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“Túshūguăn” Opens Re-Terrify Anthology...A Scary Thought!

January 27, 2019General, News, Short FictionEricChoi

Receiving contributor copies of a publication is a treat for any writer, but in the case of Re-Terrify: Horrifying Stories of Monsters and More edited by Kelly A. Harmon and Vonnie Winslow Crist and released by Pole to Pole Publishing, it was a surprise and delight to discover that my story “Túshūguăn” is the opening tale of the collection! Thank you to Kelly and Vonnie for the honour of being a part of this wonderfully scary anthology. Re-Terrify is available in paperback (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) and ebook (Amazon, !ndigo, Barnes & Noble, Kobo). “Túshūguăn” was first published in the Fall 2014 issue of Ricepaper magazine.

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A Post-Modern Prometheus is ALIIIIIVE!!!

January 1, 2019Anthologies, General, News, Short FictionEricChoi

The New Year is kicked-off with the publication of our new story “F. — A Post-Modern Prometheus” by yours truly and Joseph McGinty, about a hapless modern day Victor Frankenstein struggling to raise funding for his monstrous research. The story appears in the new anthology We Shall Be Monsters, edited by multiple Aurora Award winner Derek Newman-Stille and published by Renaissance Press, which commemorates the bicentennial and legacy of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel. We Shall Be Monsters is available in paperback and ebook.

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Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders

June 15, 2018Anthologies, General, NewsEricChoi

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Laksa Media has released the cover art and table of contents for its upcoming anthology Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. Release date is September 8th, 2018. A portion of Laksa’s net revenue from this book with support the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario and the Alex Community Food Centre in Calgary.

Foreword by Lucas K. Law
Introduction by Eric Choi and Gillian Clinton
“Porque el girasol se llama el girasol” by Rich Larson
“Inkskinned” by Jeremy Szal
“Defender of Mogadun” by Alex Shvartsman
“Gilbert Tong’s Life List” by Kate Heartfield
“The Marsh of Camarina” by Matthew Kressel
“Invasio” by Karin Lowachee
“Habitat” by Christie Yant
“The Travellers” by Amanda Sun
“Critical Mass” by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm
“Screen in Silver, Love in Colour, Mirror in Black-and-White” by Julie Nováková
“How My Life Will End” by Vanessa Cardui
“From the Shoals of Broken Cities” by Heather Osborne
“In a Bar by the Ocean, the World Waits” by Hayden Trenholm
“Imago” by Elsie Chapman
“Shades of Void” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
“Superfreak” by Tonya Liburd
“The Vagabond of Trudeau High” by Sarah Raughley
“The Swordmaster of Ravenpeak” by Brent Nichols
“Remember the Green” by Seanan McGuire
“Devouring Tongues” by S.L. Huang
“Voices” by Tyler Keevil
Afterword by Susan Forest

Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty

May 6, 2018Anthologies, General, News, Short FictionEricChoi

My contributor copies of Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty arrived a few days ago. Edited by Spider Robinson and James Alan Gardner, Compostela is an anthology of speculative fiction that represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance on technology. The collection includes my story “Plot Device” and work by David Clink, Miki Dare, Steve Fahnestalk, Matthew Hughes, Rati Mehrotra, Derryl Murphy, Susan Pieters, Alexandra Renwick, Rhea Rose, Robert J. Sawyer, and 23 other visionary Canadian writers.

“So come on, science fiction! Despair may be the trend du jour among the mundane masses, but we’re supposed to see farther. The stars are waiting for patiently for us to get over ourselves and come visit.”

- From the Foreword by James Alan Gardner

“We may be feeling a bit gloomy just now, but we have every excuse to hope if we want to. Depends on what we choose to sing as we walk our separate Compostelas together.”

- From the Afterword by Spider Robinson

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Three Events and Three Cities in Two Weeks!

October 1, 2017Appearances, Conventions, General, NewsEricChoi

I will be a participant at three events in three cities over the next two weeks:

Speaker at the Montréal Space Symposium on October 6
Panelist at a World Space Week event at Ryerson University in Toronto on October 10
Special guest at the Can-Con speculative arts and literature conference October 13–15 in Ottawa

Worldcon 75 Participation

July 30, 2017Appearances, Conventions, General, NewsEricChoi

I am excited to be a participant at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, Finland, where I will be doing two panels and an autograph session. My schedule is available here.

“Decrypted” in the May/June 2017 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

June 18, 2017General, News, Short FictionEricChoi

My new story “Decrypted”, set in a near future in which all classical public key cryptography has been hacked, appears in the May/June 2017 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It was perfect to have received my contributor copies just in time for the Ad Astra science fiction convention in Toronto last month, where I was a science and author guest-of-honor. I am grateful to Trevor Quachri for my third appearance in Analog, and my heartfelt thanks to David Brin without whom “Decrypted” would not have been written.

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Image Credit: Clinton Research

Science and Author Guest of Honour at Ad Astra 2017

May 3, 2017Appearances, Conventions, General, NewsEricChoi

I am delighted to be a science and author guest of honour at Ad Astra 2017, which will be taking place this coming weekend at the Sheraton Parkway North Toronto. Volunteer-run, non-profit cons like Ad Astra are made possible by the tremendous efforts of many dedicated and hardworking people. I am grateful to Emmy McAlonen, Marco Marrocco, Amy De Ruyte and the entire concom. My programming schedule can be found here. It’s going to be a terrific weekend!

Sampler of Stories from Science Fiction by Scientists

March 11, 2017Anthologies, General, News, Short FictionEricChoi

Just arrived copies of Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories edited by Michael Brotherton and published by Springer. The collection features fourteen stories by scientists, engineers and other writers with a technical background and includes work by Ken Wharton, Jennifer Rohn, Andrew Fraknoi, Edward M. Lerner, Tedd Roberts, Jed Brody, Marissa Lingen, J. Craig Wheeler, Stephanie Osborn, Jon Richards, Carl Frederick, Les Johnson, J.M. Sidorova and yours truly. For a sampler of the stories, have a look at “Down and Out” by Ken Wharton or an excerpt of my story “Fixer Upper”.

Two New Anthologies Now Available

December 18, 2016Anthologies, General, NewsEricChoi

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Two terrific new anthologies are now available, just in time for the Holidays.

Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories, edited by Michael Brotherton and published by Springer, features fourteen hard SF stories written by active research scientists and engineers. The collection includes my new story “Fixer Upper”, which is about a Chinese expedition to rescue the International Space Station. Science Fiction by Scientists is available now in paperback (Amazon, !ndigo, Barnes & Noble) and ebook (Amazon, !ndigo, Kobo, Google Play).

The 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide, is the third edition of Corie and Sean Weaver’s annual collection of science fiction stories for young adult and middle grade readers, published by their delightfully named Dreaming Robot Press. This book includes my Prix Aurora Award winning short story “Crimson Sky”, and is available now in paperback (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) and ebook (Amazon, !ndigo, Barnes & Noble, Kobo).

Happy Holiday reading to everyone!