Books
- The Aurora Awards
Thirty Years of Canadian Science Fiction - with an introduction by Jean-Louis Trudel
Since their introduction as a lifetime achievement award in 1980, the Prix Aurora Awards have recognized Canada's most accomplished writers of science fiction both early in their careers and at the apogee of their powers. Both Francophone and Anglophone categories were included after 1986, which was also the first year a work of short fiction, «Yadjine et la mort», by Daniel Sernine, earned the prize.
Including work by Isaac Szpindel, James Alan Gardner, Eileen Kernaghan, Daniel Sernine, Robert J. Sawyer, Julie Czerneda, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Candas Jane Dorsey, Yves Meynard, David Nickle, Karl Schroeder, Edo Van Belkom, Hayden Trenholm, Douglas Smith, and Laurent McAllister, with an introduction by Jean-Louis Trudel, this collection celebrates the variety and depth of stories to win the Aurora.
The Aurora Awards: Thirty Years of Canadian Science Fiction will be released this May at Keycon 2010, this year's Canvention, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Free shipping if you pre-order before May 21st! Use the coupon code "AURORA".
- Blood Out of a Stone
by Élisabeth Vonarburg - with an introduction by Ursula K. LeGuin
- translation by the author, Howard Scott and others
Aspiring translators undergo purposeful neurological alteration in symbiosis with alien beings. The organic/mechanical infrastructure of an interstellar colony ship begins to malfunction in ways which threaten the survival of its crew. Living art pieces descended from whales swim through the Milky Way. Doors to other worlds appear in a city descending into chaos. Eldritch emotional magnetism precipitates an eternal chase across spacetime. The mysterious retreats which mark the life of a multi-talented artist intrigue her lover. After the Earth's seas have risen, a community of amphibious and terrestrial people struggle to defend their village and decide their own destiny. A devout priestess comes to terms with the truths her life and her visions have forced her to confront.
In her introduction Ursula K LeGuin characterizes Vonarburg's work as "sophisticated, controlled... sometimes very dark indeed, yet there is a buoyancy in it, a playfulness, and an energy like that of a child’s absorbed, all-consuming game of make believe... [T]he mind that made up these stories is keen, intellectually provocative; and it holds to a fine balance between the serious writer’s sober responsibility to audience, and the pure delight of story-telling."
Latest news
- Summer Conventions
We will have a presence at Readercon, Au Contraire, and Aussiecon 4 this summer, (among other conventions) selling our first two books.
- Now available in stores
Our first book, Blood Out of a Stone, is now available at Porter Square Books and Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge, MA.