This is the inaugural post of a monthly series rounding up forthcoming works by SF Canada members. In August 2010, look for ...

• Little Things, a short story collection by John Little, due out from Bad Moon Books.
• "Exegesis of the Insecta Apocrypha", a short story by Colleen Anderson, in Horror Library Volume 4, due out from Cutting Block Press.
• Spanish translations of two stories by Steve Stanton: "Timestealer" in Alfa Eridiani in Spain, and "Perfect Match" in Axxón in Argentina.
• The paperback edition of Template, a novel by Matt Hughes, released by Piazo publishing. 
• Opus 4: An Okal Rel Universe Anthology, edited by Shelia Flesher and Lynda Williams, released direct to Amazon.com by Absolute XPress.
• Lizards in the Sky: Animals Where You Least Expect Them, a children's science book by Claire Eamer, from Annick Press.

Brent Knowles has two new stories out in the last couple of months.

"The Kol Effect" appeared in Neo-Opsis #19 and "John's List" was included in the anthology War of the Worlds: Frontlines by Northern Frights Publishing.

Matt Watts, Greg DeClute and Joe Mahoney have completed production of a half hour pilot for a proposed new science fiction radio play series on CBC Radio called "Nightsoil: Into the Beyond of the Future of Tomorrow."

If accepted by CBC Radio's programming department, Nightsoil would continue the new wave of science fiction comedy begun in 2005 on CBC Radio by Matt and Joe with Steve the First, Steve the Second, and later Canadia:2056 (with Greg DeClute).

In the future, 98% of the world's population live in a computer simulation called Next Life.  The other 2%, stuck in the real world, spend their miserable lives looking after the inhabitants of Next Life.  Nightsoil is the story of one man's dream of entering the wondrous world of Next Life, reuniting with his childhood sweetheart, and living happily ever after. 

If only Next Life were that easy...

Consistently funny, sometimes serious, yet always entertaining, Nightsoil: Into the Beyond of the Future of Tomorrow has everything: relevancy, mass appeal, and perhaps most importantly, a really long title.