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Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Kress, Kameron Hurley, Cory Doctorow, Brandon Sanderson, Andrew Fox, and Kate Elliott
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At FANTASY LITERATURE, Jana Nyman praises Nancy Kress' SEA CHANGE.
Ever read a book and immediately wish that you'd been able to read it in school, rather than [insert inaccessible book of choice]? For me, Nancy Kress's 2020 novella SEA CHANGE, with its gutsy-yet-conflicted heroine and all-too-real near-future global catastrophes, is exactly the kind of book I wish I'd been handed way back when.
I enjoyed SEA CHANGE tremendously, not only for the strength of Kress's character work but for the ways in which she tackles difficult subjects like environmental collapse, the fraught legal status of people living on reservations in America, grief and the different ways people cope with loss, and the often-surprising ways people express their hope for a better future. SEA CHANGE is a short novel with a powerful impact, and I highly recommend it.
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THE CURIOUS SFF READER enjoys Kameron Hurley's MEET ME IN THE FUTURE.
Before reading this anthology, I had only read one of Hurley's novels The Stars are Legion and one of her short stories, The Red Secretary (included in this short collection but first published in Uncanny Magazine). I didn't have the best experience with the former, however, I really enjoyed the latter, which is why I decided to give MEET ME IN THE FUTURE a try. And I'm glad I did because it's an amazing collection!
Hurley's stories are bloody, complex and deal with hard issues so, if dark fiction isn't your thing, I don't think you will enjoy this one. However, if you want to read from the perspectives of morally grey characters who don't take shit from anybody, I would definitely recommend this anthology.
Cover by Carl Sutton
If you enjoy dark and unsettling reads exploring fascinating themes, MEET ME IN THE FUTURE is a must. The collection doesn't contain a single bad story and they were varied enough that I didn't feel burn-out by the end.
Four stars.
Cover design by Elizabeth Story
The "reading list" included in the appendix of the Apolitical Cocktail Party: 2020 Handbook contains Cory Doctorow's CONTEXT: FURTHER SELECTED ESSAYS ON PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY, PARENTING, AND POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY and With A Little Help.
Cover art by Alexander Nanitchkov
Brandon Sanderson answers Where Should I Start With Your Books?
SMASHWORDS offers a free read of Andrew Fox's "The Man Who Would Be Kong."
An elderly man, Max Strauss, retired in Miami Beach, visits an entrepreneur who is about to open a King Kong-themed restaurant. Max claims to have portrayed the giant gorilla in the 1933 classic film. But everyone knows that King Kong was actually an 18″ tall animated model, don't they? So is Max an attention-seeking fraud? Or is he something far greater?
TOR.COM announces Kate Elliot's a new two fantasy novella series comprised of Lamplighter in early 2022 and Hex in 2023.
Fellion is a Lamplighter, able to provide illumination through magic. A group of rebel Monarchists free her from indentured servitude and take her on a journey to rescue trapped compatriots from an underground complex of mines.
Along the way they get caught up in a conspiracy to kill the latest royal child and wipe out the Monarchist movement for good.
But Fellian has more than just her lamplighting skills up her sleeve…
Happy birthday to the fantastical Andrew Fox
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A steady childhood diet of Marvel Comics, Planet of the Apes movies, and Ray Bradbury novels informed the acclaimed literary romps of Andrew Fox. Best known for his trio of Fat Vampire Chronicles (Fat Vampire Blues [2003; winner of Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Fiction], Bride of the Fat White Vampire [2004], and Fat White Vampire Otaku [2014]), he also penned THE GOOD HUMOR MAN (2009), selected by Booklist as one of the Ten Best SF/Fantasy Novels of the Year and was nominated for a Prometheus Award, and the Civil War steampunk suspense novel Fire of Iron (2013). Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction (2020) collects two short novels and five short stories, which push the boundaries of taboo in science fiction. The Fox-edited anthology Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction is slated for a December release.
