Dave Duncan’s SF standalone, Pock’s World, has finally been released in e-book format as a joint venture of E-Reads and Edge Books. The paper version was published back in 2009.
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To Unimagined Shores: Collected Stories by Sherry D. Ramsey
Sherry D. Ramsey’s new collection of short stories, To Unimagined Shores, released last week from Third Person Press in print and ebook formats.
The collection includes sixteen previously published stories which appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including On Spec, Simulacrum, Fantasy Magazine, The Day the Men Went to Town, Michael Stackpole’s The Chain Story Project, Gateway S-F, Neo-opsis and others. The seventeenth is a bonus story, never before published.
The book is on sale directly from the Third Person Press website in print or as an instant ebook download in various formats, or from amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s or Smashwords.
“Sherry D. Ramsey’s short stories are filled with vibrant characters, good writing, and thrum with humanity, even when there aren’t many actual humans in the story. Fans of speculative fiction should definitely check out To Unimagined Shores.” ~ Mark A. Rayner, author of The Amadeus Net and Marvellous Hairy.
SF Canada Awards $500 to Robert J. Sawyer
The 31st annual Canvention was held on November 20, 2011 at SFContario 2 in Toronto, Ontario, where Aurora Awards were presented in nine categories as voted by Canadian fans of speculative fiction. The 2011 Aurora Award for Best Novel in English went to Robert J. Sawyer for his novel Watch, along with the SF Canada Award of $500 which is presented annually in support of the Aurora and Aurora/Boréal Awards to recognize excellence in speculative literature in both Canadian languages. Robert J. Sawyer has a long history of success as an author, including American Nebula Award, Worldcon Hugo Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Japanese Seiun Award, Chinese Galaxy Award, and multiple Canadian Aurora Awards. A ceremonial cheque was presented by the President of SF Canada, Steve Stanton.
Latest Sales by Colleen Anderson
SFC member Colleen Anderson reports several recent sales and reviews. Her poem “Shadow Realms” appeared in Witches and Pagans #23, through BBI Media, and her story “Gingerbread People will appear in Chilling Tales 2, edited by Michael Kelly.
Her story “It’s Only Words” from The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies is reviewed at: http://www.blackabyss.co.uk/
New Publications by Leslie Brown
SFC member Leslie Brown sold “Incursion” to Jack-o’-Spec (Raven Electrick Inc.), “The Windup Heiress” to Tesseracts 15 (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing), “Baba Yaga at the Megapharma” to Groanology (Library of Science Fiction and Fantasy) and saw “The Slow Plague” published in Doomology (Library of Horror).
For more on Leslie’s work, you can find her website at http://leslie-brown.com/.
Nina Munteanu Launches Outer Diverse in Montreal
Nina’s latest science fiction thriller Outer Diverse launched at Con*Cept in Montreal on October 15th, also its official release date with amazon and other bookstores around the world.
Outer Diverse is the first book of her Splintered Universe Trilogy, set in and around the Milky Way Galaxy. Outer Diverse starts the story of Galactic Guardian Rhea Hawke, tasked to investigate the massacre of an entire spiritual sect. Her investigation leads her into a treacherous storm of politics, conspiracy and self-discovery.
Rhea’s quest for justice catapults her into the heart of a universal struggle … and towarad an unbearable truth she’s hidden from herself since she murdered an innocent man.
“…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
“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
Outer Diverse is currently available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other bookstores near you.