Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

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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July 26, 2012

On the Importance of Authors in Residence

On the Importance of Authors in Residence By Derek Newman-Stille A few years ago, when I was Senior Tutor for Trent University’s Champlain College (http://www.trentu.ca/colleges/champlain/) and while I was teaching my course Werewolves as Symbols of the Human Experience at Trent, I decided that I would help my students to meet a current Canadian author. Trent used to frequently have...

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July 26, 2012

Quote – All humorous

“It’s all humorous to him, even annoyance.” -Ven Begamudre – Out of Sync (In So Long Been Dreaming. Arsenal Pulp Press. Vancouver, 2004)

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July 25, 2012

Quote – Not learning about aliens, learning about self

“I have learned something here. Not about aliens. About myself.” – Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind (In Tesseracts)

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July 24, 2012

Quote – Technology interfering with Nature.

“Technology must never interfere with our Communion with the Mother, lest we forget the Covenant, grow too greedy, and destroy our new home.” -Celu Amberstone – Refugees (In So Long Been Dreaming. Arsenal Pulp Press. Vancouver, 2004)

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July 23, 2012

The Frost Centre for Canadian and Indigenous Studies at Trent University Speculates Canada

I have had the incredible opportunity this year to study with the Frost Centre for Canadian and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. This programme questioned all of my notions about Canada and encouraged me to explore new ideas about what is Canadian and what makes up the notion of ‘Canada’ itself. It was a perfect fit for my research on...

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July 23, 2012

McCloud’s School for Supernatural Youngsters

A Review of Kelley Armstrong’s The Gathering (Doubleday Canada, 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille The Gathering, the first book of Kelley Armstrong’s Young Adult/Teen Fiction Darkness Rising trilogy is set in the same world as her Otherworld series. The supernatural is real, but hidden in this world, kept secret by the members of the supernatural races that inhabit it. In The...

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July 22, 2012

Aging Gods Lost in Modernity and the Search For Thought and Memory

A review of “Thought and Memory” by Catherine Knutsson. In On Spec Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2012. By Derek Newman-Stille Catherine Knutsson’s Thought and Memory expands on a line from the Norse “Sayings of Grimnir” in which Odin discusses his two ravens Huginn and Muninn (Thought and Memory) and expresses his fear that the ravens may be lost. Knutsson...

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July 21, 2012

Quote – Questions Best Left To Science Fiction Writers

“It was one of those questions best left to philosophers and science fiction writers.” -Drew Hayden Taylor – The Night Wanderer

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