The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, won the 2011 Prix Aurora Award for Best Related Work English yesterday! I’m really happy to be part of the anthology. Here are a couple pictures of me at the ceremony, representing the authors in the book and getting to hold the trophies.
For the full list of Aurora Award winners, look here. Congrats to everyone!
I will be at SFContario 2 tonight, starting with a reading at 8 p.m. and the Tesseracts 15 event at 9 p.m. See my full schedule for the weekend here. Also check out my interview at Totally Tesseracts!
My SFContario 2 Schedule (November 18-20, 2011):
Reading – Fri. 8 PM; Room 207
Tesseracts 15 Launch – Fri. 9 PM; Ballroom A
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First Contact Without a Universal Translator – Sat. 1 PM Solarium
(Eric Choi, Lorne Kates(M), Tony Pi, Lawrence Schoen)
Writer’s Groups Behind the Scene – Sat. 8 PM, Solarium
(Brad Carson, Suzanne Church, Costi Gurgu, Ian Keeling, Stephen Kotowych, Tony Pi, Mike Rimar)
The Role of the Companion (M) – Sat 9 PM Gardenview
(Beverly Bambury(M), JM Frey, Tony Pi, Andrew Specht)
What is a Human – Sun. 10 AM Solarium (Kathryn Allan, Tony Pi, Hayden Trenholm(M), Allan Weiss)
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My novella “The Paragon Lure” has been accepted for translation and reprint in STEPS INTO THE UNKNOWN, a science fiction and fantasy anthology series in Poland. It’s apparently a kind of legendary series of books in Poland, originally publishing in the 70s, and more recently revived by Solaris. The last volume has some great authors. I’m very pleased with this first foreign language sale, and look forward to the volume!
My story in Tesseracts 15 is about a stiltwalker, and I happen to know a professional clown…so I had my first lesson at stilt-walking at lunchtime (well, more like stilt-standing).
I may not look it in the picture, but I was terrified.
I now have true respect for stiltwalkers. They make it look so easy.
Come to the Tesseracts 15 book launch on Saturday, September 17th from 3-6 p.m. at Bakka-Phoenix Books at 84 Harbord Street, and I may have recovered enough to talk about the experience!
Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales will have its Toronto launch on Saturday, September 17th from 3-6 p.m. at Bakka-Phoenix Books (84 Harbord Street, just west of Spadina).
I will be doing a reading, and editor Julie Czerneda and author Mike Rimar will be there as well (among others, if all goes well). Hope to see you there!
“Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales”,
edited by Julie Czerneda, and Susan MacGregor
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-894063-58-6
$15.95
F&SF writer and linguist. Winner, 2015 Aurora Award for Best English Poem/Song.
Also 2015 Aurora Awards finalist, Best English Short Fiction; former finalist, 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; finalist, 2008 Aurora Award, "Best Short-Form Work in English"; Second Place winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (volume XXIII).
Tony Pi, F&SF Writer 