wicked wonders

October 30, 2018

Tachyon well represented at the annual World Fantasy Convention

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized baltimore, camille andre, Charles de Lint, charles vess, daryl gregory, eileen gunn, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, ellen klages, Gordon Van Gelder, jacob weisman, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, kate elliott, michael whelan, nina kiriki hoffman, sheila williams, the new voices of fantasy, the very best of charles de lint, wicked wonders, world fantasy convention

Current World Fantasy Award finalists Jacob Weisman, Ellen Klages, and Daryl Gregory, new Life Achievement Award winner Charles de Lint, Ellen Datlow, Kate Elliott, Eileen Gunn, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Gordon Van Gelder, Charles Vess, Michael Whelan, and Sheila Williams are scheduled to appear at the 2018 World Fantasy Convention in Baltimore, MD November 1-4.

The legendary event, held annually since 1975, showcases the fantastic in literature and art. This years convention features Guests of Honor
Kaaron Warren, Scott Edelman, and Micheal J. Walsh, Artist Guest of Honor Tom Kidd, Special Guest Aliette de Bodard, and Toastmaster Linda D. Addison.

The World Fantasy Convention offers a massive selection of readings, signings, and panels. To find any of these authors, check out the entire schedule on their site.

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Charles Vess

October 1, 2018

In the World Fantasy nominated WICKED WONDERS, Ellen Klages makes virtually any setting vivid and each situation compelling

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized amicae aeternum, bibliofiles, david graham tennant, elizabeth story, ellen klages, levar burton reads, marissa lingen, novel gazing redux, singing on a star, wicked wonders

For BIBLIOFILES, Emily Z recommends Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS.

With a focus on memories, friendships, growing up, growing apart, and hard decisions, there’s a wistful feel to this diverse collection. With her fertile imagination and wicked sense of humor, Klages makes virtually any setting vivid and each situation compelling.

Episode 34 of LEVAR BURTON READS features Klages’ story “Singing on a Star.”

Photo: Scott R. Kline

Marissa Lingen on NOVEL GAZING REDUX praises the collection.

I think people talk about whether authors have idealized childhood or focused on its dark side, but they don’t talk a lot about the focus and intensity of being a particular kind of small child. I was that kind of small child. I think Ellen was too, because she completely nails it, and whatever the plot is, I am there for that kind of vivid writing about that part of life. This is a series of short stories, not all about childhood, but a lot; not all dark, but a lot. Recommended.

The trailer for David Graham Tennant’s movie Amicae Aeternum, based on Klages’ short story of the same name.

Eleven-year old Corrine Garcia-Kelly can’t sleep. Lost in the process of creating one last list “Twenty reasons why it sucks to be me”, she picks up her trusty teddy bear LB, climbs out the bedroom window and wanders through the deserted neighbourhood to rendezvous with best friend, Anna. As much as she’s preoccupied, Corry begins to experience and appreciate just how beautiful the world around her really is. Little details to be absorbed, cherished and remembered.

Milli Wilkinson as ‘Corry’ and Imogen Tear as ‘Anna’, deliver a heartfelt portrayal of childhood friends spending their final morning together, riding bikes, watching the sunrise and playing down by the creek. A tale of loss, transformation and the insignificance of our place within the infinite, ‘Amicae Aeternum’ is a tale of learning what to hold dear and of when to let go.

For more info about WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

September 5, 2018

Ellen Klages has a keen eye for the perfect details

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized eating the fantatic, echoes of aurora, ellen klages, fffriday, hungary, modesty blaise, passing strange, review, scott edelman, tor.com, wicked wonders, zsófi külföldiül olvas

Photo: Scott Edelman

FFFRIDAY recommends “Echoes of Aurora” from Ellen Klages’ World Fantasy nominated WICKED WONDERS.

As with Passing Strange, Klages’ eye for the perfect details, especially historical details, like the old-fashioned arcade machinery, really sells this story. The relationship moves fast, due to this being a short story, Klages does a good job of making me buy it. The mood is ultimately bittersweet, but not depressing. I liked that Jo wasn’t super young and got to star in her own love story.

The Hungarian ZSÓFI KÜLFÖLDIÜL OLVAS praises WICKED WONDERS.

