Tag: ghosts

October 11, 2024

An Interview with Jen Storm

I had the wonderful opportunity to talk to Jen Storm about her writing and art, while also addressing painful topics like missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people. Jen reveals some of the ideas and thoughts that go into producing the Little Moons comic as well as her own experiences of a friend who went missing. Jen Storm (she/her/hers)...

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January 30, 2024

An Interview with Rick Fehr About Canada’s Supernatural History

In this interview, academic and podcaster, Rick Fehr shares some of Canada’s supernatural history exploring some of the strange mysteries that have haunted Canada’s past. Rick Fehr‘s interest in the supernatural has been a longstanding part of his life. Growing up in a town known for an historic poltergeist, the paranormal was normal. Surrounded by good storytellers, Rick’s upbringing was...

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August 20, 2020

Interview with Regina Hansen, August 2020

Spec Can: It’s great to chat with you again Regina. Last time we chatted was a couple of years ago and it will be wonderful to catch up. Can you start out by telling us a little bit about yourself? Regina Hansen: Sure. I’m a writer and scholar of supernatural subjects. I was born on Prince Edward Island, raised partly...

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November 28, 2018

Power Dynamics

Power Dynamics A review of James Alan Gardner’s All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault (Tor, 2017) By Derek Newman-Stille In All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault, James Alan Gardner creates a world of heroes and monsters to explore ideas of identity. In this world, the wealthy have bought the magical ability to become Darklings through a pact with...

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March 2, 2017

A Wilde Ride Through Time

A Review of Sean McMullen’s “The Life and Soul of the Party” in Lazarus Risen (Bundoran Press, 2016) By Derek Newman-Stille Sean McMullen’s steampunk tale “The Life and Soul of the Party” imagines a world where the dead can be brought back to life through the use of atomata, letting their spirits inhabit the bodies of machines. McMullen plays with...

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July 7, 2015

Quote – Life Huants Ghosts 

“Life haunts us, us ghosts. It hovers just out of reach, taunting.” -Nalo Hopkinson, Old Habits (in Falling in Love with Hominids: Tacyon Publications, Forthcoming 2015)

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April 14, 2015

The Ad Astra Experience: A Reflection on Ad Astra 2015

By Derek Newman-Stille As an educator who engages in fandom, I see fandom as a teaching space, by which I mean it is a space for developing new ways of looking at the world. Ad Astra is nominally a Canadian SF writer’s conference, but there is some magic in the slippages between writer and fan, and in my case between...

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January 7, 2015

The End is Only The Beginning

A review of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s collection Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse (Exile Editions, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille Flooding, ghosts, spreading oil sinkholes, whitenoise, bio weapons, nuclear bombs, sudden population disappearances, a strange rotting of the landscape, persistent sleep, the drying of the world’s lakes, alien invasion, shadows, plague, constant rain, technological crashes, ruptures into the abyss, fires… the visions...

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January 3, 2015

A Mosaic of Stories

A review of Steve Vernon and Colleen Anderson’s Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (Edge 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille It is very exciting to see one of the prestigious Tesseracts books sharing a name with this website. I was quite honoured to see that they had chosen a name that matched the name I created for...

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November 28, 2014

Ectoplasmopocalypse

A review of Orrin Grey’s “Persistence of Vision” in Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post Apocalypse (Exile Editions, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille Shaped by movie imagery with comparisons of the events of the story to a Hollywood film, Orrin Grey’s Persistence of Vision uses the unreality of film to contribute to the notion of an apocalypse that no one believes...

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