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Tachyon Publications
Tachyon Publications is an independent press specializing in science fiction and fantasy books. Founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Jacob Weisman, Tachyon books have tended toward high-end literary works, short story collections, and anthologies. In 2013, Tachyon's publication ''After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall'' by Nancy Kress won the Nebula Award and Locus Award for best novella. Also in 2013, Tachyon's publication of ''The Emperor's Soul'' by Brandon Sanderson won the Hugo Award for best novella. From 1992-1994, Weisman also published ''Thirteenth Moon'' magazine, which featured short stories, poetry and essays by authors including Vicki Aron, Michael Astrov, M.J. Atkins, Simon Baker, Michael Bishop, Fred Branfman, Lela E. Buis, Paul Di Filippo, Linda Dunn, Alma Garcia, Lisa Goldstein, Brice Gorman, John Grey, Eva Hauser, Deborah Hunt, Knute Johnson, Lewis Jordan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Soon Lee, Pamela Lovell, David Nemec, Lyn Nichols, Robert Patrick, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A tachyon () or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics. If such particles did exist they could be used to send signals faster than light. According to the theory of relativity this would violate causality, leading to logical paradoxes such as the grandfather paradox. Tachyons would exhibit the unusual property of increasing in speed as their energy decreases, and would require infinite energy to slow down to the speed of light. No verifiable experimental evidence for the existence of such particles has been found. In the 1967 paper that coined the term, Gerald Feinberg proposed that tachyonic particles could be made from excitations of a quantum field with imaginary mass. However, it was soon realized that Feinberg's model did not in fact allow for superluminal (faster-than-light) particles or signals an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Goldstein
Lisa Goldstein (born Elizabeth Joy Goldstein on November 21, 1953) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whose work has been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. Her 1982 novel '' The Red Magician'' won a National Book Award in the one-year category Original Paperback"National Book Awards – 1983" . Retrieved 2012-03-08. and was praised by Philip K. Dick shortly before his death. Her 2011 novel, '' The Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Disch
Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others. In the 1960s, his work began appearing in science-fiction magazines. His critically acclaimed science fiction novels, ''The Genocides'', ''Camp Concentration'' and ''334'' are major contributions to the New Wave science fiction movement. In 1996, his book ''The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters'' was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in 1999, Disch won the Nonfiction Hugo for ''The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of'', a meditation on the impact of science fiction on our culture, as well as the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. Among his othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Watts (author)
Peter Watts (born January 25, 1958) is a Canadian science fiction author. He specializes in hard science fiction. He earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1991, from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist. He began publishing fiction around the time he finished graduate school. Career His first novel ''Starfish'' (1999) reintroduced Lenie Clarke from his short story, "A Niche" (1990); Clarke is a deep-ocean power station worker physically altered for underwater living and the main character in the sequels: ''Maelstrom'' (2001), ''βehemoth: β-Max'' (2004) and ''βehemoth: Seppuku'' (2005). The last two volumes constitute one novel, but were published separately for commercial reasons. ''Starfish'', ''Maelstrom'', and ''βehemoth'' make up a trilogy usually referred to as "Rifters" after the modified humans d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kage Baker
Kage Baker (June 10, 1952 – January 31, 2010Obituary: Kage Baker " SF Site, January 31, 2010) was an American and writer. Biography Baker was born and raised in , and lived in later in life. Before bec ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Murphy (writer)
Patrice Ann "Pat" Murphy (born March 9, 1955) is an American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels. Early life Murphy was born on March 9, 1955 in Washington state. Career Murphy has used the ideas of the absurdist pseudophilosophy pataphysics in some of her writings. Along with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she has formed The Brazen Hussies to promote their work. Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991. With her second novel, '' The Falling Woman'' (1986), she won the Nebula Award, and another Nebula Award in the same year for her novelette, "Rachel in Love." Her short story collection, ''Points of Departure'' (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Award, and her 1990 novella, '' Bones'', won the World Fantasy Award in 1991. From 1998 through 2018, Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty (a scientist and educator) jointly wrote the recurring 'Science' column in the '' Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter S
