Tag: Speculative Fiction

December 15, 2023

An Interview with Mark Shainblum about Other Covenants

As part of Hanukkah this year, I was able to interview Mark Shainblum about the Other Covenants collection of Jewish alternative histories. Mark and I talk about the Jewish diaspora, imagining alternative histories, identity for Jewish Canadians, and a new upcoming project Mark is doing with Andrea Lobel as a Hanukkah surprise!! Mark Shainblum is an award-winning comics and science...

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March 27, 2021

An Interview with Amanda Leduc

Spec Can: To begin our interview, could you tell folks a little bit about yourself? Amanda Leduc: Absolutely! I am A Canadian writer currently based in Hamilton Ontario. I’ve been an avid reader of spec fic for most of my life, and have a BFA in Creative Writing and Philosophy from the University of Victoria and a Masters degree in...

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August 24, 2020

An Interview with Nathan Caro Frechette on SFCanada

I have had the wonderful opportunity to do some writing for SFCanada and as an introductory interview, I was able to interview author and Renaissance Press editor Nathan Caro Frechette. Here are some quotes from our interview: “So often, our stories are told by people who’ve never even met a person like us. It’s not just a question of it...

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May 7, 2020

Authors in Quarantine – Cait Gordon

With this this series, I am hoping to capture how this cultural moment is affecting our speculative fiction authors and how our authors are surviving during the COVID-19 outbreak Spec Can:What have you been up to during the COVID-19 outbreak? Cait Gordon: For the first two weeks, I levelled up to 1000% disability advocate mode, encouraging people to flatten that...

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May 3, 2020

Speculating Canada Online Writing Workshop: Speculative Futurisms

Sign up  for the first of Speculating Canada’s writing workshop series taught by Trent University instructor Derek Newman-Stille, MA, PhD ABD. Our workshop series allows us connect and write together and maybe to collapse some of the social distance by coming together online as a community.  This workshop is free.  Date: Friday, May 8 at 2:00 PM EST Location: Online on...

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July 31, 2017

Valuing Care

A review of Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law’s The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound (Laksa Media Group, 2017) By Derek Newman-Stille As a society, we undervalue care and undervalue care workers. We tend to assume that people who do care work are doing it because they like helping people and we assume that the job...

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July 13, 2015

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 41: Feminist SF

Speculative Fiction is about viewing the world in different ways and imagining new interactions between people. Perhaps this is why so many authors have been attracted to SF as a place for reexamining gendered ideas and gender interactions. In this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio, I note a few powerful Canadian feminist SF authors such as Nalo Hopkinson...

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March 1, 2013

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio for Geek Day Today

Speculating Canada will be on Air at Trent Radio today for their Geek Day events. You can listen to a discussion between Derek Newman-Stille and Alissa Paxton today at 92.7 FM in the broadcast range or listen online to a broadcast stream at http://www.trentu.ca/org/trentradio/. We will be online at 10:30 AM and will be talking about the role of science fiction...

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October 6, 2012

Interview with Douglas Smith

An Interview with Douglas Smith By Derek Newman-Stille This week I had a great opportunity to chat with Toronto author Douglas Smith to discuss ideas about genre-crossing in SF, the ability of SF to challenge the status quo and propose new questions and ideas about how we can view our world, and the power of SF as a medium without...

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October 4, 2012

Upcoming Interview with Douglas Smith on Saturday, October 6, 2012

This week, I had the opportunity to interview Toronto author Douglas Smith. Smith’s work spans the speculative genres from horror to science fiction to fantasy, often blending and recombining speculative elements. You may have seen some of my review of Douglas Smith’s work on Speculating Canada, but if you have not, click on his name in the tags section to...

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