Speculative Fiction Posts
The Chat with Deni Ellis Béchard
Have you ever wondered what it would (will??) be like when AI grows to become more powerful than humanity? Or when AI-generated advances in medicine mean …
Speculative Fiction of the 2020s
A recommended reading list by the author of the new book Moon of the Turning Leaves.
Speculative Fiction: Vast and Thrilling
"As a reader and a lightly superstitious human, I can’t deny the pull of the unusual, the not-quite-real. I love books featuring elements that seem unimaginable, …
Parallel Prairies: Good Monster Stories Aren’t Really About the Monsters...
"A dragon is a visual feast, with its hard scales, fearsome talons and steel-melting breath. But it’s the knights in those stories, grinding their boots …
Liz Harmer: Books That Ask the Big Questions
"A few speculative works, a few dystopias, an interest in the nature of God and of the human, and, especially, most of them, lovingly rendered character …
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When in Rome: New Dystopian Fiction
Five Canadian speculative fiction titles for literary readers/ Five Canadian literary titles for speculative fiction readers (by Leah Bobet)
Novelist Leah Bobet on the best Canadian authors writing on the border between speculative and literary fiction.
No Solitudes: Leah Bobet on CanLit's genre-bilingualism
"Just as whole schools of Canadian novelists speak in echoed and doubled voices, whispering in two languages and two countries at once, we are quietly …
"Free fall beneath the carpet": David Rotenberg on setting The Placebo Effect in Toronto
"Toronto is in motion – it’s in the swirling, anarchic process of becoming."