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With a long career as a radio morning show host, Scott’s always had a way with words. But his lifelong devotion to science fiction was destined to lead to a second career as a writer. Although his first novel, the mystery/thriller Dead Air was set in the radio world (and shortlisted for a Northern Lit Award in Ontario, Canada) all of his writing since has taken the reader to even stranger places, including the human bloodstream in his SF novel debut The Primus Labyrinth, a science fiction thriller that readers compare to Michael Crichton and Dan Brown. His most recent novel Naïda chronicles a reluctant hero with an alien being living inside him. Scott strongly believes that science fiction should involve compelling themes and important issu ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 194 ratings · 56 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Disastrous!: Three Stories of the End of the World 3.93 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Air 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Primus Labyrinth 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naïda really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Augment Nation 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indigent Earth 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dispossession of Dylan Knox 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	BEYOND: Stories Beyond Time, Technology, and the Stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oceanus 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	BEYOND: The Stars: Volume One 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I’ve occasionally mentioned that I was a career radio broadcaster—for most of my 30+ years in radio I was a morning show host. Yeah, one of those guys who tosses out information and quips, interviews performers, and plays contest with listeners in between delivering music. I enjoyed it. Mostly. As with any job, it had its ups and downs, but it was never boring.

When I left that business, I made

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Terry Fallis’ writing is so quintessentially Canadian, it’s a perfect fit for these times of “elbows up”. But The Marionette is not anti-American—I can’t remember any references to the U.S. at all. This humorous spy-thriller is set in Africa, but it ...more
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“A Short, Sharp Serving of Murder and Mayhem” It’s been a few years since Sean Costello’s last novel release, so fans will welcome the return of his lean prose style, relentlessly propelling the action forward in his new offering A Broken Man. And tho ...more
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In Toy Soldiers, the third installment of his Laura Amour series, Dave Wickenden has raised the perils facing his vigilante heroine to whole new levels. From an action-packed opening that re-introduces the reader to Amour’s deadly skills and implacabl ...more
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Sean Costello has a sense of the macabre and the downright creepy that’s right up there with the masters like King and Koontz. In the five short stories of Miscreations he offers up a perfect sampling that ranges from monsters, murder, and menace, to ...more
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A Love Letter Indeed Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli calls Product of Italy, Made in Canada An Immigrant’s Love Letter, and that’s true; its affectionate portrayals of the uniquely Italian-Canadian culture are vivid and heartfelt. From the “outsider” per ...more
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Sisters, Secrets, and Soul-searching Like Water for Weary Souls tells the story of two sisters who leave their smalltown family home for the “big city” of Sudbury, Ontario in the 1930s. When one of them dies under mysterious circumstances, the other i ...more
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