Harriet Marchem would have been Snow White in another reality. In this world Harry hates apples, and works with a Wicked Stepsister and a Pied Piper as an agent of the ATI Management Bureau, tasked with protecting the people living in our world from fairy tales. Fantasy readers will enjoy the world of Indexing , […]
Catherynne Valente's wonderful trilogy begins with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, a whimsical Victorian fairytale intended for adults. In the first book September is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard. She makes friends with A-L, whose mother was a wyvern and whose father was […]
Glen Hirshberg, author of Motherless Child, The Snowman's Child, and numerous short story collections, will appear at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction on Thursday, July 17, at 7:00PM. Mr. Hirshberg is a previous winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. Mr. […]
When the Emperor is murdered, Maia, his isolated, youngest son, abruptly becomes the Emperor Edrehasivar VII. Aided only by his secretary and bodyguards, the new half-goblin emperor fights to change the course of a thousand-year old empire. Fantasy combines with mystery, and politics with suspense, as Maia must identify the murderer of his father before the […]
Hugh Howey; author of the groundbreaking novel "Wool" Monday, June 16 at 7:00 p.m. 239 College St. (Lillian H. Smith building) Lower level program room Hugh Howey is the author of "Wool", the first self-published e-book to sell over a million copies. The book has also been published in hard […]
William Gibson will be interviewed by Robert J. Sawyer at the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street on Thursday, January 12, 2012. Free tickets are available starting December 15. More information is available here: William Gibson at the Toronto Reference Library
A Game of Thrones, the first book in George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, has spawned a tv show, several graphic novels, a fantasy role-playing game, and an on-line game. It's a good sign when a novel gives rise to fiction in other forms; it means that the […]
144 people came to the 15th Fantastic Pulp Show on May 15. There were 28 tables of different pulps and related materials available in the basement of the Lilliam Smith building. For anyone who would like more access to pulp materials, Pulpfest 2011 will take place on July 29-31 in Columbus, Ohio. For a more […]
boingboing provided a link to a new British Library Exhibit on science fiction entitled "Out of This World." The International Aeon Award 2011 Short Fiction Contest is open to stories of up to 10,000 words in any speculative genre, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, or anything in between or unclassifiable. The aim of the contest is […]
The 15th Fantastic Pulps Show will take place on Saturday, May 14 between 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM. The lower level of the Lillian H.Smith building will be filled with tables displaying the pulp magazines published in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, loved for their exotic fiction and dramatic cover art. At 1:30 PM, Neil […]