Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

September 19, 2012

Imagining Canadian Speculative Fiction

An Editorial on SF Versus Realist Fiction and a Review of Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing Edited by Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (ChiZine Publications, 2012). By Derek Newman-Stille I received a copy of Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing on August 23rd and was so excited that I had to read the essay introducing the volume...

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September 18, 2012

An Interview with Paul Marlowe About The Wellborn Conspiracy Series

Interview With Paul Marlowe About The Wellborn Conspiracy Series By Derek Newman-Stille Native New Brunswick author Paul Marlowe shares some of his insights on SteamPunk, Canadian speculative fiction, his Wellborn Conspiracy Series, the werewolf, and the role of research in Canadian Speculative Fiction. I want to thank Mr. Marlowe for taking the time to do this interview and share his thoughts...

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September 17, 2012

Chimerical Questions

A Review of Douglas Smith’s Chimerascope (ChiZine Publications, 2010). By Derek Newman-Stille Douglas Smith’s short story collection Chimerascope is a chimerical creature itself, a creative hybrid of diverse genres of the fantastic ranging in temporality, theme, characters, and the questions it evokes. Smith names the series after the Chimera, a creature from the ancient Greek world that is a hybrid...

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September 16, 2012

Quote – Impossible and Reality

“Lately, impossible was making reality its bitch.” -Chadwick Ginther –Thunder Road (RavenStone, forthcoming 2012).

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September 16, 2012

Upcoming Interview With Paul Marlowe Sept 18, 2012

After doing a review of Paul Marlowe’s Knights of the Sea, I thought I would ask him to provide some insights for readers about his work, the evolution and changes to the genre of Speculative Fiction, and the role of SF in speculating Canadian history. Mr. Marlowe was able to provide a great amount of feedback about these and several...

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September 15, 2012

Interview with Nancy Kilpatrick

An Interview with Nancy Kilpatrick By Derek Newman-Stille This week I had the opportunity to interview an author who is often referred to as the Canadian Queen of the Damned, and the Canadian Anne Rice. She is an author who plays with multiple types of vampires and doesn’t confine herself to a singular image or myth of the vampire. Ms....

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September 14, 2012

Sometimes Research Bites…

A review of Kelley Armstrong’s The List in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (ChiZine Publications, 2012) and Evolve Two (Edge, 2011). By Derek Newman-Stille In The List Kelley Armstrong re-introduces Toronto vampire Zoe Takano (from Broken, “Zen & the Art of Vampirism,” and “Learning Curve”) with her characteristic wit and sarcasm. Zoe finds herself (fortunately) absent from a...

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September 13, 2012

Eternal Buddha

A Review of Karen Dales’ The Guest (http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/139342) By Derek Newman-Stille Set in a Buddhist temple, Karen Dales’ short story The Guest is a vampire tale about the escape from a very human monstrosity. Outside the temple, the vampire is treated with discrimination and hatred: feared and not accepted – it is a world of fear that is resisted by...

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September 13, 2012

The Vampire’s Gaze

A Review of Nancy Kilpatrick’s Berserker in Vampyric Variations(Edge, forthcoming 2012) Nancy Kilpatrick never makes things easy for her reader or provide them with simple answers. Her creative gift is to teach through her writing and open up questions, complicating the potential answers to remind you that answers themselves are too simple and impossible – answers are the main fantasy...

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September 12, 2012

Quote – Rage Buries the Sunlight

“Oh, how the dark rage buries the blinding sunlight.” -Nancy Kilpatrick – Berserker (in Vampyric Variations)

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