Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food
Devouring Tomorrow is an eclectic collection of imagined food futures, speculative and dystopian, by some established and creative Canadian writers, edited by Jeff Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella.
Speculative Fiction
One Book, Two Reviews: The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
One Book, Two Reviews: The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
ANOMIA by Jade Wallace
After reviewing Jade Wallace’s poetry book Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There, I was hoping to see a sort of poetic influence reflected in this novel and it delivered. Wallace proves to be skilled in multiple genres and is a natural storyteller in all of them.
Northern Nights, Edited by Michael Kelly
From the introduction and “Rescue Station” by Nayani Jensen, I knew I was in for a wild and wonderful ride.
Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction 2024-1984 by Gary Barwin
A Canadian writer born in Northern Ireland to South African Jewish parents of Lithuanian descent, Gary Barwin is a man of many hats: poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator. His work has won many awards.
Oil People by David Huebert
Part generational saga, part eco-gothic fable, Oil People is a luminous debut novel about history and family, land and power, and oil as an object of toxic wonder. – McClelland & stewart
Autokrator by Emily A. Weedon
While unfortunately we already know what it looks like when those who aren’t men are denied rights, and what it looks like when hard-won rights are being eroded, Autokrator takes the chilling thought experiment in a more extreme direction: what if women had no rights at all?
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan
The title The Years Shall Run like Rabbits is from a W.H. Auden poem, but that might be your last connection to Earth as we know it in this outwardly tale.
The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones
The Angel of Indian Lake is the third book of the Indian Lake Trilogy, and we can tell that Jones had definite plans for his final installment to go out with a bang.
Excerpt: The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
Hello.
I know you are scared. It’s okay. I know, I know. All this is frightening.
Against the Machine: Evolution — a Fitting Cap to Van Norman’s Trilogy
Against the Machine: Evolution is a richly imagined story that also serves as a cautionary tale for what might happen if we don’t take better care of the environment.
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
A literary speculative novel set in an unnamed valley, where bereaved residents can petition to cross a forbidden border to see their lost loved ones again.
State of the Ark: Canadian Futurefiction edited by Lesley Choyce
State of the Ark is the long-awaited follow-up anthology to the 1992 landmark Canadian science fiction collection Ark of Ice.
A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa
Weaving a silken web of Chinese myth, speculative fiction and storytelling Lydia Kwa has brilliantly realized a future where questions of sentience, of personhood and of the truth of dreams wrap around a timeless quest for freedom and for love.
Immortal longings by Chloe Gong
Chloe Gong’s adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games.
