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Tangents & Tachyons

by J. Scott Coatsworth

Tangents & Tachons - J. Scott Coatsworth
Editions:Kindle - First Edition: $ 3.99
Pages: 184
Paperback - First: $ 12.99
Size: 8.50 x 5.50 in
Pages: 184

Tangents & Tachyons is Scott's second anthology - six sci fi and sci-fantasy shorts that run the gamut from time travel to hopepunk and retro spec fic:

Eventide: Tanner Black awakes to find himself in his own study, staring out the window at the end of the Universe. But who brought him there, and why?

Chinatown: Deryn lives in an old San Francisco department store with his girlfriend Gracie, and scrapes by with his talent as a dreamcaster for the Chinese overlords. But what if a dream could change the world?

Across the Transom: What if someone or something took over your body on an urgent mission to save your world?

Pareidolia: Simon's not like other college kids. His mind can rearrange random patterns to reveal the images lurking inside. But where did his strange gift come from? And what if there are others like him out there too?

Lamplighter: Fen has a crush on his friend Lewin, who's in a competing guild. But when the world goes dark, only a little illumination can save it. And only Fen, Lewin and their friend Alissa can light the spark. A Liminal Sky short.

Prolepsis: Sean is the closeted twenty-five-year-old editor of an 80's sci-fi 'zine called Prolepsis. When an unabashedly queer story arrives from a mysterious writer, it blows open Sean's closet door, and offers him the chance to change the world - and the future.

Plus two flash fiction stories – The System and The Frog Prince, never before published.

This is the first time all of these stories have all been collected in one place.

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Publisher: Other Worlds Ink
Cover Artists:
J. Scott Coatsworth, Kelley York

Genres:
Fantasy, Fantasy - High & Other World, Fantasy - LGBTQ+, Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Aliens, Sci Fi - Alternate / Parallel Reality, Sci Fi - Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi), Sci Fi - Cyberpunk, Sci Fi - Cyberspace, Sci Fi - Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic, Sci Fi - First Contact, Sci Fi - Galactic Empire, Sci Fi - Generation Ship, Sci Fi - Hard Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Hopepunk, Sci Fi - LGBTQ+, Sci Fi - Multiverse, Sci Fi - Near Future, Sci Fi - Romance, Sci Fi - Science Fantasy, Sci Fi - Time Travel, Sci Fi - Virtual Reality

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Tropes: Aliens Among Us, Ancient Weapon, Black and White Morality, Born Hero, Chosen One, Dystopian Governments, Fated Mates, First Contact, Fish Out of Water, Galactic Civilization, Generation Ships, Interstellar Travel, Killer Aliens, Magical Disaster, Modern Human in Fantasy World, Parallel Worlds, Portals, Possession, Post-Apocalyptic, Redemption Arc, Reluctant Hero, Sentient Spaceships, Time Travel
Word Count: 45000
Languages Available: English
Tropes: Aliens Among Us, Ancient Weapon, Black and White Morality, Born Hero, Chosen One, Dystopian Governments, Fated Mates, First Contact, Fish Out of Water, Galactic Civilization, Generation Ships, Interstellar Travel, Killer Aliens, Magical Disaster, Modern Human in Fantasy World, Parallel Worlds, Portals, Possession, Post-Apocalyptic, Redemption Arc, Reluctant Hero, Sentient Spaceships, Time Travel
Word Count: 45000
Languages Available: English
Excerpt:

About the Author

Scott lives with his husband of more than 30 years in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a little yellow house with a brick fireplace and a couple pink flamingoes out front. He has always inhabited the space between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine, he devoured her library. But as he grew up and read the golden age classics and more modern works as well, he began to wonder where all the people like him were.

After he came out at twenty three, he decided that it was time to create the kinds of stories he couldn’t find at Waldenbooks. If there weren’t many gay characters in his favorite genres, he would reimagine them himself, populating them with a diverse universe of characters. He would subvert them and remake them to his own ends. And if he was lucky enough, someone else would want to read the things he wrote.

His friends say Scott’s brain works a little differently – he sees relationships between things that others miss, and gets more done in a day than most folks manage in a week. Although he was born an introvert, he learned to reach outside himself and connect with others like him.

Scott writes stories that subvert expectations, that seek to transform traditional sci fi, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something new and unexpected. He also runs both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, sites that bring people like them together to promote and celebrate fiction that reflects their own reality.

His writing, whether romance or genre fiction (or a little bit of both) brings a queer energy to his stories, infusing them with love, beauty and power and making them soar. He imagines a world that could be, and in the process, maybe changes the world that is, just a little.

He was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel “Skythane” received two awards and an honorable mention.

He runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, and is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), where he ran the Indie Author Committee for almost three years.

You can find him at Goodreads here, on Amazon here, on QueeRomance Ink here, and on Facebook here.