
by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday Apr 27 2008 3:16 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Staff Pick, SciFi & Fantasy, Mystery & Crime
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.
by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday Apr 02 2008 4:46 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, SciFi & Fantasy, Mystery & Crime

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.
by Chadwick Ginther - Thursday May 01 2008 11:53 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Awards, Mystery & Crime
The Arthur Ellis Awards, named for Canada's former official hangman, are awarded to works within the crime genre published for the first time in the previous year. The respective authors must be either living in Canada, or Canadians writing from abroad.
The Arthur Ellis Awards have also recently begun awarding their "Unhanged Arthur" for best unpublished crime novel, designed to launch the careers of the next generation of Canadian crime writers.
Congratulations to Winnipeg's , who has two novels nominated in the juvenile category.
by Chadwick Ginther - Thursday May 01 2008 1:56 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

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 The Handmaid's Tale. Other winners include , , , for last year's Nova Swing.
by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday May 04 2008 12:37 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Awards, Mystery & Crime
thriller Down River has captured the Edgar for Best Novel, and was award the Prize for Best First Novel for In the Woods. 's Queenpin won for Best Paperback Original, and Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters received the Critical/Biographical Edgar.
The Awards are presented by the Mystery Writers of America and named for , who is credited with the invention of the detective fiction genre.
For a complete list of the nominees, click here.
by Chadwick Ginther - Monday Apr 21 2008 5:24 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Interview, buzz, SciFi & Fantasy, Winnipeg, Event News
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 and . , 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.
by Chadwick Ginther - Monday Apr 28 2008 3:13 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Graphic Novels
The 2008 New York Comic Convention has come and gone. A lot of hints were dropped as to what to expect for the next several months of comic publishing. Far too many in fact to be able to report on it all here, but you will find some highlights after the jump.
by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday Apr 16 2008 3:20 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, SciFi & Fantasy

In the grand tradition of Vonnegut's absurdist fiction, '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".
by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday Apr 27 2008 1:09 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Mystery & Crime
'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.
by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday Mar 30 2008 10:47 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, Staff Pick, SciFi & Fantasy
's debut novel The Red Wolf Conspiracy has already been compared to both 's His Dark Materials and 's The Lies of Locke Lamora. High praise indeed, but can it possibly live up to the hype?
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