Candas Jane Dorsey is Canada’s Ursula K. leGuin. An insightful, provocative writer and poet, she is a passionate arts advocate and champion of social justice. If you dig into much of Canada’s SF&F movement, you will likely find Candas somewhere there in the background. An Alberta native, Candas has been writing from the time she was a girl, completely fearless in her deconstruction of boundaries in genre and gender. As well as her work as…
An Amazing Collection How would you like to own, at an incredible bargain, ten books that readers like yourself have already voted to be the best examples of speculative fiction published in Canada? Well, here’s your chance. The Aurora Award Bundle contains winners and finalists for Canada’s premier speculative fiction award, the Aurora Award. Our curator, Douglas Smith, has won the Aurora three times and been on the final ballot another sixteen. One of his…
The re-release of award-winning Black Wine, by Candas Jane Dorsey, is still captivating readers, as evident in this review on Goodreads. available in print and eBookfrom Five Rivers Publishingand online booksellers worldwide Becky‘s review Jan 20, 14 4 of 5 stars This book is a little hard to get into, but oh my god, am I glad I stuck with it! It is a little confusing in the beginning, with too little information given to the…
It gives us great pleasure to announce the re-release of Candas Jane Dorsey’s award-winning debut novel, Black Wine, October 1, 2013. Candas Jane Dorseyphoto courtesy of Vala GrenierBlue Magic photography The story revolves around an old woman hanging in a cage, countered by a young woman who slaves on a rich lord’s estate and struggles to discover and assert her identity in a primeval, barbaric world. From slave dens to merchant cities and isolated mountains,…
Candas Jane Dorseyphoto by Beth Gwinn In 1996 Tor Publishing released Candas Jane Dorsey’s novel, Black Wine. The novel went on to win the James Tiptree, JR Award, the IAFA William L. Crawford Award, and the Prix Aurora Award. Black Wine received accolades from critical literary journals, peers and readers. Despite its acclaim, Black Wine slipped out of print. Five Rivers is pleased to announce the rebirth of Black Wine. Scheduled for release mid 2013 in both…