The next release from Milton, Ontario-based science fiction and fantasy publisher Brain Lag brings a beloved title from a longtime Canadian author back into print: Indigo Time by Sally McBride. With genetic engineering leading to immortality coupled with psychic powers and bizarre time storms, this genre-bending novel is a welcome addition to the publisher’s eclectic lineup.
To the people born and raised on Strand, it is a fertile home for humanity to grow. To Marrula Tamara, however, it has been nothing but a prison she has been exiled to for centuries. Now, with the birth of her great-granddaughter, there is finally a mind with psychic powers to rival her own. With the girl’s power at her command, she can finally return to her life of luxury among the stars. Yet not only Strand, but all of time and space might not survive the melding.
Originally published in 2013, the book became unavailable when previous publisher Five Rivers closed to outside authors in 2020. Although Indigo Time features a complete redesign inside and out and some minor touch-ups to the text, the same story that readers loved previously is returning to print.
The book will be releasing Friday, March 13, 2026 in trade paperback (332 pages, ISBN 978-1-998795-26-0, $19.99 USD) and ebook formats (ISBN 978-1-998795-27-7, $7.99).
McBride has been published since the 1980s, and her short fiction has earned her Hugo and Nebula Award nominations and won Canada’s Aurora Award. A starred review from Booklist of her previous novel The Nightingale’s Tooth praised the book’s “evocative and well-realized, alternate-history setting with its own strange system of magic,” and the Ottawa Review of Books called it “magnificent”. Her collection The Fragrance of Orchids and Other Stories was “highly recommended” by Publishers Weekly, Amazing Stories, and Julie E. Czerneda, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association hall of fame author of over two dozen books. The closing story “The Faraway Club” was named a Year’s Best Novella by Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction volume 2.
McBride’s short stories and novellas have appeared in Asimov’s, Amazing, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Northern Frights, Tesseracts, On Spec, and many more magazines, anthologies and best-of collections. She has taught fiction writing and edited speculative fiction, co-publishing the magazine TransVersions. Born and raised in Canada, McBride divides her time between Toronto and the mountains of Idaho where she enjoys skiing and hiking with her husband.
Brain Lag is proud to be releasing Indigo Time, its fourth book from McBride, following up The Nightingale’s Tooth, The Fragrance of Orchids and Other Stories, and The Price of Memory and More Stories. It is Brain Lag’s 58th book release and the first of several coming in 2026.
Media inquiries and requests to contact the author can be directed to publishing@brain-lag.com.
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