Colleen Anderson – Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

May 4, 2018

WONDERful

Wonderful A review of Cait Gordon’s A Night at The Rabbit Hole in Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland edited by Colleen Anderson (Exile, 2018) By Derek Newman-Stille Alice in Wonderland is a story that plays with identity, disrupting the power that normativity has on our society. Cait Gordon has tapped into that power that Wonderland has to resist normativity and creates...

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April 30, 2018

A War Across the Glass

A War Across The Glass A review of Patrick Bollivar’s “Operation: Looking Glass” in Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland Edited by Colleen Anderson (Exile 2018) By Derek Newman-Stille It turns out Wonderland isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Patrick Bollivar’s “Operation: Looking Glass” explores a group of people who are in a battle with Wonderland to get their sister back....

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September 24, 2017

Infected by Repression

A review of Colleen Anderson’s “Sins of the Father” in OnSpec #105, vol 28, No. 2 By Derek Newman-Stille Colleen Anderson’s deeply psychological tale “Sins of the Father” brings attention to the long term repercussions of violence, not only on the victims of violence, but on the family of the person who is perpetrating violence. Anderson’s narrator is the daughter...

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March 30, 2016

Why should we put aside our childish things? They were our first teachers

A review of Playground of Lost Toys edited by Ursula Pflug and Colleen Anderson (Exile, 2015) By Derek Newman-Stille Playground of Lost Toys leads us up those creaking attic stairs to a toy trunk of abandoned memories, lost experiences, and secrets shared in a language we only knew how to speak when we were children. It is an anthology...

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WONDERful

A War Across the Glass

Infected by Repression

Why should we put aside our childish things? They were our first teachers