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Name
  
Jacob Weisman

Role
  
Publisher


Spouse
  
Rina Weisman


Born
  
February 23, 1965 (age 59) (
1965-02-23
)

Occupation
  
Science fiction Publisher and Editor

Known for
  
founding Tachyon Publications

Nominations
  
World Fantasy Special Award—Professional

Organizations founded
  
Tachyon Publications

Jacob Weisman on publishing Michael Swanwick's Not So Much Said The Cat


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. 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. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1999, 2009 and 2010 for his work at Tachyon.

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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 moderator Terry Bisson.

Book Review: New Voices in Fantasy


Editor

  • The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (2012) ISBN 978-1-61696-069-8
  • The Treasury of the Fantastic (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

    • References

    Jacob Weisman Wikipedia
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