Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1894063260 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 390 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
An entertaining and diverse collection that deserves to bring its contributors many new readers. Jerome Stueart opens the volume with a whimsical tale about Yukon researchers who discover the polar bears and lemmings around them can not only talk but are researching them. Rising sf stars Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy collaborate on an intriguing tale about a mentally handicapped child made intelligent by sophisticated genetic programming. All rights reserved. Other stories explore animal eugenics experiments gone awry and examine the fate of a man whose marital indifference causes him to literally disappear. Steve Stanton contributes the obligatory time-travel story about a child who becomes a mathematical genius after meeting his future self. A broad assortment of relatively
Nalo Hopkinson is a Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing author.
Tesseracts Nine also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006.It was included in the Locus Poll for best anthology!Many of the stories have now appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies.While other stories received nominations for the Brandon, Fountain, Sturgeon and Aurora Awards."Apparently being in T9 was a Good Thing."- Derryl Murphy Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from amongst the best of Canada's writers, 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 by: Timothy J. Willis and Casey June Wolf.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).. L. Chen, Candas Jane Dorsey, Pat Forde, Marg Gilks, Sandra Kasturi, Nancy Kilpatrick, Claude Lalumière, Anthony MacDonald, Jason Mehmel, Yves Meynard, Derryl Murphy, Rhea Rose, Dan Rubin, Daniel Sernine, Steve