The multi-faceted Fox has been employed as a mime, public-safety advocate, playwright, and, after Hurricane Katrina, a part of FEMA's Gulf Coast Recovery Office. He's also bagged groceries, sold Saturn cars, taught musical theater to summer campers, worked as an adjunct to a rabbi at a Hillel Center, done mindless data entry, sung in a choir, and collected more than 250 vintage laptop and palmtop computers. In 2009 after many years in New Orleans, Fox relocated with his family to Northern Virginia to take a job with a federal crime prevention agency.
All of us at Tachyon wish Andy a geektastic birthday!
Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Kress, John Joseph Adams, Jaymee Goh, Kate Elliott, Tad Williams, and Andrew Fox
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Deborah J. Ross, on her eponymous blog, praises Nancy Kress' SEA CHANGE.
Dramatic, full of wonderful details and characters, all in all a satisfying and thoughtful read. But I would expect no less from Kress.
Series editor John Joseph Adams announced the contents for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 (edited by Diana Gabaldon). The volume includes several Tachyon contributors: Charlie Jane Anders (SIX MONTHS, THREE DAYS), Elizabeth Bear (DIGITAL RAPTURE, REWIRED), Ken Liu (THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, VOLUME 2), Deji Bryce Olukotun (INVADERS), Rebecca Roanhorse (THE NEW VOICES OF SCIENCE FICTION), Adam Troy-Castro (THE MONSTROUS), E. Lily Yu (THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, THE NEW VOICES OF SCIENCE FICTION), and Tachyon editor Jaymee Goh (contributor to STEAMPUNK III).
Speaking of Jaymee Goh, her story "Anak Sungai" appears on CURIOUS FICTIONS.
"Stay away from Sang Kancil," Sang Buaya would warn me. I did not care to argue with my guardians. "He is clever and tricky, and will waste no time taking advantage of your goodness."
Through groundwater paths, through streams and trickles between hills and mountains, I stretched my being as far and wide as possible, exploring the world through its breathing earth. Where I wandered, I listened to the warbling of Tiong and Merpati, the nighttime shrieks of Keluang and Kelawar high above my head as I passed through the roots of trees.
"Ya Si Jernih!" they would cry, "and where do you go today?"
What a question! Wherever I go, of course. Who stops a river's inexorable course? But there are times I stepped out of my element to wander inland, whispering myself into the morning mists, or the humidity between trees. I espied Sang Sawa on a tree waiting for prey.
Happy birthday to the kooky and acclaimed Andrew Fox
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A steady childhood diet of Marvel Comics, Planet of the
Apes movies, and Ray Bradbury novels informed the acclaimed literary
romps of Andrew Fox. Best known for his trio of Fat Vampire Chronicles (Fat Vampire Blues [2003; winner of Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Fiction], Bride of the Fat White Vampire [2004], and Fat White Vampire Otaku [2014]), he also penned THE GOOD HUMOR MAN (2009), selected by Booklist
as one of the Ten Best SF/Fantasy Novels of the Year and was nominated
for a Prometheus Award, and the Civil War steampunk suspense novel Fire of Iron (2013).
The multi-faceted Fox has been employed as a mime, public-safety
advocate, playwright, and, after Hurricane Katrina, a part of FEMA's
Gulf Coast Recovery Office. He's also bagged groceries, sold Saturn
cars, taught musical theater to summer campers, worked as an adjunct to a
rabbi at a Hillel Center, done mindless data entry, sung in a choir,
and collected more than 250 vintage laptop and palmtop computers. In
2009 after many years in New Orleans, Fox relocated with his family to
Northern Virginia to take a job with a federal crime prevention agency.
