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Watch this trailer for newest book Watch. Watch is the second book of the WWW trilogy. Wake is the first in the trilogy. The third book is the yet to be released, highly anticipated, Wonder.
Along with being a great friend to McNally Robinson, is one of only seven writers in history (and the only Canadian) to win all three of the science-fiction field's top honors for best novel of the year: the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award, which he won in 2003 for his novel Hominids; the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Award, which he won in 1996 for his novel The Terminal Experiment; and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, which he won in 2006 for his novel Mindscan.
In addition, he's won an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada as well as ten Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards ("Auroras"). The ABC TV series FlashForward is based on his novel of the same name.
going to appear on Breakfast Television this Friday, July 30th, between 7:50 am to discuss The Prairie Bridesmaid and the Breakfast Television/McNally Robinson Book Club. For more information on the book club click here.
Tickets to the 2010 Harvest Sun Music Festival in Kelwood, Manitoba on August 13 & 14th are now available for sale at McNally Robinson Booksellers Grant Park and online at www.theharvestsun.com. Individual weekend passes are $45 adults, $20 for teenagers, or $120 per family. Kids 12 and under are free. Sixteen acts headline this year's festival, including Canadian folk icon Sylvia Tyson, Juno Award winning music group Digging Roots, and pop band Keith and Renee. The non-profit Harvest Sun Music Festival raises awareness of two farming support organizations: Manitoba Farmers With Disabilities and the Manitoba Farm & Rural Stress Line.
After recently reading Julian by Gore Vidal which chronicles the life of the Roman emperor, I find myself exploring even earlier times with The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon. Telling the tale of Aristotle's tutoring of a young Alexander the Great, I am in constant awe of how she can communicate the feeling of a moment with concise sentences.
Categories: Reviews, Authors, Graphic Novels
The chair of judges, Andrew Motion, commented: "Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling. We feel confident that they will provoke and entertain."
See the list after the jump.
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