Eclipsing the Aurora, by Peter J. Foote
Anyone who has been exposed to Foote’s newsletter “Foote Notes,” which includes the advice of Grump the Gargoyle, might expect a bit of humorous sarcasm in the novel, and they won’t be disappointed.
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The Ugly Truth: The Multiverse Refugees Trilogy By Ira Nayman
Fans of Nayman’s humor and capacity for imagination should find The Ugly Truth a worthy addition to the series.
Bad Actors: Second Pi in the Face by Ira Nayman
As anyone familiar with Nayman’s work might expect, Bad Actors is steeped in humour in a variety of forms, including ridiculous situations, slapstick, tangential digressions, and word play.
Spindrifts by A-M Mawhiney
A-M Mawhiney’s debut novel Spindrifts is a futuristic fantasy about the healing of the earth. As Young Adult fiction, it is written with simplicity of style, yet it is a complex story that looks forward in hope while addressing difficult choices made in the past and present. The new world that has “risen from the ashes” has hidden darkness, and it falls to the youthful protagonists to find the way forward.
All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
All the Seas of the World . . . provides the reader with the opportunity to immerse themselves in a richly detailed and convincingly rendered imaginary world.
The Sisters Sputnik: A Novel, by Terri Favro
Ingenious, smoothly written, and funny, at times bitingly so, Terri Favro’s The Sisters Sputnik is well worth a read.
Matters of Time: An Outliers Anthology
Five years after their initial meeting at a Lindsay coffee shop, a writing group known as The Outliers has released an anthology of their work, Matters of Time. This mixed-genre collection draws on an array of fantastically complex characters, drops them in strange and unusual places, and gives them free rein to explore Time.
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community
Shapers of Worlds Volume II Edited by Edward Willett
Featuring a wide range of authors and settings, Shapers of Worlds Volume II performs the function of a speculative fiction sampler, offering a taste of different styles and themes.
Disease By Sarah Tolmie
“Sarah Tolmie’s Disease is a strangely funny book about fictitious diseases and psychological conditions. Presented in a scholarly tone that resembles a series of academic case studies, this book looks at some bizarre ailments that range from scavenging, a psychological affliction in which people compulsively move into old houses, to a poor guy who developed an allergy to comedy.
The Nominal Echo Chronicles by Manuel Panchana Moya
The Nominal Echo Chronicles is . . . a bit of a thought piece, prompting the reader to ponder the implications of humanity’s quest for other habitable worlds. That being said, the author also does a good job of conveying the human impacts of an endeavour of this nature at the individual level.
Aetherbound by E. K. Johnston
Set on a family-run interstellar freighter called the Harland and a mysterious remote space station, E. K. Johnston’s latest is story of survival and self-determination.
Spectrum by Julie E. Czerneda
With Spectrum, the latest entry in the Web Shifter universe, Canadian science fiction and fantasy author Julie E. Czerneda continues the saga of a popular character, Esen-alit-Quar. Spectrum is Book Three in the Web Shifter’s Library series.
It Wasn’t Enough by Peg Tittle
What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?
Deficiency by SC Eston
On the arid planet of Garadia floats Prominence City, an oasis of abundance and technological marvels. For Keidi and Artenz, life is good. Each day, they work hard to fulfill their role in sustaining Prominence. In return, they share an existence without worry or want, their every need attended to by the ruling corporations, their lives enhanced by a virtual reality accessible with a simple thought.