Hades Publications is a

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company owned by Brian Hades that focuses on science fiction and fantasy literature. The company publishes under four different

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s and is currently the largest dedicated Canadian publisher of science fiction and fantasy.

History

Brian Hades spent a great deal of time in the performing arts prior to starting Trickster Books in 1999, a line of Books, Manuals, Manuscripts and Posters on Magic, Illusion, Conjuring and Variety Arts. A year later he started Hades Publications and his second imprint, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. The vision was "to encourage, produce and promote thought-provoking and well written science fiction and fantasy literature." In 2007, Hades Publications entered into a partnership with Red Deer-based Dragoon Moon Press. This made Hades Publications the largest dedicated Canadian publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy. This imprint remains independent but utilizes Hades Publications distribution channels.''(Announced on August 18, 2007)'' In 2009, Hades Publications entered into the POD and E-book market with a new imprint Absolute XPress. It started as an all encompassing imprint publishing many different genres, but nearing the 1 year anniversary the press changed focus returning to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. This imprint has been closed to submissions for over a year now (as of August 2011). The First Book

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author Marie Jakober's ''The Black Chalice'' was the first book to be published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. It has won three major awards and garnered high praise from reviewers and readers alike.

Notable authors and works

Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy * Marie Jakober's ''The Black Chalice'', published in 2000. * The Tesseracts Anthology, now including the 23rd in the series. It contains such authors as

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William Gibson William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his ear ...

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...

and

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog ''Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of th ...

and has won the Prix Aurora Award several times. * ''Throne Price'' by

Lynda Williams Lynda Williams (born February 17, 1958) is a Canadian science fiction author and blogger. Williams' fiction is centered on a series of ten novels set in the fictional Okal Rel Universe and published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publis ...

was a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award. Absolute XPress * '' Women of the Apocalypse'', a novella collection, won two Prix Aurora Awards for Best Other Work in English, and the Novella "Pawns Dreaming of Roses" by Eileen Bell won for Best Short Form in English.

Imprints

Hades Publications has four book

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. * Absolute Xpress * Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing (includes the Award Winning Tesseracts Anthology and defunct imprint) * Dragon Moon Press * Trickster Books

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Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

Absolute Xpress

Dragon Moon Press

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History

Notable authors and works

Imprints

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