Tag: 2023
-
Aurora Award-Winning Short Story Headlines New Collection From Longtime Canadian Science Fiction Author
MILTON, ONTARIO, February 3, 2023 – Hot on the heels of author Sally McBride’s first Brain Lag release comes The Fragrance of Orchids and Other Stories, coming this July. This first collection of McBride’s short fiction features the title story, originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, reprinted twice, nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards,…
-
Genre-Bending Twist On Vampire Tale Gets Cover Art And Preorders Ahead Of May Release
MILTON, ONTARIO, January 27, 2023 – A large fireball gives a hint of the excitement to come in the cover art of The Earthborn by Arlene F. Marks, coming this May from Brain Lag. The cover was revealed today for this first novel in the Nash’terel series, books about alien vampires living in exile on…
-
Literary Fantasy Novel Of Shapeshifting And Life After Death In Medieval France Now Out
MILTON, ONTARIO, January 13, 2023 – Thirteenth-century France gets magic and a touch of the divine in new novel The Nightingale’s Tooth by Sally McBride, out today from publisher Brain Lag. The book centres on Vara, an upper-class teen girl haunted by visions and destined to life after death and enslavement to the person who…
-
Owner Of Rising SFF Publisher Brain Lag To Release Final Book Of Epic Fantasy Trilogy
MILTON, ONTARIO, January 6, 2023 – A woman touched by the Goddess of Chaos is the only thing standing in between a war of the gods in the upcoming epic fantasy book Elderra’s Champion by Catherine Fitzsimmons. The final installment of Fitzsimmons’ Sisters of Chaos trilogy concludes the story of Damian Sires and her allies…
-
Canadian Author Keeps New Books Coming With Upcoming Twist On Vampire Tale
MILTON, ONTARIO, December 5, 2022 – A Toronto film studio plays host to a tale of alien vampires and assassination attempts in the upcoming novel The Earthborn by Arlene F. Marks. The book centres on Bilyash, a Nash’terel born after his people were exiled to Earth. After spending centuries in hiding among humans like the…
-
First Glimpse At Final Installment Of Haunting Dark Fantasy Trilogy Coming Spring 2023
MILTON, ONTARIO, November 29, 2022 – In 2020, Scotland author David Rae’s first novel, Crowman, about a dark spirit that keeps the Sun in a box and only lets it out one day each year, was released to rave reviews. The Sun Thief trilogy continued with Crowtower in 2021. Now, in March 2023, the final…
-
Gentle Science Fiction Novel Showing a Green Version of Near-Future Toronto Gets Cover Art
MILTON, ONTARIO, October 21, 2022 – The cover art was revealed today for upcoming solarpunk novel Unseen by Ontario author Cathy Hird. The cover features a stylized painting of a city skyline in shades of green, grey, and yellow. Unseen takes place in the Toronto of the future, in which artificial intelligence and green technology…
-
“Mesmerizing” Dark Fantasy Trilogy “Masterpiece” Concludes With Upcoming Third Book
MILTON, ONTARIO, October 7, 2022 – Scotland author David Rae’s Sun Thief trilogy has been hailed by critics such as Reedsy, Reader’s Favorite, and OnlineBookClub.org. Now, the acclaimed trilogy is coming to a close with the upcoming release of the final book in the series, Crowbait. The story so far Following up the events of…
-
Cover Art and Preorders Available For Novel of Magic and Gods in Medieval France by Aurora Award-Winning Author
MILTON, ONTARIO, September 23, 2022 – Today, the cover art was revealed for upcoming literary fantasy novel The Nightingale’s Tooth by Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated author Sally McBride. The artwork features a painting of a nighttime scene at a river with mountains in the distance, bright stars in the sky, and bold orange and navy…
-
New Solarpunk Novel Focuses On Green Technology, AI, Diversity And Extrasensory Abilities
MILTON, ONTARIO, September 2, 2022 – AIs maintain the infrastructure and control the transit of the Toronto of the future. But when technology fails, a group of people with extrasensory gifts may be the city’s only hope. This is the premise behind new science fiction novel Unseen by Cathy Hird. In classic solarpunk fashion, the…