I could describe the author’s novels in a volume with a marker: heart-warming. After repression, hatred, exclusion and other social problems (and of course not overlooked) and themes, it was a pleasure to read SFF writings where the biggest crises are a friend’s loss or the capture of the longing baby. By describing these, they sound really insignificant conflicts, but Klages possesses magic that makes it credible from the age of five (eg, “The Education of a Witch”) to teenagers who are growing up (eg Woodsmoke), actors and their problems, into his earlier stages of life.

In addition to the “childhood” themes, there are classic SFFs such as “Friday Night at St. Cecilia’s” where two dice drift into two entourage students in a dangerous adventure, and in a “Gone to the Library” a parallel world is revealed in front of a little girl, while learning in the real world the “magic” of the numbers. In addition, there are adult stories such as “Echoes of Aurora”, where a middle-aged woman returns to her childhood small town; “Goodnight Moons,” in which a mother must decide what she is sacrificing for her child; and I can not leave the list of “The Scary Ham”, which shows half-humorously, half-grotesque how it feels to clear up a lifetime of a felon after leaving.

Considering the full volume, we can read a variety of topics, in different approaches and genres. Not all of the writings were strong enough and memorable for me, but the overall picture is still more positive than negative. Most of the songs featured on the less fantastic items, I liked something like this: “The Education of a Witch”, “Woodsmoke” and “The Scary Ham”, towards the end of the book. Among the more adventurous stories, I enjoyed the stories of “Friday Night at St. Cecilia’s” and “Gone to the Library”, because they recalled my old, adventurous childhood readings, and Klages made these writings with great ideas (eg, at the end of a “parallel game” based on rules of the game or the magic of the numbers).

Translation from Hungarian courtesy of Google

Klages shares a meal with Scott Edelman in Episode 72 of Eating the Fantastic.

Our venue for this episode was the relatively new Whitfield at Ace Hotel. This was certainly the most picturesque setting for a meal I experienced in Pittsburgh, because the building which housed both hotel and restaurant was a century-old former YMCA.

We discussed why it took 40 years from the time she wrote the first sentence of her Nebula Award-nominated story “Passing Strange” to finish the tale, what a truck filled with zebras taught her about the difference between storytelling and real life, how cosplaying helped give birth to her characters, what she finds so fascinating about creating historical science fiction, why revising is her favorite part of writing, the reason she’s the best auctioneer I’ve seen in my lifetime of con-going, what she teaches students is the worst mistake a writer can make, how her collaboration with Andy Duncan gave birth to an award-winning novella, whether she still feels like “a round peg in genre’s polyhedral hole” as she wrote in the afterword to her first short story collection, and much more.

At TOR.COM, Klages suggests 5 Books About Women Who Make A Fuss.

Growing up, I was not a good girl. Good girls follow the rules, listen to their mothers, don’t make a fuss. They are quiet, polite, proper, and well-behaved. I rarely managed to pull that off. Branded a bad girl, I was sent to my room, grounded, and even—once or twice—threatened with expulsion from my stolid, conservative high school. Which was fine with me. Because…

Bad girls ask questions.

Modesty Blaise
by Peter O’Donnell
(Series, 1965-1996)

In 1985, I was confined to bed for two weeks after some reasonably minor surgery. The TV set was a large, bulky box, and was in the living room. I am not a good patient. I get fidgety and am easily bored. So my friend Rebecca Kurland—one of the Sunday Night Poker players—came over to visit on the first Monday of my confinement. She brought me a book.

“There are eleven of these,” she said, laying it on my comforter. “I will bring you one a day, but no more. Not even if you beg.”

Not gonna be a problem, I thought, looking at the cheesy, sex-pot cover. It didn’t even remotely interest me. Sigh. I had only known Rebecca a few months.

“One per day,” she said again. “No matter what.”

I smiled gamely and nodded. We chatted for a few minutes, then she went home.

That afternoon, I discovered Modesty Blaise. I devoured the book. Totally smitten. I was on the phone to Rebecca by 7:30. “Please!” I said. “Just one more, now?”

“Tomorrow,” she said. “Around lunch time.” And then, because I suspect she just couldn’t resist, she said, “I told you so.”

