Dave Duncan's Portal of a Thousand Worlds reviewed in Publishers Weekly

“Massively satisfying plot twists…he does a better job than most in his genre at creatively restructuring historical gender roles, and his bone dry wit is at the top of its class. Song of Ice and Fire fans should take note.”—Publishers Weekly”

Canlit for Christmas

Matthew Hughes' Raffalon story "The Vindicator" will run in the November/December issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Matt writes, "This is will be the last Raffalon story to appear in F&SF. When the exclusivity period runs out in the middle of 2017, I’ll put them all together in a collection and put it out as an ebook and POD paperback."

An interview with Rhea Rose

 Airship Ambassador interviews Rhea Rose about her  story, "Bones of Bronze, Limbs Like Iron"  in  the steampunk anthology, Clockwork Canada. Read the interview here. 
https://airshipambassador.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/rhea-rose-1/

A new novel from Matthew Hughes

Matthew Hughes' A Wizard’s Henchman is now listed as a forthcoming title from PS Publishing and is available for preorder.  It’s a science-fantasy novel originally serialized in Lightspeed Magazine under the title, The Kaslo Chronicles.

Erm Kaslo is at the top of his game: a hardboiled confidential operative in the ultra-high-tech civilization of The Ten Thousand Worlds that spans the entire galactic arm known as The Spray. But the universe is about to arbitrarily change its fundamental operating premise from science to magic. Technology will cease to function and all of Kaslo’s hard-won skills and abilities will be useless.

As the change nears, a handful of would-be wizards are jockeying for position in the coming race for supremacy, squabbling over the few ancient books and paraphernalia that survive from the long-forgotten age when magic last ruled the cosmos. Kaslo goes to work for Diomedo Obron, a wealthy dilettante with more money than common sense who hopes to emerge as a powerful thaumaturge.

But there’s worse to come: an ancient evil has been biding its time for millennia, waiting for the age of science to end. Now, its moment finally arrived, it reaches out from another plane to strike with deadly force. And only Kaslo can stop it—if he can live long enough.

The novel is available in two editions: an unsigned, jacketed hardcover for £20 (US$27) and a signed, jacketed edition of 100 copies for £35 (US$46).

And even later breaking news

Dave Duncan's novel Irona 700 had been shortlisted for the Endeavour Award, presented every year at Portland's Orycon.

Stories and poems by Mary E. Choo, Rhea Rose, Matthew Hughes and Eileen Kernaghan appear in the just-released 2nd issue of the online speculative magazine Polar Borealis.

Matthew Hughes has made his thirtieth sale to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It's called "The Prognosticant" and carries on the life and times of  Matt's new serial character, Baldemar, a young wizard's henchman.

Rhea Rose’s story “Bones of Bronze, Limbs like Iron” has just appeared in the anthology Clockwork Canada. As well, Rhea has had two acceptances for Tesseracts 20, Compostela – a short story “Gel Theta One” and a poem “From Alpha Centauri Earth Looks Like a Blue Bowl of Soup".  And watch for a story from Rhea, “The Gamogue Memoir”,   later this year in PulpLiterature .  

Also due to appear in Compostela: Linda Demeulemeester’s story "Last Indie Truck Stop on Mars" and Matthew Hughes’ "Nature Tale".