Tag: science fiction
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NEW RELEASE: “Intricately Built Sci-fi Mystery” Launches With In-Person And Online Events
MILTON, ONTARIO, February 10, 2023 – Brain Lag’s first solarpunk novel hits the shelves today with the release of Unseen by Cathy Hird. Telling a tale of near-future Toronto, a diverse cast of outcasts stands between order and a group of saboteurs bent on proving that leaving city infrastructure in the hands of an AI…
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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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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…
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Book Release And Launch Party For Third Installment Of Epic Space Opera Adventure Series
MILTON, ONTARIO, December 9, 2022 – Today marks the release of Freedom’s Myth, the third book in Hamilton, Ontario author Stephen B. Pearl’s Freedom Saga. Pearl’s third book release of the year continues the story started in Cloning Freedom (2020) and Freedom’s Law (2021), telling the tale of cloned protagonists Ryan and Rowan in their…
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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…
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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…
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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 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…
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Third Book In Fast-Releasing, Ongoing Space Opera Saga Gets Cover Art And Preorders
MILTON, ONTARIO, August 19, 2022 – A mere two years after the first book in the series was released, the third book of author Stephen B. Pearl’s Freedom Saga comes this December. Freedom’s Myth continues the story of runaway clones in a far future galactic republic and the humanity-spanning ramifications of their flight for liberty.…
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Release Day And Launch Party For Story of Afghan Girl Rebelling Against U.S. Surveillance Machine
MILTON, ONTARIO, August 12, 2022 – New literary science fiction novel The Afghan Wedding by Gary Girod is now available in bookstores everywhere. Part contemporary scifi, part spy thriller, and part coming-of-age story, The Afghan Wedding takes a young woman from rural Afghanistan to a top-secret military base in Antarctica in a version of modern-day…