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN
came along just as I was making the slide from dark fantasy in to
outright horror, and I could not have wished for a better guide. Like
King, Kiernan’s short fiction covers a broad range of subjects and
genres, from science fiction to fantasy to the cosmic horror that she’s
become so well known for with her novella Agents of Dreamland.
Her stories are strange, beautiful, and full of emotion. They have the
sort of staying power that makes them linger with you for months.

For BROADSWORDS AND BLASTERS, Cameron Mount praises Joe R. Lansdale’s THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD.

There are a few slice of life shorts like
“Death by Chili” and “Not Our Kind” and a vignette titled “The Oak and
the Pond,” which are glimpses into the characters’ lives outside of
their big adventures, These are fun to read and provide some more
character development than you might expect, but the stand-out for me
among these shorter stories is “The Boy Who Became Invisible.” It’s
about Hap’s childhood and Hap’s failure when his friend is bullied into
invisibility before the friend briefly flashes back into existence in a
terrible way. It resonates in general, but perhaps because I was the
subject of such childhood bullying it hit home a lot more for me.

Tim Lepczyk at BOXY ROBOT offers an analytical review of Patricia A. McKillip’s THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD.

Patricia McKillip creates a world of magic and beauty. The action
doesn’t hum along, but there’s a dreamlike quality to her writing that
envelopes the reader and floats them along on this journey. It’s hard to
describe, but everything comes together from tone and mood to
description and imagination. McKillip created a wonderful book that is
both quiet and powerful.

DEADLINE’s Denise Petski reports Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne Universe Novels In The Works For Television By AMC Studios.

AMC Studios has acquired the television rights to Jeff VanderMeer’s popular Borne
universe novels to develop as a potential series. The books all take
place within the same mysterious, mind-bending universe VanderMeer
launched in 2017 with Borne, followed by The Strange Bird, and the latest, Dead Astronauts, set to publish today. VanderMeer will serve as an executive producer and creative consultant on the project.

For more info about THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, visit the Tachyon page.

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Design by Elizabeth Story

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Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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October 30, 2019

Patricia A. McKillip’s World Fantasy Award winning THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD is one of the best fantasy books of all time

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REEDSY lists Patricia A. McKillip’s THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD as #13 in their 60 Best Fantasy Books of All Time.

With its elegant language and lovingly rendered heroine, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld has won the love of readers young and old alike — it’s a book that feels richer with every rereading.

In his September 2019 Reading Wrap Up, FinalBlowJoe raves about the book (beginning at 8:40).

The description of Call for papers Spring 2020: Quests: Magical Journeys and Wayside Attractions has nice shout out.

The realm of mythopoetics and speculative fiction, popular dramas,
and the ancient art of the story-song. From the ancient texts of Inanna,
the wonder tales of the Mabinogion and Troyes’ Sainte Grail cycle, to
Baum’s Land of Oz and Tolkien’s Hobbits, to the very modern American
Gods, or McKillip’s THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD the tale of the quest
and journeys into the realm of magic and wonder are part and parcel of
the art of storytellers.

For more info about THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

September 8, 2019

Happy birthday to the award winning editor Gordon Van Gelder

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NYRSF 20th Anniversary, South Street Seaport September 9, 2009 (Photo: Houari Boumedienne)

From 1997 until 2014 Gordon Van Gelder served as the editor and eventually publisher, a role he still maintains, of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. During his tenure, he won two Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Van Gelder’s time as the managing editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction from 1988 to 1993 garnered him several Hugo nominations.

Van Gelder has edited several anthologies of stories that first appeared in F&SF including The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (1999 with Edward L. Ferman), T HE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: 60TH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY (2009), and THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: VOLUME 2 (2014). He’s also edited Welcome to the Greenhouse (2011), Lonely Souls (2013), Go Forth and Multiply (2017), and Welcome to Dystopia (2017).

All of us at Tachyon wish the eclectic Gordon a happy birthday!

For more info on THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: 60TH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by David A. Hardy
Cover design by Bryan Cholfin

For more info on THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION VOLUME TWO visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

July 23, 2019

Get Patricia A. McKillip’s World Fantasy Award winning THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD for only $1.99!

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Patricia A. McKillip’s classic THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD is a Kindle Daily Deal for Tuesday, July 22.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

World Fantasy Award-Winner
A Paperback Wonderland Best Book of 2017

“Rich and regal.”—New York Times

Young Sybel, the heiress of powerful wizards, needs the company of no-one outside her gates. In her exquisite stone mansion, she is attended by exotic, magical beasts: Riddle-master Cyrin the boar; the treasure-starved dragon Gyld; Gules the Lyon, tawny master of the Southern Deserts; Ter, the fiercely vengeful falcon; Moriah, feline Lady of the Night. Sybel only lacks the mysterious Liralen, which continues to elude her most powerful enchantments.

