In November 2014, Tanith Lee wrote this dedication for her collection Dancing Through the Fire (which Fantastic Books published in September 2015): "To Philae-and her Mother-Ship, Rosetta-Who danced through the fire, the ice, the dust and the shadow, to bring about the first landing… On a Comet."

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day has something ( Read more... )

Exciting news! Tanith Lee's collection Dancing Through the Fire is a finalist for the 2016 Locus Award for Best Collection. Complete list of nominees is listed on this page.

And in other pleasant news, both Tanith Lee's Dancing Through the Fire and Tom Purdom's Romance on Four Worlds made the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List in the category of Collections (sharing with 23 other collections). Very excited for my authors!

Nebula nomination season is open. Hugo nomination season will be opening soon. And there are a slew of other awards you may be participating in.

In September, Fantastic Books published Tanith Lee's collection Dancing Through the Fire, which has several brand new stories, including the novelette "Burn Her." Publishers Weekly called the novelette " ( Read more... )

Just found a copy of the October issue of Locus, which has a review of Tanith Lee's Dancing Through the Fire. Not skimping on words, Faren Miller makes it quite clear that she likes both the book and Tanith Lee. In part, she says "Dancing Through the Fire, subtitled 'A Collection of Stories in Five Moves', is no random gathering. Tanith Lee ( Read more... )

I'm temporarily back home, but leaving again Friday, this time for Capclave. If you're going to be in the Gaithersburg, Maryland, area, check out this good science fiction convention that focuses on the written stuff. And if you're there looking for me, I'll be in the dealers' room at the Fantastic Books table (Friday, 4-7pm; Saturday 10am-6pm; and ( Read more... )

It's release day for Dancing Through the Fire (and yes, I know Saturday is an odd day to do a book release, but today would have been author Tanith Lee's 68th birthday). I think I've said all I ought to about the book, but I do want to point out Publishers Weekly's review, which points to "the stunning new piece 'Burn Her,' in which a dead painter' ( Read more... )

Just found the Publishers Weekly review of Tanith Lee's Dancing Through the Fire (official publication date: September 19th), scant days too late to quote it on the cover of the book. PW says, in part, "Lee's decadent, Gothic-inflected pieces range from delicate fantasias about the whims of a personified death to straightforward, suspenseful sword- ( Read more... )

It's one of our reprinted public domain titles (although with a new introductory essay by editor Darrell Schweitzer), but the Midwest Book Review has just recommended The Heads of Cerberus by Francis Stevens, writing, in part "This novel should be much more available than it has been. It does stereotype its characters, but the author stayss away ( Read more... )

Just discovered that Intergalactic Medicine Show reviewed two of our books... in May. Of Allen Steele's Tales of Time and Space, reviewer Alvaro Zinos-Amaro said "The collection is... a robust sampler of Steele's recent work... these stories are richly ideated and neatly conceived.... History, and an acute perception of the passage of time, pulse ( Read more... )