Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction

Tesseracts Nine, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, features twenty-three stories and poems that expand and showcase the dimensions of speculative fiction with startling visions of the future by new and established Canadian authors. (including English translations of works by French-Canadian authors).  Presenting a wide variety of material from absurdist humour, poetry, and vampires, to time travel to illustrate a just a few of the topics.    The later stories and poems explore the themes of loss and death without becoming pessimistic or depressing. Included in this anthology are:    •  A Canadian identity? No, thanks by Geoff Ryman (Introduction)    •  Lemmings in the Third Year by Jerome Stueart    •  Principles of Animal Eugenetics by Yves Meynard    •  Mom and Mother Teresa by Jane Dorsey    •  Fin-de-siecle by E.L. Chen    •  Thought and Memory by Alette J. Willis    •  Jimmy Away to Me by Sarah Totton    •  Before the Altar on the Feast of Souls by Marg Gilks    •  Newbie Wrangler by Timothy J. Anderson    •  Light Remembered by Daniel Sernine    •  The Singing by Dan Rubin      •  See Kathryn Run by Elisabeth Vonarburg    •  Mirrors by Rene Beaulieu    •  Omphalos by Pat Forde    •  Writing on the Wall by Steve Stanton    •  Mayfly by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy    •  Our Lady of the Snows by Nancy Kilpatrick     •  Final Thoughts by Nalo Hopkinson (postscript) Other showcased authors are: Casey Wolf, Claude Lalumiere, Allan Weiss, Sylvie Berard, Anthony McDonald, and Jason MehmelPoets: Sandra Kasturi and Rhea Rose-FlemingContributor biographies are at the back of the book.