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fine And Private Place
''A Fine and Private Place'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Peter S. Beagle, the first of his major fantasies. It was first published in hardcover by Viking Press on May 23, 1960, followed by a trade paperback from Delta the same year. Frederick Muller Ltd. published the first United Kingdom hardcover in 1960, and a regular paperback followed from Corgi in 1963. The first U.S. mass market paperback publication was by Ballantine Books in 1969. The Ballantine edition was reprinted numerous times through 1988. More recently it has appeared in trade paperback editions from Souvenir Press (1997), Roc (1999), and Tachyon Publications (2007). The work has also appeared with other works by Beagle in the omnibus collections ''The Fantasy Worlds of Peter S. Beagle'' (1978) and ''The Last Unicorn / A Fine and Private Place'' (1991). It has also been translated into Japanese, German, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Portuguese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian. Plot The book take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Wightman
Wayne Wightman is an American science fiction writer. His short stories have been published in magazines such as ''Fantasy & Science Fiction'', '' Thirteenth Moon'', and ''Pulphouse''. They have been featured in the anthologies ''Future on Fire'', ''The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology'', and ''Imperial Stars, vol 2''. His short story collection, ''Ganglion'', was published in 1995 by Tachyon Publications. He received a BA and MA degree from San Francisco State University. He currently teaches creative writing at Modesto Junior College Modesto Junior College (MJC) is a public community college in Modesto, California. It is part of Yosemite Community College District along with Columbia College. MJC, and Columbia College, belong to the California Community College system al ... in Modesto, California. References External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American science fiction writers America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Toomay
Patrick Jay Toomay (born May 17, 1948) is a former professional football player, a defensive end for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Oakland Raiders. He played college football at Vanderbilt University and was selected in the sixth round of the 1970 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys. He is the author of books about professional football, including ''The Crunch'' and the 1984 novel ''On Any Given Sunday''. Early years One of four children of a U.S. Air Force officer, Toomay was born in California and lived various locations, including Hawaii, upstate New York, and northern Virginia. He attended Thomas Edison High School in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was an all-state player in football, basketball, and baseball, graduating in 1966. In football, he received high school All-American honors as a running quarterback. He accepted a football scholarship from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sandner
David Matthew Sandner (born 1966) is an author and editor of fantasy literature and a professor at California State University, Fullerton. Education and career Sandner has a master's degree from San Francisco State University and a doctorate from the University of Oregon. His doctoral thesis was titled ''The Fairy Way of Writing: Fantastic literature from the romance revival to Romanticism, 1712–1830'', and was completed in 2000. He is a professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton. Books Sandner's books include: Fiction *''Mingus Fingers'' (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2019) *''Hellhounds'' (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2022) Non-fiction *''The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-century Children's Fantasy Literature'' ( Greenwood, 1996) *''Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831'' (Ashgate, 2011), a two time Mythopoeic Awards finalist As editor * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Patrick
Robert Hammond Patrick (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor. Known for portraying villains and honorable authority figures, he is a Saturn Award winner with four other nominations. Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his interest in acting, and entered film in 1986. After playing a supporting role in ''Die Hard 2'' (1990), he came to prominence as the T-1000, the antagonist of '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991)—a role he reprised for cameo appearances in '' Wayne's World'' (1992) and ''Last Action Hero'' (1993). His other film credits include '' Fire in the Sky'' (1993), '' Striptease'' (1996), '' Cop Land'' (1997), ''The Faculty'' (1998), '' Spy Kids'' (2001), '' Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'' (2003), ''Ladder 49'' (2004), ''Walk the Line'' (2005), '' Flags of Our Fathers'' (2006), '' We Are Marshall'' (2006), '' Bridge to Terabithia'' (2007), '' The Men Who Stare at Goats'' (2009), and ''Safe House'' (2012). In television, Patrick played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
