SANTApocalyptic Saturdays – Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

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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December 22, 2012

Big Red Suit Scare – A Midwinter Cold War

A review of The Claus Effect by David Nickle and Karl Schroeder (Tesseract Books, 1997) By Derek Newman-Stille Every child wishes they could go to the North Pole to become one of Santa’s elves. What child wouldn’t want to get everything that they want? David Nickle and Karl Schroeder take on the spirit of the holidays in The Claus Effect...

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December 15, 2012

Speculating Canada ON AIR – Apocalyptic Canadian Literature with Derek Newman-Stille

Note: Give the file a few moments to buffer – it is a large file as it is a radio quality recording.

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December 8, 2012

Vampiropocalyptic Cold

A review of Sandra Kasturi’s The Slowing of the World in Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead (Edge, 2011) By Derek Newman-Stille Vampires, living forever and experiencing the world through the longue duree, should be the personification of patience. Predators are known for their ability to wait for long periods of time for their prey, and, when that...

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December 1, 2012

Doomed to Repeat

A Review of Camille Alexa’s Children of the Device (In Here Be Monsters: Tongues and Teeth: Issue Seven, 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille Since the world is supposed to end at the end of this month according to the Mayan Calendar, I thought I would begin the month with an apocalyptic story by Camille Alexa. Nothing better prepares us for the...

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November 25, 2012

End of the Week End of the World: SANTApocalyptic Saturdays

SANTApocalyptic Saturdays Throughout December, 2012 The Mayan calendar was written to include everything up until December 2012. There is a widespread discussion about whether this means that our world will end on December 21, 2012. Of course, while holiday depression is setting in on people and the wild extremes of capitalism are raging as people seek to buy their way...

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