Kevin Cockle – Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

May 17, 2013

Quote – Creations Take On Lives Of Their Own

“When we create, if we do it well, the things we create take on lives of their own and in so doing, cease to be our creations.” -Kevin Cockle– The Bridge Builder (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales

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April 14, 2013

Transformative Art

A Review of OnSpec #91 Vol 24, No 4 (Winter 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille One of the key narrative threads running through Volume 24, number 4 of OnSpec is the transformative power of art and writing. This thread is most potent in Kevin Cockle’s Palimpsest, a short story about a man who learns how to transform the world and people...

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March 28, 2013

Superhero Complex(ity)

A review of Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories (edited by Claude Lalumiere and Camille Alexa, Tyche Books LTD, 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille There has been a recent increase in the public interest in the superhero genre with increasing numbers of superhero movies, increasing numbers of people wearing superhero related merchandise and increasingly larger population groups getting excited about the figure...

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December 29, 2012

It’s the End Of The World As We Know It, and I Feel Speculative

A review of OnSpec #90, Vol 24, No. 3 Fall 2012 Apocalypse Special Issue. By Derek Newman-Stille On Spec, with their combination of SF stories and non-fiction SF essays and interviews, never fails to be entertaining, but the special issue on the apocalypse was even more fantastic than most. It was as thought-provoking as it was entertaining, reminding readers of...

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Quote – Creations Take On Lives Of Their Own

Transformative Art

Superhero Complex(ity)

It’s the End Of The World As We Know It, and I Feel Speculative