A Beautiful Rebellion: poems by Rita Bouvier
There’s a gentle humility in persisting and insisting in the poem to build a better world.
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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.
Dancing With Robots by Bill Bishop
“We must face reality. The robots are coming. They’re already here and they’re not going away.”–Bill Bishop, in Dancing With Robots
Natural Selection by Diane McGyver
The year is 2051. Almost three decades have passed since the Devastation destroyed civilization. Only the strong and wise survived; the weak and intellects perished. New societies emerged, forging a future with skills from the distant past.
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community
The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales by Emily Brewes
The Doomsday Book Of Fairy Tales By Emily Brewes is an astounding tale of a dangerous quest, a talking dog, and fragmented fairy tales in an eerie post-climate collapse future.
Aetherbound by E. K. Johnston
Set on a family-run interstellar freighter called the Harland and a mysterious remote space station, E. K. Johnston’s latest is story of survival and self-determination.
Deficiency by SC Eston
On the arid planet of Garadia floats Prominence City, an oasis of abundance and technological marvels. For Keidi and Artenz, life is good. Each day, they work hard to fulfill their role in sustaining Prominence. In return, they share an existence without worry or want, their every need attended to by the ruling corporations, their lives enhanced by a virtual reality accessible with a simple thought.
A Diary in the Age of Water by Nina Munteanu
Centuries from now, in a dying boreal forest in what used to be northern Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in the Exodus, yearns for Earth’s past–the Age of Water, before the “Water Twins” destroyed humanity.
Insatiable Machine by Zoë Robertson
[dropcap]One [/dropcap]of the new Spring 2018 releases from Roseway Publishing (an imprint of Fernwood Publishing) is the “speculative” fiction/sci-fi thriller Insatiable Machine. Roseway kindly sent me an ARC to review in advance of its upcoming release. Speculative fiction relies less on the science part than on what the world may look like a number of …
