Tag: Julie Czerneda

May 23, 2013

Quote – Writers Expose Their Innermost Emotions To The World

“To wear your heart upon your sleeve is to expose your innermost emotions to the world. Writers do that. They expose their most private feelings to total strangers. Not once, not by accident, but deliberately and, to all extents and purposes, permanently.” -Julia Czerneda – Introduction to Douglas Smith’s Chimerascope

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May 21, 2013

Creating Community in Isolation

A Review of Julie Czerneda’s Riders of the Storm (Daw, 2008) By Derek Newman-Stille  Displacement is a factor that is prevalent in the lives of many people who have had to leave home for whatever reason. The finding of “home” is a nebulous, complex, and constantly changeable phenomena. Julie Czerneda explores the search for home in a foreign and confusing...

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April 4, 2013

Quote – Growth of Curiosity by Imagination

“Curiosity, fed by feats of imagination, can only grow” -Julie Czerneda – Foreward (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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March 24, 2013

Frankenfoot

A review of Julie Czerneda’s “Left Foot On A Blind Man” (in Silicon Dreams Ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Sergiff, DAW 2001) As a scholar of disability studies, I am always excited to read a work of Canadian SF that really engages with ideas of disability. I have rarely encountered a short story that engages with so many disability...

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March 22, 2013

Science and Speculative Fiction

An editorial on Science and Speculative Fiction By Derek Newman-Stille Although as a society, we often create an impenetrable barrier between the arts and sciences, seeing each as separate and distinct from one another, these barriers are historically created and are social inventions. The origin of science is through philosophy, remember. Science Fiction (or more widely, Speculative Fiction) is one of...

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February 28, 2013

Interview With Julie Czerneda

An interview with Julie Czerneda By Derek Newman-Stille I want to thank Julie Czerneda for being willing to do this interview and for her enthusiasm for these questions. I am truly honoured that she took the time to participate in this interview. Ms. Czerneda’s work was an incredible source of inspiration to a friend and colleague of mine at Trent...

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February 23, 2013

Upcoming Interview with Julie Czerneda on Thursday February 28

I first encountered Julie Czerneda’s work through my friend and colleague Ellen Bentzen, who was, among other things, a limnologist (a biologist focussed on the study of lake ecosystems) as well as a brilliant teacher and friend. Ellen and I had often talked about the link between science and the arts and the mutual need of science and the arts...

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February 20, 2013

Quote – Curosity About Being Interested in Everything

“Curiosity’s about having a mind that’s interested in, well, everything. A mind like that craves novelty and adventure. It searches for the good stuff.” -Julie Czerneda – Foreward (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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November 7, 2012

Quote – Revealed By Being Read

“The moment our words are read by someone else, we’re revealed for who we are, what we feel, how we believe.” -Julia Czerneda – Introduction to Douglas Smith’s Chimerascope

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August 31, 2012

Quote- Curiosity and Change

“Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.” –Julie Czerneda – Foreward (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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