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April 8, 2025

An Interview with Marie Bilodeau about Empire Breaker

I had the wonderful opportunity to talk to the Glitterbomb of Canadian Speculative Fiction, Marie Bilodeau. In our chat, we explored indie versus traditional publishing, depictions of ageing women in fiction, intellectual property writing in shared worlds, and revisiting a world that she had written in before. Marie gave us a sneak peak at her latest book, Empire Breaker, the...

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September 2, 2024

An Interview with Drs. John Moores and Jesse Rogerson

I recently heard about an amazing upcoming book called Daydreaming in the Solar System by Drs. John Moores and Jesse Rogerson that would explore Science education about the solar system through science fiction stories. I was so fascinated, I had to contact them for an interview. John and Jesse are both professors of space sciences at York University, and their...

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July 3, 2024

An Interview with Kim McDougall

I’ve been reading and adoring Kim McDougall’s Valkyrie Bestiary Series for a while now, enjoying the idea of a world where magic has ruptured into our world and magical creatures need to be dealt with by professional pest control folks. In this interview, Kim and I discuss magical creatures, world-building a magical world, and the power of urban fantasy. If...

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April 3, 2024

An Interview with Lydia M Hawke

In today’s interview of the brilliant Lydia M Hawke, we explore ageing, coming-of-age stories, parents in coming-of-age stories, paranormal fiction, gender and feminism. Lydia gives us some amazing insights into her Crone series. Lydia M. Hawke is an award-winning urban fantasy and paranormal women’s fiction author and a proud crone living just outside of Ottawa. When worlds collide or apocalyptic...

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April 1, 2024

An Interview with Carolyn Charron

I finally get the opportunity to interview Carolyn Charron and we talk about ageing in fiction, disability, historical fiction, pirates, short stories, and so much more. Carolyn Charron is a speculative fiction writer who’s always wanted to be a pirate or a wizard preferably with a dragon companion. Her short stories have appeared Renaissance Press’ Nothing Without Us, an anthology...

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March 20, 2024

An Interview with Ashley Caranto-Morford on Digital Humanities

Folks may not know this, but Speculating Canada is a Digital Humanities project (a way to engage with the digital in scholarship or teach through the digital). I have been very lucky to have Dr. Ashley Caranto-Morford to educate me about Digital Humanities (DH) and all of the complexities of DH. In this interview, Ashley and I explore decolonial Digital...

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February 27, 2024

An Interview with Eric Choi About Alternative Histories

In this interview with Eric Choi, we examine the interweaving of Eric’s roles as an aerospace engineer and science fiction writer and the way that he breaks down the barriers between the arts and sciences. We examine Eric’s work looking at alternative histories and imagining a world that could have turned out differently if not for chance moments in time....

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February 20, 2024

An Interview with Melissa Yuan-Innes (Melissa Yi)

Ever thought to yourself “I would love to get a doctor’s perspective on this murder mystery”… well, great news, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes writes murder mysteries informed by her perspective as a doctor. In this interview, we examine the way that Melissa’s medical perspective informs her fiction writing, the incredible work Melissa did in converting one of her books to a...

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January 30, 2024

An Interview with Rick Fehr About Canada’s Supernatural History

In this interview, academic and podcaster, Rick Fehr shares some of Canada’s supernatural history exploring some of the strange mysteries that have haunted Canada’s past. Rick Fehr‘s interest in the supernatural has been a longstanding part of his life. Growing up in a town known for an historic poltergeist, the paranormal was normal. Surrounded by good storytellers, Rick’s upbringing was...

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October 7, 2016

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 70: An Interview of Derek Kunsken

On this episode of Speculating Canada, I interview Science Fiction and Space Opera author Derek Kunsken. Today we discuss fandom, fan conventions, the power of short fiction, science, and the power of space opera. We discuss the use of biological sciences in particular in science fiction writing to explore the figure of the alien and the power to imagine other...

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