Susan Forest – Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

August 15, 2020

Prix Aurora Awards 2020

Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2020 Prix Aurora Awards. As many of you know, Speculating Canada was nominated again this year for the Best Fan Related Work Category, and congratulations everyone, we won! Speculating Canada started as a way for me to give back to the Canadian SF community and it has been exciting to see it...

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March 6, 2018

Bordered by Change

Bordered by Change A review of Shades Within Us edited by Lucas K Law and Susan Forest (Laksa Media Groups Inc, 2018) By Derek Newman-Stille Borders are complex spaces of change and uncertainty where identities are made and also complicated. Lucas Law and Susan Forest’s Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders examines this complex space of border...

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February 10, 2018

Abuse and Ideas of Home

Abuse and Ideas of Home A review of Tonya Liburd’s “Superfreak” in Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law (Laksa Media Group, 2018). By Derek Newman-Stille Tonya Liburd’s “Superfreak” is an intensely powerful and intensely painful tale that examines ideas of safety, security, and home. I should start my review...

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February 9, 2018

Eco-Refugees

Eco-Refugees A review of Kate Heartfield’s “Gilbert Tong’s Life List” in Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law (Laksa Media Group, 2018). By Derek Newman-Stille Kate Heartfield writes a tale of ecological refugees and birding in “Gilbert Tong’s Life List”. Initially these would seem to be disconnected themes, but she...

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February 3, 2018

Confusion

Confusion A review of Karin Lowachee’s “Invasio”in Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law (Laksa Media Groups Inc., 2018) By Derek Newman-Stille Telling a tale of mass migration after an apocalyptic invasion, Karin Lowachee’s “Invasio” explores the confusion associated with diaspora and the search for a new home. Although her...

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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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November 21, 2012

Displacement

A Review of On Spec #89 Vol 24, No. 2 (Summer 2012 issue) By Derek Newman-Stille I have been a fan of On Spec for some time. I enjoy the quality of their stories, the diversity of their authors, and their ability to play with diverse characteristics of the speculative medium. I enjoy the fact that On Spec combines short...

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Prix Aurora Awards 2020

Bordered by Change

Abuse and Ideas of Home

Eco-Refugees

Confusion

Valuing Care

Displacement