I had the pleasure of meeting fantasy author while attending World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio. His new novel Greatshadow, Book One of the Dragon Apocalypse releases today.
: What made you love fantasy?
: Comic books. I devoured comics as a kid. Marvel published Conan the Barbarian, and DC had books like Warlord and Claw the Conqueror. When I read actual books in my youth, they were heavily weighted toward science fiction; I was only dimly aware of the fantasy genre. (This may have had something to do with small town libraries feeling it was okay to stock books about spaceships, but not okay to stock books about wizards and spell casting.) I didn't read Lord of the Rings until I was in college.
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This week saw the passing of , an underrated giant of fantasy, experimental fiction, and children's literature.
Generations of readers will remember him for his wonderful children's picture books, including Bedtime for Frances and The Little Brute Family; others, for his 1980 post-apocalyptic masterpiece Riddley Walker, written entirely in a kind of devolved pidgin, and its brilliantly fractured take on British history, any recollection of which has been occluded by catastrophe.
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continued his dominance of the Prix Aurora Awards November 20th at the Canadian National Science Fiction Convention, hosted this year by SFContario in Toronto. The Auroras celebrate the best of both Canadian speculative fiction and its fandom. Sawyer's novel Watch, the second in his WWW trilogy about the World Wide Web gaining consciousness, has duplicated the feat of its predecessor, Wake, winning the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English.The award was Sawyer's sixth in the category, and twelfth overall.
Sawyer's wife won the Prix Aurora's inaugural poetry award for her piece The ABCs of the End of the World. , a nominee alongside Sawyer in the Long Form English category won for Best Short Form work with his story The Burden of Fire. In the fan categories, and won Best Fan Organizational for 2010's Toronto SpecFic Colloquium and Winnipeggers and Keycon (Manitoba's premiere SF&F convention) stalwarts and won in the Fan Other category for the conception of the Aurora Award pins handed out to all nominees.
A complete list of winners in all categories may be found here:
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On November 12th, two Manitobans will be honoured at the 5th annual Independent Publishers Moonbeam Awards, held in conjunction with the 2nd annual Traverse City Children's Book Festival. The awards are "intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children's books and their creators, and to celebrate children's books and life-long reading."
It's been an amazing run for Brandon author debut novel, Black Bottle Man. The book, previously shortlisted for On the Same Page through the Winnipeg Public Library, as well as the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young People Award (Older Category) at the Manitoba Publishing Awards, won the Gold Medal in Moonbeam's Young Adult Fiction (Fantasy/Sci-Fi) category. Black Bottle Man is also currently in the running for the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English.
Winnipeg's tied for a Bronze Medal in the Pre-Teen Fiction-Fantasy category for her book Kingdom of Trolls.
A complete list of prize winners may be found here: Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Winnipeg
Fans of Inheritance Cycle have been waiting seven long years to see how everything turns out. But fear not - the wait is almost over! Inheritance, the fourth and final book in the Inheritance Cycle, will finally venture into the wild on November 8, 2011. That's not even two months away!
If you can't wait to get your paws on Inheritance, you can pre-order it via phone, e-mail or come and visit the store. As a lucky bonus, Inheritance is also one of our 30% Off titles for November, so you get it for one low, easy payment of $19.59.
See you November 8th!
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