SF Canada member, Susan Forest, was co-winner, along with Robert Walton of California, of The Galaxy Project, a novella contest with judges Robert Silverberg, David Drake and Barry Malzberg. Susan’s novella, “Lucy” is a story about difficulties terraforming a planet that already has a full ecosystem, when colonists manage to bring only a partial ecosystem from Earth.The winning novellas will be out in November, 2011 on Kindle for $1.99.
Category: works forthcoming
Two Sales to Analog
Susan Forest has recently sold two short stories to Analog Science Fiction and Fact. “Turning It Off” is a humourous short story that looks at the implications of wearing a personal shield to protect oneself from minor cuts and scrapes–with interesting consequences when the device is turned off. “The Most Invasive Species” is a novelette that explores the potentially tragic consequences of cultural interference when two sentient species meet. Watch for them in upcoming issues of Analog!
H.A. Hargreaves Work to be Published by Five Rivers
H.A. Hargreaves is one of Canada’s remarkable, one might even say legendary, speculative fiction writers. He is a retired professor of English, formerly at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), and was twice nominated (1982 and 1983) for the Lifetime Contributions category in the Prix Auroras. His collection of short stories, North by 2000, in its time received wide critical acclaim from both peers and periodicals.
Today Five Rivers is pleased to announce the rebirth of that remarkable collection of short stories by Hargreaves. This new edition, entitled North by 2000+, will feature not only all the quintessentially Canadian stories of the first edition, but five additional published short works, along with a foreword from the author, and an introduction by Dr. Robert Runte.
Cover design has been awarded to Jeff Minkevics.
North by 2000+ is scheduled for release by Five Rivers early in 2012, and will be available in print and digital formats worldwide.
Current and forthcoming works: December 2010 and January 2011
- “Flying Kite, Crashing Ship“, a “short time travel comedy” by Krista Ball, was released by MuseitUp Publishing.
- Edward Willett released Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, and its sequel, Andy Nebula: Double Trouble, through the Amazon Kindle store.
- Burning Days, a collection of short stories by Glenn Grant, has just been published by Nanopress.
- “Lover’s Triangle” by Colleen Anderson will be appearing in the reprint anthology New Vampire Tales edited by James Roy Daley, from Books of the Dead Press.
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia has short stories “Bloodlines” appearing in Fantasy Magazine and “Flash Frame” appearing in Cthulhurotica from Dagan Press.
- Sylvia Moreno-Garcia’s micro-press, Innsmouth Free Press, released its first book: Fraterfamilias, in December.
- Steve Stanton‘s short story “Perfect Match” was just published at Kasma Science Fiction and is upcoming in translation in Spin (Finland).
- Sandra Kasturi has a story, “The Coming of Ghosts” in Mike Kelly’s anthology/journal, Shadows & Tall Trees, and her short story, “Foxford,” is in the anthology Chilling Tales, which is now available for pre-order from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Press.
- Jennifer Rahn’s novel Wicked Initiations is forthcoming from Dragon Moon Publishing.
Forthcoming Works by SF Canada Members, November 2010
- From Stephanie Bedwell-Grime at Double Dragon Publishing, two releases this month, The Vampire Next Door, and The Dark Between, a science fiction novel.
- Jo Beverley has “The Marrying Maid”, a fantasy romance set in 18th century England, in Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star Crossed Love, an anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois.
- This month, Catherine MacLeod is the one who almost needs a list of her own with four short stories:
- “Hydden” in Tesseracts 14, edited by Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, coming out from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
- “Seepage” in The Best of TaleBones, edited by Patrick Swenson, and published by Fairwood Press
- “Stone” in Horror Library #4, from Cutting Block Press
- “Water Breaks” in On Spec, Fall 2010.
- John Park has “Nightward”, a short story, also in Tesseracts 14, from Edge.
- MD Benoit is bringing out Catalyst, a SF thriller, published by Zumaya Publications.
Forthcoming in October 2010 (plus some September)
Quite a few releases, through the rest of September and into October …
- “A Pearl of Great Price”, a short story by Leslie Brown, in Warrior Wisewoman 3, from Norilana Books.
- Two short stories by Rebecca Senese, “Wolf’s Bane” at Allegory Magazine, and “Body Double”, at Anotherealm.
- Collapse of the Veil, a YA novel by Alison Lohans, is headed for press at Bundoran Press.
- “Where the Wiffle Ball Went”, a short story by Geoff Cole, will appear in the October issue of Dark Recesses.
- Pock’s World, a SF novel by Dave Duncan, from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Both Dave and Edge could have filled this entry by themselves.
- “Digital Rights,” by Brent Knowles, in Writers of the Future 26.
- Song of the Sword, Book 1 in the series The Shards of Excalibur, by Edward Willett, will be released October 15 by Lobster Press.
- Johnny Cash: The Man in Black and Andy Warhol: Everyone Will Be Famous for 15 Minutes, also by Ed Willett, are coming out from Enslow Publishers.
- “Rueful Regret” a novella by Steve Vernon, in Four Rode Out published by Cemetary Dance Publications.
- “Harvest Moon“, a novella by Krista Ball, is available from MuseItUp publishing.
- “Exegesis of the Insecta Apocrypha”, by Colleen Anderson, mentioned in the August entry, is on its way to press.
VCON 35, ongoing in Vancouver as I write, hosted a multi-book launch Friday (October 1) evening, celebrating new and recent releases.