My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
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The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
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R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke has died at age 90.
He was the last surviving member of the “Big Three” of science fiction: Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein having gone on before.
Those were names to conjur with when I was a kid, and they’re among the primary reasons I write SF today.
I regret I never met any of them in person, though I did write Asimov a couple of times and received a couple of treasured postcards in return. They were proof these authorial heroes of mine were living people.
Now, alas, none of them are.
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