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Alyx Dellamonica Blue Magic Launch at UBC, April 19th

by Dan
Events + Fiction + Science Fiction and Fantasy / March 29, 2012

Vancouver-based author Alyx Dellamonica will reading from her new novel Blue Magic at the UBC Bookstore on April 19th, 7:30pm.

The sequel to her award-winning eco-fantasy Indigo Springs, Blue Magic continues the story of the three friends who unwittingly caused the escape of magic into North America through a crack between worlds. 

A powerful story of private lives changed by earthshaking events Blue Magic is a poignant tale of a world touched by magic and plagued by its consequences.

 

Alyx Dellamonica
Blue Magic Book Launch
7:30pm, April 19th 2012
UBC Bookstore
800 Robson Street, Vancouver
Tel: 1-800-661-3889 / (604) 822-2665

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Among Others is a Nebula Award Finalist for Best Novel

by Siobhan
Fiction + Science Fiction and Fantasy / February 23, 2012

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for this year's Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award, and the Andre Norton Award.

Congratulations to Tor Books' Jo Walton for being one of the finalists for Best Novel for her book, Among Others! The novel is already a big favourite among the staff here at Raincoast.

If you're in Toronto, you'll have a chance to meet Jo Walton at her event at Bakka Phoenix Books this Saturday, February 25th.

View the full list of Nebula Award finalists on Tor.com.

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Jo Walton at Bakka Phoenix February 25th

by Dan
Events + Fiction + Science Fiction and Fantasy / February 16, 2012

Among Others by Jo Walton was one of my favourite books last year. The voice of estranged teenager Mor — a lone twin in a new and austere private school — and her struggle to find some kind redemption through books makes for compelling reading. It is a haunting and unashamedly brainy novel.

I have been busy recommending left, right, and centre and so I'm really happy that Jo will be celebrating the release of the paperback edition of Among Others at Bakka Phoenix Books in my hometown Toronto at 3pm on Saturday February 25th. If you've read the book already, you won't want to miss it. And if you haven't, well, what are you waiting for...?

Jo Walton / Among Others
3pm Saturday, February 25th 2012
BAKKA PHOENIX 
84 Harbord Street,
Toronto
Tel: 416-963-9993 

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Gung Hay Fat Choy

by Natalia
Events + Fiction + Science Fiction and Fantasy / January 23, 2012

Happy Chinese New Year!  Festivities began for the new year yesterday: we are leaving the year of the rabbit and entering the year of the dragon, one of the mightiest and most auspicious symbols in the zodiac.  I'm looking forward to Vancouver's Chinese New Year parade this Sunday — always a great event for families.

In honour of the new year, here are a few books featuring the finest, scaliest, most terrifying firebreathers around!

Dragonships of Vindras series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dragon Age series by David Gaider:

Of course, the Wheel of Time series.  Tor is giving away 50 copies of The Eye of the World in celebration of the new year!

And let's take a moment to acknowledge the very first (Western) dragon of them all — a thousand years later still unmatchable for its bloodcurling ferocity:

Then the baleful fiend its fire belched out,
and bright homes burned. The blaze stood high
all landsfolk frighting. No living thing
would that loathly one leave as aloft it flew.
Wide was the dragon’s warring seen,
its fiendish fury far and near,
as the grim destroyer those Geatish people
hated and hounded. To hidden lair,
to its hoard it hastened at hint of dawn.
Folk of the land it had lapped in flame,
with bale and brand.                                                         —Beowulf XXXI

Remember to clean your house from top to bottom for good luck in the coming year.

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Sisterhood of Dune Vancouver Launch

by Dan
Events + Fiction + Science Fiction and Fantasy / January 09, 2012

Join author Brian Herbert at the launch of his new novel The Sisterhood of Dune — the latest book in the international bestselling Dune series — at 2pm on Sunday January 15th (THIS SUNDAY!!) at Chapters Metrotown in Burnaby. 

Brian Herbert, Sisterhood of Dune
January 15th at 2pm
Chapters Metrotown
Metropolis, Metrotown 4700 Kingsway
Burnaby, British Columbia
V5H 4M1
Tel: 604-431-0463
 

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