Showing posts with label June 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label June 2011. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Science Fiction and Fantasy Events in Toronto, June 2011

These events are from the science fiction & fantasy calendar I've started.  If you have an event that's not listed, email me (jessica.strider@gmail.com) and I'll put it on the calendar.  While I try to get the details correct, always check the links to confirm event information. And I'll be updating this post as I learn of more events.

Sunday June 5

World's Biggest Bookstore Presents: Horror
Meet horror authors David Nickle (Eutopia), Gemma Files (A Book of Tongues) and Brent Haywood (The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter).
Where: World's Biggest Bookstore (20 Edward Street)
When: 2 pm
Call the store at 416-977-7009 for more information 

Tuesday June 7

Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Book Launch for Susie Moloney's THIRTEEN
Where: Trane Studio (964 Bathurst St.)
When: 8 - 11 pm      "Haven Woods is suburban heaven, a great place to raise a family. It's close to the city, quiet, with great schools and its own hospital right up the road. Property values are climbing. The streets are clean, people keep their yards really nicely. It's fairly pet friendly, though barking dogs are not welcomed. The crime rate is practically non-existent, unless you count the odd human sacrifice, dismemberment, animal attack, demon rape and blood atonement. When Paula Wittmore goes home to Haven Woods to care for a suddenly ailing mother, she brings her daughter and a pile of emotional baggage. She also brings the last chance for twelve of her mother's closest frenemies, who like to keep their numbers at thirteen. And her daughter, young, innocent, is a worthy gift to the darkness.
     A circle of friends will support you through bad times. A circle of witches can drag you through hell."


Saturday June 18

How to Write a Bestseller Workshop (MISSISSAUGA)
With book editor Brian Henry & New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong
Where: Chartwell Baptist Church
1880 Lakeshore Road West, Mississauga
When: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Fee: $38.94 + 13% hst = $44 paid in advance
or $42.48 + 13% hst = $48 if you wait to pay at the door
To reserve a spot now, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca

Saturday June 19

Space-Time Continuum Reading and Discussion Group
Topic: Galvaston by Sean Stewart
Where: Bakka Phoenix Books (84 Harbord Street)
When: 1 pm

Tuesday June 21

Book Launch: Once Every Never by Lesley Livingston
Where: Dominion on Queen (500 Queen St. East)
When: 7 - 10:30 pm



Saturday June 25

Toronto Cosplay Picnic
Where: Center Island (via ferry)
When: 11-6
Cost: round trip ferry ticket ($4 students, $6.50 adults)
*Note, rain date is Sunday 26th, check website the day before to confirm
We will be meeting in the area in front of the docks at 10:30am. This area is accessible without buying a ticket for the ferry and features a few grassy knolls and trees. Your event organizers, Elemental and Pan, will be there early, and will poke you if you are in costume. The giant group of people in costume should not be too hard to spot.

We will depart from the docks at 11am. If you're late, hop on the ferry and head towards Centreville. We usually set up camp in a shaded area near Centreville, so it'll be hard to miss us. If you know you will be late and are worried about getting lost, feel free to contact Elemental. Her e-mail address is: tocosplaypicnic[at]gmail[dot]com. 

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in June 2011

As usual, this list has been compiles via the Indigo website, with the exception of the Carina ebook listings*.  In some instances, the publisher websites had conflicting dates, in which case I went with the publisher's information.  Dates are subject to change and though I try my best to be inclusive, I'm sure books have been missed.  If you notice a mistake or an omission, please leave a comment and I'll fix it ASAP.  

*With regards to ebooks, it's impossible to know what's coming out (because there's so much and no firm database for them, especially when listing books a month in advance), so for now I'm just including Carina Press.  In addition to now having a 'coming soon' page, their ebooks have all been professionally edited and have a traditional publisher (Harlequin) backing them.  In time I may try to add more ebooks, but for now this category is experimental.

Hardcover:

Naamah's Blessing – Jacqueline Carey
The Plain Man – Steve Englehart
Doctor Who: Hunter's Moon – Paul Finch
The Stranger's Woes – Max Frei
Doctor Who: Dead of Winter – James Goss
For Heaven's Eyes Only – Simon Green
The Noble Pirates – R. R. Jean
Unnatural Issue – Mercedes Lackey
Wild Cards: Fort Freak – George Martin, Ed.
Dragon's Time – Anne & Todd McCaffrey
Doctor Who: Way Through the Woods – Una McCormack
Jim and the Flims – Rudy Rucker
The Pack – Jason Starr
Hex – Allen Steele
Exiles: Clan of the Claw – S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye
Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook – Steve Tribe
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities – Anne & Jeff Vandermeer, Ed.
Star Wars: Heirs to the Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) – Timothy Zahn

