Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

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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August 2, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Steve Vernon on Monday August 6th

This week, I had the opportunity to interview Nova Scotia author Steve Vernon. This Monday August 6th, check out our interview and have a chance to enjoy Steve’s sense of humour while finding out what things inspire him as an author, some of his recent projects, and an in-depth discussion about his work Sudden Death Overtime. You can explore some...

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August 2, 2012

Dark, Cold Memory Lost in Sun-happy Brilliance

A review of John Park’s Nightward in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories. By Derek Newman-Stille In Nightward, John Park creates a world that has stopped spinning. The sun beats heavily on one half of the world, leaving the other half in darkness and a twilight in between. People in this world seek the sunlight, standing on towers at the dusky...

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August 1, 2012

Interview with Claude Lalumiere

An Interview with Claude Lalumiere by Derek Newman-Stille This past weekend, Speculating Canada had the opportunity to interview Canadian author Claude Lalumiere. I want to express my thanks to Mr. Lalumiere for taking the time to talk to our readers and share some of his insights about writing, about identity, and about the worlds he creates. I will let him...

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July 31, 2012

Quote – Time is Nothing but a Wind

“Time is nothing but a wind that blows clean through you. The only thing you catch from it is a goddamn cold that will kill you in the end.” -Steve Vernon – Sudden Death Overtime (Crossroad Press, 2012)

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July 30, 2012

Quote – Promises like waves

“So many promises washed up like waves on the rocky beach, only to be pulled away just as fast.” -Steve Vernon – Sudden Death Overtime

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July 29, 2012

Interview with Claude Lalumiere appearing this Wednesday August 1st

I had a great opportunity to interview Claude Lalumiere this past weekend and wanted to provide a heads-up that the interview will be appearing on Speculating Canada on Wednesday August 1st. The interview will contain a little bit of background on Claude’s current projects, his inspirations as an author, and the things that are currently exciting his interest and passions....

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July 28, 2012

Zombie Ethics 101: The Zombie Diet

A review of The Ethical Treatment of Meat by Claude Lalumiere (in Objects of Worship, Chizine, Toronto, 2009) By Derek Newman-Stille For those that have read my work before, you will know that I have a love of the monstrous and, particularly, the ability of the monstrous to question ideas of normalcy. Lalumiere’s short story The Ethical Treatment of Meat leaves...

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July 27, 2012

Vampire Volume to be Released (Unleashed) in October

Vampires and the month of October keep coinciding with one another. Nancy Kilpatrick’s volume Vampyric Variations should be a great preparation for the Halloween holidays. The vampire always has something to tell humanity about ourselves and Kilpatrick’s title Vampiric Variations suggests that she will be exploring variations on the traditional legends surrounding our consistent friend/fiend. This volume will be a...

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