SF Canada member D.G. Valdron has been busy lately!:
The Bear Cavalry has just been released. This quirky, inventive alternate history is written in the style of a fun, funky, pop culture television documentary. Robin Prufrock travels the world, telling the story of how the Vikings in Iceland domesticated bears for meat and as draft animals, and how the Scandinavian Bear Cavalry eventually evolved to become the most fearsome fighting unit in the Medieval world. Along the way are entertaining detours into biology, evolutionary history, the Viking era, Medieval monarchs behaving badly, and the role of Bears in movies, art and culture in this world.
Find The Bear Cavalry here.
As well, Giant Monsters Sing Sad Songs: A Story Collection is now available. Enjoy nine scary stories of Melancholy Horror:
- Fossils: A poet follows a giant monster through the streets of abandoned Tokyo.
- Flirtin’ Out Back With the Sasquatch Kid: A teenage girl encounters the last bigfoot.
- Skin: A necromancer’s attack shows a woman discovers that her life is only skin deep.
- Love, Live and the Necronomicon: The true history of the mad Arab and his era is revealed, along with Lovecraft’s dark connection.
- Regrets Child: A nurse to a dying woman meets her hungry ghost.
- Anomalous Phenomena: The title says it all.
- The Dead Quarter: After the Apocalypse, the living and the undead share a disintegrating world.
- Tell Me: A hunter finds a child vampire.
- Killing Hot: A young man with a secret crosses the country, seeking revenge for his sister.
D.G. Valdron is a reclusive writer originally from New Brunswick, currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Over the years, he has published in print and online a variety of short stories of speculative fiction, and articles on obscure pop culture topics. Like many writers, his previous occupations have included mechanic, carpenter, schoolteacher, journalist and ditch-digger. He is currently an aboriginal rights lawyer. He loves B-movies and tries to be nice to people.