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Had a great time being part of the cast of Regina Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I played Fogg (the insane asylum keeper) and also sang in …
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 …
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
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Happy birthday, Robert Silverberg!
Robert Silverberg is 74 today. His children’s book Revolt on Alpha C is one of the first science fiction books I can remember reading (it was his first novel, published in 1955, four years before I was born). Much, much later, I learned quite a bit about sex I didn’t previously know by reading his The World Inside. And in between, and since, I’ve read a great many more wonderful books he’s written.
I haven’t exactly met him, although we did exchange a couple of words at the snack bar at the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto. Maybe I’ll do better than that in Denver this year.
In any even, happy birthday!
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