But when a soldier bearing an infant arrives, Sybel discovers that the world of man and magic is full of love and deceit—and the possibility of more power than she can imagine.

THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD is one of the true classics of fantasy.

“Like the Ring trilogy or the Earthsea books … This magical moonlit fantasy has dignity and romance, heart-stopping suspense, adventure, richness of concept and language and—perhaps rarest of all in romantic fantasy—a sly sense of humor.”
—Publishers Weekly

“This is my favorite book of all time. If I had to pick a desert island book, it would be this one.”
—Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate

“Before Daenerys was Mother of Dragons, Sybel commanded beasts of all kinds. McKillip offers up a powerful character full of passion, determination, obsession, and love.”
—A. C. Wise, author of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories

“Some books stay with you. It’s been over forty years now since I first read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and succumbed to its enchantments. With its rich and lyric prose, its wondrous mix of characters (beasts included!), and its thoroughly enchanted world it was unlike anything I had read to that point. Forty years later I still cherish the experience. Some books truly do stay with you.”
—Bruce Coville, author of the Dragon Chronicles

“Patricia McKillip’s Forgotten Beasts of Eld is stunning. I grew up in a boarding school, so I can’t say how great it is without profanity. It’s truly great, concentrated, thoughtful, vicious, exalted fantasy, and everyone should read it, and it seems criminal to me that I haven’t until now. Reading Eld felt like finding a missing star: it’s always been there, shaping space, and reading it made so many other books make sense. I read it in a down moment, and it filled me with joy and awe at the power of love, writing, and fantasy.”
—Max Gladstone, author of the Hugo Award-winning Craft Sequence series

“Gorgeous, evocative, and fragile.”
—Kirkus

“An extraordinary book, and McKillip deserves all the praise she received for creating such a masterful, brave, intricately crafted universe. 10/10 stars”
—Starburst

“Intimate, gorgeous, quiet and deep, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld remains as resonant as ever.”
—Tor.com

“[The] Forgotten Beasts of Eld is a remarkable novel to come from such a young person: wise and deep and lucid and crisp.”
—Antick Musings

“There is a magic and grandeur to McKillip’s focused prose, a kind of resounding clarity that lives and echoes in the mind long after the story is done.”
—Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying and Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

For more info about THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

June 24, 2019

Meet the incomparable legend Peter S. Beagle

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Meet the iconic creator of The Last Unicorn and author of numerous award-winning books including SUMMERLONG (2016), IN CALABRIA (2017), and THE OVERNEATH, Peter S. Beagle at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, CA on Tuesday, June 25, 7:30PM.

At summer’s start, unicorns arrive to Kepler’s Literary Foundation! One of fantasy’s most lauded authors, Peter S. Beagle of The Last Unicorn, visits Kepler’s Books in June for a celebration of his lifetime achievements.

Beagle’s many beloved works include Tamsin, SUMMERLONG, THE OVERNEATH, and more, alongside edited collections like THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY and THE SECRET HISTORY OF FANTASY. The acclaimed author’s effortless fantasy writing first entered print with the novel A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE, when he was just nineteen years old. In a discussion around his latest edited collection, THE UNICORN ANTHOLOGY, Beagle will sign books and share about his career in the five decades since The Last Unicorn was published.

Joining in conversation is local science fiction treasure and Kepler’s favorite, Meg Elison, author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, which won the Philip K. Dick award and multiple book-of-the-year awards in 2016. Her final novel in that Road To Nowhere trilogy, The Book of Flora, published on April 23rd. Elison will stay to sign books after the discussion concludes.

Kepler’s Books
Tuesday, June 25
7:30PM
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA

For more info about THE UNICORN ANTHOLOGY , visit the Tachyon page .

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Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info on SUMMERLONG, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Magdalena Korzeniewska
Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about IN CALABRIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE SECRET HISTORY OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

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For more info on THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY, visit the Tachyon page.

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Cover design by Elizabeth Story

June 10, 2019

The beloved Kage Baker was born 67 years ago

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Best known for her Company time travel series, Kage Baker won the Theodore Sturgeon and Nebula Awards for her novellas “The Empress of Mars” and The Women Of Nell Gwynne’s. Her 13 novels include the eight volumes of the Company sequence, beginning with In The Garden Of Iden (1997) and concluding with the The Sons Of Heaven (2007), the three books that make up the Anvil of the World Universe series (The Anvil Of The World [2003], The House Of The Stag [2008], The Bird Of The River [2010]), The Empress Of Mars (2008), Not Less Than Gods (2009), and THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND (2009).

