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October 2, 2023

Tachyon tidbits featuring Peter S. Beagle, Marjorie Liu, David Liss, Bruce Sterling, and James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel

Rick Klaw blog A Deep Look by Dave Hook, bruce sterling, Callie's Tales, david liss, Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, la stampa, levar burton reads, marjorie liu, mr. mccaslin, peter s beagle, robot artists & black swans, the essential peter s. beagle volume ii: oaklans dragon blues and other stories, the peculiarities, the secret history of science fiction, the tangleroot palace

The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web

**The latest episode of Levar Burton Reads features Peter S. Beagle’s short story “Mr. McCaslin” from THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE, VOLUME II.**

**For First Line Friday, Callie’s Tales shares the opening lines from Marjorie Liu’s THE TANGLEROOT PALACE.**

The funeral was in a bad place, but Martha Bromes never did much care about such things, and so she put her husband into a hole at Cutter’s, and we as her family had to march up the long stone track into the hills to find the damn spot, because the only decent bits of earth in all that place were far deep in the forest, high into the darkness. Rock, everywhere else, and cairns were no good for the dead. The animals were too smart. Might find a piece of human flesh in the yard by the pump with sloppiness like that. I’d seen it myself, years past. No good at all.

Cover art by Sana Takeda
Design by Elizabeth Story

Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud praises THE PECULIARITIES by David Liss.

Not a perfect read, but a good one; a lot of stuff gets wrapped up in the last ten percent of the book but not, by any means, even close to everything. That is, for me, perfectly okay because very few things in life are wrapped up in tidy little bows. THE PECULIARITIES remain peculiar. And most enjoyably so.

**The Italian publication La Stampa interviews Bruce Sterling, author of ROBOT ARTISTS & BLACK SWANS: THE ITALIAN FANTASCIENZA STORIES.**

What will your speech at Italian Tech Week focus on?

It will be an attempt to create awareness of what people should and should not do when faced with new technologies. And a comparison between the situation in the United States and that in Europe.

What remains today of the visions of cyberpunk?

We writers had thrown in many elements, most of which were not prospective but simple inventions. Or something that had already happened somewhere, therefore easy prophecies. In the years of American hegemony it was enough to look at what was happening in New York and project it on a large scale. As climate change and depopulation were already well underground, it didn’t take a science to understand that they could only get worse. The rest were fantasy creations and have remained so.
Translation from Italian courtesy of Google

A Deep Look by Dave Hook examines time travel tourism with a mention of THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel.

“Standing Room Only”, a short story by Karen Joy Fowler, Asimov’s August 1997. A great story of time travel tourism to Lincoln’s assassination, from the perspective of Mary Surrat’s teenage daughter. Hugo & Nebula Award finalist, & Locus Award nominee. Reprinted in three interesting places, THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel editors, 2009 Tachyon Publications (I think I need to read this, based upon the title and the editors!), the Karen Joy Fowler collection “What I Didn’t See and Other Stories“, 2010 Small Beer Press (a great book), and “Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction“, Leigh Ronald Grossman editor, 2011 Wildside Press (a great anthology for a review of this and 5 other giant SF survey anthologies, see here).

October 11, 2018

Lavie Tidhar’s wonderful, unique UNHOLY LAND plays metaliterary games in an attractive package

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized fantastica ficción, italy, lavie tidhar, levar burton reads, pandemonium books, review, sarah anne langton, silvia moreno-garcia, simone ferraro, spanish, terminale terra, unholy land, yiwu

The Spanish FANTASTICA FICCIÓN praises Lavie Tidhar’s UNHOLY LAND.

Tidhar’s prose is as wonderful as ever, with a lot of metaliterary games and references to his own work, as well as winks at the current situation in Israel establishing parallels with this mythical UNHOLY LAND of which the author speaks. But undoubtedly what is more striking are the different voices he uses. Varying between an unnatural first person, because he does not give the voice to the protagonist, a disconcerting second person and a third person that serves to stabilize us, the author gets a permanent state of confusion in the reader and demands a constant effort to place us in the plot.

The changes of environment are continuous but subtle. We see how Tirosh acts contrary to what we would expect from the situation he is in, because in reality he is not the same character at all times and I am not speaking only metaphorically.

