Monthly Archive: March, 2013

March 31, 2013

Quote – Life is an act of Magic

“Life’s an act of magic, too…. Without magic – or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom – nothing has any depth. It’s all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there’s more to everything than that, whether it’s a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.” -Charles...

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March 30, 2013

Upcoming interview on Wednesday April 3rd with Michelle Carraway about The Courtesan Prince Play.

As someone who has an incredible love of the theatre and of speculative fiction, I have always been interested in portrayals of the speculative on stage. I was very excited to hear from Lynda Williams that her novel The Courtesan Prince was being converted into a stage performance by Michelle Carraway. It is with great excitement that Michelle  Carraway was...

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March 29, 2013

Quote – Being Alive For Books

“There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books… There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010)

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March 28, 2013

Superhero Complex(ity)

A review of Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories (edited by Claude Lalumiere and Camille Alexa, Tyche Books LTD, 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille There has been a recent increase in the public interest in the superhero genre with increasing numbers of superhero movies, increasing numbers of people wearing superhero related merchandise and increasingly larger population groups getting excited about the figure...

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March 27, 2013

Quote – Trees Enjoying You Walking Through Them

“I could feel the forest enjoying your walking through it. It was like the trees knew you.” -Charles de Lint – Mulengro (Orb 2003)

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March 26, 2013

Unmasked

A review of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “Iron Justice Versus the Fiends of Evil” (in Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories Ed. Claude Lalumiere and Camille Alexa, Tyche Books LTD., 2013) Many superhero stories in the golden age of comics tended to focus on young, white, straight, able-bodied men. Silvia Moreno-Garcia seeks to disrupt that exclusionary notion of the ‘regular’ superhero by injecting...

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March 24, 2013

Frankenfoot

A review of Julie Czerneda’s “Left Foot On A Blind Man” (in Silicon Dreams Ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Sergiff, DAW 2001) As a scholar of disability studies, I am always excited to read a work of Canadian SF that really engages with ideas of disability. I have rarely encountered a short story that engages with so many disability...

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March 23, 2013

Quote – Terrible Things BUT Great Books

“There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010)

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March 22, 2013

Science and Speculative Fiction

An editorial on Science and Speculative Fiction By Derek Newman-Stille Although as a society, we often create an impenetrable barrier between the arts and sciences, seeing each as separate and distinct from one another, these barriers are historically created and are social inventions. The origin of science is through philosophy, remember. Science Fiction (or more widely, Speculative Fiction) is one of...

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March 21, 2013

Quote – People Fight For Fear of Monsters

“People unite against things. People fight when they’re scared and threatened, not to change, not for the future. They get it wrong in the other Tales. People don’t fight for heroes: They fight for the monsters. For fear of the monsters in the dark.” -Leah Bobet – Above (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012)

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