intercultural – Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

July 4, 2013

Upcoming interview with Anna Frost on Monday July 8th

Anna Frost is a Teen Fiction (YA) author of novels set in ancient Japan. This Monday July 8th, check out our interview and discussion about writing Japanese culture as a French Canadian, why fantasy authors so often favour a Western Medieval world context for their novels, cultural awareness and the dangers of writing about a culture that is not one’s...

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May 6, 2013

Hard Knocks School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

A review of Lesley Livingston’s Trippingly Off The Tongue (in Misspelled Ed. Julie Czerneda, Daw 2008) By Derek Newman-Stille Competition at magic school can be killer… and I mean killer… Michaela faces her final exam with a lab partner who vastly outpowers her and has a playful sense of what is appropriate when handling dangerous spells. Vinx has a devlish...

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December 31, 2012

The Secret Guide to Keeping Supernatural Secrets

A review of Sierra Dean’s The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters (Samhain Publishing Ltd., 2011) By Derek Newman-Stille Named “Secret” and a person at the crossroads of many secrets, Secret McQueen is a bounty hunter you will enjoy. Secret is a hybridised half vampire, half werewolf and treated as a second class citizen by the vampires she works for due...

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Upcoming interview with Anna Frost on Monday July 8th

Hard Knocks School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

The Secret Guide to Keeping Supernatural Secrets