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[savantefolle]

Here are my contributions to the larger field of SF in 2024. Several short-stories, one graphic novel, one novella, and the links to the publishers.

My 2024 Harvest (and where to find 'em!)

[mishahandman]

It’s Aurora Award Nomination Season!

... and that means that it’s time for a droplet of self-promotion!

“You don’t look like a cop.”

“I’m not.” The man steps a bit closer. “My card.” He reaches into his breast pocket and handed me a soggy business card with a flourish.

I look down at it. It reads ‘VANCE CARSON – PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR – DISCRETE. DELIBERATE. DEDICATED.”

“Oh, you’re that other detective,” I say before I have a chance to shut my damn mouth.

Vance’s face falls. It’s true, but I shouldn’t have said it. The thing is, Everland feels like a big city to me, but it’s not a big city by mainland standards. Maybe eighty thousand people live here, and half again that many live in a handful of small towns and camps around the island. If you work for the big companies, like Hawthorne or Second Star, you’ve got investigators on staff to help you out. If you work for the mob, you’ve got crooks to help you out. If you work for City Hall, you’ve got crooks to help you out.

Long story short, there are only two actual private detectives on the island, and I think just about everyone who knows about him calls Vance Carson ‘that other one.’

The Aurora Awards are an annual Canadian award given out to the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy novels, short stories, poems and fan works. This year, my second novel, Pawns and Phantoms, is eligible for an award, so I’m here to say that you should give it a try, and then ideally read it fast enough to nominate it for Best Novel!

Pawns and Phantoms is a hardboiled urban fantasy adventure starring Todd Malcolm, a bouncer and part-time detective’s assistant who gets thrown in way over his head. He’s working with Vance Carson, a wannabe detective, Glimmer Mop, a coolheaded fairy, and getting help from his best friend Holly and his possibly-requited crush, Emeka. 

If you’re Canadian, and a member of the CSFFA, I would be honoured if you’d head over and nominate me. If you’re not a member, take a look! There’s a pretty good list of Canadian fiction over there right now. Even if you aren’t as interested in Pawns and Phantoms, I bet you’ll find something worthwhile. And if you aren’t Canadian... I promise the book is still worth a try, even though you can’t vote. 

[drfionamoore]

Because I will take any excuse to promote Management Lessons From Game of Thrones, I'm going to point out to any CSFFA members reading this that since I'm Canadian, it's Aurora Award eligible, so if you've got a gap in your nomination list and enjoyed the book please consider it.

[theamazingstories]

CLUBHOUSE: I get inducted into the Canadian SF Hall of Fame! WooHoo!

CLUBHOUSE: I get inducted into the Canadian SF Hall of Fame! WooHoo!

OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion.

The rather splendid bronze trophies pictured above are in fact a single Janus-like piece, conceived by Clint Budd and sculpted by Gideon Hay, featuring back-to-back portrait busts of FANTASY in the guise of a Don Quixote-like elderly knight, and SCIENCE FICTION in the form of a 1930s style aviatrix embodying an…

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[amazingstories]

MAGAZINE REVIEW: F&SF JULY-AUGUST 2017 (and AURORA AWARDS) 

Figure 1 – Aurora Nominee pin As I promised last week, tomorrow is the first day that Canadians (which includes both Canadian citizens throughout the world and people resident in Canada) will be able to vote for the Aurora Award, Canada’s equivalent to the Hugos. If you fit into one of those categories, you can join CSFFA (the Canadian SF & Fantasy Association, sponsor of the Auroras) and vote;…

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