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Nothing Without Us Too now available!

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SF member Cait Gordon is excited about her latest editing project. The Nothing Without Us Too anthology is officially released in ebook and paperback! This multi-genre collection contains stories by SFC members Bernadette Gabay Dyer and Holly Schofield along with 25 other tales. It follows the theme of Nothing Without Us (a 2020 Prix Aurora Award finalist), featuring more stories by authors who are disabled, d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing, Blind or visually impaired, neurodivergent, Spoonie, and/or who manage mental illness. The lived experiences of their protagonists are found across many demographics—such as race, culture, financial status, religion, gender, age, and/or sexual orientation. Cait and co-editor Talia Johnson want to present these stories because diversity is reality, and it belongs in literary and genre fiction.

So, whether you’re being welcomed to Sensory Hell by hotel staff, witnessing a stare-down between a convenience store worker and an arrogant vampire, or unsure if your social media account is magic, these tales can teleport you elsewhere yet resonate deep within.

Nothing Without Us Too is available from Renaissance Press and through https://49thshelf.com/Books/N/Nothing-Without-Us-Too

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Debut novel from Leo Valiquette

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New SF Canada member Leo Valiquette published his first novel, Bane of All Things, through American small press Inkshares last December.

He describes it as a “gritty” adult epic fantasy that is sometimes dark without being grimdark. There are flavours of McClellan’s Powder Mage series, Howard’s Solomon Kane and Dumas’s musketeers, garnished with Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone. The novel was featured in a July issue of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper as part of its Summer Reading Series.

In the Four Kingdoms, the Holy Clerisy preaches that the gods are dead, and prayer is the path to Hell. Anyone who defies doctrine is punished for heresy. But blind faith can damn a soul as surely as betrayal.
Ryn Ruscroft, once sworn to serve as the Clerisy’s loyal soldier, finds himself torn between conscience and duty one bitter winter’s night. Those slain include his best friend, felled by his own hand.
Josalind Aumbrae has been tormented all her life by the Voices and their visions—an affliction that could have her facing a witch’s pyre. If only she could understand what they want.
Banished to Dragon’s Claw Abbey at the edge of the world, Ryn and Josalind discover a place built on more than penance and forgetting. What they find at the Claw will turn them into fugitives hunted by hellspawn, heretics, and Ryn’s former commander.
But more sinister forces have awoken—ancient things eager to settle old scores and find pawns among the outcast. When they cry for vengeance, the Living Sword must have a hand to wield it. A mortal it can reshape into the Earth Breaker, the Soul Taker, the Bane of All Things.

Find Bane of All Things at Inkshares, and find Leo at his website.

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New poems by Jean-Louis Trudel!

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SF Canada member Jean-Louis Trudel has news  on the English-language SF poetry front. First, his poem, “Offerings to a Voiceless Star”, appears in the Summer 2022 of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association’s magazine, Star*Line.

Two more poems were accepted recently by online publications. “The Name of Last Things” is slated to appear in a future issue of Canada’s Polar Starlight. And “Dark Is Your Loneliness in a Crowd” will appear in the second issue of Australia’s I Become the Beast.

Find out more about Jean-Louis at culturedesfuturs.blogspot.com

 

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New publication for KT Wagner!

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SF Canada member KT Wagner’s short story “Beneath Her Skin” is in the August issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly!

KT Wagner writes Gothic horror and op/ed pieces in the garden of her Maple Ridge, British Columbia home. She enjoys day-dreaming and is a collector of strange plants, weird trivia and obscure tomes. In her spare time, she organizes writer events and works to create literary community. KT graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writers Studio in 2015 (Southbank 2013). A number of her short stories are published in magazines and anthologies. She’s currently working on a scifi-horror novel and is also an active member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA). KT can be found online at www.northernlightsgothic.com

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Short story by Melanie Marttila published in Pirating Pups!

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SF Canada member Melanie Marttila’s short story, “Torvi, Viking Queen,” was recently published in Tyche Books‘ Pirating Pups anthology. Edited by Rhonda Parrish and SFC member Margaret Curelas, the anthology contains thirteen daring “tails” of dogs, puns, and fun!

Enter a world of Barking Buccaneers, where piratical dogs sail the seas, seeking one tail-chasing adventure after another. Whether dealing with sea monsters, the doldrums, or bitter betrayal, these dogs have a true nose for adventure and always dig up their buried treasure.

Pirating Pups is available in a variety of formats at Tyche Books.

Melanie blogs at melaniemarttila.ca and lives in Sudbury, Ontario, with spouse and dog, in the house where three generations of her family have lived, on the street that bears her family name.

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Darke Conteur’s MALICE now a web serial!

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SF Canada member Darke Conteur has turned their post-apocalyptic tv show MALICE (based two hundred years after their zombie novel), into a web serial!

Two hundred years after a zombie plague, the real danger begins…

Aaron Zahira is looking for a different way of life and falls in with a group of mercenaries hired for jobs that take them into the badlands; places where wraiths and werewolves hunt for new meat, where vampires nest in crumbling steel lairs, and where the remains of the dead lurk in dark places, waiting.

Aaron is no mercenary and he’ll need the help of his comrades to escape the clutches of creatures that are faster, stronger, and deadlier than anything that has ever lived before.

Find the first four parts on Wattpad and find Darke Conteur at darkeconteur.weebly.com