30 Years of Tachyon

Tachyon Publi­cations is celebrating 30 years of operation in 2025, with numerous events planned.

The San Francisco Public Library will host an exhibition of Tachyon books, historical photos, and documents. Tachyon will host an anniver­sary party, open to the public, at the library on October 5, 2025. Attendees will receive a limited-edition commemorative chapbook. Tachyon will also give away ebooks to news­letter subscribers. They plan a virtual salon with Tachyon authors, artists, and editors, and numerous panels and program items at 2025 conventions.

Jacob Weisman founded the press in 1995 with the intention of bringing beloved classics into print, but soon began publishing original work, including by Peter S. Beagle and Patricia A. McKillip. In 2002, Weisman hired his first employee, Jill Roberts, as managing editor, and they secured national distri­bution soon afterward. Now the team has six members, including editor Jaymee Goh, lead designer Elizabeth Story, publicity manager Rick Klaw, and publicist Kasey Lansdale, and they’ve published over 220 books by authors including by Ellen Datlow, Nalo Hopkinson, Marjorie Liu, Samantha Mills, Brandon Sand­erson, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, and Peter Watts, among others. Their titles have won Hugo, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Mythopoeic, Locus, Sidewise, Dick, and Nebula Awards, among other honors.

2025 titles include a 30th anniversary edi­tion of Patricia A. McKillip’s The Book of Atrix Wolfe and career retrospective The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Pat Murphy’s The Adventures of Mary Darling, collections by Theodora Goss and Joe Lansdale, and a new middle-grade novel by Daniel Pinkwater, The Adventures of Mary Darling, and more. For more: <tachyonpublications.com>.

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