Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

October 15, 2012

Quote – Add Gasoline to High School Years

“To my years in high school/ I’d add gasoline/ stand back at the burst of flame/ give a silent cheer.” -Michelle Barker – Fire (in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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October 14, 2012

UnBuried, UnSettled, and UnEarthed

A review of UnEarthed: The Speculative Elements Series Volume 3 Edited by Sherry Ramsey, Julie Serroul, and Nancy Waldman (Third Person Press, Cape Breton, 2012). By Derek Newman-Stille Once again Third Person Press has illustrated the incredible speculative work of Cape Breton authors with the third instalment of their Speculative Elements Series: UnEarthed. This volume, focussed on the element of...

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October 13, 2012

Quote – Wild Beauty

“These denizens of the modern have cleared and clipped the bushes as through natural, wild beauty is repugnant. What a society! What a mockery.” -Nancy Kilpatrick – Berserker (in Vampyric Variations)

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October 12, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Kelley Armstrong Wednesday October 17, 2012.

As part of Werewolf Wednesdays, this coming Wednesday October 17, 2012, I will be interviewing Kelley Armstrong, author of several werewolf novels including Bitten, and Stolen. Kelley Armstrong gave a guest lecture in one of the courses I taught at Trent University: Werewolves As Symbols of the Human Experience, and it has been amazing to get back in touch with...

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October 11, 2012

Quote – Humans are as Alien to One Another as to an “Alien” Species

“We are strange creatures, we are humans. We are often as alien to one another as we are to an ‘alien’ species. With whom are we to relate?” – Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind (In Tesseracts)

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October 10, 2012

Animal Cruelty and the Animal in the Human

A review of Stephanie Snow’s “Dog Fight” (In Unearthed: The Speculative Elements Series Volume 3, Third Person Press, Cape Breton, N.S., 2012). By Derek Newman-Stille Werewolves are traditionally figures of excessive masculinity – excessively hairy, excessively aggressive, and excessively woodsy. They often embody characteristics associated with masculine stereotypes. It is therefore exciting that Stephanie Snow presents queer werewolves in her...

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October 9, 2012

Quote – Changed By Narrative

“Pick up the threads of your narrative and return to weaving your life again… move back out into the world. Change it and be changed by it.” -Alette J. Willis – Thought and Memory (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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October 8, 2012

Montreal Superhero Fights for Diversity

A review of Hochelaga and Sons by Claude Lalumiere (in Objects of Worship, Chizine, Toronto, 2009) By Derek Newman-Stille I have always thought that Canada needs more superheroes and Claude Lalumiere answered my wishes with Hochelaga and Sons. Hochelaga is a very typically Canadian hero. He is not interested in fighting the big battles of the world, but is interested...

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October 7, 2012

Quote – Everyone Wants to be the Hero of Their Own Story

“Everyone wants to be the hero of their own story, but there’s not enough room for them all, so they fester from bitter self-righteousness.” -E.L. Chen – Fin-de-siecle (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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October 6, 2012

Interview with Douglas Smith

An Interview with Douglas Smith By Derek Newman-Stille This week I had a great opportunity to chat with Toronto author Douglas Smith to discuss ideas about genre-crossing in SF, the ability of SF to challenge the status quo and propose new questions and ideas about how we can view our world, and the power of SF as a medium without...

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