User:Geo Swan/Terri Favro
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Terri Favro is a Canadian writer.[1] She has written short fiction and non-fiction pieces, for a variety of magazines, a novella, two novels, and book of commentary and prediction on the use or robots in Science Fiction.
Favro's 2014 novella, The Proxy Bride, describes a recent immigrant from Italy discovering organized crime in Ontario's Niagara region in the 1960s.[2] Her 2017 novel Sputnik’s Children, is also set in the Niagara region.[3] In 2018 she published
She was raised in St. Catherines, Ontario, and she set h is set there. In an interview with CBC Books she described how an event that happened while she was growing up in St. Catherines triggered her novel.[3] A high school principal thought a bogus announcement that a nuclear war had started, between the USA and the USSR could be the beginning of a lesson on World History, without anticipating that some students would rush home, and tell their parents, before they had a chance to hear his retraction.
The hero of her novel is a time traveler, who grew up in a world heading for a civilization destroying nuclear war, and is the only one who remembers that history, as her intervention altered events so the war doesn't happen.[4]
CBC Books listed Sputnick's Children in an article about the best Canadian Book Covers of 2017.[5] David Gee, the cover artist, described the book as a challenge to accurately illustrate, as there were so many factors to consider, including comic books, substance abuse, and unreliable narration. He described his impression of the book's brief as "somewhere between Valley of the Dolls and metaphysical young adult fiction — in outer space."
In 2018 Favro published Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation, described as a blend of "memoir, tech reporting" with a bit a science fiction.[6]
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Beth Audet (2020-01-26). "St. Catharines-born author Terri Favro makes Canada Reads 2020 long list: Sputnik's children re-imagines a Cold-War Era childhood in Niagara". Niagara This Week. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
Sputnik's Children, a book inspired by an incident that occurred at Laura Secord Secondary School in the early '70s, is the culmination of at least one of those things.
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Aaron Broverman (March–April 2017). "REVIEW: In Terri Favro's debut novel, science fiction meets comic book artistry in the nuclear age". This magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
Terri Favro follows up her award-winning novella The Proxy Bride with Sputnik's Children, a full-length debut mixing comic book science fiction with reflections of growing up during the atomic age at the height of the Cold War.
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Jane van Koeverden (2017-04-18). "How growing up during the Cold War inspired Terri Favro's time-bending novel Sputnik's Children". CBC Books. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Jade Colbert (2017-07-21). "Review: Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau's Winter Child, Robert Pepper-Smith's The Orchard Keepers and Terri Favro's Sputnik's Children". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
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"The best Canadian book covers of 2017". CBC Books. 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
'As this book by author Terri Favro covered a LOT of territory (comics, booze & pills, the creative impulse, unreliable narration) it was going to be a tricky thing to condense everything into one image.
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Andrew Liptak (2018-07-01). "12 fantastic science fiction and fantasy novels that you should check out this July". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
So while I was at an event in Boston, I picked up Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation by Terri Favro. It's an interesting and funny book about the intersection of science fiction and reality, and Favro blends memoir, tech reporting, and even a bit of science fiction to look at where robots have come from, and where they could be going in the coming decades.
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