Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

August 11, 2012

The Canadian Response to Mercedes Lackey’s Five Hundred Kingdoms

A review of Lindsey Carmichael’s The Prince and the Hedgewitch (in Canadian Tales of the Fantastic, Red Tuque Books, Penticton, BC, 2011) By Derek Newman-Stille To anyone who has read Mercedes Lackey’s Five Hundred Kingdoms series, Lindsey Carmichael’s The Prince and the Hedgewitch will strike a familiar cord. Like Lackey’s series, Carmichael’s short story plays with the idea of a...

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August 10, 2012

Quote- Touching SF Headspace

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August 10, 2012

Quote – Save Your Questions on Surreal Nights, Go With The Flow

“This was already turning out to be a surreal night, and I had learned from experience that when things start to take on a Lynchian vibe, it’s always better to save your questions and just go with the flow.” -Ian Rogers – The Ash Angels (Burning Effigy Press, 2010)

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August 9, 2012

Quote- Always Been Fools Who Follow Leaders Without Thought

“All though history there have been fools like you and they’ve caused wars and disasters and misery. Fools without minds of their own, who follow their leader without thought, without stopping to ask if their leader knows what he is doing. Leaders like Genghis Khan, like Starbusch, like Hitler, leaders who manipulate their followers like puppets in pursuit of their...

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August 8, 2012

Hockey 30 Days of Night in Canada

A Review of Sudden Death Overtime by Steve Vernon (Crossroad Press, 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille In his Sudden Death Overtime, Steve Vernon creates an unusual cast of characters in an epic battle on and off the ice. Vernon takes a group of old Newfoundland hockey players from a small, one-pub town and faces them against an encroaching threat of outsiders....

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August 7, 2012

Quote – Welcoming Nightmares as Company

“The nightmares were her company these days. She welcomed them as a lonely woman welcomes the nightly visit of a phantom lover.” -Steve Vernon – Sudden Death Overtime (Crossroad Press, 2012)

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August 6, 2012

Interview with Steve Vernon

An Interview with Steve Vernon About Himself and His Recent Novella Sudden Death Overtime By Derek Newman-Stille It is always a great opportunity to be able to do an interview of an author about a specific work and I want to thank Mr. Vernon for allowing me to interview him and for giving the readers some insights into himself and...

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August 5, 2012

Quote – Canadian Science Fiction is varied

“By now, it should be no secret that there are such things as Canadian science fiction writers; that there is a Canadian science fiction. And by now, we are perhaps beginning to realise that it’s not monolithic, but as varied as the writers who create it.” -Nalo Hopkinson – Final Thoughts (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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August 4, 2012

Quote – Alien and Similar

“They are awesome in their alienness, profound in their similarity to us.” -Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind (In Tesseracts)

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August 3, 2012

Quote – open mind

“As long as you keep your mind open you will learn.” -Gerry Truscott – Cee (In Tesseracts)

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