Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

September 7, 2012

Quote – Discovery By What Is Not Answered

“It’s surprising what you can discover by what people don’t say, the questions they won’t answer.” -Nancy Baker – A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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September 6, 2012

Books You Can Really Sink Your Teeth Into: A Reading List for Vampire Week

By Derek Newman-Stille These are a few of my favorite Canadian vampire stories (note that I say ‘a few’, I want to save several for Vampire Week next year). Some of these stories challenge the genre, pushing it into new areas, and some represent those classic vampire ideas for a Canadian audience. There is something about the Canadian vampire that...

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September 5, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Nancy Kilpatrick for Vampire Week (September 9-15)

Check out Speculating Canada for Vampire Week (September 9-15) including an interview with Nancy Kilpatrick, Canada’s Queen of the Damned: author of vampire fiction and the macabre. Join Speculating Canada for this interview and watch as Ms. Kilpatrick takes the “mask of normality” off of horror writers and explores the unusual and macabre lives of authors. Let her lure you...

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September 4, 2012

SteaMacabre or SpectrePunk?

A Review of Paul Marlowe’s Knights of the Sea(Sybertooth Inc., 2010) By Derek Newman-Stille Submarines are the maritime SteamPunk equivalent of the airship. In his Knights of the Sea, New Brunswick author Paul Marlowe explores Victorian era Nova Scotia through the lens of a quirky cast of characters including several teens that are considered too smart for their age, a...

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September 3, 2012

Quote – Too Young To Have A Nemesis

“I’m too young to have a nemesis” -Paul Marlowe – Knights of the Sea (Sybertooth, Inc., 2010)

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September 2, 2012

Between Worlds

A review of Charles de Lint’s Mulengro (Orb, 2003) By Derek Newman-Stille Charles de Lint’s novel Mulengro: A Romany Tale is fundamentally about culture clashes and the competing interests of tradition and insularity against cultural assimilation. Mulengro is about a group of Gypsies (Romany people) who are being hunted by a man (called Mulengro by the Gypsie leaders) who is...

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September 1, 2012

Quote – the Lonely Place to Ask ‘Why’ and Discover Ourselves

“When we break up with a lover, watch the death of a loved one, or find ourselves suddenly without a job to pay the mortgage, we seek that lonely place to try to gather our thoughts. It is in such places, where our fears reign paramount; where we speak and pray aloud; where we ask ‘why’ and seek answers, that...

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August 31, 2012

Vampire Week on Speculating Canada – Sept 9- 15, 2012

It’s like Shark Week, but with less teeth. Vampires only need two to do the job that it takes a full mouth full of shark teeth for!! During the week of September 9th to September 15th 2012, stay tuned to Speculating Canada for : -An interview with vampire author Nancy Kilpatrick (and find out why she is called Canada’s Queen...

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August 31, 2012

Quote- Curiosity and Change

“Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.” –Julie Czerneda – Foreward (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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August 30, 2012

Everyone Hides Behind Their Masks, Whether They Are Superheroes or Psychiatrists

A Review of Steve Vernon’s The Glint of Moonlight on Broken Glass in Nothing to Lose (Nocturne Press, 2007) By Derek Newman-Stille What does pain do to a person? In what way is victimhood contagious? Asks Steve Vernon in his short story The Glint of Moonlight on Broken Glass. Vernon’s story is a superhero story, but one that is not...

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