Tachyon Publications Turns Thirty!
I am a little late to this party, but I wanted to highlight this article from Locus Mag about Tachyon Publications. I am a HUGE fan of many of their books, and they turn 30 this year. Locus Mag talked to Jacob Weisman at Tachyon.
“Has Tachyon changed in significant ways over the past decade or so?
We’ve gotten so much bigger. The company that started as a one-person operation in my basement has gotten a little bigger every year for the last 30 years. There are now six of us working at Tachyon, four in California, one in Texas, and Jaymee Goh in Malaysia.
And Feast Your Eyes On These Two Fabulous SFF Cover Reveals
To end things this time, here are two incredible recent cover reveals from the nice people at Tor Books and Tordotcom. First up is Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories by Amal El-Mohtar. We just got a novella from El-Mohtar this year, The River Has Roots, and now there’s already news of a collection of stories! It includes Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award-winning and nominated stories. This one is out March 24, 2026 from Tordotcom, and the cover was designed by Spencer Fuller at Faceout Studio.
From the publisher 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 other amazing cover I wanted to share with you is The Subtle Art of Folding Space, the debut sci-fi novel by John Chu. It’s about worlds falling apart, quantum physics, and family, and it comes out April 6, 2026 from Tor Books. The cover was designed by Weston Wei and Katie Kim.
From the publisher 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 here.
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May is Short Story month, so what’s on your reading list this month? Short stories are one of my favorite things to read right now. Life’s busy, and short stories are fiction that can fit into a hectic day. Instead of using the one-chapter-per-night method to work your way through a novel, what might it look like to read a short story each evening?
I love short stories precisely because they’re every bit as interesting, complex, and beautiful as longer fiction, but they’re more realistic to read when you’ve got a lot going on.
I have a confession: I used to hate short stories. Okay, okay, maybe “hate” is too strong a word. Let’s just say that I basically refused to read them. You might be wondering why I would have such a strong aversion to short stories.
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