Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

June 16, 2013

Upcoming Interview with Michael Kelly on Wednesday June 19th

Teaser for Michael Kelly Interview I was so excited to hear from Michael and share in the incredible and insightful comments he was able to provide. It is absolutely amazing to have an author provide deep and poignant insights that help the reader to see Canadian Spec Fic in a new light. This Wednesday June 19th, check out Speculating Canada’s...

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June 15, 2013

Quote- Knowing Yourself Through A Life-changing Decision

“You really get to know yourself, to understand what it is you really want when you have to work through a … life-changing decision.” – Robert Runte – Split Decision (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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June 14, 2013

Voudoun Visions of Toronto

A Review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in The Ring (Grand Central Publishing, 1998) By Derek Newman-Stille In Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson blends urban fantasy and near-future science fiction together in a Toronto environment. She creates a Toronto that has been cut off from the rest of Canada, ghettoised and locked off from the rest of the...

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June 12, 2013

Report from the 2013 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy

By Derek Newman-Stille The term “Academic Conference” often intimidates the general public. To many people “Academic” has come to be synonymous with “inaccessible language”, “boring discourse”, and “pomposity”, but the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy’s real potency is the focus of the conference on accessibility to an interested public. Organiser Allan Weiss wants the conference to be...

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June 10, 2013

Quote – Life Continues Past Story’s End

“They didn’t understand that life continues past the story’s end. They never wondered whether the stories were strong enough to sustain those happily-ever-afters once the clock struck midnight.” -Lindsey Carmichael – The Prince and the Hedgewitch (Canadian Tales of the Fantastic)

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June 9, 2013

Mazes and the Futility of a Controlled Life

A review of James Bambury’s Thirteen Generations (on AEscifi.ca The Canadian Science Fiction Review) By Derek Newman-Stille James Bambury’s Thirteen Generations takes place in a realm of experiment, a lab in which specimens are put into a maze to test their ability to navigate complex locations and solve problems. Each specimen only lasts about an hour and passes on some...

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June 7, 2013

The Absurd Undercurrent to Rationality.

A review of Cory Doctorow’s Shannon’s Law (in Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands Ed. Holly Black and Ellen Kushner, Random House, 2011) By Derek Newman-Stille Borderland is a place that exists between the Elfland and mundane reality. It is a strange blend of the fantastic and the urban, a city that is invested and embodied...

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June 6, 2013

Quote – Chaos Gains Power Through Fear and Unwillingness to Face it Down

“Maybe the relationship between chaos and order was no different from that between a six-year-old boy and the monster beneath his bed. Maybe chaos only gains power through fear and belief and the unwillingness to stand up and face it down” -Kurt Kirchmeier – Four Against Chaos (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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June 4, 2013

Fantasy Fridays Throughout June!!

Fantasy Fridays Throughout June Fantastic realms provide us with new ways of looking at the world. Creating new worlds gives us a chance to look at our own world in a new light, questioning our preconceptions, and allowing us to see our own world as unusual, fantastic, and as much of a creation as those that are created by fiction...

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June 2, 2013

Quote – Humans Have Much To Learn From “Inferior” Life Forms

“The mortals have much to learn from what they deem inferior life forms.” -Nancy Kilpatrick – Berserker (in Vampyric Variations)

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