The Coincidence Problem: Social Dispatches 1999-2022 by Stephen Osborne
Stephen Osborne is a long-time British Columbia-based literary raconteur and starter of bookish projects. In 1971,
Stephen Osborne is a long-time British Columbia-based literary raconteur and starter of bookish projects. In 1971,
“…art has a world of her own where science is not so absolute.” J.E.H. MacDonald (circa 1925), as cited in J.E.H. MacDonald Up Close: The Artist’s Materials and Techniques. Yet science does shine, as Kate Helwig and Alison Douglas escort the reader through the many layers that make up a sampling of J.E.H. MacDonald’s iconic …
A team of researchers from a nearby university have set up a research station in a fictional outport in Newfoundland, studying the strange emergence of phosphorescent tides. And Vivienne, a young assistant, accidentally captures a creature unknown to science: a kind of fish, both sentient and distinctly female. As the project supervisor and lead researcher attempt to exploit the discovery, the creature begins to waste away, and Vivian must endanger herself to save them both.