Jacob Weisman
Jacob Astrov Weisman | |
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Born | (1965-02-23) February 23, 1965 (age 59) |
Occupation(s) | Science fiction Publisher and Editor |
Known for | founding Tachyon Publications |
Jacob Astrov Weisman (born February 23, 1965) is an American editor of science fiction and fantasy. He founded Tachyon Publications, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction, in 1995.[1] His writing has appeared in The Nation, Realms of Fantasy, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Seattle Weekly, The Cooper Point Journal, and in the college textbook, Sport in Contemporary Society, edited by D. Stanley Eitzen.
Weisman received the World Fantasy Award in 2018 for the anthology The New Voices of Fantasy (co-edited with Peter S. Beagle).[2] He was also nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1999, 2009 and 2010 for his work at Tachyon.[3][4]
He lives in San Francisco, where he and his wife Rina Weisman run the SF in SF (Science Fiction in San Francisco) reading series along with moderators Terry Bisson and Cliff Winnig.[5]
Bibliography
- Mingus Fingers co-authored with David Sandner (November, 2019 Fairwood Press, ISBN 978-1-933846-87-3)
- Hellhounds co-authored with David Sandner (November, 2022 Fairwood Press, ISBN 978-1-958880-02-9)
Editor
- The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (co-edited with David G. Hartwell, 2012) ISBN 978-1-61696-069-8
- The Treasury of the Fantastic (co-edited with David Sandner, 2013) ISBN 978-1-61696-210-4
- Invaders: 22 Stories From the Outer Limits of Literature (2016) ISBN 978-1-61696-210-4
- The New Voices of Fantasy (co-edited with Peter S. Beagle, 2017) ISBN 978-1-61696-257-9
- The Unicorn Anthology (co-edited with Peter S. Beagle, 2019) ISBN 978-1-61696-315-6
- The New Voices of Science Fiction (co-edited with Hannu Rajaniemi, 2019) ISBN 978-1-61696-292-0
References
External links
- Jacob Weisman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- The Architecture of Fear by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (1988)
- The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1989)
- The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1990)
- Best New Horror by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (1991)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1992)
- MetaHorror by Dennis Etchison (1993)
- Full Spectrum 4 by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell (1994)
- Little Deaths by Ellen Datlow (1995)
- The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (1996)
- Starlight 1 by Patrick Nielsen Hayden (1997)
- Bending the Landscape: Fantasy by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (1998)
- Dreaming Down-Under by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (1999)
- Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)
- Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Thomas (2001)
- The Museum of Horrors by Dennis Etchison (2002)
- The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2003)
- Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker (2004)
- Acquainted with the Night by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden (2005)
- The Fair Folk by Marvin Kaye (2006)
- Salon Fantastique by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2007)
- Inferno by Ellen Datlow (2008)
- Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia (2009)
- American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now by Peter Straub (2010)
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer (2011)
- The Weird by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2012)
- Exotic Gothic 4 by Danel Olson (2013)
- Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (2014)
- Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (2015)
- She Walks in Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (2016)
- Dreaming in the Dark by Jack Dann (2017)
- The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (2018)
- Worlds Seen in Passing by Irene Gallo (2019)
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (2020)
- The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2021)
- The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2022)