Jacob Weisman Explained

Jacob Astrov Weisman
Birth Date:	23 February 1965
Known For:	founding Tachyon Publications
Occupation:	Science fiction Publisher and Editor

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,)
• Hellhounds co-authored with David Sandner (November, 2022 Fairwood Press,)

Editor

• The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (co-edited with David G. Hartwell, 2012)
• The Treasury of the Fantastic (co-edited with David Sandner, 2013)
• Invaders: 22 Stories From the Outer Limits of Literature (2016)
• The New Voices of Fantasy (co-edited with Peter S. Beagle, 2017)
• The Unicorn Anthology (co-edited with Peter S. Beagle, 2019)
• The New Voices of Science Fiction (co-edited with Hannu Rajaniemi, 2019)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jacob Weisman . SF Editor's Watch.
2. Web site: World Fantasy Awards 2018 World Fantasy Convention . 2018-11-13 . www.worldfantasy.org . en-US.
3. Web site: About Tachyon . 2022-10-08 . Tachyon Publications . en-US.
4. Web site: The Rumpus Interview With Jacob Weisman .
5. Web site: SF in SF homepage .