Tag: canada
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Preorders and Cover Art Now Available for Upcoming Multi-Genre Short Story Collection
MILTON, ONTARIO, January 21, 2022 – Brain Lag, publisher of speculative fiction books, has revealed the cover art for its second short story collection releasing in 2022, Imaginary Friends by Arlene F. Marks. The cover art features an illustration by Shanghai-based artist CDD20, showing a man walking through falling snow against a blue backdrop. He…
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Graphic Novel Adaptation of H. G. Wells Story Coming This Summer
MILTON, ON, January 7, 2022 – The latest addition to the catalogue of Ontario-based publisher Brain Lag is a tale over a century old, adapted into a graphic novel for the first time. In 1899, H. G. Wells followed up The War of the Worlds with the publication of his seventh novel, When the Sleeper…
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Second Book of Freedom Saga Continues High-Stakes Science Fiction Adventure
MILTON, ONTARIO, December 10, 2021 – One year after the release of Cloning Freedom, author Stephen B. Pearl continues the Freedom Saga with Freedom’s Law, out today from publisher Brain Lag. Cloning Freedom In the first book, clones of famous actors are used as emotional surrogates for full sensory e-entertainments on a far future human…
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Science Fiction Stories of Love, Loss, Regrets and Understanding Collected For First Time in New Book
MILTON, ONTARIO, December 3, 2021 – A rabbi walks onto a spaceship and meets a suburban witch in training and Satan buying Hell’s computer system. It’s not a joke—it’s a sample of the stories in the upcoming short story collection Imaginary Friends by science fiction author Arlene F. Marks. The new collection features stories published…
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Cover Art Revealed for Upcoming Canadian Science Fiction Short Story Collection
MILTON, ONTARIO, November 19, 2021 – Aliens sit alongside young women in a bar while a monstrous child peeks through the window in the cover art for Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories by JD DeLuzio, revealed today from publisher Brain Lag. London, Ontario-based artist and cartoonist D. S. Barrick provided the artwork for the…
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Canadian Comedy Novel About Unexpected Godly Interference Now Available
MILTON, ONTARIO, November 12, 2021 – Adventures in Godhood by science fiction author Arlene F. Marks opens with a bang—or at least with an exploding pigeon. Pivoting quickly to a haunting at a local laundromat, the book promises both fun and mystery as a twelve-dimensional being meddles in the affairs of seemingly unrelated people in…
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SINS & SCIENCE release day!
Sins & Science is here! Buy this “gory, off-beat debut” Booklist recommended for “fans of Good Omens looking for another madcap, irreverent version of the apocalypse” now in your favourite bookstore or right here from Brain Lag. And don’t miss the launch party happening tomorrow, Saturday October 16th at 6:00 p.m. EDT exclusively on Facebook…
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Announcing LIVE NUDE ALIENS!
From JD DeLuzio, the author of 2020’s The Con, comes our 32nd title and fourth short story collection, Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories! From a technological dystopia to small town Canada, this collection of short fiction explores themes of change, memory, and things hiding in the shadows. These tales, previously-published and new, take classic…
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THE HARD SIDE OF THE MOON release day!
The Hard Side of the Moon is now out! Order this bizarre and irreverent tale now from Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, Barnes & Noble, right here from Brain Lag or your favourite retailer today! And don’t miss the virtual launch party next Saturday, September 18 at 6:00 p.m. EDT as part of Gen Con Online. No pants…
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Announcing SHADOWS OF SLAVERY!
Simon A. G. Spencer, author of the “alternately gritty and gossamer” Soul, Light, and Wings, returns in February 2022 with the first book of his Birthright series, Shadows of Slavery! The Deus are not supposed to interfere with mortals. But when a prophecy foretells the fall of the entire galaxy, the gods must look beyond…