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. His first novel, Egyptian Motherlode, co-written with David Sandner, was published in 2024.
Weisman received the World Fantasy Award in 2018 for the anthology The New Voices of Fantasy (co-edited with Peter S. Beagle). He was also nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1998, 1999, 2009 and 2010 for his work at Tachyon.
He was raised and currently 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 Cliff Winnig.
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Egyptian Motherlode co-authored with David Sandner (November, 2024 Fairwood Press, ) 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)
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