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)
Book Two of Nina Munteanu’s Splintered Universe Trilogy, Inner Diverse, was released by Starfire on December 13th 2012 and is now in bookstores.
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.
John Park’s novel Janus was launched by CZP on September 22 at Can*Con in Ottawa.
SF Canada member Nina Munteanu has recently released her new historical time-travel fantasy, The Last Summoner, about a baroness from 1400 Poland who discovers she can alter history. “Vivianne Schoen, the young Baroness von Grunwald, makes the startling discovery that she can alter history – but not before she is branded a witch and must flee through a time-space tear. Now in an alternate France ruled by Teutonic Black Knights, she must decide how to remake history.”