For more info about WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

July 25, 2018

Peter S. Beagle, Jacob Weisman, Ellen Klages, Jane Yolen, and Charles de Lint are all World Fantasy Award finalists

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized camille andre, Charles de Lint, charles vess, elizabeth story, ellen klages, in calabria, jacob weisman, Jane Yolen, peter s beagle, the emerald circus, the new voices of fantasy, the very best of charles de lint, wicked wonders, World Fantasy Award

The finalists for the 2018 World Fantasy Awards were announced. Peter S. Beagle’s IN CALABRIA and THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY (which he co-edited with Jacob Weisman), Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS (as well as her Passing Strange), and Jane Yolen’s THE EMERALD CIRCUS all received nominations. Charles de Lint is to be given a Life Achievement Award.

Several other Tachyon writers and editors received notice including Ellen Datlow, Daryl Gregory, Tim Powers as well as contributors to the nominated THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY: Carmen Maria Machado, Sofia Samatar. and JY Yang.

Congratulations to all the finalists.

Best Novel

The City of
Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
Ka: Dar Oakley in
the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
The Strange Case
of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
Spoonbenders,
Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
The Changeling,
Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
Jade City,
Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Best Novella

The Teardrop
Method, Simon Avery (TTA)
IN CALABRIA, Peter
S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Mapping the
Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
Passing Strange,
Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
The Black Tides
of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Story

“Old Souls”,
Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and
Fantasy)
“Welcome to Your
Authentic Indian ExperienceTM“, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex
8/17)
“The Birding: A
Fairy Tale”, Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons 12/18/17)
“Clearly Lettered
in a Mostly Steady Hand”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)
“Carnival Nine”,
Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

Best Anthology

THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman, eds. (Tachyon)
Black Feathers,
Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
The Book of
Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
The Djinn Falls
in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds.
(Solaris US; Solaris UK)
The Best of
Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)

Best Collection

WICKED WONDERS,
Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
Her Body and
Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
Down and Out in
Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers, Tim Powers (Baen)
Tender, Sofia
Samatar (Small Beer)
THE EMERALD CIRCUS, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

Best Artist

Gregory Manchess
Victo Ngai
Omar Rayyan
Rima Staines
Fiona Staples

Special Award,
Professional

Harry Brockway,
Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson, for Writing Madness
(Centipede)
C.C. Finlay, for
F&SF editing
Irene Gallo, for art
direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
Greg Ketter, for
DreamHaven Books
Leslie Klinger, for
The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright)

Special Award,
Non-Professional

Scott H. Andrews,
for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Justina Ireland &
Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH
Khaalidah
Muhammed-Ali & Jen R Albert, for PodCastle
Ray B. Russell &
Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus
Lynne M. Thomas &
Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Charles de Lint
Elizabeth Wollheim

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Charles Vess

July 9, 2018

Happy birthday to the award-winning Ellen Klages

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized birthday, eleanor farrell, elizabeth story, ellen klages, emily netterfield, John D. Berry, out of left field, portable childhoods, time gypsy, wicked wonders

Photo by Scott R. Kline

Acclaimed science, science fiction, and historical fiction writer Ellen Klages wrote The Green Glass Sea (2006), which won the prestigious Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and its sequel, White Sands, Red Menace (2008), which garnered her the California Book Award. Other works include the Nebula and Hugo Award nominee TIME GYPSY (1999), the Nebula Award winner “Basement Magic (2003),” the World Fantasy Award winner Wakulla Springs (2013; with Andy Duncan), Nebula Award nominated Passing Strange (2017), and Out of Left Field (2018).

Her many short stories have been collected in the World Fantasy Award Finalist PORTABLE CHILDHOODS (2007) and WICKED WONDERS (2017). Klages emcees a popular auction at Wiscon that raises money for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

All of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday.

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on PORTABLE CHILDHOODS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ellen Klages

Design by John D. Berry

For more info on TIME GYPSY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Emily Netterfield

Design by Eleanor Farrell

June 8, 2018

Meet Ellen Klages, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, and Meg Elison at June SF in SF

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized a thin bright line, american bookbinders museum, borderlands books, ellen klages, lucy jane bledsoe, meg ellison, SF in SF, soma fm, the book of the unnamed midwife, wicked wonders

SF IN SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes the award-winning and 2018 Nebula nominee Ellen Klages, winner of Saturday Evening Post Fiction Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize Lucy Jane Bledsoe, and Philip K. Dick Award winner Meg Elison.

Ellen Klages (photo: Scott R. Kline), Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Nye Lyn Tho), and Meg Elison (Devin Cooper)

Each author will read from a selection of their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by Terry Bisson. Schmoozing with the authors and book signing follows the end of the discussion.

