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Canadian booksellers pick top science fiction and fantasy books of 2012

Q&Q contacted independent booksellers across Canada to get their picks for the top science fiction and fantasy titles of 2012. Chris Szego, manager of Toronto's BakkaPhoenix Books, says sci-fi and fantasy are becoming mainstream genres. ... Read More »

December 18, 2012 | Filed under: Books of the Year, Bookselling

This weekend in Canadian literary events: Aug. 10-12

By Katie Gowrie

Lit lovers who spent the long weekend in cottage country needn't fear they've missed out. There's plenty of bookish happenings across the country this weekend, like these ones selected from Q&Q's events calendar: The Fish ... Read More »

August 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Book links roundup: Sony launches browser-based e-bookstore, Justice League film back on, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Sony's ebookstore now available through any Web browser Plans for Justice League film revived after Warner Bros. hires writer Will Beall IPG offers DRM-free option for publishers Kelley Armstrong and Bruce McDonald on fantasy and ... Read More »

June 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Canadian literary event roundup: Feb. 24-March 1

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Freedom to Read Week kicks off Feb. 26. For a complete list of national events, visit the program's website. Here's a sample of other literary events happening across the country: Galiano Literary Festival presents a ... Read More »

February 24, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Jim C. Hines strikes a pose for women on fantasy book covers

By Sue Carter

U.S. fantasy writer Jim C. Hines is a brave man. The author recently posed as the sword-wielding heroine from his novel The Stepsister Scheme. Inspired by the result, Hines posed for several more photos modelled ... Read More »

January 16, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Lesley Livingston makes up worlds and words at the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium

By Sue Carter

The Toronto SpecFic Colloquium, a day-long event of "lectures which consider the importance of the stories that define humanity in the present age from the aliens hiding among us to the gates of hell ripping ... Read More »

October 13, 2011 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Death of God good for books, bad for Hollywood

By Stuart Woods

New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

By Scott MacDonald

In the middle of the holiday book-buying season, it seems that just about everyone is weighing in on kidlit. On the CBC website, Rachel Giese traces its trajectory from the 1970s and '80s, when realist ... Read More »

December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

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