Robert J. Sawyer is best known for his award-winning hard sci-fi novels, and rightly so. Sawyer has won every major prize in the field for his long-form work. However, his short fiction chops should not be ignored. Both Iterations and Other Stories and the just-released Identity Theft and Other Stories bring together a career-spanning collection of stellar short stories.

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The Wolfman$26.95 add to cart

Marlowe Higgins is a werewolf. But not the kind of werewolf that has been popularized in recent urban fantasy and pop horror novels. Marlowe can't control his transformation, nor can he control the beast that lives within him. He knows that once a month, whether he wants to or not, someone will die.

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Black Man$24.95 add to cart

This year's winner is Richard Morgan's Black Man, a tale about a genetically engineered assassin.

In knocking off its mainstream literary competition, Morgan's novel has returned the Arthur C. Clarke Award to its pure science fiction roots.

Clarke established the prize in 1987. The inaugural winner was Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Other winners include Geoff Ryman, China Miéville, Amitav Ghosh, M. John Harrison for last year's Nova Swing.

Nick DiChario will be launching his new novel Valley of Day-Glo, a post-apocalyptic comedy, at our Grant Park location May 17th in a joint launch with fellow science fiction authors Robert J. Sawyer and Hayden Trenholm. DiChario, who previously held a science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop event for us, was kind enough to answer a few of my questions via email.

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Valley Of Day Glo$23.95 add to cart

In the grand tradition of Vonnegut's absurdist fiction, Nick DiChario's second novel Valley of Day-Glo, a post apocalyptic satire, tells the story of young Indian brave named Broadway Danny Rose and his search for the mythic titular valley where "death becomes life".

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Michael Chabon's cross-genre alternate history novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, has won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's of America's Nebula Award for best novel. Click here for a list of winners in all categories.

The Red Wolf Conspiracy$27.95 add to cart

Robert V.S. Redick's debut novel The Red Wolf Conspiracy has already been compared to both Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora. High praise indeed, but can it possibly live up to the hype?

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The Canada Council Heritage Series will be featuring some of the nations best voices in science fiction and fantasy for a barrage of readings and panels April 21st to May 29th at the Toronto Public Library discussing such topics as artificial intelligence, biotechnology and climate change.

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In an interview at Newsarama it was revealed that crime writer Duane Swierczynski will be taking over writing chores on Marvel Comics' Immortal Iron Fist.

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