Sunday, June 10
Doors and cash bar open 6:00PM
Event begins at 6:30 PM
The American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina
San Francisco, CA

$10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds).

All donations benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

There will be an opportunity to have books signed at the end of the event. Books will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books, and attendees are welcome to bring books from home for signatures. There is no charge for autographs.

Podcasted by SOMA FM – SF’s internet radio station

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

May 24, 2018

Tachyon tidbits featuring Ellen Klages, Michael Moorcock, Eugene Fischer, and Jeff VanderMeer

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized annihilation, elizabeth story, ellen klages, eugene fischer, ignotus awards, interview, jacob weisman, jeff vandermeer, Locus, michael moorcock, rina weisman, SF in SF, Terry Bisson, the atlantic, the fancy hat lady reads, wicked wonders, you tube

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

Ellen Klages (photo: Scott R. Kline), Michael Moorcock (A.V. CLUB), Eugene Fischer (Angela Betancourt), and Jeff VanderMeer (Kyle Cassiday)

THE FANCY HAT LADY READS includes Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS among Short Fiction Favorites (beginning at about 9:56).

LOCUS reports on the April SF in SF with Michael Moorcock.

SF in SF hosted Michael Moorcock at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco on April 9, 2018, coordinated by Rina Weisman and moderated by Terry Bisson. The event featured readings and signings, a Q&A session, a full bar, and time to mingle. Books were available for purchase thanks to Borderlands Books; Tachyon Publications sponsored the event. For more information, see the SF in SF website.

Jacob & Rina Weisman, Terry Bisson, Michael Moorcock. Photo by Arley Sorg

THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY contributor Eugene Fischer is a finalist for the 2018 Ignotus Awards, given annually to the best Spanish science fiction and fantasy publications.

Foreign story

The spectrum of the abbot by Louisa May Alcott (ed. Pulpture)
“The sea of trees” by Rachel Swirsky (in Dark Fantasies (ed. Sportula))
“The October film show: Under the House” by Michael Wehunt (in A Better Place (ed.Dilating minds))
New mother by Eugene Fischer (ed. Cerbero)
“Three cups of affliction in the light of the stars” by Aliette de Bodard (in Tales for Algernon)

For THE ATLANTIC, Jeff VanderMeer in animated interview discusses how writing fiction about environmental crises may jolt readers out of complacency.

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

May 4, 2018

Newly minted SFWA Grandmaster Peter S. Beagle and a host of Tachyon authors to attend the 2018 Nebula Conference

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized Ann Monn, burn, camille andre, daryl gregory, elizabeth story, ellen klages, in calabria, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, John Picacio, michael swanwick, not so much said the cat, peter s beagle, pittsburgh, sfwa nebula conference, the new voices of fantasy, the overneath, the secret history of science fiction, we are all completely fine, wicked wonders

Many Tachyon authors will join Tachyon head honcho Jacob Weisman and SFWA Grandmaster Peter S. Beagle for the 2018 SFWA Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh, May 17-20.

SFWA members and other individuals who are interested in the field of science fiction and fantasy are welcome to attend SFWA’s Nebula Conference. Attendees may participate in workshops, programming and special events throughout the weekend.

Focusing on three tracks relevant to professionals in the genre, attendees will be able to choose from career management, professional development, and expert knowledge panels and workshops throughout the weekend.

Other Tachyon creators scheduled to appear include Daryl Gregory, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Ellen Klages, and
Michael Swanwick.

The conference offers a full selection of programming.

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE OVERNEATH, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about BURN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Picacio

May 1, 2018

Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Klages, and Tachyon itself are all Locus Award finalists

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized black feathers, buried heart, cosmic powers, ellen klages, in calabria, locus awards, passing strange, peter s beagle, spoonbenders, the overneath, the stars are legion, wicked wonders

The finalists for the 2018 Locus Awards were announced. Peter S. Beagle’s IN CALABRIA and THE OVERNEATH, Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS (as well as her Passing Strange) and Tachyon Publications itself all received nominations. Many Tachyon authors, editors, and artists received notice including John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, Cory Doctorow, Kate Elliott, Karen Joy Fowler, Daryl Gregory, Kameron Hurley,
Caitlín
R. Kiernan, Nancy Kress, John Picacio, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Swanwick, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Vess, Michael Whelan, and Sheila Williams.