For more info on THE GOOD HUMOR MAN, visit the Tachyon page.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Satire Bundle, curated by Nick Mamatas, features Thomas M. Disch, Andrew Fox, Lavie Tidhar, and Terry Bisson
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STORYBUNDLE offers a science fiction and fantasy satire bundle of 12 extraordinary tales including Nick Mamatas' brilliant, oddball THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING, Thomas M. Disch's extraordinarily funny bit of heresy THE WORD OF GOD: OR, HOLY WRIT REWRITTEN, Andrew Fox's intensely interesting, wild ride THE GOOD HUMOR MAN, Terry Bisson's fresh, imaginative Tva Baby, and Lavie Tidhar's inspired and fantastical Jesus and the Eightfold Path.
Curator Nick Mantas, dubbed "The People's Commissar of Awesome" by China Miéville, had this to say:
Satire runs through the field of science fiction/fantasy like veins of gold in the Earth. Both genres have their origin with Lucian's A True Story, which parodied the various epics and myths known to educated readers in the second century AD, and which featured a trip to the moon, interplanetary warfare, and philosophical analysis of some rigor. Even the title is both satirical and an exercise in logic—the text of the story is all lies, Lucian admits, but the work is a true story because it exists in the category of story: it is true that it is a story.
And now let us skip ahead almost two thousand years, thanks! You all know about H.G. Wells and Joanna Russ and Kurt Vonnegut and all that stuff. The world we live in is obviously absurd, and has been so for quite some time. (It's why we needed to skip ahead.) But one cannot just strip off one's clothes and run through downtown screaming, "We used to pretend little pieces of paper had value just to be able to eat and live, but now we pretend that little bits of electricity are the valueless pieces of paper! We're all mad! Resist! Revolt!" and expect to get very far, even if climate change means more days per year of appropriate streaking weather. But when we can do is trade electricity for electricity, and get you a dozen amazing books for fifteen or more amazing dollars.
For more info on The Science Fiction and Fantasy Satire Bundle, visit STORYBUNDLE.
For more info on THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING, visit the Tachyon page.
For more information about THE WORD OF GOD: OR, HOLY WRIT REWRITTEN, visit the Tachyon page.
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A steady childhood diet of Marvel Comics, Planet of the Apes movies, and Ray Bradbury novels informed the acclaimed literary romps of Andrew Fox. Best known for his trio of Fat Vampire Blues novels, the first of which won the Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Fiction of 2003, he also penned THE GOOD HUMOR MAN, selected by Booklist as one of the Ten Best SF/Fantasy Novels of the Year and was nominated for a Prometheus Award, and the Civil War steampunk suspense novel Fire of Iron.
Tachyon well represented at Capclave 2018
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Tachyon authors Andrew Fox, Nancy Kress, and James Morrow join the World Fantasy nominee THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY contributors A. C. Wise and Alyssa Wong at Capclave 2018 in Rockville, Maryland, September 28-30. Kress and Wong are guests of honor.
Nancy Kress (photo: Ellen Datlow) and Alyssa Wong
Sponsored by the Washington Science Fiction Association, Capclave is a small relaxed literary convention with a program that usually focuses on the short fiction form. Guests of Honor and other notable authors, editors, artists, and fans of the short fiction form will explore the creation and enjoyment of short fantasy and science fiction genre stories.
Andrew Fox, James Morrow, ans A. C. Wise
Capclave offers a large selection of readings, signings, and panels. To find any of these authors, check out the entire schedule on their site.
Tachyon tidbits featuring Jo Walton, Nalo Hopkinson, Andrew Fox, and Claude Lalumière
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Jo Walton, Nalo Hopkinson (photo: David Findlay), Andrew Fox, and Claude Lalumière (Alexandra Renwick)
Jo Walton discusses STARLINGS and other things with Sonali Karnick on CBC's All in a Weekend Montreal.
The award winning Montreal fantasy & sci fi author talks about why she found writing short stories so much more difficult than writing her 13 novels to date.
LOCUS reports that Nalo Hopkinson received the 2018 Octavia E. Butler Memorial Award.
