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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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January 1, 2013

Year in Review: What is Canadian Speculative Fiction – from the authors

People are often asking if there is such a thing as “Canadian identity”, something that differentiates Canada from other nations. I thought I would ask authors if they thought that there was something distinctly Canadian about Canadian Speculative Fiction or how much they felt that their Canadian identity influenced their writing. I have provided links to the full interviews below...

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October 19, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Chadwick Ginther On Monday, October 22, 2012

I did a review of Chadwick Ginther’s Thunder Road on September 21st, and after reading it, I knew that I should talk to Mr. Ginther about his vision of Norse mythology and its role in Canadian SF, the social significance of tattoos, and regionalism in Canadian SF. I hope that you enjoy reading the Interview with Chadwick Ginther on Monday, October...

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A Mosaic of Stories

Year in Review: What is Canadian Speculative Fiction – from the authors

Upcoming Interview with Chadwick Ginther On Monday, October 22, 2012