Dave Duncan is honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award

The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association presented  Dave Duncan with a Lifetime Achievement Award, on October 4, 2015, at the convention VCon 40 in Vancouver BC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQDoVl3iGZU

Information on the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association , which also runs the Aurora Awards, is available at: www.prixaurorawards.ca.

Dave, who has published more than 50 fantasy and science fiction novels, will have a new book coming out in the summer of  2016, when  Five Rivers Press will publish his time travel novel Eocene Station.  You can visit his website at www.daveduncan.com

In recent news:

 Dave Duncan's new novel Iona 700 is now available in both print and e-book form. You can read an   early review at SFrevu.com

Eileen Kernaghan's historical fantasy Sophie, in Shadow is shortlisted for the 2015 Sunburst Awards for Fantastic Literature, YA category.

Rhea Rose's story “Bones of Bronze, Limbs of Steel” will appear in the new steampunk anthology   Clockwork Canada to be released by Exile Editions in April, 2016. 

Matthew Hughes  has done an interview with Dag Rambraut at the SFF World site, with lots of information  about how Matt's Archonate universe developed and how he writes. http://www.sffworld.com/2015/08/matthew-hughes-interview/

 You can read an  interview with Matt  on “The Curse of the Myrmelon”  at SFsite: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2015/07/01/interview-matthew-hughes-on-the-curse-of-the-myrmelon/

Matt's  new backlist collection, Devil or Angel and Other Stories, is now up on Amazon and on his webpage bookstore. The POD paperback on CreateSpace will follow in due course.

From the award-winning author of Majestrum, Template, and The Other, this collection of short stories ranges from the thoughtful to the whimsical. Most of them appeared first in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Asimov’s. Others were written for the bespoke anthologies Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and Welcome to the Greenhouse; one is published here for the first time.
In other news, "The Inn of the Seven Blessings," Matt's contribution to the George R.R. Martin/Gardner Dozois-edited cross-genre anthology Rogues (NYTimes bestseller and winner of the Locus Award for best antho), will be reprinted in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, http://chizinepub.com/…/imaginarium-4-best-canadian-speculative-fiction 

Eileen Kernaghan and Ruth Kozak read from Sophie, in Shadow and Shadow of the Lion at the Vancouver Public Library

Matt Hughes has sold The Kaslo Chronicles, the science-fantasy novel serialized in Lightspeed, to PS Publishing. It should be out in limited editions next year. Meanwhile,  all the episodes of the novel (except for the last) can be found in Lightspeed's archives. The final episode will be available for a free read on May 26. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/series/kaslo-chronicles/

 

Critic and sf aficionado Mike Barrett's excellent piece on Matthew Hughes' Luff Imbry stories in the current New York Review of Science Fiction is now available for a free read.

http://www.nyrsf.com/2015/03/at-large-in-the-archonate-matthew-hughess-tales-of-luff-imbry.html

Vancouver Island author Dave Duncan will see the release of his 50th novel April 1, 2015, through Five Rivers Publishing.   The Eye of Strife, reveals Dave Duncan at his best: sword fights and romance, miracles and mystery, treachery and sly humour. A god summons a curious assortment of witnesses to his temple to testify on what they know about a jewel lost a thousand years ago. At least one of them is guilty. Others are lying.

The Eye of Strife is Dave's fourth publication with Five Rivers Publishing.

Mary E. Choo’s story, "That Brightness," will appear in the anthology Expiration Date, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick, to be launched in Canada by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing in April, 2015.