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April 15, 2019

Happy birthday to the visionary Bruce Sterling

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized birthday, bruce sterling, john coulthart, love is strange, pirate utopia, rudy rucker, transreal cyberpunk

Author, journalist, editor, critic, and futurist Bruce Sterling helped spawn the cyberpunk movement with his numerous short stories and early novels including The Artificial Kid (1980), Schismatrix (1985), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winning Islands in the Net (1988). He edited the sub-genre’s seminal manifesto Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986). With his fellow cyberpunk William Gibson, Sterling co-wrote The Difference Engine (1990), which was one of the first novels to bring the concept of steampunk to the masses. Sterling’s other acclaimed novels include Heavy Weather (1994), Holy Fire (1996), Distraction (1998; Arthur C. Clarke Award), Zeitgeist (2000), The Zenith Angle (2004), The Caryatids (2009), Love Is Strange: A Paranormal Romance (2012), and the Sidewise Award nominated PIRATE UTOPIA (2016).

He was awarded Hugos for his novelettes “Bicycle Repairman” and “Taklamakan.” His numerous shorter works have been collected in Crystal Express (1989), 蝉の女王 [Japanese] (1989), Globalhead (1992), A Good Old-Fashioned Future (1999), Visionary in Residence (2006), Ascendancies: The Best Of Bruce Sterling (2007), Gothic High-Tech (2011), and Transreal Cyberpunk (2016 with Rudy Rucker). Beginning with The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992), Sterling has produced several exceptional nonfiction books: Parco Giochi Con Pena Di Morte [ITALIAN] (2001 with William Gibson), Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years (2002), and Shaping Things (2005).

Currently living in Turin, Italy with his wife, political activist Jasmina Tešanović, Sterling often produces stories for the European markets under the names of Boris Srebro and Bruno Argento.

All of us at Tachyon wish the remarkable Bruce a happy birthday. Keep staying one step ahead of the rest of us.

For more info on PIRATE UTOPIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover and illustration by John Coulthart

July 8, 2016

Tachyon tidbits featuring Michael Swanwick, Michael Blumlein, Rudy Rucker, Jacob Weisman, and Peter V. Brett

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized badali jewelry, brayan's gold, bruce sterling, elizabeth story, goro fujita, invaders, invaders: 22 tales from the outer limits of literature, jacob weisman, john denardo, kirkus, lauren k cannon, michael blumlein, michael swanwick, not so much said the cat, peter v brett, podcast, review, rudy rucker, SF in SF, soma fm, speculition, the demon cycle, the great bazaar, the great bazaar & brayan's gold, the roberts, transreal cyberpunk

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

Michael Swanwick (Beth Gwinn), Michael Blumlein (Flurb), Rudy Rucker (Rudy Rucker, CC-BY-SA), Jacob Weisman (Jill Roberts), and Peter V. Brett (Karsten Moran)

SPECULICTION reviews Michael Swanwick’s forthcoming collection NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT.

Michael Swanwick had his first short story published in 1980, and in the three and a half decades since, if anything, has proven himself to be one of speculative fiction’s least predictable writers. For any reader who has spent at least a few years in the field and begun to discern the formulas much of genre adheres to, this comes as a blessing. Forever thinking laterally, one simply never knows what they’re going to get with a new Swanwick offering. His latest, the 2016 collection NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT (Tachyon), is no exception.

In the end, NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT is confirmation that, even in the latter phases of his career, Swanwick is still one of the most original acts on the scene. Short fiction as complementary to his dynamic style as his novel-length work, the stories skip and jump, sending stereotypes scurrying to the shadows. The base premises of some of the stories may be tried and true, but in Swanwick’s hands come across as something more, making any collection, including this one, richer and more dynamic for it.

SOMA FM shared their podcast of the Michael Blumlein/Rudy Rucker June 12 SF IN SF.

For KIRKUS in his article The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You’ll Want to Read in July, John DeNardo recommends Jacob Weisman’s forthcoming anthology INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE.

For multi-author themed anthologies, any of the following will give you hours of solid entertainment:

Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold edited by Paula Guran

Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War edited by Douglas Lain

Drowned Worlds edited by Jonathan Strahan

In the Shadow of Frankenstein edited by Stephen Jones

Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature edited by Jacob Weisman

Badali Jewelry is offering an official line of medallions and rings based on Peter V. Brett’s THE DEMON CYCLE. Each piece uses Lauren K. Cannon’s ward designs.

For more information on NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more information on THE ROBERTS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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

Cover by Goro Fujita

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE GREAT BAZAAR & BRAYAN’S GOLD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story