Congratulations to all the finalists.

SCIENCE
FICTION NOVEL

Persepolis
Rising,
James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Walkaway,
Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
The
Stars Are Legion,
Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
Provenance,
Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Raven
Stratagem,
Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
Luna:
Wolf Moon,
Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
Seven
Surrenders,
Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
New
York 2140,
Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The
Collapsing Empire,
John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
Borne,
Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)

FANTASY
NOVEL

The
Stone in the Skull,
Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
City
of Miracles,
Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
Ka:
Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr,
John Crowley (Saga)
The
House of Binding Thorns,
Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
The
Ruin of Angels,
Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
Spoonbenders,
Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
The
Stone Sky,
N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Jade
City,
Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The
Delirium Brief,
Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing; Orbit UK)
Horizon,
Fran Wilde (Tor)

HORROR
NOVEL

Ill
Will,
Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
Universal
Harvester,
John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Scribe UK)
After
the End of the World,
Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
Food
of the Gods,
Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)
The
Night Ocean,
Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
The
Changeling,
Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
Red
Snow,
Ian R. MacLeod (PS)
Behind
Her Eyes,
Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron; HarperCollins UK)
Mormama,
Kit Reed (Tor)
Ubo,
Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

YOUNG
ADULT BOOK

Tool
of War,
Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
In
Other Lands,
Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
The
Dragon with a Chocolate Heart,
Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
Chalk,
Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
Buried
Heart,
Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
A
Skinful of Shadows,
Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
Frogkisser!,
Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin; Piccadilly)
Akata
Warrior,
Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
Shadowhouse
Fall,
Daniel José Older (Levine)
The
Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage,
Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)

FIRST
NOVEL

The
Bear and the Nightingale,
Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
The
City of Brass,
S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
Amberlough,
Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
Winter
Tide,
Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
The
Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter,
Theodora Goss (Saga)
The
Art of Starving,
Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
Autonomous,
Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
Lincoln
in the Bardo,
George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
An
Unkindness of Ghosts,
Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
Amatka,
Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)

NOVELLA

IN CALABRIA,
Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
River
of Teeth,
Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
Agents
of Dreamland,
Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
Passing
Strange,
Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
Down
Among the Sticks and Bones,
Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Binti:
Home,
Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
“And
Then There Were (N-One)“,
Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
All
Systems Red,
Martha Wells, (Tor.com Publishing)
The
Black Tides of Heaven,
JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
The
Red Threads of Fortune,
JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

“Children
of Thorns, Children of Water“,
Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 7-8/17)
“The
Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF 9-10/17)
“Come
See the Living Dryad“,
Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
“The
Worshipful Society of Glovers“,
Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny 7-8/17)
“Extracurricular
Activities“,
Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 2/15/17)
“The
Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu (The
Book of Swords)
“The
Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire (Black
Feathers)
“Wind
Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
“The
Lamentation of Their Women“,
Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 8/24/17)
“Waiting
on a Bright Moon“,
JY Yang (Tor.com 7/12/17)

SHORT
STORY

“Don’t
Press Charges and I Won’t Sue“,
Charlie Jane Anders (Global
Dystopias)
“Zen
and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic
Powers)
“Persephone
of the Crows”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s 5-6/17)
“Fire.”,
Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
“Dear
Sarah”, Nancy Kress (Infinity
Wars)
“The
Martian Obelisk“,
Linda Nagata (Tor.com 7/19/17)
“Fandom
for Robots“,
Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
“Welcome
to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM“,
Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
“Starlight
Express”, Michael Swanwick (F&SF 9-10/17)
“Carnival
Nine“,
Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath
Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

ANTHOLOGY

Cosmic
Powers,
John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
Black
Feathers,
Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
The
Book of Swords,
Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
The
Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection,
Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Bookburners,
Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
The
Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories,
Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
The
Best of Subterranean,
William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
The
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year,
Volume Eleven,
Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Infinity
Wars,
Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Transcendent
2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction,
Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)

COLLECTION

Six
Months,
Three Days, Five Others,
Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com Publishing)
THE OVERNEATH,
Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Norse
Mythology,
Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
Strange
Weather,
Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
WICKED WONDERS,
Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
Cat
Pictures Please and Other Stories,
Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
Ursula
K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories,
Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
Her
Body and Other Parties,
Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
Tender,
Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
The
Refrigerator Monologues,
Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

MAGAZINE

Analog
Asimov’s
Beneath
Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
File
770
Lightspeed
Strange
Horizons
Tor.com
Uncanny

