Tag: Canada

New Aurora Award Storybundle includes my novel Marseguro

A new Storybundle has just gone live featuring winners of (and finalists for) Canada’s Aurora Award for best Canadian science fiction and fantasy. It’s curated by Douglas Smith, so I’m going to let him explain it in the guest post below… The Aurora Award Bundle #2 Curated by Douglas Smith How would you like to …

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A Canadian satellite proves small is beautiful

[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/canx-2.mp3[/podcast] Space satellites, typically, are big, expensive beasts, which is one reason we all cringe when one fails to achieve orbit, as happened on February 24 with NASA’s $280 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO). Complex satellites like the OCO, which was intended to monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide, are of course absolutely necessary for some tasks. …

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Photo of the (Yester)Day: Canada Day at the Lieutenant-Governor’s Garden Party, Government House, Regina

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Photo of the (Yester)Day: Canada Day at the Lieutenant-Governor’s Garden Party, Government House, Regina

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O, Canada…

…you’re in trouble now. As of yesterday afternoon, I’m officially a Canadian citizen. And that means (ominous musical chords) I can vote! Bwa-ha-ha! At last I can exercise my evil plan to subvert Canada to my hard-line middle-of-the-road position, one vote at a time!

Aurora Award finalists announced

The finalists for this years Aurora Awards, Canada’s national awards for science fiction and fantasy, have been announced: Best Long-Form Work in EnglishMeilleur livre en anglais Regeneration : Species Imperative 3, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books)Children of Chaos, Dave Duncan (Tor Books)Smoke and Ashes, Tanya Huff (DAW Books)Sun of Suns : Book One of Virga, …

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A Facebook group dedicated to Canadian SF Fantasy…

…has been set up by a href=”http://www.sfcanada.ca/”SF Canada/a member a href=”http://raftersscriptorium.blogspot.com/”Donna Farley/a. You can a href=”http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2504522110″find it here/a.br /br /Its purpose:br /br /emTo promote SF and fantasy by Canadian authors. To put readers and people in the Canadian SF writing and publishing community in touch. And maybe to find out if Sasquatch is online yet….Authors, …

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A Facebook group dedicated to Canadian SF & Fantasy…

…has been set up by SF Canada member Donna Farley. You can find it here. Its purpose: To promote SF and fantasy by Canadian authors. To put readers and people in the Canadian SF writing and publishing community in touch. And maybe to find out if Sasquatch is online yet….Authors, editors, publishers, artists, academics, teachers, …

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Photos of the (Canada) Day: Regina Fireworks!

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Canada refuses to be part of invasion of Mars

You know, I’m probably more philosophically inclined toward the Conservatives than the Liberals, and I’ve been on board with many of the policy decisions the Stephen Harper government has implemented, and at least willing to give them the benefit of the doubt regarding others, but… Are you people nuts? What are you thinking? I’m with …

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Photo of the Day: The Totem

From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series, this tiny totem pole is labeled, “Made in Canada by Ellen Neel and the Totem Carvers – Kwakiutl Indians.” It may be one of the 5,000 tiny totem poles Ellen Neel and the Totem Carvers once made for the Hudson Bay Company. Then again, it …

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Photo of the Day: The Bear

From my new photo series, “Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House.” The bottom of this handsome bear says “Hand Carved by Kadian Crafts, Canada.” More photos here.