Tag: collection
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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,…
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Crowdfunding Campaign Starting For Anthology Of Young Transgender Authors
MILTON, ONTARIO, September 30, 2022 – On Monday, October 3, Milton, Ontario-based science fiction and fantasy publisher Brain Lag will be launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund the production of True Reflections, an anthology of short stories and poetry by young transgender authors. The pre-launch page is already active and interested parties can…
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New Science Fiction Short Story Collection Takes Readers on “Fantastic Voyages”
MILTON, ONTARIO, May 13, 2022 – The first collection of short stories by longtime science fiction author Arlene F. Marks has released today. Imaginary Friends contains eleven stories of wonder, humour, and horror ranging from urban fantasy to superhero to space opera. Some stories build off the novels Marks has written while others were written…
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Open Submission Call for Short Stories by Transgender Youths
MILTON, ONTARIO, April 25, 2022 – A new anthology featuring stories by transgender youths was announced today. True Reflections from science fiction and fantasy publisher Brain Lag is now accepting submissions of short stories and poetry from transgender people age 25 and younger or from recently transitioned/transitioning people of any age. “It is rather inadequate…
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Short Story Collection Featuring Both Aliens and Alienated Humans Now Available
MILTON, ONTARIO, March 11, 2022 – Today marks the release of Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories, a new collection of mixed-genre short stories by London, Ontario-based author JD DeLuzio. 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…
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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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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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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 PROGRESSIVE APPARATUS launch party tonight!
The Progressive Apparatus And More Fantasticals is released! Pick up your copy now from your favourite retailer or right here from Brain Lag! Curious about this “flippant and expectation-flipping collection” (as Publishers Weekly calls it)? Be sure to join us tonight, Saturday, February 13th at 6:00 p.m. EST (GMT -5:00) for our launch party on…