The ebook of my 2019 book RADICALIZED — finalist for the Canada Reads award, LA Library book of the year, etc — is on sale today for $2.99 on all major platforms!

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There are a lot of ways to get radicalized in 2020, but this is arguably the cheapest.

The Canadian Broadcasting Coporation’s annualCanada Reads prize is one of Canada’s top literary prizes, ranking with the Governor General’s prize for prestige and reach; it begins early in January with the announcement of a longlist of 15 recommended books, and then these are whittled down to a shortlist of five books later in the month. Over the months that follow, each of the shortlisted books is championed by a Canadian celebrity in a series of events across the country, with the grand prize winner being announced in late March after a televised debate among the five books’ “champions.”
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It’s not justthe CBC and theWall Street Journal — I was delighted to see this morning thatRadicalized, my 2019 book of four science fiction novellasmade the LA Public Library’s list of the top books of 2019! “As always his writing is sharp and clear, covering the absurdities that surround and infiltrate our lives, and predicts new ones waiting for us just around the corner. A compelling, thought provoking, macabre funny read.”

Well this is pretty great! Radicalized, my book of four novellas, is one of the CBC’s picks for best Canadian fiction of 2019. It’s in pretty outstanding company, too, including Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments.

I’ve been a Charles de Lint fan since I was a kid (see photographic evidence, above, of a 13-year-old me attending one of Charles’s signings at Bakka Books in 1984!), and so I was absolutely delighted to read hiskind words in his books column inFantasy and Science Fiction for my latest book,Radicalized. This book has received a lot of critical acclaim (“among my favorite things I’ve read so far this year”), but to get such a positive notice from Charles is wonderful on a whole different level.
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The Writers Voice podcast just published theirinterview with me aboutRadicalized; as a bonus, they include my decade-old interview aboutMakers in the recording!

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I was incredibly gratified and excited to read Paul Di Filippo’sLocus review of my latest book,Radicalized; Di Filippo is a superb writer, one of the original,Mirrorshades cyberpunks, and he is a superb and insightful literary critic, so when I read hissuperlative-laden review of my book today, it was an absolute thrill (I haven’t been this excited about a review sinceBruce Sterling reviewedWalkaway).
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It turned out really well!

Today’s dystopian fiction seems to be closer to reality than the dystopian fiction of the past. Brooke and Grant explore this new reality with Cory Doctorow, whose socially conscientious science fiction novels delve into topics of political consequence. From the ways in which anxieties fuel science fiction writers to how fiction has the power to change the way we think and operate in the world, today’s episode emphasizes the importance of dystopian fiction for its capacity to shed light on what is true, and what might happen, ideally, as Cory suggests, so that we might fix things before it’s too late.

Naked Captalism isone of my favorite sites, both for its radical political commentary and the vigorous discussions that follow from it; now, John Siman has posted areview of my latest book,Radicalized, which collects four intensely political science fiction stories about our present day and near future.
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This Saturday, May 18, I’ll be appearing atthe Nebula Awards Conference, at the Marriott Warner Center in Woodland Hills: I’ll be participating in the 1:30PM mass signing in the Grand Ballroom and then I’ll be on the “Megatrends for the Near Future” panel at 4PM in A/B Salon.
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