Nalo Hopkinson received the 2018 Octavia E. Butler Memorial Award from Cal State Los Angeles in a ceremony during Eagle-Con, held March 8, 2018 at the University-Student Union of the Cal State campus in Los Angeles CA. The award "is given in recognition of impactful contributions to the world of science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction, with the spirit and conviction demonstrated by multi-award winning author and Cal State LA alumna Octavia E. Butler."
In their discussion of Andrew Fox books, BOOK SERIES IN ORDER recommends THE GOOD HUMOR MAN.
Not a part of any series, this works as a stand-alone, as it would be one of the earlier novels from Andrew Fox, and it is a definite must for any fans of the author. Showing where he has come from, it not only provides readers with an insight into his development as a writer, but it also provides a fun and entertaining view on contemporary issues of food within society.
This would take its inspiration and lead from such satirical writers as Ray Bradbury with his novel 'Fahrenheit 451', which was obviously the template for much of this novel. Taking it forwards, it really excels at shining a light on certain issues currently faced within society, whilst managing it all with good grace and humor. Set in a fantastical science-fictional world that's not far removed from this one, it really works at what it's trying to achieve, allowing the reader to gain a fresh and interesting new perspective on the issues presented within.
At BLACK GATE, Matthew David Surridge praises Claude Lalumière's Venera Dreams.
The subtitle of Venera Dreams proclaims the collection "A Weird Entertainment," and that's accurate in just about every sense. It is strange and it is entertaining. But it's weird in a more profound way; weird in the way of the pulps, in the way of Weird Tales. And it is an entertainment in the way the first English version of the One Thousand And One Nights called itself The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. It's a series of reveries about storytelling and art, about ecstasy and myth, about cities and history and yearning. About Venera the venerable: about venery and veneration
Stylistically, the book varies considerably from tale to tale, sometimes tragic and sometimes comic and overall yearning and aspiring to the sublime. There is a precision of language, and also a striving to describe things that are indescribable — the language reaching to describe not only what a thing is, but the connotations and associations of the thing. That's done through physical detail, through taste and scent and touch as well as sight and sound. This is a sensual book, and the language is specific in detail to match that. But as it is also a weird entertainment, so accordingly the language is also rich and evocative. It's a book that's full of allusiveness, which works to create a dreamlike sense in which everything has a latent extra meaning. I would imagine some readers might find some allusions distracting, as occasionally one feels that a reference is being made to some real-world artist in a coded way, leaving a nagging sense of incompleteness if one does not have the key to the code. Personally I found that incompleteness itself added to the feel of the book and of the city; I found that even when I was able to see the references, the book's act of making an allusion had an effect beyond the literal reference of the allusion itself. In any event Lalumière describes his characters with a free hand, including details of their sexuality and dreams and deaths, whether they're based on a real-world figure or not.
Crucially, Venera Dreams never feels like pastiche. It wears its influences on its sleeve, but uses those influences to create something distinctive. If there is a lot of pulp here, in structural terms that's mainly obvious in a strong sense of plot. Different stories use very different approaches, often finding experimental forms to present characters inspired by classic adventure fiction; in particular, the central and longest story of the book, "Agents of the Vermilion Eye," begins as a mystery involving a group of nineteenth-century action heroes but swiftly becomes something very different, a series of visions crossing space and especially time. Like a dream, story elements that seem familiar or even well-worn become reinvested with strangeness and significance.
For more info on STARLINGS, visit the Tachyon page.
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Andrew Fox at the Tachyon offices
A steady childhood diet of Marvel Comics, Planet of the Apes movies, and Ray Bradbury novels informed the acclaimed literary romps of Andrew Fox. Best known for his trio of FAT VAMPIRE BLUES novels, the first of which won the Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Fiction of 2003, he also penned THE GOOD HUMOR MAN, selected by BOOKLIST as one of the Ten Best SF/Fantasy Novels of the Year and was nominated for a Prometheus Award, and the Civil War steampunk suspense novel FIRE ON IRON.
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