deutsch see hades imprint . hades publications status active founded 2000 founder brian hades publisher country of origin canada headquarters location calgary alberta distribution north america fiction genres science fiction fantasy horror imprints absolute xpress edge science fiction & fantasy dragon moon press trickster books official website edgewebsite.com hades publications is a publishing company owned by brian hades that focuses on science fiction and fantasy literature . the company publishes under four different imprints and is currently the largest dedicated canadian publisher of science fiction and fantasy 1 contents 1 history 2 notable authors and works 3 imprints 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit 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 . 2 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 . 3 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 . 4 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 . 5 needs update this imprint has been closed to submissions for over a year now as of august 2011 . the first book calgary 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 6 7 and garnered high praise from reviewers and readers alike . 8 9 notable authors and works edit edge science fiction and fantasy marie jakober s the black chalice published in 2000 . 10 the tesseracts anthology now publishing its 14th in the series . it contains such authors as spider robinson william gibson margaret atwood and cory doctorow 11 and has won the prix aurora award several times . throne price by lynda williams was a finalist for the foreword magazine book of the year award . 12 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 . 13 imprints edit hades publications has four book imprints all of which are based in canada . absolute xpress edge science fiction and fantasy publishing includes the award winning tesseracts anthology and defunct imprint dragon moon press trickster books see also edit canadian science fiction references edit murphy jessica . canadian science fiction writers taking their place on the world stage . the canadian press 8 aug. 2009 newspaper source plus . web . 12 dec. 2011 . http www.trickster.com about.html http www.edgewebsite.com aboutedge.html http www.edgewebsite.com archives.php http absolute x press.com 2009 under new management http www.independentpublisher.com article.php page 381 http www.sunburstaward.org 2001 shortlist.html http www.edgewebsite.com books blackchalice bc testimonials.html http www.edgewebsite.com books blackchalice bc catalog.html 1 . http www.edgewebsite.com books tess10 t10 catalog about.html http www.forewordmagazine.net botya search awards yr.aspx frmyr 2003 & frmsearchtype finalist & frmsearch publisher & frmcriteria edge http www.prixaurorawards.ca aurora awards past winners external links edit edge science fiction and fantasy publishing absolute xpress dragon moon press trickster books retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hades publications & oldid 712191516 categories book publishing companies of canadapublishing companies established in 2000small press publishing companieshidden categories wikipedia articles in need of updating from november 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 march 2016 at 15 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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