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Canadians Do SF
14/01/2004 . Source: Jessica Martin 
A major new science fiction book imprint is planned, with just a little help from Robert J. Sawyer. Sometimes real magic follows in the currents generated by securing the publication rights to an author's work.
Such has happened at Canadian publisher Red Deer Press recently, when discussions surrounding the paperback edition of Robert J. Sawyer's 'Iterations' led to more far-ranging talk of the role of Canadian publishing in the science fiction genre.
Two currents met, and before long one of Canada's main SF writing talents had agreed to take on the responsibilty of developing a new science fiction imprint for Red Deer, 'Robert J. Sawyer Books'.
Said SF titles will be selected by Canada's favourite Hugo and Nebula Award-winning best-selling author.
Sawyer is the writer the Ottawa Citizen calls "the dean of Canadian Science Fiction" and the Rocky Mountain News calls "just about the best science fiction writer out there."
The new imprint will launch in Spring 2004 with Marcos Donnelly's 'Letters from the Flesh', which intertwines the observations of an extraterrestrial witnessing the rise of Christianity in First-Century Judea with the modern plight of a teacher attacked for championing evolution in his classroom.
Donnelly, a former seminarian, is said to bring his trademark satiric insight to this book.
Their second offering in Autumn 2004, Andrew Weiner's 'Getting Near the End', is an apocalyptic tale of a rock singer whose melancholy songs seem to accurately foretell the impending downfall of humanity. It draws heavily on Weiner's experience as a rock journalist and is told in the same sardonic voice found in his many stories for Issac Asimov Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Robert J. Sawyer will write an introduction for each volume in the series.
Future offerings will include other novels, as well as short-story collections by both established and emerging talents in contemporary science fiction.
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