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December 26, 2012

Interview with Noah Chinn

An Interview with Noah Chinn by Derek Newman-Stille Noah Chinn is the author of Bleeding Heart Yard (about werewolves, witches, and romantic curses) and Trooper # 4 (a post-apocalyptic adventure). Noah Chinn tends to play with ideas of comedy and humour while dealing with issues of disaster and destruction… and he brings some of that humour to this interview. I...

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December 20, 2012

Alien Ecologies

A review of Nina Munteanu’s Outer Diverse (Starfire World Syndicate, 2011) By Derek Newman-Stille The world has changed. Humans have been forced off of the planet Earth by their supposed ‘saviours’, the Eosians. Humans were threatened by a race called the Vos, a race that desired the destruction of humanity, but the Eosians drove them away… only they decided not...

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November 8, 2012

Why SF is not so “Out There”

An Editorial by Derek Newman-Stille I often hear from people that they can’t suspend their disbelief enough to enjoy SF, and I always find that amusing because… the real world is more bizarre, weird, and unbelievable than most SF authors could dream up. We have all come from star dust in space that has spun off into a planet and...

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October 11, 2012

Quote – Humans are as Alien to One Another as to an “Alien” Species

“We are strange creatures, we are humans. We are often as alien to one another as we are to an ‘alien’ species. With whom are we to relate?” – Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind (In Tesseracts)

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October 6, 2012

Interview with Douglas Smith

An Interview with Douglas Smith By Derek Newman-Stille This week I had a great opportunity to chat with Toronto author Douglas Smith to discuss ideas about genre-crossing in SF, the ability of SF to challenge the status quo and propose new questions and ideas about how we can view our world, and the power of SF as a medium without...

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October 4, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Douglas Smith on Saturday, October 6, 2012

This week, I had the opportunity to interview Toronto author Douglas Smith. Smith’s work spans the speculative genres from horror to science fiction to fantasy, often blending and recombining speculative elements. You may have seen some of my review of Douglas Smith’s work on Speculating Canada, but if you have not, click on his name in the tags section to...

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October 3, 2012

Canadian Werewolves

By Derek Newman-Stille Canada is fundamentally a hybridised place, embodying multiple differences in the same country and torn/strengthened by contrasting pulls of culture. This hybridity, and ability to alternate between different forms is best expressed in the werewolf and this is why the werewolf has become such an interesting medium for Canadian duality or multiplicity. We are multiple and ever...

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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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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 14, 2012

Amateur Theatre… in Space

Review of “A Little Space Music” by Edward Willett. In On Spec Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2012. By Derek Newman-Stille In “A Little Space Music”, Edward Willett demonstrates his creative wit and humour. He plays on an issue that is familiar to any of us who have done amateur theatre… the issue of making a cast out of actors...

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