UNHOLY LAND is a difficult but attractive novel, with a different perspective of an ukraine that could remind us of the Yiddish police syndicate because of its starting point but that it navigates completely different paths. It is not for everyone, but I think that for a regular science fiction reader it will be very attractive.

Translation from Spanish courtesy of Google

LEVAR BURTON READS shares an audio rendition of Tidhar’s “YIWU.”

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of The Beautiful Ones, and Tidhar at Pandemonium Books & Games.

On his eponymous site, Tidhar shares the cover to the Italian edition of CENTRAL STATION and the short story collection Terminale Terra.

And secondly, my friend Francesco Verso has been running Future Fiction for a number of years now, putting out high-quality, single-author collections in gorgeous little paperbacks, so I’m delighted to say we’ve just done my very own exclusive collection in Italy! Terminale Terra collects several of my near-future stories, including “Terminal”. It is translated by Rita Demaria, with a cover by Simone Ferraro.

For more info on UNHOLY LAND, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Covers by Sarah Anne Langton

October 1, 2018

In the World Fantasy nominated WICKED WONDERS, Ellen Klages makes virtually any setting vivid and each situation compelling

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized amicae aeternum, bibliofiles, david graham tennant, elizabeth story, ellen klages, levar burton reads, marissa lingen, novel gazing redux, singing on a star, wicked wonders

For BIBLIOFILES, Emily Z recommends Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS.

With a focus on memories, friendships, growing up, growing apart, and hard decisions, there’s a wistful feel to this diverse collection. With her fertile imagination and wicked sense of humor, Klages makes virtually any setting vivid and each situation compelling.

Episode 34 of LEVAR BURTON READS features Klages’ story “Singing on a Star.”

Photo: Scott R. Kline

Marissa Lingen on NOVEL GAZING REDUX praises the collection.

I think people talk about whether authors have idealized childhood or focused on its dark side, but they don’t talk a lot about the focus and intensity of being a particular kind of small child. I was that kind of small child. I think Ellen was too, because she completely nails it, and whatever the plot is, I am there for that kind of vivid writing about that part of life. This is a series of short stories, not all about childhood, but a lot; not all dark, but a lot. Recommended.

The trailer for David Graham Tennant’s movie Amicae Aeternum, based on Klages’ short story of the same name.

Eleven-year old Corrine Garcia-Kelly can’t sleep. Lost in the process of creating one last list “Twenty reasons why it sucks to be me”, she picks up her trusty teddy bear LB, climbs out the bedroom window and wanders through the deserted neighbourhood to rendezvous with best friend, Anna. As much as she’s preoccupied, Corry begins to experience and appreciate just how beautiful the world around her really is. Little details to be absorbed, cherished and remembered.

Milli Wilkinson as ‘Corry’ and Imogen Tear as ‘Anna’, deliver a heartfelt portrayal of childhood friends spending their final morning together, riding bikes, watching the sunrise and playing down by the creek. A tale of loss, transformation and the insignificance of our place within the infinite, ‘Amicae Aeternum’ is a tale of learning what to hold dear and of when to let go.

For more info about WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

May 25, 2018

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Springer, Patricia A. McKillip, James Morrow, and Nalo Hopkinson

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized bigfoot and the bodhisattva, borneo expat writer, brian giberson, dreams of distant shores, elizabeth story, interview, James Morrow, levar burton, levar burton reads, money tree, mylifemybooksmyescape, nalo hopkinson, nancy springer, patricia a mckillip, richard braithwaite, skin folk, terence toh, the asylum of dr caligari, the frankenstein meme, the oddling prince, the philosopher's apprentice, Thomas Canty

The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Nancy Springer (photo: Lyla Ellzey), Patricia A. McKillip (Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons), James Morrow, and Nalo Hopkinson (David Findlay)

MYLIFEMYBOOKSMYESCAPE interviews Nancy Springer.

DJ: What is THE ODDLING PRINCE about?

