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Trade Paperback ISBN:978-1-894063-60-9 5.5" X 8.5" 288 pages $15.95	Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes Edited by J. R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec RELEASE DATE: October 2011 About Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes Long buried and hidden from prying eyes are the twilight tales of the living and the dead - and those that are neither. The stink of a Paris morgue, the curve of a devil’s footprint, forbidden pages torn from an infernal tome, madness in a dead woman’s stare, a lost voice from beneath the waves and the cold indifference of an insect’s feeding all hold cryptic clues. From the comfort of the Seine to the chill blast of arctic winds, from candlelit monasteries to the callous and uncaring streets of Las Vegas are found arcane stories of men, monsters and their evil. Twelve new tales of the bizarre, the uncanny and the arcane. Featuring these renowned Sherlock Holmes authors: Stephen Volk Christopher Fowler  Tom English William Meikle Simon K. Unsworth Fred Saberhagen Simon Clark Lawrence C. Connolly Kevin Cockle Paul Kane Tony Richards Kim Newman About the Editors: J. R. Campbell’s fiction has appeared in a wide variety of publications including Spinetingler Magazine, Wax Romantic and Challenging Destiny. From time to time his writing can also be heard on radio's Imagination Theater and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Charles Prepolec has contributed articles and reviews to All Hallows, Sherlock Magazine, Scarlet Street, and Canadian Holmes. An active Sherlockian for more than 20 years with The Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen, Charles lives in Calgary with his wife Kristen and their cat Karma. About the Series: Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes is the third in the series following Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes, and Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes. Both of the previous editions have received critical acclaim from prominent reviewers such as National Post, Library Journal, Booklist, Globe & Mail, etc.
Trade Paperback ISBN:978-1-894063-54-8 5.5" X 8.5" 288 pages $14.95	Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley RELEASE DATE: October 2011 In the commodified future the consequences of a failing society are brought to bear upon one man’s ambition and his attempt to escape his own socio-economic hell. About Technicolor Ultra Mall The world’s ecosystems have been destroyed by genetic pollution and cities have evolved into mega malls. Budgie is a knife wielding, brass knuckled young man from the impoverished and brutal red section of Toronto’s T-Dot Center. When his best friend is murdered and Budgie falls in love with the woman responsible, he learns that there’s more to life than drugs, blood or money. To escape his past he must give up everything and everyone he knows and sell his perceptions to an enigmatic and dangerous gang leader. Fighting for survival and unwittingly involved in a scheme that only he can stop, Budgie must ask himself: Does he want to? Technicolor Ultra Mall is an ultra-violent science fiction dystopic novel about the value of being human in a completely commodified world. About Ryan Oakley: Ryan Oakley was raised in a small town and discovered at an early age that he was drawn to the bright lights, white noise and gaudy trappings of the big city. In the din of the city he lives his life, experiencing it all; using his experiences to further his writing, he says, "I've always enjoyed writing. I don’t know when I started doing it — I was a little kid — and I've always tried to make the time to do it." Although Oakley never completed a high school education, he admits that he's not "a particularly stupid man". He works as a bartender, waiter and dishwasher, as needs be, and is fast becoming known as Toronto’s most notorious dandy and renowned flaneur. Testimonials and Early Reviews: "Ryan Oakley kicks all kinds of butt. This is the story Philip K. Dick would have written if he’d lived to today: over-the-top, incisively satirical, and packing a major wallop. The prose sings even as the story makes you squirm; underneath all the slickness and sickness there’s a passionate human heart, beating so damn fast it warps space. Oakley is a supernova about to blow a major new talent ready to burst on the scene and with this, his first novel, he’ll light up the entire sky." — Robert J. Sawyer "Reading Ryan Oakley's writing is like being lit-jacked. Once Oakley’s forty-five caliber prose is aimed between your eyes, you’ll never forget it." — Minister Faust "Oakley isn’t so much concerned with what science fiction has been, but rather where it can go. And, unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn’t just write from his head, but from his gut. His work somehow manages to be both unsettling and deeply absorbing." — Jeff Lemire, award winning DC graphic novelist
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-894063-51-7 6" X 9"	Healer's Sword: (Part Seven of the Okal Rel Saga) by Lynda Williams RELEASE DATE: November 2011 Change has come at last to the Sevolite empire. The conservative Demish of Lion House want it stopped — now! Ilse Marin is a middle-class leader of a merchant house who gets embroiled in the business of her betters to help pay the bills, and winds up falling for the most dangerous man in the empire - Horth Nersal. Horth’s bright idea about using commoners to deal with Reetions under Sword Law winds up in a stand off in space, fleet to fleet with Lion House. Back on Gelion, Erien’s new academy breaks out in plague. Amel, meanwhile, must win his way back into the parlors and reception halls of the Silver Demish if he wants to have an influence politically, and to do that he has to overcome his reputation as the Courtesan Prince—via poetry. Lynda Williams Lynda Williams is the author of the Okal Rel Saga published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Lynda holds three post secondary degrees. AVIM'S OATH is book six in the 10 book Okal Rel Saga. Courtesan Prince (Part One of the Okal Rel Saga (2005)) Rightous Anger (Part Two of the Okal Rel Saga (2007)) Pretenders (Part Three of the Okal Rel Saga (2008)) Throne Price (Part Four of the Okal Rel Saga (2004)) Far Arena (Part Five of the Okal Rel Saga (2009)) Avim's Oath (Part Six of the Okal Rel Saga (2010)) Healer's Sword (Part Seven of the Okal Rel Saga (2011))

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