Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

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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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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