Werewolves, Unicorns, the Dreadful Specter of Death at a ball - you may think you've read these stories before. Peter S. Beagle demonstrates most eloquently that unless you've read his versions, you haven't read these stories at all. Everything Beagle touches he makes new. Every sentence he shapes encapsulates a song. This is both a delightful and moving collection.
- Michael Bishop

Peter S. Beagle is the magician we all apprenticed ourselves to. Before all the endless series and shared-world novels, Beagle was there to show us the amazing possibilities waiting in the worlds of fantasy, and he is still one of the masters by which the rest of the field is measured. I envy people reading these stories for the first time.
- Lisa Goldstein

Peter S. Beagle would be one of the century's great writers in any arena he chose; we readers must feel blessed that Beagle picked fantasy as a homeland. Magic pumps like blood through the veins of his stories. Imparting passionately breathing, singing, laughing reality to the marvelous is his great gift to us all.
- Edward Bryant

Peter S. Beagle is a great American fantasist...
A book collecting short stories from throughout his career is a must-read for me and anyone interested in the art of storytelling.
- Ellen Datlow

Peter S. Beagle is our best modern fabulist in the tradition of Hawthorne and Twain. From the dark pride in the story "Come Lady Death" to the dignity and love rising from a rhino-emblazoned philosophy, the stories in this book make the Fantastic become real, the Real both dark and lovely.
- Jack Cady

Peter S. Beagle is (in no particular order) a wonderful writer, a fine human being, and a bandit prince out to steal reader's hearts.
- Tad Williams

... one of my favorite writers.
- Madeleine L'Engle

Peter S. Beagle illuminates with his own particular magic such commonplace matters as ghosts, unicorns, and werewolves. For years a loving readership has consulted him as an expert on those heart's reasons that reason does not know.
- Ursula K. LeGuin

ISBN 0 9648320 7 0, 183 pages, trade paperback.
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As in her Hugo and Nebula-award winning Beggars in Spain, Dancing on Air finds Nancy Kress once more exploring the moral ambiguities of genetic engineering that have become her hallmark. This novella-length chapbook combines an intriguing murder mystery, involving a reporter's investigation into the competitive world of professional ballet, with the thought-provoking science fiction we have come to expect from Nancy Kress. This story is among her finest work

Every so often there comes a story which works the old magic that first drew me to the genre as a reader. Dancing on Air is one of these stories.
- James Patrick Kelly

From her novel An Alien Light to this novella, Dancing on Air, Nancy Kress has again and again made bizarre viewpoints utterly compelling. No matter how peculiar the future is that Kress imagines, her characters face it with human and humane feeling. She is a writer's writer.
- Tony Daniel

Nancy Kress is one of the best damn storytellers ever.
- Jack McDevitt

ISBN 0 9648320 5 4, 80 pages, trade paperback, limited to 500 copies for
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"Long after you've closed this book, the stories will stay in your mind and in your heart."
Karen Joy Fowler

"McDevitt is the real thing: a writer with depth, integrating scientific issues with human concerns on a vast stage, lit by vivid covers."
Gregory Benford

"In both his novels and his short fiction, Jack McDevitt has shown a terrific range of skills and imagination and speculation. Only one thing remains the same from piece to piece to piece - they're all damn fine stories."
Kevin J. Anderson

"It's high time indeed for a Jack McDevitt story collection! McDevitt writes with wisdom, compassion, and an abiding sense of wonder - everything that has drawn me again and again and again to the worlds of science fiction - real people with real concerns, in extraordinary settings. If you haven't read this man's work, start now!"
Jeffrey A. Carver

"Although he contributed only infrequently to the field, each of [Ward Moore's] books became something of a classic....[He] also wrote two of the most notable stories describing nuclear holocaust and its consequences "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954), featuring a great motorized exodus from a doomed Los Angeles, seen through biblical parallelism as the city of Sodom."
John Clute & Peter Nichols
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

"The existence of the atom bomb was revealed to the world on August 6, 1945, at Hiroshima. In 1953, "Lot" appeared in print. In literary terms, it was a staggering accomplishment. Right at the very beginning of the atomic era, Moore nailed the nuclear holocaust survival story. Nobody has ever told it more convincingly."
from the new introduction by Michael Swanwick

Paperback edition of 300 copies
$14.00 (Cdn) $10.00 (US)

This collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, shedding much needed light on an author often credited with writing the first science fiction novel. Here you will find the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Englishmen and Romans newly thawed out of ice.

