Tesseracts 10: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction

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VOYA - Lisa Martincik
This latest anthology of speculative fiction by Canadian authors shades in some cases more toward fantasy than science fiction. The twenty stories cover a spread of familiar SF themes as well as a few surprises. The book opens with Scott Mackay's Threshold of Perception, an alternate history featuring astronomer Percival Lowell and the canals of Mars. Au pay des merveilles by Wendy Waring and Transplant by Yvonne Pronovost each feature a woman unhappy in her job and finding a way to escape, one by reading real, antique books and the other by sabotaging a soulless organ transplant company. Good stories all, but so far, so usual. Interspersed, however, are poems and single-paragraph stories, as well as pieces like Greg Bechtel's Blackbird Shuffle (The Major Arcana) dealing with psychology, mythology, and a drive on a long road. More than many other SF anthologies, this collection seems to contain a good balance of male and female writers as well as male and female characters. The reason is open to speculation, but it speaks well of this pool of authors, most of whom are new or not widely known. Some of the stories feel a bit tired or as if they have been removed a bit early from the oven, but overall the quality runs from solid to very good. The thematic variety is also refreshing. Hard SF (emphasizing science and technology) is the most lightly represented category, but it is not entirely absent. Adventurous readers should be heartened if this collection is an accurate representation of Canadian talent.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781894063364
  • Publisher: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/31/2006
  • Series: Tesseracts
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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Robert Charles Wilson's novels include "Darwinia"; "The Chronoliths" and "Blind Lake," which were finalists for SF's Hugo Award; and "Spin," which just won the Hugo for best novel. He is a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

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  • Posted January 22, 2009

    diverse contemporary sci-fi/fantasy stories from Canada

    Twenty-one original science-fiction/fantasy stories (except for two) have been selected by the two editors with impressive credentials in this popular field. Both are successful, award-winning authors with numerous published writings. Wilson has won a Philip K. Dick Award as well as the Aurora Awards. Belkom has also won Auroras three times as well as the Bram Stoker award. In Belkom's short epilogue, he notes how Canadian science- fiction/fantasy writing has been 'infused every so often by outside sources,' including a short term by William Gibson in the late 1960s, while yielding indigenous writers who kept the field going and thriving. This tenth anthology illustrates the maturation of Canadian speculative fiction in the 20 years since the appearance of the first one. The diversity of the writers' backgrounds suggests the diversity of the imaginations and styles: a creator of a children's animated series, teachers and students, a carpenter, poet, game designer, and some authors with considerable publications. The entertaining--and for aspiring writers, instructive--stories evidence the vitality of the genre.

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