Tachyon Publications Turns Thirty!
I’m a little bit late to this social gathering, however I needed to spotlight this text from Locus Magazine about Tachyon Publications. I’m a HUGE fan of lots of their books, they usually flip 30 this yr. Locus Magazine talked to Jacob Weisman at Tachyon.
“Has Tachyon modified in important methods over the previous decade or so?
We’ve gotten a lot greater. The corporate that began as a one-person operation in my basement has gotten a little bit greater yearly for the final 30 years. There are actually six of us working at Tachyon, 4 in California, one in Texas, and Jaymee Goh in Malaysia.
And Feast Your Eyes On These Two Fabulous SFF Cowl Reveals
From the writer description: “With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.”
And the opposite superb cowl I needed to share with you is The Refined Artwork of Folding House, the debut sci-fi novel by John Chu. It’s about worlds falling aside, quantum physics, and household, and it comes out April 6, 2026 from Tor Books. The quilt was designed by Weston Wei and Katie Kim.
From the writer description: “Ellie’s universe, and this one, is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Chinese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it’s supposed to.”
So go add these to your TBR! I’ll wait right here.
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Could is Quick Story month, so what’s in your studying checklist this month? Quick tales are one in all my favourite issues to learn proper now. Life’s busy, and quick tales are fiction that may match into a busy day. As a substitute of utilizing the one-chapter-per-night technique to work your manner by way of a novel, what would possibly it seem like to learn a brief story every night?
I like quick tales exactly as a result of they’re each bit as fascinating, advanced, and exquisite as longer fiction, however they’re extra reasonable to learn once you’ve bought so much occurring.
I’ve a confession: I used to hate quick tales. Okay, okay, perhaps “hate” is simply too robust a phrase. Let’s simply say that I principally refused to learn them. You may be questioning why I’d have such a robust aversion to quick tales.
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