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It is therefore a bit surprising to come across a Francophone Canadian writing SF so hard it is positively crunchy.

- Robert Runté, The Ottawa Citizen

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L’une des écrivaines de science-fiction les plus primées au Canada  

– La Horde Geek

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La plume de Michèle Laframboise séduit toujours autant.  

– YOZONE

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Michèle Laframboise jette sur le monde et l’humanité un regard sarcastique pourtant plein de tendresse.

— Solaris

Collections for all tastes

  • Formidables

    The Formidables collection celebrates friendship, romantic comedies, science fiction stories and down-to-earth adventures with often over-looked characters, like Lady Byrd, an eccentric ornithologist with a knack of helping troubles souls.

  • Echovisions

    We are often urged to "think outside the box" but we already live inside a vast ecosystem that needs healing. Echovisions' bitter-sweet stories delve deeper, exploring social paradoxes and greed-leaning dystopias.

  • Echos

    Who are we, really? From what roots does our identity sprouts? What kind of materials do we need to build a more open culture? The Echos collection features very short vignettes from my family’s past or fiction inspired from true stories.

  • Sunday Artist Studio

    Michèle Laframboise's graphic novels draw their inspiration from our own realities. Sunday Artist Studio presents original universes like the spacefaring super-gardeners of Mistress of the Winds.

  • Short-story collections

    Each book gathers five stories exploring the vibrant worlds created by author Michèle Laframboise, organized by themes: hard or soft SF, dystopias, romances sparkled with a bit of magic… a buffet of sparkling tales!

Meet the Author

About Michèle

Michèle Laframboise feeds coffee grounds to her garden plants, runs long distances and writes full-time in Mississauga, ON.

A multi-award-winning Canadian science fiction author and comic artist, Michèle offers a wide range of literary flavors, from hard-to-soft chocolate SF to romances and contemporary women's fictions celebrating friendship. All those will stay with you for a long time!

Fascinated by science and nature since she could walk, Michèle draws from her scientific background to create worlds filled with humour, invention, and wonder.

As publishing houses tend to flop behind her like those rope bridges in adventure movies, she runs faster forward, offering more stories through her indie-pub house Echofictions.

So far, she has published twenty novels and more than ninety short stories in magazines, among those Asimov’s, Analog, Future SF, Abyss & Apex, Solaris, Galaxies and OnSpec.

More details?

Born in London to Québécois parents, Michèle Laframboise studied geography at the Université de Montréal and civil engineering at the École Polytechnique before discovering her true calling as a storyteller.

Her accolades include one Trillium Award, two Aurora Awards for Best Novel and Best Story in French, two Solaris awards, and one Governor General's Literary Award nomination.

Through Echofictions, Michèle makes her backlist of stories and novels available to readers in print and digital formats — in both French and English.