Marty Halpern
From SFeditors
Marty Halpern is a two-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award-Professional for his work with Golden Gryphon Press. (“It’s an honor just to be nominated...” Feh!) His career with Golden Gryphon began in August 1999 when he acquired author Richard Paul Russo’s short fiction collection, Terminal Visions, for publication the following year. In his eight years with Golden Gryphon Press, Marty edited 23 ½ hardcovers, 4 limited edition chapbooks, and 4 reprint trade paperbacks. The “½” hardcover is original anthology The Silver Gryphon (marking the press’s twenty-fifth book, 2003), which he co-edited with publisher Gary Turner.
Included in those other 23 books are: two Charles Stross “Bob Howard/The Laundry” titles—The Atrocity Archives (2004) and The Jennifer Morgue (2006); the first Stross book contained original story “The Concrete Jungle,” which won the 2005 Hugo Award for best novella; Jeffrey Ford’s first two collections—The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant and Other Stories (2002) and The Empire of Ice Cream (2006); both collections received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and both were selected for PW’s best SF/F books of the year list; The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant went on to win the 2003 World Fantasy Award for best single-author collection, and original story “Botch Town,” included in The Empire of Ice Cream, won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for best novella. Marty also acquired and edited M. Rickert’s first collection (and first book), Map of Dreams, which won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for best collection as well as the 2007 William L. Crawford Fantasy Award.
Marty now freelances, working for independent publishers, including Night Shade Books and Tachyon Publications. He is very enthusiastic about two forthcoming titles that he has edited: Mark Teppo’s Lightbreaker (book one of the Codex of Souls, Night Shade Books, November 2008) and Andrew Fox’s The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501 (Tachyon Publications, April 2009).
Marty Halpern has also co-edited (with Claude Lalumière) an anthology of sardonic fiction entitled Witpunk (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), and with co-editor Nick Gevers, he has two original anthologies currently submitted to publishers—Is Anyone Out There? (Fermi’s Paradox) and Dream Cities (radical urban fantasy).
In addition to his work as an acquisitions editor/book editor/copyeditor, Marty Halpern has written a series of columns entitled “The Perfect Sentence,” which was published in The Valley Scribe, the newsletter of the San Fernando Valley chapter of the California Writers Club. And in 2004, he was a guest faculty at the East of Eden Writers Conference in Salinas, California.
Marty Halpern currently resides in San Jose, California, and occasionally emerges from his inner sanctum to attend conventions.
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[edit] Books edited
[edit] 2000
Richard Paul Russo, Terminal Visions — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, September.
Michael Bishop, Blue Kansas Sky: Four Short Novels of Memory, Magic, Surmise & Estrangement — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, October.
[edit] 2001
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stories for an Enchanted Afternoon — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, May.
Kevin J. Anderson, Dogged Persistence — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, June.
Paul Di Filippo, Strange Trades — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, October.
[edit] 2002
George Zebrowski, Swift Thoughts — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, April.
Jeffrey Ford, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, June. (Winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for best single-author collection; one of Publishers Weekly 's best science fiction and fantasy books of the year.)
Kage Baker, Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, September.
Alastair Reynolds, Turquoise Days — limited edition chapbook; a story set in the "Revelation Space" universe. Golden Gryphon Press, September.
[edit] 2003
Witpunk: Stories with Attitude, edited by Claude Lalumière and Marty Halpern — an anthology of sardonic fiction, half original and half reprint stories. Four Walls Eight Windows, April.
Lucius Shepard, Louisiana Breakdown — novella. Golden Gryphon Press, April. (Winner of the 2004 International Horror Guild Award for best long fiction.)
The Silver Gryphon, edited by Gary Turner and Marty Halpern — a non-themed anthology of original stories, all by Golden Gryphon Press authors. Golden Gryphon Press, May.
Howard Waldrop, A Better World's in Birth! — limited edition chapbook. Golden Gryphon Press, May.
Michael Bishop, Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, June. (Finalist for the 2004 Townsend Prize: outstanding fiction published by a Georgia resident.) Cover art by Jamie Bishop.
George Alec Effinger, Budayeen Nights — collection; stories set in the world of "Marîd Audran." Golden Gryphon Press, September.
