Monthly Archive: November, 2012

November 30, 2012

SANTApocalyptic Saturdays throughout December

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November 30, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Nancy Baker On December 5th

I have been an admirer of Nancy Baker’s work for some time, so I was really glad that she agreed to do an interview on Speculating Canada. Nancy Baker is the author of fantastic novels such as The Night Inside, Blood and Crysanthemums, and A Terrible Beauty. Check out our interview on Wednesday December 5th and hear Nancy Baker’s insights...

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November 29, 2012

Eldritch Summonings from the World of the Unconventional

A Review of Here Be Monsters: Tongues and Teeth Edited by Duane Burry, Vincent Mackay, and Alexander Newcombe (Here be Monsters Speculative Fiction issue seven, September, 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille Here Be Monsters: Tongues and Teeth is the first of the Here Be Monsters anthologies that I have read, and I am extremely impressed with the quality of work in...

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November 28, 2012

Quote – Fiction Tells Emotional Truths

“The lies in fiction are such an effective way to tell emotional truths.” -Charles de Lint – the Fields Beyond the Fields. In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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November 27, 2012

Interview with Nina Munteanu

An Interview with Nina Munteanu by Derek Newman-Stille Nina Munteanu is both an author and a writing coach, sharing her gifts with other aspiring writers to help them to share their stories with the world. She is both an author and an ecologist, branching the worlds of science and fiction. Nina is tha author Darwin’s Paradox (and you can see...

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November 26, 2012

Quote – Huddling Together Against The Vastness of Space

“I hear there are some quadrants where the residents sleep in a single tangled mass, all together, as though the proximity gives their small human bodies more weight when measured against the vastness of space outside these thin metal walls” -Camille Alexa – Children of the Device (In Here Be Monsters: Tongues and Teeth: Issue Seven, 2012)

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November 25, 2012

End of the Week End of the World: SANTApocalyptic Saturdays

SANTApocalyptic Saturdays Throughout December, 2012 The Mayan calendar was written to include everything up until December 2012. There is a widespread discussion about whether this means that our world will end on December 21, 2012. Of course, while holiday depression is setting in on people and the wild extremes of capitalism are raging as people seek to buy their way...

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November 24, 2012

Upcoming interview with Nina Munteanu on Tuesday November 27th

Nina Munteanu is an author, ecologist, and writing coach, combining the worlds of science and fiction while sharing her love of authorship with aspiring authors. On Tuesday November 27th, check out our interview with Nina Munteanu and share in some of her insights about the interrelationship between science and science fiction, the importance of an awareness of ecology, the role...

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November 23, 2012

Alien Mountie

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November 23, 2012

Quote – Think of History Like Friends You Know

“You have to think of it like friends you know. History is just the story of different people you know.” -Jerome Stueart – One Nation Under Gods (Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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