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Jo Walton joins THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY contributors Eugene Fischer and Max Gladstone at the Scintillation, October 5-7 in Montreal, QC.

Scintillation is a small literary focused SF convention on the weekend of Canadian Thanksgiving, that is the 5th to 7th October 2018. All people of goodwill are welcome.

Please take note that registration is closed and that they will not be selling memberships at the door. If you wish to be put on their mailing list to receive information about future editions of Scintillation, please send a request to that effect to [email protected]

Eugene Fischer (photo: Angela Betancourt) and Max Gladstone

Scintillation offers a large selection of panels. To find any of these authors, check out the entire schedule on their site.

The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Ellen Klages (photo: Scott R. Kline), Michael Moorcock (A.V. CLUB), Eugene Fischer (Angela Betancourt), and Jeff VanderMeer (Kyle Cassiday)

THE FANCY HAT LADY READS includes Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS among Short Fiction Favorites (beginning at about 9:56).

LOCUS reports on the April SF in SF with Michael Moorcock.

SF in SF hosted Michael Moorcock at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco on April 9, 2018, coordinated by Rina Weisman and moderated by Terry Bisson. The event featured readings and signings, a Q&A session, a full bar, and time to mingle. Books were available for purchase thanks to Borderlands Books; Tachyon Publications sponsored the event. For more information, see the SF in SF website.

Jacob & Rina Weisman, Terry Bisson, Michael Moorcock. Photo by Arley Sorg

THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY contributor Eugene Fischer is a finalist for the 2018 Ignotus Awards, given annually to the best Spanish science fiction and fantasy publications.

Foreign story

The spectrum of the abbot by Louisa May Alcott (ed. Pulpture)

"The sea of ​​trees" by Rachel Swirsky (in Dark Fantasies (ed. Sportula))

"The October film show: Under the House" by Michael Wehunt (in A Better Place (ed.Dilating minds))

New mother by Eugene Fischer (ed. Cerbero)

"Three cups of affliction in the light of the stars" by Aliette de Bodard (in Tales for Algernon)

For THE ATLANTIC, Jeff VanderMeer in animated interview discusses how writing fiction about environmental crises may jolt readers out of complacency.

2016 Nebula Nomination Thoughts: Novellas

(I know, I know, the Nebula ballot is yesterday’s news now that the Hugo nominations were released yesterday, but I refuse to touch at least half of that ballot with a ten-foot pole.) I’ve been slowly making my way through the Nebula ballot in the short fiction categories. I always intend to do it every year, and sometimes I even achieve it! This year I’m actually on track to finish, hopefully…

This week on Rich and Strange, I take a look at “The New Mother,” a novella by Eugene Fischer headlining the current issue of Asimov’s.

Tess Mendoza is a freelance journalist writing a high-profile piece on the social implications of Gamete Diploidy Syndrome, or GDS—a sexually transmitted medical condition that renders men sterile and causes fertile women, in the absence of hormonal birth…