Tag Archive: Ryan Oakley

Apr 27

Semi-Free Copies of Technicolor Ultra Mall

The Dystopia Display at The World's Biggest Bookstore. Technicolor Ultra Mall is top right.

I have a couple pieces of news regarding Technicolor Ultra Mall. The first is that my publisher has made the ebook version available through the Amazon Lending Library. So, if you’re an Amazon Prime Member, you can borrow it for zero dollars. If you’re old fashioned like me, it looks like the Canadian Amazon has …

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Apr 21

Earth Day: Science Fiction Writers in Toronto Star

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For Earth Day, the Toronto Star asked 15 science fiction writers, including me, how we’d tackle climate change. To save some space, my answer was edited down. Here’s my full reply: The environment is something I watch on TV. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, it’s a pristine world free of human interference. But it’s also …

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Apr 13

Technicolor Ultra Mall Shortlisted for Aurora Award

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My novel Technicolor Ultra Mall has been shortlisted for the Aurora Award in the Best Novel (English) category. Here’s the full shortlist: BEST NOVEL – ENGLISH Enter Night by Michael Rowe, ChiZine Publications Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism by David Nickle, ChiZine Publications Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy, ChiZine Publications The Pattern Scars by …

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Mar 30

Ryan Oakley on Night Fright Show

This is an interview that occurred in late January and will be hitting 12 television stations and 80 radio markets in about a week via TVCOGECO. It’s for Brent Holland’s Night Fright Show. Ryan Oakley – Technicolor Ultra-Mall via Skype from Toronto Canada. What if in the future Toronto had been turned into a huge indoor mall? …

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Mar 15

Bi-Modal Ryan Oakley in Globe and Mail

Official Meeting of The Adventure Time Nap Gang

If you’re interested in my sleep patterns and I have no idea why you would be, I was recently interviewed by Denise Balkissoon for an article in the Globe and Mail: Is Bi-Modal Sleep as Good as Eight Straight Hours? I don’t know. Guess you’ll have to read it to find out. Bi, straight, bedtime, eight …

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Mar 04

New Review of Technicolor Ultra Mall

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There’s a new review of Technicolor Ultra Mall. This one comes from The Nameless Zine, which is the review site of The Western Science Fiction Association. They say: Technicolor Ultra Mall is Heath Ledger’s Joker crossed with Fox News and Snow Crash; it is the ultimate exaggeration shot through with flashes and ribbons of what if…. And this …

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Feb 29

Border Town Design Jam

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I’ve been invited to Border Town Design Jam to look at the various projects and offer thoughts and whatnot. Led by Emily Horne and Tim Maly, it runs Friday and Saturday. It’s sure to be an interesting event. Toronto is pretty good at this sort of thing. ABOUT THE PROJECT Your farm is completely surrounded by a foreign country because …

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Feb 19

In the Bag: Technicolor Ultra Mall

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My book showed up in a magazine profile of the bag of famed fashion blogger and friend Anita Clarke. This means my book probably goes to more parties than I do. She says: My good friend Ryan Oakley had his first novel, Technicolor Ultra Mall, published this year. I pre-ordered it months in advance and even got him …

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Jan 07

Philip K. Dick: We Can Rebuild You

Some of you might remember the Philip K. Dick robot that went missing. As a fan of science fiction and the strange, I posted about this weird incident back in 2006. Well, this creature has been rebuilt. Hanson Robotics just rebuilt the Philip K. Dick Android! To replace the android that we lost in 2005, …

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Dec 31

Yearview Mirror: 2011 Edition

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2011. You might have heard. I was published. Yeah, congrats, I know. Since then, it seems like every conversation I’ve had is about the book. People tell me that they plan on buying it, have bought it, inform me of where they are in it, tell me their thoughts about it, sometimes ask questions and …

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