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Check out my review of Kenneth Oppel’s This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

My Schedule for Can Con 2017  For those of you who are attending Can Con this weekend, here are some of the panels I will be speaking on: Friday Evening 21:00-21:50  Homophobia and Monster Stories Saturday Morning 11:00-11:50 Finding a Home for Your Queer Tales Saturday Evening  18:00-18:50 Queer Comics Saturday Evening 21:00-22:00 Spooning With Spoonies: Sexuality and Disability Sunday...

A review of Melissa Yi’s Wolf Ice (Olo Books, 2015). By Derek Newman-Stille Every crime scene is unique and every investigation of a crime scene has its challenges, but those challenges are magnified when the victim is a werewolf and she disappears under suspicious circumstances around other werewolves. When Elena dies, everyone is uncertain how to proceed. Human police can’t be...

Outside the PanelsA review of A.C. Wise’s “In The Name of Free Will” in Tesseracts Nineteen: Superhero Universe Edited by Claude Lalumiere and Mark Shainblum (Edge, 2016). By Derek Newman-Stille Superhero narratives are often focused on one individual transcending all others and becoming the centre of a story, everything in her/his world gravitating around them and serving to propell them...

Check out this review I conducted of Canadian author Joanne Findon’s story “That Time of the Month” up on Through The Twisted Woods.

Disabling the Future A review of Accessing the Future (Ed. Kathryn Allan and Djibril Al-Ayad, Future Fire, 2015) By Derek Newman-Stille    I have to admit that I was hesitant to review Accessing the Future because I wrote the afterward for it and I felt as though it would seem self-serving to review it, but as a disability scholar and...

I have asked Canadian SF authors what they have been reading in 2015 to give you a sense of what has interested them this year. A.M. Dellamonica tells us about the top 10 books she read this year and gives us a few comments about them. CASINO ROYALE, by Ian Fleming – I read this as part of the preparation...