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Michèle Laframboise's @savantefolle.bsky.social novella "Maragi’s Secret", originally pubbed in Asimov's, has been translated & published in SF World magazine! Read it in the Nov 2025 issue.
Cover for the Nov 2025 issue of SF World magazine. It is a dark green cover. In the upper left corner is a red planet (or moon or asteroid). Streamers of burnt orange and light blue flow from the rock to an astronaut in a spacesuit. It looks almost like the astronaut is using the asteroid as a parachute. Cover text is in Chinese. Interior pages of SF World magazine, displaying the novella "Maragi's Secret" by Michèle Laframboise, translated into Chinese. It also has a black and white illustration of an airship sailing the skies. The airship looks like a metal ship with propellers along the bottom; it is attached to a oblong, zeppelin-like balloon.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Pre-order links:

store.latitude46publ...

www.amazon.ca/SuperC...

www.indigo.ca/en-ca/...
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Canadian small-town superheroes. The title Super Canucks is in a fat, bubble, red font. Behind it is a white explosion cloud, the type often depicted in classic comic books. Orange, teal, and yellow fill the background, also reminiscent of comic book styling. "An anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes" is displayed in a yellow box, and "edited by Matthew del Papa Andy Taylor" is in a spiky thought bubble.
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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...including government bureaucracy & the overreaching neighbours in the south.

Featuring stories by: Pauline Barnby, Dwain Campbell, Matthew Del Papa, Matthew Heiti, Casey Lawrence, Melanie Marttila, Premee Mohamed, Christopher O'Halloran, Jim Robb, Niall Spain, & Andy Taylor.
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Book cover image for Super Canucks, an anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes. The title Super Canucks is in a fat, bubble, red font. Behind it is a white explosion cloud, the type often depicted in classic comic books. Orange, teal, and yellow fill the background, also reminiscent of comic book styling. "An anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes" is displayed in a yellow box, and "edited by Matthew del Papa Andy Taylor" is in a spiky thought bubble.
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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SuperCanucks explores the usual superhero tropes while shining a spotlight on unique corners of Canada. Not your typical big city superhero, but those who live in & around Canada’s often overlooked locales—isolated small towns & rural outposts. These heroes battle unique Canadian dangers...
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Book cover image for Super Canucks, an anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes. The title Super Canucks is in a fat, bubble, red font. Behind it is a white explosion cloud, the type often depicted in classic comic books. Orange, teal, and yellow fill the background, also reminiscent of comic book styling. "An anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes" is displayed in a yellow box, and "edited by Matthew del Papa Andy Taylor" is in a spiky thought bubble.
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Melanie Marttila is super excited to reveal the cover and table of contents for the forthcoming SuperCanucks: An anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes, edited by Andy Taylor and Matthew Del Papa, to be published March 21, 2026, by Latitude 46 Publishing!

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Book cover image for Super Canucks, an anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes. The title Super Canucks is in a fat, bubble, red font. Behind it is a white explosion cloud, the type often depicted in classic comic books. Orange, teal, and yellow fill the background, also reminiscent of comic book styling. "An anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes" is displayed in a yellow box, and "edited by Matthew del Papa Andy Taylor" is in a spiky thought bubble.
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A fantastic interview w/ Su J. Sokol @cycling2asylum.bsky.social at Interstellar Flight Magazine! @lisatimpf.bsky.social

Learn about xyr books "Invisible Line" & "Five Points on an Invisible Line" & how they explore "activism, social justice, & environmental ... themes"

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Book promo post. Background colours are alternating shades of orange and blue, with a distressed texture. Two books are featured: Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line, both written by Su J. Sokol. Invisible Line is split diagonally, with the opposite corners showing skyscapes of Montreal and the title at an angle between the two corners. Five points shows the same city views, but on the opposite corner than depicted on Invisible Line. A cyclist pedals through the centre of the book, through the title, which is again at a slant.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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This weekend is QUASAR, SFWA's online Nebula event! Today is *the last* day to register! Looks like a fun weekend, check it out:
events.sfwa.org/
Conference promo post. Text says: Join us at Quasar, SFWAs Online Nebula Event. Free for Nebula attendees! $50 for new guests! Additional panels and seminars, grandmaster keynote, office hours, and other special guests. Website: events.sfwa.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Congratulations to Timothy S. Johnston whose book "A Blanket of Steel" just won the 2024 Grand Prize in the Global Thriller Awards, and also the 2024 First in Category in the Cygnus Awards.

