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January 28, 2013

Dragonville

A review of Charles de Lint’s The Painted Boy (Viking, 2010) By Derek Newman-Stille Charles de Lint often takes his readers into the hidden parts of the world and brings attention to the things that people ignore in the world around them, whether that be the fantastic side of the world and the potential for a magical viewpoint or attention...

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November 13, 2012

Taboos and Tattoos

A review of Jon Martin Watts’ Flights of Passage in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories. By Derek Newman-Stille In the short story Flights of Passage, Watts explores the social taboo against inbreeding and creates a society which can trace its descent entirely to one ancestor that crashed on their planet. This society, far from being made up of mutated or...

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October 22, 2012

Chadwick Ginther Interview

An Interview of Chadwick Ginther by Derek Newman-Stille After reading Thunder Road, I knew I had to interview Chadwick Ginther. I had a great opportunity to talk to him earlier this week and get some of his insights about the role of mythology in modern Canada, regionality in Canadian SF, the significance of tattoos, and the future of Canadian mythic...

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Dragonville

Taboos and Tattoos

Chadwick Ginther Interview