Tag: Scott Fotheringham

February 22, 2015

Quote – Normal just a word

“To minds that crave binary order, and the simplicity of the male-female dichotomy, the study of gender can lead to despair. They say that women with Y chromosomes and men with two X’s are abnormal. But normal is just a word that gets thrown around when we try to make sense of biology.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence...

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June 1, 2014

Quote – Choice To Do Something About It

“The only choices we have… are to participate in the destruction or do something about it.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012)

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March 11, 2014

Quote – Tangled in a Web of Stories

“After our birth and before our death, we spin a web of stories so intricate that it’s easy to become tangled within it.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012)

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February 5, 2014

Quote – Hiding Our Heads As We Pollute The Earth

“I know that we are going to destroy the world that holds us. We are savages, treating the Earth like a toilet, fouling our own nest. We all seem to agree on that now… We knew what we were wreaking and it scared us, most of all because we couldn’t see any way of stopping it. So we stick our...

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April 16, 2013

Quote – Any Evil that Entered the World Contaminated the World

“No cure was worth torturing cats and mice. It was like arguing that inventing, then using, the atom bomb was justified because it ended the war and diminished suffering. Any evil that entered the world contaminated the world.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012)

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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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March 8, 2013

Interview with Scott Fotheringham

An Interview with Scott Fotheringham By Derek Newman-Stille This was a great interview to follow up with our interview of Julie Czerneda since Scott Fotheringham also has a background in biology and has experienced both the worlds of science and Canadian fiction authorship. I have been pondering the relationship between speculative fiction writing and science for some time, and have...

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March 6, 2013

Quote – Don’t Voice Ideas If Don’t Want Them Realized

“Don’t voice your ideas if you don’t want them realized.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012)

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March 5, 2013

Upcoming Interview with Scott Fotheringham on Friday March 8

This is a great interview to follow the interview with Julie Czerneda. Join Speculating Canada on Friday March 8 to hear another scientist who has turned to fiction writing discuss their ideas, thoughts, and inspirations. Scott Fotheringham is a former molecular biologist who is currently a fiction author. Although he does not identify as an author of SF, much of...

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February 18, 2013

“The Rest Is Silence” Reading Questions

Some Book Club Discussion Questions for Scott Fotheringham’s “The Rest is Silence” In “The Rest is Silence”, the narrator plays a game with his/her father where they imagine a world without various items. Think of an item and envision what the world would be like without it. What questions or concerns did this book bring up for you about science...

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