Do you know that terrifying feeling of knowing that you are about to fall right before you fall?
The time between the realisation and the fall is of just a few seconds so you can't really prevent yourself from falling.
The fall for me isn't as bad as the terror of the knowledge that I am about to fall and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it.
Actually, I am wrong. There is one thing in that second I can manage to do.
I can break my fall.
That's what 'falling in the right way' is called.
It still hurts, but less.
It will give you bruises but won't break any bones.
It's damage control.
But how do you break your fall when you're falling in love?
Happy birthday to National Book Award finalist Michael Cadnum
The author of more than thirty books for adults, teens and children, Michael Cadnum is best know for his adult suspense fiction and young adult fiction based on myths, legends, and historical figures. His acclaimed novels include Calling Home (1991 Edgar Award nominee), Breaking The Fall (1992 Edgar Award nominee), The Crusader trilogy (The Book Of The Lion [2000, National Book Award finalist, a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, and an Owl Creek Book Award winner], The Leopard Sword [2002], The Dragon Throne [2005]), A Dark Wood, Flash (2010), and Seize The Storm (2012).
His numerous short fiction has been collected in CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES (2006) and Earthquake Murder (2018). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Helen Bullis Prize for his poetry, Cadnum’s many books of poems include This Early Dark (2016), The Woman Who Discovered Math (2001), By Evening (1992), and Long Afternoons (1986). His short stories “Daphne” and “Can’t Catch Me” were both performed as one-act plays.
All of us at Tachyon wish Michael a very happy birthday.
For more information about CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES, visit the Tachyon page.
Celebrate National Book Award finalist Michael Cadnum’s birthday with the release of the Particle Books CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES
The author of more than thirty books for adults, teens and children, Michael Cadnum is best know for his adult suspense fiction and young adult fiction based on myths, legends, and historical figures. His acclaimed novels include The Book Of The Lion (a National Book Award finalist, a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, and an Owl Creek Book Award winner), Calling Home (Edgar Award nominee), Breaking The Fall (Edgar Award nominee), A Dark Wood, The Leopard Sword, Flash, and Seize The Storm.
Cadnum’s numerous short fiction has been collected in CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES and Earthquake Murder. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Helen Bullis Prize for his poetry, his many books of poems include This Early Dark, The Woman Who Discovered Math, By Evening, and Long Afternoons. Cadnum’s short stories "Daphne" and "Can’t Catch Me" were both performed as one-act plays.
In honor of this day, CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES joins Tachyon’s Particle Books e-book imprint. The first time digital edition of this collection is is now available through the Tachyon site or any major digital retailer.
“Turns the familiar on its head, from basilisk to gingerbread man, and makes you forget, for a few charmed moments, that these aren’t quite the tales you thought you knew.”
—Patricia A. McKillip, author of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and Wonders of the Invisible World
All of us at Tachyon wish Michael a very happy birthday.
Tachyon’s Particle Books e-book imprint highlights excellent imaginative fiction. The titles, or Particles, include both young adult and adult fiction; subgenres will include science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, and thrillers.
Lovingly-curated, the Particles are a dynamic mix of original, newly-collected, hard to find, and out-of-print material.
Particle Books was named as an homage to the faster-than-light (and as of now hypothetical) tachyon particle, perhaps best known from Star Trek.
Over the next couple of months, the first wave of extraordinary titles from Mary Shelley, Joe R. Lansdale, James Morrow, Jane Yolen, and James Patrick Kelly will hit the virtual shelves.
For more information about CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES, visit the Tachyon page.
