Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Pixl Press at Literary Fest at Gladstone Hotel in Toronto

Melody Bar of the Gladstone Hotel
PIXL PRESS CANADA is pleased to announce that we will be participating in the Small Press Literary Festival put on by the Toronto Indie Arts Market (TIAM) at the Gladstone Hotel on Sunday May 25th from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm.

PIXL PRESS was recently featured by TIAM and you can read about us as a FEATURED VENDOR.

PIXL PRESS is described as a small press in British Columbia that features works in the environment, nature, science and science fiction & fantasy.

Cheryl Kirby, co-founder of TIAM
Pixl Press and Vancouver/Toronto author and ecologist Nina Munteanu will showcase her latest eco-fiction, science fiction and fantasy works (which examine the role of evolution and humanity in the context of Nature and technology). Nina teaches writing at the University of Toronto and George Brown College and her guidebooks on how to write (used in colleges and universities throughout North America and Europe) will also be available for sale.

We will be featuring the complete Splintered Universe Trilogy with the recent release of Metaverse this past March.

We will also showcase Toronto author and editor Merridy Cox's latest book on animal care, a charming annotated book on Edwardian pet care: "Edwardian Annotated Pets and How to Keep Them: Part 1 Beasts".


Admission: Pay What You Can with proceeds donated to to the Children's Book Bank.


Venue: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West (Ballroom and 2nd Floor Gallery) admission pwyc





Saturday, March 22, 2014

Natural Selection by Nina Munteanu Eligible for Aurora Award

Nina Munteanu's short story collection about evolution Natural Selection is eligible for an Aurora Award.

Described by Canadian editor and author Steve Stanton as a "fine showcase of gritty and powerful short fiction" in which "the author envisions a bleak future of warfare and scarcity as she entertains some interesting ideas from the fringe of science."

The Aurora Award is given by the members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association to works deemed the best for that year. Publications in 2013 will be awarded this year.  Nominations are open until April 12th for any Canadian wishing to celebrate excellence in Canadian science fiction and fantasy literature.


Find out how to nominate your favourite works in this genre by going to the Prix Aurora Award website or visit them on Facebook.

You can read five of Nina's short stories, which appear in the collection, in various online venues:

The Arc of Time
A Butterfly in Peking
Julia's Gift
Mark of a Genius
Neither Here Nor There