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Got this in the newsletter I get from Edge publishing. I heard this author read from Hydrogen Steel when he was at the scifi con in LA a few years back and I've read Orbital Burn. Recommend it.
"Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait", by K. A. Bedford, Wins Australia’s Aurealis Award
Hades Publications announced today that the K. A. Bedford’s newest science fiction novel Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait has just won Australia’s prestigious Aurealis Award.
(Calgary, Canada) Hades Publications announced today that the K. A. Bedford’s newest science fiction novel Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait has just won Australia’s prestigious Aurealis Award.
K. A. Bedford celebrated his newest science fiction novel earlier this last fall with a bang and a tour. He made appearances at the World Science Fiction Convention in Denver Colorado and was the Guest of Honor at ConVersion in Calgary Alberta. Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait is unlike his other three releases: Orbital Burn, Eclipse, and Hydrogen Steel.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait is an intriguing look at time travel and all of its implications. In the future, Aloysius "Spider" Webb will journey to the End of Time to change the past… or so he hopes. Spider's life is status quo until he discovers inside a broken second-hand time machine, the corpse of a brutally murdered woman from the future. The Department of Time and Space steps in to manage the situation — leaving Spider asking a lot of questions that only lead to more questions; unsettling evidence, brewing trouble, and the knowledge that Spider himself might be involved in an epic battle for control of time itself.
The Aurealis Awards were established in 1995 by Chimaera Publications, the publishers of Aurealis Magazine, to recognize the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
The Aurealis Awards have a significant history behind them now. Since the Awards' first ceremony, both the field of literature and the vibrancy of the Australian speculative fiction community have grown substantially. The extensive list of past winners and finalists is not only a great guide to a basic bookshelf selection of the best Australian works; it is also a useful survey of more than a decade's worth of significant topics and themes, a who's who of the genre locally and the growth of the Australian publishing industry's commitment to the genre.
Winners were announced at the Aurealis Awards ceremony at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane on Saturday 24 January 2009.
The Judges reported this about the novel:
"A very engaging, richly imagined, off-kilter time-travel mystery novel, with some wonderful flashes of invention and a consistently immersing and credibly skewed near-future Australian setting. The characterisation is vivid, plausible, and memorable, and there’s a credible feel to the conflicting motivations of at least the half-dozen major characters. This is not a book whose progress is linear - there’s an abundance of misdirection and plot twists, the obligatory intrusion of temporal paradox, and some brilliantly black humour."
For more information on the Aurealis Awards, please visit:
www.aurealisawards.com
For further information about Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait please visit:
www.edgewebsite.com/books/ti...talog.php
Other K. A. Bedford novels that received the Aurealis Award or nomination:
Eclipse (2005 Winner)
Orbital Burn (2005 Finalist)
Hydrogen Steel (2007 Finalist)
To arrange an interview with K. A. Bedford, please contact:
Justyn Perry
Marketing Manager
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
justyn@hadespublications.com
403.254.0160
www.edgewebsite.com/books/ti...talog.php
"Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait", by K. A. Bedford, Wins Australia’s Aurealis Award
Hades Publications announced today that the K. A. Bedford’s newest science fiction novel Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait has just won Australia’s prestigious Aurealis Award.
(Calgary, Canada) Hades Publications announced today that the K. A. Bedford’s newest science fiction novel Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait has just won Australia’s prestigious Aurealis Award.
K. A. Bedford celebrated his newest science fiction novel earlier this last fall with a bang and a tour. He made appearances at the World Science Fiction Convention in Denver Colorado and was the Guest of Honor at ConVersion in Calgary Alberta. Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait is unlike his other three releases: Orbital Burn, Eclipse, and Hydrogen Steel.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait is an intriguing look at time travel and all of its implications. In the future, Aloysius "Spider" Webb will journey to the End of Time to change the past… or so he hopes. Spider's life is status quo until he discovers inside a broken second-hand time machine, the corpse of a brutally murdered woman from the future. The Department of Time and Space steps in to manage the situation — leaving Spider asking a lot of questions that only lead to more questions; unsettling evidence, brewing trouble, and the knowledge that Spider himself might be involved in an epic battle for control of time itself.
The Aurealis Awards were established in 1995 by Chimaera Publications, the publishers of Aurealis Magazine, to recognize the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
The Aurealis Awards have a significant history behind them now. Since the Awards' first ceremony, both the field of literature and the vibrancy of the Australian speculative fiction community have grown substantially. The extensive list of past winners and finalists is not only a great guide to a basic bookshelf selection of the best Australian works; it is also a useful survey of more than a decade's worth of significant topics and themes, a who's who of the genre locally and the growth of the Australian publishing industry's commitment to the genre.
Winners were announced at the Aurealis Awards ceremony at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane on Saturday 24 January 2009.
The Judges reported this about the novel:
"A very engaging, richly imagined, off-kilter time-travel mystery novel, with some wonderful flashes of invention and a consistently immersing and credibly skewed near-future Australian setting. The characterisation is vivid, plausible, and memorable, and there’s a credible feel to the conflicting motivations of at least the half-dozen major characters. This is not a book whose progress is linear - there’s an abundance of misdirection and plot twists, the obligatory intrusion of temporal paradox, and some brilliantly black humour."
For more information on the Aurealis Awards, please visit:
www.aurealisawards.com
For further information about Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait please visit:
www.edgewebsite.com/books/ti...talog.php
Other K. A. Bedford novels that received the Aurealis Award or nomination:
Eclipse (2005 Winner)
Orbital Burn (2005 Finalist)
Hydrogen Steel (2007 Finalist)
To arrange an interview with K. A. Bedford, please contact:
Justyn Perry
Marketing Manager
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
justyn@hadespublications.com
403.254.0160
www.edgewebsite.com/books/ti...talog.php
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