Aurora Awards – Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

July 8, 2025

An Interview with Clifford Samuels

Today, Speculating Canada takes an in-depth look at the Aurora Awards, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) and the CAFFA Hall of Fame with Clifford Samuels. Clifford gives insights on Canadian Speculative Fiction fandom, conventions, and some key authors in Canadian genre fiction. You can find out more about CSFFA at https://www.csffa.ca/ Convention organizer, reader and avid collector, are...

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November 25, 2015

The Speculating Canada Website and the Speculating Canada Radio Show on Trent Radio BOTH Won Aurora Awards

Thanks to the support and encouragement of fans, followers, friends, and interviewees, BOTH the Speculating Canada website and the radio show Speculating Canada on Trent Radio won Aurora Awards. These awards wouldn’t have been possible if all of you weren’t willing to go on this adventure into speculation with me, creating a space where we can all ask powerful questions,...

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October 7, 2013

Prix Aurora Award Winning Website Speculating Canada

Yesterday, much to my excitement, Speculating Canada won the Prix Aurora Award. In the extreme of excitement at the Award Ceremony, I was only able to give part of my acceptance speech, so I wanted to place it here in a format that all of you could read and see so that you can know how much you, the readers, have...

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September 24, 2013

Can Con October 4-6th in Ottawa

As many of you know, Speculating Canada has made the short list for a Prix Aurora Award. The awards will be announced this year at Can Con http://www.can-con.org/ in Ottawa on the weekend of October 4-6th. So, if there is any way that you can get out to Ottawa, you will have a great time and it would be great to...

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August 12, 2013

Malicious Math

A review of Matt Moore’s “Delta Pi” (from Torn Realities, Post Mortem Press: 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille Matt Moore’s “Delta Pi” is an Aurora-nominated short story that plays with the idea that math can be a spell as powerful as any invocation. Math is a language, a coded system, and reality imposes strict rules upon it, but math is also...

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May 30, 2013

Final Voting for Speculating Canada for the Prix Aurora Awards

Dear Readers, As many of you know, Speculating Canada made it to the short list for the Prix Aurora Awards. This is a huge accomplishment that is largely due to the work of fans and readers of the site and the brilliant authors that I have had the incredible opportunity to interview. I have been honoured to be able to...

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April 27, 2013

Spec Can made the short list for a Prix Aurora Award

Dear Readers, I have exciting news – Speculating Canada has made the short list for the Prix Aurora Awards. I am excited to see that Speculating Canada has made such an impact and that people are excited about the unique way that Spec Can explores Canadian SF. I want to thank everyone who has participated in various ways in shaping...

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April 12, 2013

Interview with Robert J. Sawyer

An Interview with Robert J. Sawyer By Derek Newman-Stille I recently had the opportunity to meet Robert J. Sawyer at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. We only had time for a short chat since both of us had a great deal of events on our plates, so I wanted to have the chance to do a...

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April 2, 2013

Prix Aurora Awards – Vote Before April 15th

Remember, dear friends, Speculating Canada has been nominated for an Aurora award and there are only 14 days remaining to vote for Speculating Canada. You can explore the Auroras at http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/ Speculating Canada has been nominated under the category “BEST FAN PUBLICATION”. Remember that you can vote for the Prix Aurora Awards up until April 15th. You can explore the categories...

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January 19, 2013

Nominate Speculating Canada for the Auroras ( the Prix Aurora Awards) if you are Interested

Dear readers, A friend of mine has recently noted that he is voting the Speculating Canada site for the Aurora Awards. If you would be interested in nominating Speculating Canada, you can explore the Prix Aurora Awards at http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/ . Looking through the Aurora category lists (at http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/aurora-awards/aurora-award-categories/ ), we were thinking that Speculating Canada may fall under the category below...

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