Hal Friesen about book by Mark Shegelski

The professor under whom I did my undergraduate research just published his first science fiction book, and I thought I'd let you know about it. As one of the readers who helped him edit I can tell you they're worth checking out! You'll find the info below.

-Hal

Title: "Remembering the Future"
Author: Mark Shegelski
Publisher: Scroll Press
Retail Price (Canadian): $19.95

You can see the cover of the book and the description that is on the back of the book
by going to amazon.ca or amazon.com. Note on the back cover the strong endorsement by Robert J. Sawyer (Canada's leading scifi author)

"Fascinating, inventive stories from a stunning new talent. You'll remember these futures."

--Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo award-winning author of Hominids

Here is the link to amazon.ca:

Remembering the Future.

Michael Armstrong May 8, 2009

Tegan and I went to see Michael Armstrong perform poetry to jazz at Books & Company, May 8, 2009. He's still got the stuff. I treasure the poems on his CD, backed up by the same band, which I've played many times in the car. Tegan remembers King Snake and the one about the monkey the best. The images of the frozen words sticks with me, too. And the father/son remembrance bound up in a game of catch where so few and so ordinary words ultimately mean so much, and yet are never quite enough. I wish the poems on his CD a long life and wish it was available somewhere commercially. I don't think it is. Gathered around Michael in the image above are some of the thirty or forty folks who turned out to cram Cafe Voltaire on a Friday night. After Michael's set there was a radio play I missed out on due to other committments.