Nancy: Two heroes and the bond between them, which should surprise none of my longtime readers, because just this sort of thing has been a frequent theme in my writing. Why? Because vivid, compelling, almost frightening daydreams along those lines have obsessed me most of my life since I was fifteen. The first fantasies I wrote, which were also my first novels, always had two noble heroes, faithful comrades, one dark, moody, poetic and visionary, the other sunny and prosaic, gallant and steadfast. In hindsight, I can see I was working out profound psychological problems — but interestingly, the compulsion to fantasize ceased sometime after I met my second husband, the love of my life. Still, a good while later, I wrote THE ODDLING PRINCE because of one last daydream I’d kept in memory, a tale of a seemingly ordinary prince and his oddling double. This time, however, neither of my heroes is dark and moody. Devoted to each other, both are tall and fair-haired, looking nearly as alike as twins. This time the grim, stormy element comes from someone with authority over them, the king. The result is a fraught triangle of turbulent loyalties. This book is about a love worthy of legend, valor in battle, fealty threatened by jealousy and suspicion, a seemingly doomed quest for the sake of brotherhood, and the dangers come in so many forms…forgive me for being so vague. I don’t want to let go a spoiler.

DJ: What were some of your influences for THE ODDLING PRINCE?

Nancy: The root influence for all of my fantasy novels goes back fifty years, to my college days: the early poetry of William Butler Yeats. After falling in love heart and soul with his very Irish vision (my father was an Irish immigrant), over the next decade or two I read cartloads of original material and research in Celtic culture and mythology. As for more recent influences, no, there are none that I can think of.

Terence Toh on BORNEO EXPAT WRITER interviews Malaysian authors, publishers and readers discuss the long and short of short story collections.

As it turns out, Malaysians are also fond of short story anthologies. Some readers, however feel that anthologies often get the short end of the stick compared to longer works.

“I do think short story collections are generally less celebrated and less effort is put into marketing them. I think they are unfairly dismissed as a gateway medium for novice writers. There’s a certain privileging of the novel format as the ultimate medium of literature,” says avid reader Diana Yeong, 43.

Yeong says while she doesn’t actively seek out short story collections, she doesn’t shy away from them either. Some of her favourite collections included Patricia McKillip’s DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES (2016), Ted Chiang’s Stories Of Your Life And Others (2010) and Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories (2011). “Collections can be hit and miss and more often than not will have at least a couple that miss the mark, and only one or two in the entire collection that have that ‘wow’ factor,” Yeong says.

“There’s an element of delicious surprise going into each story, which is a nice contrast with the immersive nature of novel reading. I like diving deep into characters and places and situations with novels, but short stories are a refreshing change of pace.”

THE FRANKENSTEIN MEME asks James Morrow 10 questions about his novel, The Philosopher’s Apprentice, and its relationship to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

The “Frankenstein and Your Work” question: What impact has Frankenstein had on your writing? Are there aspects of the novel that have especially influenced you in general?

When in a strictly intellectual mode, I can tease my original adolescent (in both senses of the term) reading of the novel apart from the numerous cinematic Frankensteins that have emerged over the years from Hollywood’s Universal Pictures and Britain’s Hammer Films. But at the emotional level, I can’t sustain that dichotomy. I love—and in many cases also respect—the celluloid incarnations of Shelley’s brainchild. Indeed, I used the writing of The Philosopher’s Apprentice as an excuse to revisit several dozen movies that trace (sometimes overtly, sometimes obliquely) to the original novel.

Fun fact: although the Universal Frankenstein films are drenched in Expressionist shadows and faux-Gothic, Mittle-European atmosphere, they’re actually all set in the twentieth century, with telephones, automobiles, and public lighting appearing routinely. Not until the Hammer revolution (beginning with The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957) was Shelley’s vision accorded an appropriate period setting.

As a film buff, I don’t necessarily put a premium on fidelity to literary sources. The three-hour Mark Kruger-directed Frankenstein starring Alec Newman, Luke Goss, and William Hurt (spun from a TV miniseries) is intensely faithful to the book, but it’s also a boring movie. Give me James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein or Terence Fisher’s The Revenge of Frankenstein any time!

To answer your question, beyond The Philosopher’s Apprentice, many of my short stories owe something to the Frankenstein meme, especially “The Wisdom of the Skin” (a Shelley-inspired resurrection story), “Spinoza’s Golem” (the title says it all), “The Iron Shroud” (another Golem yarn), “Lady Witherspoon’s Solution” (steampunk feminism keyed to chemically induced devolution), BIGFOOT AND THE BODHISATTVA (about the Yeti’s formal education in Tibetan Buddhism), and my stand-alone novella, THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI.