Kage Baker, The Angel in the Darkness — limited edition chapbook; a story of the "Company." Golden Gryphon Press, October.
[edit] 2004
Lucius Shepard, Two Trains Running — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, March.
Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives — novel plus novella, first in the Bob Howard/The Laundry series. Golden Gryphon Press, May. (The included original story "The Concrete Jungle" won the 2005 Hugo Award for best novella.)
Jeff VanderMeer, Secret Life — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, June.
Robert Reed, Mere — limited edition chapbook; a story set in the "Marrow" universe. Golden Gryphon Press, September.
Pamela Sargent, Thumbprints — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, October.
[edit] 2005
George Alec Effinger, Live! From Planet Earth — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, May.
Liz Williams, Snake Agent — novel, first in the Detective Inspector Chen series. Night Shade Books, September.
Richard Bowes, From the Files of the Time Rangers — mosaic novel. Golden Gryphon Press, October.
Robert Reed, The Cuckoo's Boys — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, November.
[edit] 2006
Jeffrey Ford, The Empire of Ice Cream — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, April. (One of Publishers Weekly's best science fiction and fantasy books of the year; the included original story "Botch Town" won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for best novella.)
Ray Manzarek, Snake Moon — yes, that Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The Doors; novel. Night Shade Books, April.
Lucius Shepard, The Golden — reprint novel. Golden Gryphon Press, April.
Neal Asher, Prador Moon — a novel of the Polity. Night Shade Books, May.
Liz Williams, The Demon and the City — novel, second in the Detective Inspector Chen series. Night Shade Books, August.
Jay Lake, Trial of Flowers — novel, first in the City Imperishable series. Night Shade Books, September.
Alastair Reynolds, Zima Blue and Other Stories — collection. Night Shade Books, September.
M. Rickert, Map of Dreams — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, October. (Winner of the 2007 William L. Crawford Fantasy Award; winner of the 2007 World Fantasy Award for best single-author collection.)
Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue — novel plus short story, second in the Bob Howard/The Laundry series. Golden Gryphon Press, November.
Matthew Hughes, Majestrum: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn — novel, first in the series. Night Shade Books, November.
[edit] 2007
George Alec Effinger, A Thousand Deaths — contains the novel The Wolves of Memory plus seven additional Sandor Courane stories. Golden Gryphon Press, June.
Liz Williams, Precious Dragon — novel, third in the Detective Inspector Chen series. Night Shade Books, June.
Matthew Hughes, The Spiral Labyrinth: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn — novel, second in the series. Night Shade Books, September.
Elizabeth Moon, Moon Flights — collection. Night Shade Books, September.
Bruce McAllister, The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories — collection. Golden Gryphon Press, October.
James Patrick Kelly, Burn — novella. Tachyon Publications, November. (Winner of the 2007 Nebula Award for best novella.)
[edit] 2008
Neal Asher, Shadow of the Scorpion — a novel of the Polity. Night Shade Books, June.
Jeffrey Ford, The Physiognomy — reprint novel, first in the Well-Built City trilogy. Golden Gryphon Press, October.
Jeffrey Ford, Memoranda — reprint novel, second in the Well-Built City trilogy. Golden Gryphon Press, November.
Jeffrey Ford, The Beyond — reprint novel, third in the Well-Built City trilogy. Golden Gryphon Press, November.
[edit] 2009
Liz Williams, The Shadow Pavilion — novel, fourth in the Detective Inspector Chen series. Night Shade Books, January.
Nathalie Mallet, The King's Daughters — novel, second in the Prince Amir series. Night Shade Books, January.
Mark Teppo, Lightbreaker: The First Book of the Codex of Souls — novel, first in the series. Night Shade Books, January.
Matthew Hughes, Hespira: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn — novel, third in the series. Night Shade Books, February.
Andrew Fox, The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501 — Tachyon Publications, March.
Liz Williams, Iron Khan — novel, fifth in the Detective Inspector Chen series. Night Shade Books, TBD.
Mark Teppo, Heartland: The Second Book of the Codex of Souls — novel, second in the series. Night Shade Books, TBD.
