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SF Canada Partners with CBC Books

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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!

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CZP Launches John Park’s Janus

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JPJanusJohn 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. . . .

From the front cover:

“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

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SF Canada Supports Canadian Conventions

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sfcSF Canada is proud to provide financial support to SF conventions across Canada.

Vancouver’s science fiction and fantasy convention, VCON 37: “Post Apocalypse,” will be held Sept. 28-30 in Surrey, B.C.

When Words Collide is held every August in Calgary, Alberta, and hosted the Aurora Awards this past summer.

Toronto SpecFic Colloquium, is upcoming Oct. 28, “Beyond the Human.”

Can*Con, The Canadian Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature, will be held Sept. 21-23 in Ottawa, Ontario (and will be hosting the Aurora Awards in 2013!)

Check out these links to connect with the literary community in your area, meet SF authors and buy the latest books.

SF Canada supports positive social action.

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New Release: The Last Summoner

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lastsummonerSF 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.”

The Last Summoner is available through Amazon, and is currently among the top ten bestselling titles in historical fantasy.

You can find Nina online at her site, The Alien Next Door.

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SF Canada Awards $500 to Robert J. Sawyer

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At the 32nd Canvention in Calgary on August 11, 2012 at the When Words Collide festival, Robert J. Sawyer was awarded his third consecutive Aurora Award for Best Novel in English for Wonder (Penguin), accompanied by the SF Canada Award of $500. For over 30 years, Canadian fans of speculative fiction have been voting on the Aurora and Boréal awards to acknowledge the best of Canadian professional and fan activity in both official languages.

SF Canada members also won Aurora Awards in other categories for work published during 2011: Suzanne Church (Best Short Fiction), Helen Marshall (Best Poem/Song) and Diane Walton et al (Best Related Work) for On Spec magazine. SF Canada Member Awards

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Audiobook of Nina Munteanu’s “Outer Diverse” is OUT!

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The audiobook of Nina Munteanu’s space thriller Outer Diverse was just released by Iambik Audiobooks.

outerdiverseOuter Diverse is the first book of the Splintered Universe Trilogy, set in and around the Milky Way Galaxy. The first book begins as Galactic Guardian Rhea Hawke intestigates the massacre of an entire religious sect, catapulting her into a treacherous storm of politics, conspiracy and self-discovery. Her quest for justice leads her into the heart of a universal struggle and toward an unbearable truth she’s hidden from herself since she murdered an innocent man.

“I just finished and thoroughly enjoyed “Outer Diverse”. A metaphysical, Sci Fi, Thriller with rich characters. Dawn Harvey told the story brilliantly and played the characters wonderfully. Definitely worth listening to.” –Dan Wallace, narrator, Lions Den Productions.

“I am absolutely thrilled to recommend Nina Munteanu’s audio book. Dawn has transported me into a new world of imagination. She is absolutely magic in her skill of character building; her voices are amazing. To me nothing is finer than Nina the writer and Dawn doing the voice overs in the audio book. I can’t wait until I read and hear more in the future.” –Vanessa Rottner

“A master of metaphor, Munteanu turns an adventure story into a wonderland of alien rabbit holes… a fascinating and enthralling read.” –Craig Bowlsby, author of Commander’s Log – Read More

“A rollicking science fiction plot with all the trappings…Hawke is a maverick in the wild west tradition…a genetic mystery with lethal powers.” –Lynda Williams, author of Okal Rel series – Read More