Aurora Award StoryBundle 2

Douglas Smith has curated a second book bundle for the Canadian SFF prize, the Prix Aurora Award. As usual, the books are DRM free, pay what you want (with minimum amounts of $5 or $15).

Here are the books:

The initial titles in the Aurora Bundle 2 (minimum $5 to purchase) are:

• Destiny's Blood by Marie Bilodea
• Drowning in Amber by E.C. Bell
• Impossibilia by Douglas Smith
• Out of Time by D.G. Laderoute
• Druids by Barbara Galler-Smith and Josh Langston

If you pay more than the bonus price of just $15, you get all five of the regular titles, plus five more!

• Golden Fleece by Robert J. Sawyer
• Hair Side, Flesh Side by Helen Marshall
• Defining Diana by Hayden Trenholm
• Marseguro by Edward Willett
• The Cursed by Dave Duncan

Here's the site if you want more information.

Shout-Out: Blood & Water: Resource Wars of the Near Future Edited by Hayden Trenholm

I've got another Canadian anthology for you, this time dealing with SF themes.

Conflicts over resources are as old as human history. Climate change, along with continued population expansion and changes to the world economic order, adds a significant new factor to the equation. We can live without diamonds and gold, we can even find alternatives to oil, but water, food, land, and air are irreplaceable.

Showcasing Canadian Tales of conflict and cooperation, peril and promise, Blood & Water presents an impressive collection of writers representing every region of the country whose stories are set from coast to coast to coast.

CONTENTS

Blood & Water, an Introduction by Hayden Trenholm
"Drowntown" by Camille Alexa
"Bubbles and Boxes" by Julie E. Czerneda
"Phoebastria" by Jennifer Rahn
"Hard Water" by Christine Cornell
"Rabbit Season" by Fiona Moore
"And Not a Drop to Drink" by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
"Scrabbling" by Isabella D. Hodson
"Bad Blood" by Agnes Cadieux
"We Take Care of Our Own" by Kate Heartfield
"The Parable of the Clown" by Derek Künsken
"Blue Train" by Derryl Murphy
"The Cows in the Meadow, the Blood's in the Corn" by M. L. D. Curelas
"A Rash of Flowers" by Ryan McFadden
"This Is The Ice Age" by Claude Lalumière
"Storm" by Gerald Brandt
"Little-Canada" by Kevin Cockle
"Spirit Dance" by Douglas Smith
"The Great Divide" by Brent Nichols
"Digging Deeper" by Susan Forest
"Watching Over the Human Garden" by Jean-Louis Trudel

Ontario Speculative Fiction Author Reading List

*I've done an updated list with a LOT more authors, which you can find here.*

I did this endcap about a month ago (it's still up at the World's Biggest Bookstore) because several local authors had new books coming out.  It's hard to believe how many speculative fiction authors live in Ontario.  Oh, and for those of you who aren't Canadian, "Yours to Discover" is Ontario's license plate saying.

As with all my reading lists, this isn't a comprehensive list.  I know I'm missing people on the display, and list (authors I don't know, authors we don't carry, out of print books, etc.).  So if you know an author who's missing, mention them in the comment section and I'll add them to the list.

Books On the Display:

Book of Tongues - Gemma Files

Eutopia, 'Geisters, Rasputin's Bastards, Monstrous Affections - David Nickle

Indigo Springs - A. M. Dellamonica (her bio says Vancouver, but she just moved to Toronto)

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

A Turn of Light - Julie Czerneda

The New Moon's Arms - Nalo Hopkinson

Silence - Michelle Sagara

The Wild Ways - Tanya Huff

The Mirror Prince, Shadowlands - Violette Malan,

The Silver Lake - Fiona Patton

River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay

Sins of the Angels, Sins of the Son - Linda Poitevin

Technicolor Ultra Mall - Ryan Oakley

Spin - Robert Charles Wilson

Red Planet Blues - Robert J. Sawyer

vN, iD - Madeline Ashby

Enter, Night - Michael Rowe

Chimerascope - Douglas Smith

Virga: Cities of the Air - Karl Schroeder

The Pattern Scars - Caitlin Sweet

Blind Sight - Peter Watts

Unrepresented Authors:

Once Every Never - Lesley Livingston
Above - Leah Bobet
The Moon Under Her Feet - Derwin Mak
Run With the Wolves: The Pack - T. C. Tombs