|
J. Brian Clarke Wins Inaugural A.E. Van Vogt Award |
 |
 |
 |
|
Written by Steve Stanton
|
|
Sunday, 03 February 2013 14:26 |
|
 J. Brian Clarke of Calgary, Alberta has won the inaugural A.E. Van Vogt Award for his novel Alphanauts along with a $1200 honorarium sponsored by the Winnipeg Science Fiction Society. The annual award is designed to honour a work of science fiction from an author in Western Canada.
"After nearly fifty years in suspended animation a crew of human space explorers return to Earth, only to discover a medical side effect that prevents them remaining on their home planet. Now, in a desperate bid for survival, they must return to space and attempt to colonize an alien world under an alien sun." (Edge Publishing)
Alphanauts
|
|
Last Updated on Sunday, 03 February 2013 15:14 |
|
|
Inner Diverse Book 2 of The Splintered Universe Trilogy Now in Bookstores |
|
|
|
|
Written by Nina Munteanu
|
|
Saturday, 19 January 2013 08:29 |
|
 Book Two of Nina Munteanu's Splintered Universe Trilogy, Inner Diverse, was released by Starfire on December 13th 2012 and is now in bookstores.
In Book Two of this metaphysical space thriller trilogy, detective Rhea Hawke continues her quest for truth and justice in a world that is not what it seems. Rhea's relentless search takes her to the far reaches of the known universe from the treacherous Boiling Seas of the Weeping Mountains of Horus to the blistering deserts of Upsilon 3. Amidst the turmoil of an imminent extra-galactic war, Rhea holds the key even as those she trusts betray her.
Cover art for Inner Diverse was done by Costi Gurgu, 2012 Aurora Award finalist for his cover art for Outer Diverse. Costi is eligible for the 2013 Aurora Award for Best Artist for his work on Inner Diverse. |
|
Last Updated on Sunday, 03 February 2013 08:41 |
|
Written by Steve Stanton
|
|
Friday, 26 October 2012 06:14 |
|
 "This elegantly written SF series features believable characters and powerful situations. Stanton wastes no words in his approach to language, creating a deceptively simple style that is both appealing and lucid." -- Library Journal
The thrilling conclusion of the Bloodlight Chronicles trilogy.
Set in a world where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a blood-transmitted virus with rejuvenating effects has become a black-market staple, forcing infected “Eternals” into a tightly knit underground where they must hack the V-space for food and shelter. After their leader, Helena Sharp, begins to mysteriously degenerate and flees, the Eternal community is thrown into chaos, fearing that their immortality has ended.
When the young clone Niko discovers that her gifted daughter carries the future heritage of humanity in her augmented DNA, she travels home to confront her progenitor, Phillip Davis, with a litany of experimental abuse. Phillip has fully integrated his persona with the AI Beast who controls V-space, and with the aid of a charismatic avatar, he embarks on a program of manipulation and control that will redefine the boundaries of death and consciousness.
An interview with Steve Stanton is now online at Open Book Ontario.
An interview in his role as President of SF Canada is now online at CBC Books: Canada Writes.
A "writing tip" to career novelists is online as part of Sci-Fi Odyssey.
The Bloodlight Chronicles: Redemption is available wherever great books are sold, and via payday direct from ECWpress.com.
|
|
SF Canada Partners with CBC Books |
|
|
|
|
Written by Steve Stanton
|
|
Monday, 22 October 2012 07:19 |
Six sci-fi novelists from SF Canada have united to serve as readers in an upcoming Sci-Fi Twitter Challenge at CBC Books: Canada Writes on Wed. Oct. 24. Matthew Hughes, Edward Willett, Hayden Trenholm, Alison Sinclair, Lynda Williams and Steve Stanton will compile a shortlist for publication from thousands of tweets during 12 hours from 9 am to 9 pm Eastern time. The theme of the Sci-Fi Odyssey Twitter Challenge will be released by Canada Writes on Wednesday morning to kick off the day. A surprise celebrity judge will decide the Final winner of an iPod Touch from the SF Canada shortlist. Other featured SFC authors during the Sci-Fi Odyssey include Cory Doctorow, Helen Marshall and Nina Munteanu. Visit CBC Books: Canada Writes for updates! |
|
Last Updated on Monday, 22 October 2012 08:31 |
|
CZP Launches John Park's JANUS |
|
|
|
|
Written by John Park
|
|
Monday, 24 September 2012 23:32 |
|
John Park’s novel Janus was launched by CZP on September 22 at Can*Con in Ottawa.
Psychological drama, mystery, Janus is both violent and lyrical as it follows conflicts of love and identity to a bitter climax and a somberly optimistic conclusion.
In the near future, Jon Grebbel arrives on the colony world of Janus and finds himself without memory of his life on Earth. It seems the journey has caused memory loss in many of Janus’s colonists. While Grebbel wants to start his new life, he wants his memory back, and starts treatments to restore his past. But he begins to doubt the glimpses of the past they reveal.
He meets Elinda, an earlier arrival, whose lover, Barbara, vanished and then was found lying in the woods apparently brain-damaged. Elinda has also lost her memories of Earth, but unlike Grebbel has abandoned the effort to recover them. Now their meeting brings them a glimpse of an experience they shared back on Earth. . . .
“In the tradition of Delany, Sturgeon, and Le Guin, but taking his place among contemporary voices like Watts, Vonarburg, Schroeder, and Huff, John Park brings strength, intelligence, and grace of narrative to bear in this novel of relationship and estrangement.”
—Candas Jane Dorsey, author of Black Wine and A Paradigm of Earth,
and winner of the Aurora, Tiptree, and Crawford Awards
Listed by Kirkus among "worthy runners-up" for the "can't-miss" fantasy and science fiction books of October 2012.
where to buy Janus: http://chizinepub.com/books/janus.php
|
|
Last Updated on Saturday, 06 October 2012 18:05 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Page 3 of 14 |
Copyright © 2013 SF Canada. All Rights Reserved.
|
|
Ads by Google
|
