Prix Aurora Awards 2013

It’s that time of year again when publishers scramble to ship books to awards committees, and nominate their titles for peoples’ choice awards. In this latter category is Canada’s Prix Aurora Award. The Prix Aurora Awards are given out annually to honour the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artwork, and fan activities from the previous year. This year Five Rivers has several works eligible for recognition. Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero, by Michell…

North by 2000+ gets 4 1/2 stars at LibraryThing

Found the following review for H.A. Hargreaves collection, North by 2000+ on LibraryThing this morning. Available at Kobo, Amazon, Indigoand Barnes & Noble This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. North by 2000+ is a collection of science-fiction stories originally published over several decades by author H. A. Hargreaves. I enjoyed the stories very much, particularly “Dead to the World”, “Cainn”, “Tee Vee Man” and “More Things in Heaven and Earth”. Alhough these stories…

North by 2000+ reviewed on LibraryThing

We seem to be receiving a good many positive reviews for our books of late. This one appeared on LibraryThing for H.A. Hargreaves’ impressive collection of short speculative fiction, North by 2000+. Available at Amazon This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. When North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction was first published way back in 1975, it was the very first collection of short stories clearly marketed as Canadian Science Fiction….

Interview with H.A. Hargreaves

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing H.A. Hargreaves, author of North by 2000+ and Growing Up Bronx. Despite his love of real paper and the sound of a pen scratching, of sending and receiving mail through the postal system, he was kind enough to venture into the perilous waters of rapid communication and answer the questions I put to him. I think you will find a fascinating mind revealed here, one worth attending and…

J.W. Schnarr 5-Star review to North by 2000+

As posted on Goodreads, by J.W. Schnarr If you are like every other Canadian spec fic writer out there and has ever read a science fiction story about places like New York, London, or Hong Kong, and ever wondered what it might be like, just once, to read a story set in a place you actually felt an affinity with…North by 2000+ by H.A. Hargreaves is the book you need to read. In this reprint…