Author Short-Listed for Major Award

March 26, 2008 - PRLog -- Calgary, AB –  Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy proudly announces As Fate Decrees, by Denysé Bridger is a finalist for the CANVENTION 28/PRIX AURORA AWARDS, to be held May 16 to 19, 2008 in Winnipeg, MB and given out by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association.

“This is very exciting, totally unexpected, and an amazing honour to have my first fantasy novel even considered for this award,” said Bridger, winner of an Amber Heat Wave award and nominated for an EPPIE — excellence in electronic publishing — award. The Newfoundland native has published over 400 stories and poems worldwide, and couldn’t be happier to be on the “Best Long-Form Work in English” Aurora short list.

As Fate Decrees takes the reader to mythical Greece, where through the disciples of the Ancient Order of Zeus, the rulers on Mount Olympus call forth their champion Amarantha. Being both mortal and eternal, Amarantha is enslaved to the Gods and must defend history and lore with her very life.

Since 1980 the Aurora Awards, awarded in both English and French, are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary, art and fan works.

Nominated for the “Other” award is Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction edited by Cory Doctorow, a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist and Holly Phillips, world-wide traveller, creative writing student and long-term BC resident.

The following contributors for Tesseract Eleven are up for an award in “Short Fiction”:

Stephen Kotowych "Citius, Altius, Fortius." Claude Lalumière "The Object of Worship." D.W. Archambault "Recorded Testimony of Eric and Julie Francis" Madeline Ashby "In Which Joe and Laurie Save Rock and Roll" Greg Bechtel "Nanabush Negotiations" Nancy Bennett "On Company Time" and "After He's Eaten" Lisa Carreiro "Azure Sky" Peter Darbyshire "Beat the Geeks" Khria Deefholts "Persephone's Library" Candas Jane Dorsey "Seven in a Boat, No Dog" Susan Forest "Tomorrow and Tomorrow." Andrew Gray "Tofino" Kim Goldberg "Rainmaker" and "Urban Getaway" Alyxandra Harvey-Fitzhenry "little red" John Mavin "Recursion" Randy McCharles "Vampires of the Rockies" Steven Mills "If Giants are Thunder" Kate Riedel "Phoebus 'Gins Arise" Hugh Spencer "(Coping with) Norm Deviation" Jerome Stueart "Bear With Me."

AS FATE DECREES by Denysé Bridger
ISBN-13: 978-1-894063-41-8
$15.95 US
272 pages

TESSERACTS ELEVEN edited by Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips
ISBN-13: 978-1-894063-03-6
$19.95 US
320 pages

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