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Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
Tesseracts Nine New Canadian Speculative Fiction Author:Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Geoff Ryman (Editor) Tesseracts Nine was included in the Locus Poll for best anthology and also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006. Many of the stories have now appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from amongst the best of Canada's w... more »riters, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction. Tesseracts Nine expands the dimensions of speculative fiction experientially, with startling visions of the future by new and established Canadian authors. Featuring twenty-three stories and poems, edited by Sunburst and World Fantasy Award winning authors Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, Tesseracts Nine showcases the very best in Canadian speculative fiction literature (including English translations of works by French-Canadian authors).
Contents:
Introduction: Canadian Identity? No, Thanks (Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction) (2005) • essay by Geoff Ryman
From Fugue Phantasmagorical: Embarking / shortstory by Jason Mehmel and Anthony MacDonald
Lemmings in the Third Year / shortstory by Jerome Stueart
Principles of Animal Eugenetics (1996) / novelette by Yves Meynard
Mom and Mother Theresa / shortstory by Candas Jane Dorsey
Fin-de-siècle / shortstory by E. L. Chen
From Fugue Phantasmagorical: Setting Sail / shortstory by Anthony MacDonald and Jason Mehmel
Carnaval Perpetuel (2001) • poem by Sandra Kasturi
The Writing on the Wall / shortstory by Steve Stanton
See Kathryn Run / novelette by Élisabeth Vonarburg
Newbie Wrangler / shortstory by Timothy J. Anderson
Light Remembered (2001) / shortstory by Daniel Sernine
The Singing / shortstory by Dan Rubin
Our Lady of the Snows / shortstory by Nancy Kilpatrick
Thought and Memory / shortstory by Alette J. Willis
Mermaid • poem by Rhea Rose-Fleming
The Coin / shortstory by Casey June Wolf
Jimmy Away to Me / novelette by Sarah Totton
Before the Altar on the Feast for All Souls / shortstory by Marg Gilks
Being Here / shortstory by Claude Lalumière
Mayfly / shortstory by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy
From Fugue Phantasmagorical: Epilogue: Disembarkings / shortstory by Anthony MacDonald and Jason Mehmel
Mirrors / novelette by René Beaulieu
Omphalos / novella by Pat Forde
Heaven and Earth / shortstory by Allan Weiss
Wings to Fly / shortstory by Sylvie Bérard
Final Thoughts • essay by Nalo Hopkinson
Biographies (Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction) (2005) • essay by editor