In celebration of this year’s thirtieth anniversary of the Prix Aurora Awards for Canadian Science Fiction (see this article, Montreal’s Nanopress will be publishing an anthology of Aurora-winning stories (some of them appearing in English for the first time). The Aurora Awards: Thirty Years of Canadian Science Fiction will be edited by Val Grimm, Marie-Astrid Walling, and René Walling, with an introduction by Jean-Louis Trudel, and will be released in May at Keycon, this year’s Canadian National Science Fiction Convention, in both hardcover (C$31.90/US$30.00) and trade paperback (C$21.90/US$20.00).
Nanopress writes: “Since their introduction as a lifetime achievement award in 1980, the Prix Aurora Awards have recognized Canada’s most accomplished writers of science fiction both early in their careers and at the apogee of their powers. Both Francophone and Anglophone categories were included after 1986, which was also the first year a work of short fiction, “Yadjine et la mort”, by Daniel Sernine, earned the prize.
“Including work by Isaac Szpindel, James Alan Gardner, Eileen Kernaghan, Daniel Sernine, Robert J. Sawyer, Julie Czerneda, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Candas Jane Dorsey, Yves Meynard, David Nickle, Karl Schroeder, Edo Van Belkom, Hayden Trenholm, Douglas Smith, and Laurent McAllister, with an introduction by Jean-Louis Trudel, this collection celebrates the variety and depth of stories to win the Aurora.”