It hit the field like a ton of bricks: Robert J. Sawyer won the 1995 Nebula Award, science fiction’s equivalent of the Pulitzer, for The Terminal Experiment, his chilling near-future novel set in Toronto.Sawyer is ... Read More »

In March, 88,000 copies of James Alan Gardner’s second science-fiction novel, Commitment Hour, rolled off the presses at Avon Books. Meanwhile, his first novel, Expendable, which made the preliminary ballot of the prestigious Nebula Award ... Read More »

SF books – and a variety of other related titles – are getting a big boost from one of cable TV’s new specialty channels. Space: The Imagination Station has been providing extensive coverage of books ... Read More »

There’s a tiny office on the 14th floor of the Flat Iron Building, no bigger than a cell, where science fiction guru David G. Hartwell wields the power of a despot – but an enlightened ... Read More »

Toronto writer Kayla Perrin says her first romance novel, released last March by Genesis Press, is “a love story like any other.” Indeed, Again, My Love has the markings of a stereotypical contemporary romance: a ... Read More »

The bored housewife writing in longhand, most likely in purple ink, while the children are napping, is an enduring image of the romance writer. But nothing could be further from the truth, according to promoters ... Read More »

Four years ago, Christian publishers like Tyndale House in Wheaton, Illinois and Questar in Oregon began publishing romantic tales minus the sex, with a dose of Christian morality and spiritual fulfillment. Such books didn’t become ... Read More »

Since its establishment nearly a decade ago, the Vermont-based publisher Jewish Lights has rarely catered to a devout audience. President Stuart Matlins stresses that while the company specializes in Jewish spirituality, its goal is to ... Read More »