Her numerous short stories and essays have been collected in Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (2002), Mother Aegypt And Other Stories (2004), Dark Mondays (2006), Gods And Pawns (2007), Nell Gwynne’s Scarlet Spy (2010), ANCIENT ROCKETS: TREASURES AND TRAINWRECKS OF THE SILENT SCREEN(2011), The Best Of Kage Baker (2012), and IN THE COMPANY OF THIEVES (2013).

Sadly, the amazing Kage Baker died from uterine cancer on January 31, 2010. She is missed.

For more info about THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND, visit the Tachyon page.

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For more info about ANCIENT ROCKETS: TREASURES AND TRAINWRECKS OF THE SILENT SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

May 22, 2019

Get WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD by the endlessly astonishing and impressive fantasist Patricia A. McKillip for only $1.99!

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Patricia A. McKillip’s exquisitely written collection of short stories WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD is a Kindle Daily Deal for Wednesday, May 22.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

“Endlessly astonishing and impressive fantasist McKillip (The Bards of Bone Plain) travels the shadowy twilight realm between worlds and returns with the raw stuff of dreams.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Pass through fairy tales into the magic of invisible worlds in these opulent stories by a beloved fantasy icon and author of the classic Riddlemaster trilogy. Patricia McKillip has inspired generations of dedicated readers with enchanting tales that are as romantic as they are unexpected. Her lush, mesmerizing narratives are as deliciously bittersweet as the finest chocolate and as intoxicating as the finest wine.

“Mesmerizing…. Any collection of McKillip’s short stories will be a valuable asset to any library and a joy to her many fans.”
—Library Journal, starred review

The bewitching wonders offered here include princesses dancing with dead suitors, a knight in love with an official of exotic lineage, and fortune’s fool stealing into the present instead of the future. You’ll discover a ravishing undine and her mortal bridegroom who is more infatuated with politics than pleasure, a time-traveling angel forbidden to intervene in Cotton Mather’s religious ravings, a wizard seduced in his youth by the Faerie Queen returning with a treasure that is rightfully hers, and an overachieving teenage mage tricked into discovering her true name very close to home.

“Anybody who loves fantasy—not just for what most fantasy does, but for what the genre is really capable of—should definitely pick this book up. It’s like a perfect encapsulation of fantasy writing at its most brave and beautiful.”
—io9.com

Wonders of the Invisible World
Out of the Woods
The Kelpie
Hunter’s Moon
Oak Hill
The Fortune-Teller
Jack O’Lantern
Knight of the Well
Naming Day
Byndley
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Undine
Xmas Cruise
A Gift to Be Simple
The Old Woman and the Storm
The Doorkeeper of Khaat
What Inspires Me: Guest of Honor Speech at WisCon (2004)

“A casket full of wonders. I think each one is my favorite, until I read the next. McKillip has the true Mythopoeic imagination. Here lies the border between our world and that of Faerie.”
—P. C. Hodgell, author of the Kencyrath series

“This brilliant new collection puts on display the audacity, the warmth, the intelligence, and depth of [McKillip’s] huge and magnificent talent.”
—Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story and A Dark Matter

“The lively and enchanting stories in Wonders of the Invisible World certainly deserve all the accolades I can summon.”
—Paul Goat Allen, Barnes and Noble.com

“I loved all the stories in this collection, and if I still have to tell you to try this out, well, you haven’t been reading my review…. Patricia Mckillip is a master at what she does. Strongly recommended.”
—Locus

“Wonders of the Invisible World is a wonderful collection of stories full of wit and insight wrapped in beautiful, effortless prose. McKillip’s ability to convey so much in so few words is impressive, as is her ability with storytelling, characterization, and thematic elements.”
—Fantasy Cafe

“This is one to dip into, savour, and place on that special shelf for books to be cherished.”
—Starburst

“…she’s still one of the best fantasy writers out there.”
—Green Man Review

“Exquisitely written with destinations beyond your imaginings!”
—My Shelf Confessions

For more info on WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

May 6, 2019

Get Nancy Kress’s Nebula Award winner YESTERDAY’S KIN for only $1.99!

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Nancy Kress’s acclaimed, Nebula-winning YESTERDAY’S KIN is a Kindle Daily Deal for Monday, May 6.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99 !

“Science-fiction fans will luxuriate in the dystopian madness, while even nonfans will find an artful critique of humanity’s ability to cooperate in the face of a greater threat.”
—Kirkus

Aliens have landed in New York.

