Northern Stars Author:David G. Hartwell (Editor), Glen Grant (Editor) From the earliest days of modern science fiction, Canada has given readers some of the most important authors in the field--and many of the finest stories. World Fantasy Award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has teamed up with Canadian writer and critic Glenn Grant to compile Northern Stars, a delightful anthology of 28 stories, 2 original, by ... more »the writers who have built Canada's rich science fiction tradition, plus an essay on Canadian SF by Candas Jane Dorsey and an appendix listing Canadian SF awards nominees and winners.
Contents:
Introduction (Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction) (1994) • essay by Glenn Grant;
Afterword: We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us) (Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction) (1985) • essay by Judith Merril;
A Niche (1990) / Peter Watts;
Mother Lode (1973) / Phyllis Gotlieb;
Home By the Sea (1985) / Élisabeth Vonarburg;
Under Another Moon (1990) / Dave Duncan;
Remember, the Dead Say (1992) / Jean-Louis Trudel;
One (1987) / Heather Spears;
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer (1982) / Lesley Choyce;
User Friendly (1986) / Spider Robinson;
Distant Signals (1984) / Andrew Weiner;
The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind (1985) / Terence M. Green;
The Winter Market (1985) / William Gibson;
The Byrds (1983) / Michael G. Coney;
Soluble-Fish (1987) / Joël Champetier;
Memetic Drift (1990) / by Glenn Grant;
The Reckoning of Gifts (1992) / James Alan Gardner;
The Cauldron (Excerpt) (1994) / Donald Kingsbury;
Happy Days in Old Chernobyl (1987) /Claude-Michel Prévost (variant of La Marquise de Tchernobyl);
Pity the Monsters [Newford] (1991) / Charles de Lint;
Carpe Diem (1989) / Eileen Kernaghan;
Xils (1987) / Esther Rochon;
Stolen Fires (1991) / Yves Meynard;
Retrieval (1987) / John Park;
Outport (1992) / Garfield Reeves-Stevens;
Just Like Old Times (1993) / Robert J. Sawyer;
Stardust Boulevard (1981) / Daniel Sernine;
Ballads in 3/4 Time (1987) / Robert Charles Wilson;
(Learning About) Machine Sex (1988) / Candas Jane Dorsey;
Towards a Real Speculative Literature: Writer as Asymptote (1990) • essay by Candas Jane Dorsey;
Canadian SF Awards (Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction) (1994) • essay by the editor.