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”!

For info on WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more information on FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Chuma Hill

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

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

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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 LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

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