PUBLISHER

Angry
Robot
Baen
DAW
Gollancz
Orbit
Saga
Small
Beer
Subterranean
Tachyon
Tor

EDITOR

John
Joseph Adams
Neil
Clarke
Ellen
Datlow
Gardner
Dozois
C.C.
Finlay
Jonathan
Strahan
Lynne
M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Ann
& Jeff VanderMeer
Sheila
Williams
Navah
Wolfe

ARTIST

Kinuko
Y. Craft
Galen
Dara
Julie
Dillon
Bob
Eggleton
Gregory
Manchess
Victo
Ngai
John
Picacio
Shaun
Tan
Charles
Vess
Michael
Whelan

NON-FICTION

Sleeping
with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and
Fantasy,
Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
In
Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany,
Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
The
Invention of Angela Carter,
Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US; Chatto & Windus 2016)
Star-Begotten:
A Life Lived in Science Fiction,
James Gunn (McFarland)
Iain
M. Banks,
Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
Luminescent
Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler,
Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
Not
So Good a Gay Man,
Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
Don’t
Live for Your Obituary,
John Scalzi (Subterranean)
A
Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison,
Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
J.G.
Ballard,
D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)

ART
BOOK

The
Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History,
Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg, eds. (IDW)
Spectrum
24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art,
John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
Paul
Kidby, Terry
Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium (Gollancz)
Jeffrey
Alan Love, Norse
Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki,
Kevin Crossley-Holland (Candlewick Studio)
Gregory
Manchess, Above
the Timberline (Saga)
Syd
Mead, The
Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist,
Craig Hodgetts (Titan)
Jean-Baptiste
Monge, Celtic
Faeries: The Secret Kingdom (Goblin’s
WAY)
Wendy
Pini, Line
of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini,
Richard Pini (Flesk)
Omar
Rayyan, Goblin
Market,
Christina Rossetti (Donald M. Grant)
James
Wyatt, The
Art of Magic: The Gathering: Kaladesh (Viz)

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE OVERNEATH, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

March 22, 2018

COODE STREET PODCAST’s early World Fantasy Award 2018 nominations include Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman, Ellen Datlow, Ellen Klages, Tim Powers, and Jane Yolen

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In the post announcing Episode 325 of COODE STREET PODCAST, they do the unusual.

We don’t usually get to this, but in a rare moment of organisation, we’re providing a combined copy of Jonathan [Strahan] and Gary [K. Wolfe]’s draft World Fantasy ballots below. These will change (they’re drafts) but it may serve as a useful pointer to some good reading etc.

Their suggested ballot included several books from Tachyon writers and editors.

World Fantasy Awards 2018

Life Achievement

Gardner Dozois
Howard Waldrop

Novel

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
Wintertide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com)
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
The River Bank, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin)
The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel and Grau)
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)

Long Fiction

The Twilight Pariah, Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com Publishing)
Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
Mightier than the Sword, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
The Process is a Process (All its Own), Peter Straub (Subterranean)

Short Fiction

“Probably Still the Chosen One“, Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed 2/17)
“This is Our Town”, John Crowley (Totalitopia)
“Come See the Living Dryad“, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
“The Faerie Tree“, Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed 11/17)
“The Smoke of Gold Is Glory“, Scott Lynch (The Book of Swords)
“The Resident”, Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties)
“Sidewalks”, Maureen F. McHugh (Omni)
“Carnival Nine“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)
“The Lamentation of Their Women”, Kai Ashante Wllson (Tor.com)

Art: Rovian Cai (Black Feathers) and Dave McKean (Mad Hatters)

Anthology

THE NEW VOICES IN FANTASY, Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman eds (Tachyon)
Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Ellen Datlow ed. (Tor)
The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Collection

You Should Come With Me Now, M. John Harrison (Comma)
Dear Sweet Filthy World, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
WICKED WONDERS, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers, Tim Powers (Baen)
Tender: Stories, Sofia Samata (Small Beer)
THE EMERALD CIRCUS, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

Artist

Rovina Cai
Kathleen Jennings
Gregory Manchess
Victo Ngai
Omar Rayyan

Special Award, Professional

Irene Gallo, for Tor.com Publishing
Joe Monti and Navah Wolfe for editing Saga Press
Jonathan Oliver for editing at Solaris
The Locus Publications editorial team for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Fields

Special Award, Non-professional

Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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