Greg Bechtel – Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

June 11, 2014

Quote – Shrinking Envelope of Normal

“Each of us has felt alone, mechanized and constricted by – or forcibly expelled from – the shrinking envelope of normal, the hegemony of real.” -Greg Bechtel – “Junk Mail” in Boundary Problems (Freehand Books, 2014)

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May 13, 2014

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 3: An Interview with Greg Bechtel

As part of the Ontario leg of his tour for the collection Boundary Problems (Freehand Books), Edmonton author Greg Bechtel was able to swing by the Trent Radio studio to discuss his own work and some overall trends in Canadian Speculative Fiction. In our interview we postulate that reality is a set of social conventions, a creation and that therefore...

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April 6, 2014

Blurring the Boundaries

A review of Greg Bechtel’s Boundary Problems (Freehand Books, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille We tend to think of boundaries as stable, fixed, unchangeable, but boundaries are inherently permeable, and any boundary that is created is created because someone or something is able to slip trough it. Greg Bechtel writes on these borderlands whether they be of genre (realism, science fiction,...

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April 2, 2014

Interweaving Worlds of Possibility

A Review of Greg Bechtel’s “The Everett-Wheeler Hypothesis (Or, the Many-Worlds Interpretation)” from Boundary Problems (Freehand Books, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille We all have a desire to figure out the world around us and our place in it. In Greg Bechtel’s “The Everett-Wheeler Hypothesis (Or, the Many-Worlds Interpretation)”, Matthew keeps finding himself in positions where he is near to uncovering...

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March 27, 2014

Sexy Shiftings and Stirrings

A review of Greg Bechtel’s “The Smut Story (III)” in Boundary Problems (Freehand Books, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille We are made up of stories. We are created from sex. In “The Smut Story (III)” Greg Bechtel interweaves the sexual with notions of the construction of self through narrative. After an erotica reading series at a bookstore on Mother’s Day, the...

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Tag: Greg Bechtel

Quote – Shrinking Envelope of Normal

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 3: An Interview with Greg Bechtel

Blurring the Boundaries

Interweaving Worlds of Possibility

Sexy Shiftings and Stirrings