2011 Prix Aurora Shortlists Announced by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 1:46pm

Congratulations to Brandon's Craig Russell for being shortlisted for the 2011 Prix Aurora Award for Best English Novel. We've been fortunate at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg to have hosted four of the five nominees in this year's novel category.

The Prix Auroras will be awarded the weekend of November 18-20 at the Canadian national science fiction and fantasy convention, this year hosted by SFContario.

Best English Novel:

• Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell, Great Plains Publications
• Destiny's Blood by Marie Bilodeau, Dragon Moon Press
• Stealing Home by Hayden Trenholm, Bundoran Press
• Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada
• Watch, by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada

Two nominated anthologies feature stories by Manitobans: Tesseracts Fourteen, edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, includes "Heat Death, or Answering the Ouroboros Question" by Brandon's Patrick Johanneson and "Chrysalis" by Winnipeg's Ronald Hore appears in Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick. There are also two new categories this year: Poetry or Song Lyric and Graphic Novel.

A complete list of 2011 nominees

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McNally Robinson at Keycon by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 10:44am

Keycon, Manitoba's science fiction and fantasy convention, now in its 27th year, is being held at the Radisson Inn May 21st-23rd. McNally Robinson will be in the Dealer's Room offering a wide variety of science fiction and fantasy novels and more.

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Prix Aurora Award Nominations Are Open by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:27am

The Prix Aurora Awards, Canada's highest honour in the field of speculative fiction, are now accepting nominations for all categories. To nominate, you must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident. The ballot will remain open until February 15th. You can find a partial list of eligible titles here for works in English, and here for works in French.

Some eligible titles that have been reviewed by McNally Robinson include: Indigo Springs by A.M. Dellamonica, Warden of Greyrock by K.V. Johansen, The King's Daughters by Nathalie Mallet, Wake by Robert J. Sawyer, Steel Whispers by Hayden Trenholm, and The World More Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema.

Not reviewed on this site, but still excellent reads and deserving books are Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong, Terra Insegura by Edward Willett and Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson.

This year, Winnipeg's annual science fiction and fantasy convention, Keycon will be hosting the Aurora Awards.

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Master Storyteller Neil Gaiman Visits on December 15 by Ryan McBride - Thursday, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:13pm

Where: At the McNally Robinson, Polo Park (Winnipeg)

When: Tuesday, December 15th, at 6 pm

A master storyteller, Neil Gaiman has won countless awards for his novels, poetry, screenplays, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and theatrical dramas. His books include American Gods, Coraline, and Odd and the Frost Giants.

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