Check out what people are saying about the book:

www.sfcanada.org/a-blanket-of...
Book cover: A blanket of steel. (The Rise of Oceania.)
May 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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New Release Alert: BEWARE US FLOWERS OF THE ANNIHILATOR by Alexander Zelenyj

www.sfcanada.org/beware-us-fl...
Release image of the book cover, Beware Us flower of the annihilator with a quote from the linked page in the post.
May 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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BEWARE US FLOWERS OF THE ANNIHILATOR is now available from Eibonvale Press. The book contains 26 brand new cross-genre stories by Alexander Zelenyj.

Publisher link: www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/books/books_...
Book cover
November 23, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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New release: Undaunted: Dark Tales of Courage Witnessed Through the Eyes of a Homicide Detective

Real People. Real Crime. Incredible Stories.

www.amazon.ca/Undaunted-Co...
Undaunted by Dave Sweet with Susan Forest. Book cover image: a Roman soldier with a modern city as a backdrop.
November 20, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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SF Canada member Lorina Stephens reviews C.E. Hoffman's Losers and Freaks:

onspec.ca/book-reviews...
Losers and Freaks: short stories, by CE Hoffman
November 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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New Release by SF Canada member @skyladawn.ca

books2read.com/thetaigaridg...
The Taiga Ridge Murders There is a moment in every horror story where the protagonist has the opportunity to heed the sighs...but Maya does not believe in them and so she drives to what used to be home. Image: snowy scene with a lodge.
November 20, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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New Book release!

A darkly humorous short story collection by Geoffrey W. Cole

www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
Zebra Meridian & Other Stories by Geoffrey W. Cole
September 30, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Join us for an evening of readings hosted by local author Bernadette Gabay Dyer. Readers will include Gloria Blizzard, Bill Jermyn, Judith Penfold, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, and Ursula Pflug.
Following the reading, works will be available to purchase.
All are welcome.
If you identify as a person with a disability and require an accessibility accommodation to participate in this program, please contact Accessibility Services by email, accessibleservices@tpl.ca, or voicemail, 416-393-7099, to make a request. Please contact us at least three weeks in advance. High Park Branch, 228 Roncesvalles Ave, 416-393-7671
September 30, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Check out Douglas Smith's "Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction (2nd edition)"

books2read.com/b/ShortGame2
Book cover. Playing the short game, second edition. How to market and sell short fiction.
May 24, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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R. Graeme Cameron reviews "Sugar and Vice" by Melissa Yi

amazingstories.com/2024/04/club...
May 24, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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“This summer, I want to find the Red Rock Killer.”

Charlotte Holmes meets Vegas in a quirky YA mystery novel filled with friendship and found family

Check out this new kickstarter by SF Canada member Melissa Yi

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mel...
Book cover for The Red Rock Killer (red hued with a tent at night - "a cozy YA mystery" tagline). Winner: international thriller writers' bipoc scholarship
April 23, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Check out the conclusion to Douglas Smith's award-winning trilogy!

All the details here:
smithwriter.com/release-day-...
The Lost Expedition, the Dream Rider Sage by Douglas Smith
April 13, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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SF Canada member Noah Chinn reviews TROUBLE WORE RED by Chris Lewis

www.noahchinnbooks.com/2024/02/23/3...
February 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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SF Canada member Alexander Zelenyj's retrospective story compendium THESE LONG TEETH OF THE NIGHT is now available in digital format from Fourth Horseman Press, along with hardcover and trade paperback editions.

www.fourthhorsemanpress.com/library/thes...
November 28, 2023 at 6:18 PM
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SF Canada member Noah Chinn has a new book out! Check it out: www.noahchinnbooks.com/my-books/los...
November 28, 2023 at 6:07 PM
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SF Canada member Allan Weiss' "Firetrees" was published in "Diversity of Voices: A Global Storytelling History"

www.amazon.ca/Diversity-Vo...
November 28, 2023 at 6:05 PM
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SF Canada member Graham J. Darling has a new short story out this month.

"JON CARVER OF BARZOON, YOU MISUNDERSTOOD" can be found in "Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder, November 2023, Number 5"

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM15H93D
November 24, 2023 at 4:06 PM
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Congratulations to SF Canada member Douglas Smith, for winning the Indie Author Project award for Best YA Novel in the Ontario region for his YA urban fantasy novel, The Hollow Boys.
November 24, 2023 at 4:00 PM