March 6, 2014 Quote- Envying Freedom “The best revenge is making them envy your freedom.” -James Alan Gardner – Expendable (Avon, 1997) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
March 2, 2014 Quote- Leave People Thinking You Have Special Powers “When someone thinks you have special powers, it’s best to let them go on thinking that.” -William Kowalski – Just Gone (Raven Books, 2013) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
February 27, 2014 Quote – Rather Dream Than Live by Roles of Others “We would all rather dream than live by the roles of anyone else.” -S.M. Beiko – The Lake and the Library (ECW Press, 2013) Categories Quotes Comment: 1
February 23, 2014 Quote – Lies in Fiction an Effective Way to Tell Emotional Truths “I think their stories are what got me writing. First in journals, accounts as truthful as I could make them, then as stories where actuality is stretched and manipulated, because 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.... Categories Quotes Comments: 0
February 23, 2014 Writing Girls Writing Girls by Derek Newman-Stille I have been reading a lot of teen lit recently and thinking about the representation of girls in literature, particularly teen lit written by middle aged men. One of the things that I keep noticing is that the representation of girls is often continuing to be enmeshed in tropes and assumptions about girls rather than... Categories Editorials Comments: 0
February 21, 2014 Interview with Alison Sinclair An interview with Alison Sinclair by Derek Newman-Stille I consider myself very fortunate to have both done research on Alison Sinclair’s work, publishing a paper on the representation of disability in her Darkborn series and now to have had a chance to speak with her directly about her work and share her insights here on Speculating Canada. I hope that... Categories Interviews Comments: 0
February 19, 2014 Quote – Finding Out – The Spirit of Science Fiction “’Don’t you want to find out?’”… that’s the spirit of science fiction.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
February 17, 2014 Upcoming interview with Alison Sinclair on Friday February 21st Scientist involved in medical research and Science Fiction and Fantasy author, Alison Sinclair is an author with diverse interests. I was lucky enough to encounter her work when it was recommended to me by a colleague, Cathy Schoel, because of my research on disability in Canadian Speculative Fiction. Sinclair’s Darkborn series features a world where half of the population is... Categories Interviews/News Comments: 0
February 12, 2014 Interview with Sean Moreland An interview with Sean Moreland by Derek Newman-Stille Sean Moreland and I have been engaging in a discussion about horror for years, both academically and as fans of the genre and I am pleased that I have been able to share some of that conversation here with Speculating Canada’s readers. I am a fan of Dr. Moreland’s scholarship as well... Categories Interviews Comments: 0
February 9, 2014 Quote – Lost Without Our Names and Stories “We are lost without our names, without the stories that we scratched into the surface of our hearts” -S.M. Beiko – The Lake and the Library (ECW Press, 2013) Categories Quotes Comments: 0