Trade Paperback:

Waking the Witch – Kelley Armstrong
Moondance At Stonewylde – Kit Berry
Book of Dragon – Steven Brust
A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs 
Chicks Kick Butt – Rachel Caine & Kerrie Hughes, Ed.
Leviathan Wakes – James Corey
Raising Stony Mayhall – Daryl Gregory
Farnham's Freehold – Robert Heinlein
Sword of Fire and Sea – Erin Hoffman
ParaSpheres 2: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction – Ken Keegan, Ed. 
Happily Ever After – John Kilma, Ed.
Warhammer: Dwarfs – Nick Kyme
Pinion – Jay Lake
Hell's Belles – Paul Magrs
The Osiris Ritual – George Mann
Nina in Utopia – Miranda Miller
The Magic of Recluse – L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor
The Deadliest Bite – Jennifer Rardin
The Traitor's Gate – Sarah Silverwood
Shadowborn – Alison Sinclair
Shadow's Lure – Jon Sprunk
Afterblight Chronicles: America – Simon Spurrier
Alien Invasion – Travis Taylor & Bob Boan
On the Third Day – Rhys Thomas
The Banshee's Walk – Frank Tuttle
Warhammer 40K: Battle of the Fang – Chris Wraight

Mass Market Paperback:

The Map of All Things – Kevin Anderson
Hexed – Ilona Andrews, Yasmine Galenorn, Allyson James and Jeanne Stein
Spectyr – Philippa Ballantine
Kindling the Moon – Jenn Bennett
Forgotten Realms: The Spectral Blaze – Richard Lee Byers
Lure of the Wicked – Karina Cooper
Countdown – Greg Cox
Dark Sun: Under the Crimson Sun – Keith DeCandido
1635: The Tangled Web – Virginia DeMarce
Feast – Merrie Destefano
What Distant Deeps – David Drake
Burn the Night – Jocelynn Drake
The Sorceress of Karres – Eric Flint & Dave Freer
The January Dancer – Michael Flynn
Zadayi Red – Caleb Fox
The Shadow Men – Christopher Golden
Deadline – Mira Grant
Deep in the Woods – Chris Green
From Hell With Love – Simon Green
Forgotten Realms: Elmisnter Must Die – Ed Greenwood
Hexed – Kevin Hearne
Memories of Envy – Barb Hendee
Warhammer: Sigvald – Darius Hinks
Migration – James Hogan
Transformers: Exodus – Alex Irvine
Saltation – Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Esperanza – Trish MacGregor
Star Trek: Vanguard: Declassified – David Mack
Green-eyed Envy – Kasey Mackenzie
Dragongirl – Todd McCaffrey
Imager's Intrigue – L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Degrees of Freedom – Simon Morden
Deadly Dreams – Andre Norton
Tongues of Serpents – Naomi Novik
Black Heart Loa – Adrian Phoenix
Hot & Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance – Jean Rabe & Martin Greenberg, Ed.
Thistle Down – Irene Radford
The Golden Key – Melanie Rawn
The Bear – R. A. Salvatore
Warhammer 40K: Atlas Infernal – Rob Sanders
Lightborn – Alison Sinclair
Children No More – Mark L. Van Name
Untold Adventures: A Dungeons & Dragons Anthology – Various
Kitty's Big Trouble – Carrie Vaughn
Dark War – Tim Waggoner
Mistification – Kaaron Warren

Carina ebooks:

Quarter Square – David Bridger
The Naked Truth – Lilly Cain
Goddess With a Blade – Lauren Dane
Soul Survivor – Misty Evans
The Devil's Garden – Jane Kindred
Last Car to Anwnn Station – Michael merriam
Kat's Tale – Bettie Sharpe

Young Adult:

Fairy Bad Day – Amanda Ashby

The Nine Lives of Chloe King – Liz Braswell
The Demon's Surrender – Sarah Rees Brennan
For the Win – Cory Doctorow
The Lost Heiress – Catherine Fisher
By Rocket to the Moon – Otto Willi Gail
Hereafter – Tara Hudson
Possession – Elana Johnson
Passion – Lauren Kate
Shadowmagic: Price Of Hazel and Oak – John Lenahan
Mrs Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
Dead Rules – Randy Russell
Spellbound – Cara Lynn Shultz
The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya – Nagaru Tanigawa
Eternity – Heather Terrell
Ashes, Ashes – Jo Treggiari
The Vampire Stalker – Allison Van Diepen