speculative fiction
The Devouring Tomorrow Interview | Jeff Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella
This interview took place over Zoom on February 23, 2025. Some of the questions were provided to the interviewees in advance. It has been edited for clarity and intention.
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.
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.
Echoes from The Other Valley: An Interview with Scott Alexander Howard
Despite it being a beautiful Saturday on a long weekend, a full house gathered at the Gibsons & District Public Library on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia to hear Scott Alexander Howard read from his first novel, The Other Valley (Scribner Canada, 2024).
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.
100 Places to See After You Die by Ken Jennings
Jennings covers a broad spectrum of cultures, beliefs, and literary artifacts, spanning across time. There’s everything here from Norse Mythology to pop culture.
The Earthborn By Arlene F. Marks
Marks ramps up the action with plot twists and revelations, ensuring along the way that Bilyash is an active character with dilemmas to resolve and choices to make. The book is smoothly written and offers characters we can root for.