A deadly cloud of spores has already infected and killed the inhabitants of two worlds. Now that plague is heading for Earth, and threatens humans and aliens alike. Can either species be trusted to find the cure?

Geneticist Marianne Jenner is immersed in the desperate race to save humanity, yet her family is tearing itself apart. Siblings Elizabeth and Ryan are strident isolationists who agree only that an alien conspiracy is in play. Marianne’s youngest, Noah, is a loner addicted to a drug that constantly changes his identity. But between the four Jenners, the course of human history will be forever altered.

Earth’s most elite scientists have ten months to prevent human extinction—and not everyone is willing to wait.

2014 Nebula Award winner
2014 Locus Award winner
2015 Theodore Sturgeon Award nominee

“Nancy Kress has always written stories as accessible to the novice as to the seasoned fan, and “Yesterday’s Kin” gets my vote as this summer’s most inviting introduction to science fiction for new readers.”
—Gary K. Wolfe, Chicago Tribune

“Nancy Kress delivers one of the strongest stories of the year to date…. As with all of Kress’s work, this is very nicely crafted, with well-paced prose that carries you through the story, complex human characters, a compelling and conflict-driven human story, a clever twist partway through, and an even cleverer twist at the end.”—Gardner Dozois, editor of The Year’s Best Science Fiction series

“Aliens arrive and set up a research station in New York, offering their friendship and aid. There’s a cloud of spores heading for Earth, and the aliens (dubbed Denebs despite coming from another star entirely) have firsthand experience dealing with it. In exchange for the technology that made their interstellar travel possible, the aliens want human help in curing the plague caused by the spores that have already destroyed two of their own colony worlds. Geneticist Marianne Jenner is one of the scientists who have been asked aboard the alien station, but even among her own family there is a difference of opinion about whether these extraterrestrials can be trusted. Verdict: Kress has proven that she can pack a huge amount of story into a small container (as with 2013’s title After the Fall Before the Fall, During the Fall), and here the author expertly explores one family’s experience of alien visitation.”
—Library Journal

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

Cover by Thomas Canty

April 25, 2019

The Bad Fairy Book Bundle features books by American Book Award winner Lisa Goldstein, World Fantasy winner Jacob Weisman, James Tiptree Jr winner Nancy Springer, and Nebula winner Jane Yolen

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STORYBUNDLE offers a bad fairy bundle of 10 extraordinary titles including THE UNCERTAIN PLACES by Lisa Goldstein, THE TREASURY OF THE FANTASTIC edited by Jacob Weisman and David Sandner, THE ODDLING PRINCE by Nancy Springer, and THE EMERALD CIRCUS by Jane Yolen.

Curator Sandra Kasturi has this to say:

Ah, finally, springtime is here, and with thoughts of flowers blooming and little animals bumbling sleepily out of their burrows in the woods, my thoughts naturally turn to other delightful springtime things—flowers and woods conjuring up thoughts of delightful fairies flitting about. And by “delightful” I of course mean “bad.” Charmingly, deliciously, deviously, wonderfully bad.

Who doesn’t love a bad fairy? Let’s be honest, it’s always the naughty ones who hold our interest! From old fairy stories gathered by collectors like Grimm or Yakuma, to Brian Froud’s gorgeous, detailed illustrations of pixies and kobolds, to Disney’s depiction of Maleficent, fairies have inhabited our cultural consciousnesses the world over for centuries, in our childhoods and dreamworlds, into our adult years and waking moments.

That’s why I’m curating the Bad Fairy Book Bundle for storybundle.com—I love those malignant creatures and I’ve found you a wonderful assortment of ten novels and collections by bestselling, legendary, award-winning authors and rising stars. Books full of bad (and sometimes good!) fairies as well as other astonishing beings and memorable characters.

For more info on The Bad Fairy Book Bundle, visit STORYBUNDLE.

For more info on THE UNCERTAIN PLACES, visit the Tachyon page.

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For info on THE TREASURY OF THE FANTASTIC, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art and design by Thomas Canty

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Review copies of THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD: SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY, Patricia A. McKillip’s classic World Fantasy Award novel with a new introduction by Hugo Award Winner Marjorie Liu and original art by the acclaimed Stephanie Law, are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

byPatricia A. McKillipNew Introduction by Marjorie LiuOriginal introduction by Gail CarrigerCover art by Thomas CantyIllustrations by Stephanie Law

WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNERSPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY HARDCOVER EDITION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

by
Patricia A. McKillip
New Introduction by Marjorie Liu
Original introduction by Gail Carriger
Cover art by Thomas Canty
Illustrations by Stephanie Law

WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER
SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY HARDCOVER EDITION