Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

January 19, 2013

Quote – Hope For The Future That Imagination Reaches Beyond The Present

“That’s our only hope for the future, isn’t it? That the imagination reaches beyond the present to glimpse not so much a sense of meaning in what lies all around us, but to let us simply see it in the first place?” -Charles de Lint – The Conjure Man In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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January 19, 2013

Nominate Speculating Canada for the Auroras ( the Prix Aurora Awards) if you are Interested

Dear readers, A friend of mine has recently noted that he is voting the Speculating Canada site for the Aurora Awards. If you would be interested in nominating Speculating Canada, you can explore the Prix Aurora Awards at http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/ . Looking through the Aurora category lists (at http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/aurora-awards/aurora-award-categories/ ), we were thinking that Speculating Canada may fall under the category below...

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January 18, 2013

Upcoming Interview With Karl Schroeder on Wednesday, January 23

I first heard Karl Schroeder talk at The Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy in 2009 and have looked forward to the opportunity to talk to him. I am pleased that I will be able to share that conversation with all of you readers on Wednesday, January 23, when Karl Schroeder talks about his work consulting about technological...

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January 16, 2013

Interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia

An interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia by Derek Newman-Stille I am really excited to have been able to interview Silvia Moreno-Garcia. She espouses a lot of the themes that I talk about in my own work around the ability for SF to include those who are traditionally pushed to the fringes, so I was really pleased that she was willing to...

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January 14, 2013

Quote – People More Capable of Evil Than Creatures From Legend

“Men were far more capable of evil and cruelty than any creature out of legend.” -Charles de Lint – Mulengro (Orb 2003)

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January 13, 2013

The Timeless Power of Legends

A Review of The Monkey King & Other Stories Edited by Griffin Ondaatje (Harper Collins, 1995). By Derek Newman-Stille Griffin Ondaatje compiled The Monkey King & Other Stories as a celebration of the 40th anniversary of World Literacy of Canada. The stories within represent Canadian and Sri Lankan adaptations and re-tellings of Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim tales, bringing the timeless...

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January 12, 2013

Upcoming Interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Wednesday January 16th

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican-Canadian author and editor and the owner of Innsmouth Free Press. I particularly enjoy her work because it often gives voice to those who are othered in society and I was really happy that she agreed to do an interview with me here on Speculating Canada. In the upcoming interview, Silvia tells us about how stories...

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January 11, 2013

Interview with Camille Alexa

Camille Alexa has dual Canadian and American citizenship. She is the co-editor of the Canadian Superhero collection Masked Mosaic as well as the author of the short fiction collection Push of the Sky. She wrote the winning story for OnSpec’s Apocalypse issue (#90 Vol 24, no 3) and has published in magazines and anthologies such as Subversion, Space & Time...

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January 10, 2013

Quote – Spread Word of Wonders Encountered on Earth

“You must spread the word of all the wonders you encounter in your days on earth. You must tell every being that breathes – all the animals and all the people – about the marvels of the place you share.” -Timothy Findley – “The Unicorn and the Grapevine” in The Monkey King & Other Stories Edited by Griffin Ondaatje (Harper...

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January 9, 2013

Subversive Summonings

A Review of Claude Lalumiere’s The Ministry of Sacred Affairs (In Here Be Monsters: Tongues and Teeth: Issue Seven, 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille In The Ministry of Sacred Affairs, Lalumiere demonstrates his love of questioning social conventions and enforced messages by giving voice to a socially abject figure: the goblin, a figure hated by the public and viewed as a...

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