Here’s the cover for Tesseracts 18: Wrestling With Gods (edited by Liana Kerzner and Jerome Stueart), which contains my poem A Hex, With Bees. It’s already available on Kindle, and the paper version will be out next year.
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“No Sweeter Art” At Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“No Sweeter Art” is now available at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. There’s also a great audio version. Don’t miss it!
(This story is in the same series as “A Sweet Calling“.)
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Reprints in Mammoth Books
Two huge reprints to report, both appearing late this year. “The Curse of Chimère” (originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies) will be reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures (info below via SF Signal):
Coming August 2014 in the UK and October 2014 in the US:
Here’s the table of contents…
- “Smoke City” by Christopher Barzak
- “Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood” by Aliette de Bodard
- “Love Comes to Abyssal City” by Tobias Buckell
- “Canary of Candletown” by C.S.E Cooney
- “On the Lot and In the Air” by Lisa L. Hannett
- “Beyond Calais” by Samantha Henderson
- “La Valse” by K.W. Jeter
- “The Colliers’ Venus (1893)” by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- “Benedice Te” by Jay Lake
- “Good Hunting” by Ken Liu
- “Selin That Has Grown in the Desert” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
- “The Curse of Chimère” by Tony Pi
- “Tanglefoot” by Cherie Priest
- “Ticktock Girl” by Cat Rambo
- “Edison’s Frankenstein” by Chris Roberson
- “The Governess and the Lobster” by Margaret Ronald
- “I Stole the D.C.’s Eyeglass” by Sofia Samatar
- “The Clockworks of Hanyang” by Gord Sellar
- “The Return of Cherie” by Nisi Shawl
- “Five Hundred and Ninety-Nine” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew, original
- “Green Eyed Monsters in the Valley of Sky, An Opera” by E. Catherine Tobler, original
- “Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn
- “Terrain” by Genevieve Valentine
- “A Mouse Ran up the Clock” by AC Wise
- “Anna in the Moonlight” by Jonathan Wood, original
It also features an introduction by Ann VanderMeer.
Also, “A Sweet Calling” (originally in Clarkesworld Magazine) will be reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry (info below via SF Signal):
Here’s the book description:
This is a stellar collection of short fantasy fiction from authors who have made an impact over the last decade, along with some bestselling favourites. These stories of life-and-death struggles and magical force, used for good and evil, by Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tanith Lee, K. J. Parker, Carrie Vaughn and many others provide thrills and entertainment aplenty.
Here’s the table of contents…
- “Small Magic” by Jay Lake
- “King Rainjoy’s Tears” by Chris Willrich
- “A Rich Full Week” by K.J. Parker
- “The Woman in Scarlet” by Tanith Lee
- “Flotsam” by Bradley P. Beaulieu
- “A Warrior’s Death” by Aliette de Bodard
- “A Siege of Cranes” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- “Fox Bones. Many Uses.” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
- “Where Virtue Lives” by Saladin Ahmed
- “The Effigy Engine: A Tale of the Red Hats” by Scott Lynch
- “Strife Lingers in Memory” by Carrie Vaughn
- “A Sweet Calling” by Tony Pi
- “The Nacromancer” by N.K. Jemisin
- “Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
- “Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “Wearaway and Flambeau” by Matthew Hughes
- “At the Edge of Dying” by Mary Robinette Kowal
- “Vici” by Naomi Novik
- “Abjure the Realm” by Elizabeth Bear
- “The Word of Azrael” by Matthew David Surridge
- “Lady of the Ghost Willow” by Richard Parks
- “The Singing Spear” by James Enge
- “So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen” by Genevieve Valentine
- “Warrior Dreams” by Cinda Williams Chima
- “The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories” by Christie Yant
Book info as per Amazon US:
- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Running Press (November 11, 2014)
- ISBN-10: 0762454660
- ISBN-13: 978-0762454662
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Sale: “No Sweeter Art” to Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Beneath Ceaseless Skies has accepted my short story, “No Sweeter Art” for publication (likely appearing this fall). This is a sequel to “A Sweet Calling” (but can be read as a standalone as well).
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“The Marotte” in On Spec
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Tesseracts 18
My poem, “A Hex, With Bees”, will be appearing in Tesseracts 18!
Here’s the press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods” edited by Liana K and Jerome Stueart
Faith in Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology
ISBN: 978-1-77053-068-3 (Trade Paperback 5.5″ X 8.5″)
E-BOOK: e-ISBN: 978-1-77053-069-0 To be released April, 2015
Authors announced for the latest volume of the prestigious Canadian speculative fiction anthology series.
(Calgary, Alberta) EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing is pleased to announce the names of the contributing authors for the forthcoming edition of the prestigious Tesseract series.
“Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods” will include works by: Robert J. Sawyer, Matthew Hughes, Alyxandra Harvey, Halli Lilburn, Derwin Mak, J.M. Frey, Steve Stanton, Megan Fennell, Jen Laface and Andrew Czarnietzki, S. L. Nickerson, John Park, Janet K. Nicolson, Suzanne M. McNabb, Allan Weiss, Savithri Machiraju, Carla Richards, Mary-Jean Harris, James Bambury, Mary Pletsch, David Jón Fuller, and Jennifer Rahn, Erling Friis-Baastad, David Fraser, John Bell, David Clink and Tony Pi -27 of the biggest names and brightest rising stars in Canadian science-fiction and fantasy.
This latest volume of the Tesseracts series contains tales of creative and religious diversity – a trending topic in books and movies. The stories and poems draw from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism and the beliefs of Indigenous Canadians, (as well as actually creating faiths and religions of other worlds).
“Any anthology that starts with a story called ‘Mecha-Jesus’ is clearly not a traditional look at religion” says EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publisher, Brian Hades. “This robotic savior is joined by the Hindu god Ganesh trying to break into Bollywood, the Sun God Ra discovering Coronation Street, a priest on Mars, a vampire in residential schools, and a woman with a secret under her hijab. ‘Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods’ definitely contains many surprises!”
As in past versions of the Tesseract series, the editors are handpicked by the publisher. “Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods” is edited by widely-published sci-fi/fantasy author and writing teacher Jerome Stueart — who is a gay Baptist from the Yukon Territory — and “perfect heathen” media personality Liana Kerzner — who is best known as Liana K.
“Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods” is a lively, thoughtful interfaith/interpath anthology of creative and religious diversity – with a speculative fiction and fantasy twist!
ABOUT THE TESSERACTS SERIES:
The first Tesseracts anthology was edited by Judith Merril. Since its publication in 1985, 299 authors/editors/translators and guests have contributed 502 pieces of Canadian speculative fiction, fantasy and horror for this series. Some of Canada’s best known speculative fiction writers have been published within the pages of these volumes – including Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Robert J. Sawyer, and Spider Robinson (to name a few). Tesseracts Eighteen is the forthcoming volume in the series. The entire series includes Tesseracts One through Eighteen, plus Tesseracts Q, which features translations of works by some of Canada’s top francophone writers of science fiction and fantasy.
“Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods” will be released by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing in Apil 2015
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“Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods” edited by Liana K and Jerome Stueart
ISBN: 978-1-77053-068-3 (Trade Paperback 5.5″ X 8.5″)
E-BOOK: e-ISBN: 978-1-77053-069-0
http://www.edgewebsite.com/books/tess18/t18-catalog.html
For interview opportunities please contact:
Janice Shoults, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
http://www.edgewebsite.com
403.254.0160
Tony Pi, F&SF Writer 