Limited paperback edition of 900 copies
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"I read Cliff's stories with particular attention, and I couldn't help but notice the simplicity and directness of the writing - the utter clarity of it. I made up my mind to imitate it, and I labored over the years to make my writing simpler, clearer, more uncluttered, to present my scenes on a bare stage."
Isaac Asimov

Controversy! The publication of Michael Swanwick's "A Users Guide to the Post Moderns" sent angry shockwaves rippling through the science fiction community. Not since the controversy surrounding the advent of the so-called New Wave writers of the 1960s and early 1970s had anyone dared to categorize writers. A work that was originally intended as an homage, to illuminate the works of many of the younger writers in the field, was vilified in numerous fanzine articles and convention panels. But Swanwick's essay was not intended to generate controversy and it remains, beyond the initial conflagration, a thoughtful and insightful look into the science fiction field of the early to mid-1980s. Herein lies the genesis of writers like William Gibson and Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling and James Patrick Kelly. "A Users Guide to the Post Moderns", is published here for the first time since its initial magazine appearance along with "In the Tradition...", Swanwick's elegant essay on the fantasy genre, and a brand new introduction written specially for this collection.

Scorn for "A User's Guide to the Post Moderns"

"A bilious assemblage of self-congratulatory twaddle... je-june mixture of bluster and untried arrogance... My God, if this is the direction science fiction is going, it is doomed."

"Some of the writers that he praises may actually believe that they are as important to the field of science fiction as Swanwick says they are. The more they believe that, the more it will hurt when a more accurate perspective is forced upon them."
- Orson Scott Card

Praise for "In the Tradition..."

"A brave, lonely attempt to stem the tide."
- Nova Express

"An incisive essay..."
- Publisher's Weekly

"Thought-provoking and informative, the essay is as beautifully penned as any of the works lauded therein."
- Terry Windling

ISBN 0 9648320 6 2, 65 pages, trade paperback, signed by the author for $10.50 (Cnd) $7.50 (US)

"Tiptree was one of the most original writers ever in a field that values originality above all things. These early poems are intriguing, suggestive, and essential to all serious fans of her work"
Michael Swanwick

"James Tiptree was one of the best short story writers of the last half of the twentieth century"
Gardner Dozois


Limited chapbook of 1000 copies
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. . . Full of manic energy, rich in colors and odors and emotions.
Lewis Shiner
author of Deserted Cities of the Heart

More evidence that the small press is alive and well. This collection of Wayne Wightman's excellent, very warped short stories is drawn mostly from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and includes such top notch tales as the title story, "Pardon My Extremities," and "The Tensor of Desire." Wightman's characters are frequently bizarre, though in a likable sort of way, his situations always interesting,
and the prose itself is of excellent quality.
Science Fiction Chronicle

. . . a strong case for boosting Wayne Wightman's reputation in the field.
Nebula Awards 31

Wayne Wightman is agreeable company, both in person and via the printed page. As to the former, I'm afraid you will have to wait the chance to make his acquaintance like everybody else. As to the latter, however, now's your chance: read Ganglion & Other Stories, and enjoy.
John Brunner
Hugo Award-winning author of Stand on Zanzibar

Unlike most genre writers, Wayne Wightman has more than one move. He writes top quality SF and fantasy, humor and horror, and he never forgets to tell a compelling tale.
Ed Ferman
Publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

. . one of the names I've learned to look for . . . a romantic whose stories confess his belief that individuals can be larger than life, that their decisions can change the world around them.
Orson Scott Card
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead

One of Wightman's great strengths is his willingness to go to the edge. He pulls no punches, whether the story is serious and violent or manic, wacky, and funny. You can count on him to take you places other writers shy away from.
Richard Paul Russo
Author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel Subterranean Gallery

The name and talent of Wayne Wightman deserve to be far better known. Perhaps the publication of Ganglion and Other Stories by Tachyon Publications will bring him the deserved attention. Ganglion is like an all-star classic issue of Galaxy in book form. Not tht there's anything old-fashioned about Wightman's stories. It's simply that he writes in the grand tradition of Dick, Sheckley, Tenn, and mid-period Silverberg. Modern angsts and ironies are embodied in SF parables laced with that brand of humor best characterized by "the bubble of blood at the end of the laugh." And when an understated change of pace is needed, Wightman is eminently capable of delivering a delicate sturgeonesque love story such as "The Face at the End of the Mind," or a spooky Leiberesque "Life on Earth." One motif that spans the stories is a kind of "body anxiety" verging on disgust, a potent archetypical source mostly for horror fiction. Wightman's characters have a tendency to mutate, to lose body parts, and contain aliens within. But it's all in a day's work for the Missouri-born Wightman, who has a stand-in character say,
"I grew up in Missouri, see, so weirdness doesn't affect me like it does most normal people."
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

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The newly discovered original manuscript restores for the first time 18,000 words cut from the original magazine appearance

"In his short career, Stanley G. Weinbaum revolutionized science fiction. We are still exploring the themes he gave us. How good to have this early work again, and now with the author's complete text. It is not only of great historical interest, it is a colorful, inventive, and exciting story."
Poul Anderson "Stanley G. Weinbaum's name deserves to rank with those of Wells and Heinlein - and no more than a handful of others - as among the great shapers of modern science fiction. Sadly, most of the marvelous works he produced in his all too brief career were in the form of short strories and novelettes, and so are overlooked by many of today's readers. Which is all the more reason to rejoice that Tachyon Publications has brought his novel, The Black Flame, back into print for us to read - and moreover, for the first time, it is published just as Weinbaum wrote it."
Frederik Pohl