Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

January 8, 2013

Quote – Young Always Surrounded by Monsters

“Who were the monsters, though? I guess we were surrounded by them. The young always are.” – Ursula Pflug – Airport Shoes (Strange Horizons http://www.strangehorizons.com/2007/20071126/airportshoes-f.shtml )

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January 7, 2013

Abandoned

A Review of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “A Handful of Earth” in Expanded Horizons: Speculative Fiction for the Rest of Us (Nov, 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “A Handful of Earth” available for free online by Expanded Horizons: Speculative Fiction for the Rest of Us ( http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=2442 ) narrates the Dracula story from the perspective of Dracula’s “brides”, the three “sisters”...

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January 6, 2013

Quote – Learning to Understand

‘They learn, and seem to understand much. Yet we do not understand them.” – Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind (In Tesseracts)

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January 5, 2013

Upcoming Interview with Camille Alexa on Friday January 11th

Check out Speculating Canada on Friday January 11th for a fantastic interview with Canadian-American author Camille Alexa. If you have been following Speculating Canada for a while, you probably know that I am a fan of her work and have reviewed her short stories a few times. You can check out my review of “All Them Pretty Babies” at http://speculatingcanada.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-speculative/...

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January 4, 2013

Quote- Everyone Wants To Be The Star

“In a land where stories have power, everyone wants to be the star” -Lindsey Carmichael – The Prince and the Hedgewitch (Canadian Tales of the Fantastic)

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January 3, 2013

Avatars of Reality

A review of Ven Begamudre’s Vishnu Dreams (Gaspereau Press, 2008) By Derek Newman-Stille The Hindu god Vishnu sleeps and dreams the lives of mortals in Ven Begamudre’s Vishnu Dreams, allowing for the intersection of Hindu cosmology and the physical reality of everyday existence. Tales of the Hindu gods are interspersed amongst a seemingly magic-less narrative. Stories and sacred tales become...

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January 1, 2013

Year in Review: What is Canadian Speculative Fiction – from the authors

People are often asking if there is such a thing as “Canadian identity”, something that differentiates Canada from other nations. I thought I would ask authors if they thought that there was something distinctly Canadian about Canadian Speculative Fiction or how much they felt that their Canadian identity influenced their writing. I have provided links to the full interviews below...

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December 31, 2012

The Secret Guide to Keeping Supernatural Secrets

A review of Sierra Dean’s The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters (Samhain Publishing Ltd., 2011) By Derek Newman-Stille Named “Secret” and a person at the crossroads of many secrets, Secret McQueen is a bounty hunter you will enjoy. Secret is a hybridised half vampire, half werewolf and treated as a second class citizen by the vampires she works for due...

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December 29, 2012

It’s the End Of The World As We Know It, and I Feel Speculative

A review of OnSpec #90, Vol 24, No. 3 Fall 2012 Apocalypse Special Issue. By Derek Newman-Stille On Spec, with their combination of SF stories and non-fiction SF essays and interviews, never fails to be entertaining, but the special issue on the apocalypse was even more fantastic than most. It was as thought-provoking as it was entertaining, reminding readers of...

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December 28, 2012

Year in Review: Speculative Fiction Versus Realist Fiction – from the authors

Well, we have had an amazing year in 2012 on Speculating Canada…. one could even describe it as a fantastic year. Although Speculating Canada has only been around since July, it has been an incredible opportunity to explore Canadian Speculative Fiction and explore the incredible amounts of knowledge that authors bring into the world and lens that they place on...

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