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SUMMARY:Pre-Scintillation Speculative Reading Showcase
DESCRIPTION:For our fall speculative fiction showcase\, a number of authors who are visiting our fair city for the Scintillation convention will be joining us to share their work in the store! Copies of their books will be available for sale and signing. \nOur lineup:\nJo Walton has published fourteen novels\, most recently Lent. She has also published three poetry collections\, two essay collections and a short story collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002\, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004\, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012\, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus Non Fiction award for What Makes This Book So Great. \nAda Palmer’s Terra Ignota series (Tor Books) explores a future of borderless nations and globally commixing populations. The first volume Too Like the Lightning was a Best Novel Hugo finalist\, and won the Compton Crook Award\, while Ada received the Campbell Award. \nMarissa Lingen has written short science fiction and fantasy stories for magazines and anthologies across the Anglophone world. Her work has been translated into seven languages. She has recently branched out into essays and poetry. Her short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons\, Uncanny\, Analog\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, and many more. \nGreer Gilman is the author of Cloud & Ashes and Moonrise\, which won the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for the Tiptree and Mythopoeic Awards. \nKarl Schroeder is a professional futurist as well as one of Canada’s most popular science fiction and fantasy authors. He divides his time between writing and conducting workshops and speaking on the potential impacts of science and technology on society. He is the author of Stealing Worlds and The Million\, as well as a half-dozen previous SF novels. \nAlison Sinclair is the author of Legacies\, Blueheart and Cavalcade (nominated for the Arthur C Clarke award)\, as well as the Darkborn trilogy.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/pre-scintillation-speculative-reading-showcase/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Series
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SUMMARY:FIona Duncan Launches Exquisite Mariposa
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we launch Fiona Alison Duncan’s debut novel\, Exquisite Mariposa! \nFIONA ALISON DUNCAN is a Canadian American artist\, writer\, and organizer. She’s the founding host of Hard to Read\, a lit series\, and Pillow Talk\, community organizing on sex\, love\, and communication. She lives in New York and Los Angeles. \nEXQUISITE MARIPOSA\nIn the aftermath of a reality TV deal gone wrong\, Fiona Alison Duncan asks the question\, Can you rewrite your life? The answer\, her debut novel Exquisite Mariposa\, follows a cast of housemates as they navigate questions of art making and economies\, breakups and breakdowns\, and the internet and its many obsessions.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/fiona-duncan-launches-exquisite-mariposa/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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