What's your favourite novel? Chances are its his latest book, because after twenty years and over two million words of fiction, the Ottawa Citizen-dubbed "Dean of Canadian Science Fiction" keeps getting better.
On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes U.S. President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, Canadian researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience--but the memories that flash through Jerrison's mind are not his memories.
Publishers Weekly called Triggers "A turbo-charged techno-thriller." Adding "Sawyer offers an escape from the recent run of near-future dystopias in a combination of classic and contemporary science fiction."
Robert J. Sawyer has visited at least one of our locations for each of his book tours since the release of Hybrids in 2003. We couldn't be more pleased to have him launch Triggers, his 21st novel, at McNally Robinson Grant Park Saturday, April 21st.
Read Triggers, and be amazed.
Categories: SciFi & Fantasy, Book of the Day
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) named the nominees for the 2012 Prix Aurora Awards over the weekend. Toronto dark fantasy and horror house, ChiZine Publications showed up in a big way, landing four of the six nominations for Best Novel in English.
Of the contenders for Best Novel, , and Saskatoon's have all read from their nominated works at McNally Robinson.
Robert J. Sawyer will be back at McNally Robinson's Grant Park location for a reading and signing of his latest book, Triggers Saturday, April 21st. The previous two novels in Sawyer's WWW trilogy, Wake and Watch, each won the Prix Aurora for Best Novel.
, nominated last year in the Best Novel category, has a nod again this year for short fiction with her story "The Legend of Gluck". Join Marie at our Grant Park location Thursday, May 17th as she launches Destiny's Fall.
Manitoba contributors include Winnipeg's , and in the Graphic Novel category for The Imagination Manifesto Book 2. Anthology Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, nominated in the Best Related Work category, includes "Costumes" a story by Brandon's .
A complete list of nominees in all categories may be found here:
Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy
The Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955 and voted upon by the members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), are the most prestigious awards in the science fiction and fantasy fields.
This year's ballot includes many familiar faces. Pre-eminent among them must be . Martin has been nominated for the previous two volumes of his series A Song of Ice and Fire, and with the popularity of the HBO series based upon his work, this could be his year to win.
But it will be hard to discount , who won the Hugo for his novel The City and the City in 2010 or , a nominee in 2011 for Feed. Both Miéville's Embassytown and Among Others have previously been shortlisted for the SFWA's Nebula Award for best novel. Jo Walton is the sole Canadian on the novel shortlist. This is her first Hugo Award nomination.
Best Novel
A complete list of nominees in all categories may be found here.
Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy
Even before I was a bookseller, a new novel meant one thing: "read on sight". It never mattered to me what the plot or premise was, as I was confident that Moore's madcap writing would leave me both satisfied with my current read and complaining bitterly about having to wait for his next literary romp.
Well, the wait is over. Sacré Bleu is here.
Who was the the crooked little "color man" Vincent Van Gogh had claimed was stalking him across France? Why had the painter become deathly afraid of certain shade of blue? Van Gogh's friends, baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth of the artist's untimely death.
If there's anyone I would trust to lead me on a surreal, brothel-crawl deep into the art world of nineteenth century Paris it's the author of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.
Categories: Staff Pick, SciFi & Fantasy, Literature, Book of the Day
Want to know a secret?
Winnipeg is home to one of the Urban Fantasy genre's rising stars: . Recently profiled on CBC's Manitoba Scene, Dean's debut novel features bounty hunter Secret McQueen; half werewolf, half vampire and all trouble.
With its enticing warning: This book contains a sarcastic, kick-ass bounty hunter; a metaphysical love triangle with two sexy werewolves; a demanding vampire council; and a spicy seasoning of sex and violence Secret McQueen won't stay secret for long.
Join Sierra Dean to celebrate the launch of Something Secret This Way Comes, tonight at Grant Park, April 3rd at 7pm.
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