Small San Francisco publisher nurtures Jewish sci-fi tradition
From JWeekly:
Had Aldous Huxley needed a publisher as a protagonist in “Brave New World,” he might have invented Jacob Weisman — a playwright’s son and printer’s grandson seemingly bred and conditioned, as in Huxley’s 1931 dystopian novel, to devote his life to publishing science fiction and fantasy literature.
As a first-grader, Weisman produced a comic book fanzine on his San Francisco elementary school’s mimeograph machine. Beginning in high school, he published The Thirteenth Moon science fiction and fantasy magazine for about 15 years.
That led to his 1995 formation of Tachyon, the San Francisco-based publisher of science fiction and fantasy that last November celebrated its 20th anniversary of publishing critically acclaimed anthologies, short-story collections, novels and novellas.