LEVAR BURTON READS LIVE! in Los Angeles: “Money Tree” by Nalo Hopkinson.

A young man sets out to uncover sunken treasure and make his fortune, and his sister must pick up the pieces. Recorded on the LeVar Burton Reads LIVE! tour. With accompaniment by vibraphonist Justin Thomas, and featuring a conversation with the author. This story appears in Nalo Hopkinson’s collection SKIN FOLK.

For more info on THE ODDLING PRINCE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Brian Giberson

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info on THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info on BIGFOOT AND THE BODHISATTVA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Richard Braithwaite

Design by Elizabeth Story

April 23, 2018

Tachyon tidbits featuring Daryl Gregory, Ellen Datlow, Peter S. Beagle, and Charlie Jane Anders

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized amber troska, Charlie Jane Anders, daryl gregory, Ellen Datlow, in calabria, levar burton reads, Locus, Matt Staggs, palace of fine arts, peter s beagle, richard parks, san francisco, terri windling, tor.com, unbound worlds, we are completely fine

The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Daryl Gregory, Ellen Datlow, Peter S. Beagle (photo: Paul Todisco), and Charlie Jane Anders(Tristan Crane)

At UNBOUND WORLDS, Matt Staggs includes Daryl Gregory’s award-winning WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE in 10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels Featuring Characters Living with Mental Illness.

The last survivor of a cannibal attack, a traumatized supernatural detective, a person who can see spirits, whether they want to or not. They all survived brushes with supernatural horrors, and now they’ve formed a support group. Will talking about their experiences help them heal, or summon their tormenters for another dose of terror?

Amber Troska for TOR.COM appreciates Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow.

It is difficult to overestimate the tremendous value of editors. The contributions that authors make to their respective fields, and their impact on the readers that encounter their work, can’t be overstated either, of course—but it is equally important to remember that no truly great author goes it alone; there are always strong editors behind the scenes, shaping the individual stories themselves as well as the publishing world at large. The Hugo Awards are named for an editor, after all.

Yet I can count most of the editors I recognize by name on one hand. Even with such a limited group to choose from, only two have had an extremely significant, identifiable impact on me as a reader: Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow. I could never hope to cover everything the two have contributed to the publishing world—their careers have stretched too far and are too varied and far-reaching for me to do them full justice. However, there are several projects that are worth looking at in order to appreciate their impact and get a sense of how influential their work has been, and continues to be.

Windling and Datlow have had an editorial partnership spanning over three decades, and their names, for me at least, have stood as markers of quality for much of my reading life. From the time I first discovered their Year’s Best anthologies, I have looked to them as arbiters of the very best in genre storytelling. Now, it’s quite possible that I’m making a gross generalization based on my own limited experience (it’s been known to happen) but, despite winning several prestigious awards, Datlow and Windling are quite possibly two of the most recognizable editorial names in modern fantasy and horror, and yet I see little aside from a few occasional interviews that give them the credit they deserve. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer might be giving them a run for their money in the coming years for the title of Most Famous Editing Pair in Speculative Fiction, but Datlow and Windling have a significant head start on their side.

In terms of their partnership, each editor has a specialty—Ellen Datlow focuses more on horror while Terri Windling’s wheelhouse is fantasy—yet rather than simply taking a divide-and-conquer approach, their work illuminates and explores the relationship between fantasy and horror. Fantasy and science fiction are so often and automatically lumped together that it can be easy to overlook how much DNA fantasy and horror really share…something that becomes even clearer when you look at another anthology series the two produced, beginning with Snow White, Blood Red in 1993.

Anyone with even a passing interest in fairy tales knows that many of the versions we encounter today have been sanitized over the years and rebranded as children’s stories. Disney has become the most famous bowdlerizer of fairy tales, but the genre in general has been steadily transformed since the 19th century—something Terri Windling highlights at the start of her introduction to Snow White, Blood Red. In that intro, she makes clear that the intent of the collection (and eventual series) she and Datlow had undertaken is not to simply update old stories with modern flourishes but to recapture the original darkness of fairy tales, bringing them back to the adult audience that has forgotten their once-considerable power. As with the Year’s Best anthologies, Datlow and Windling focus on their respective areas of genre expertise. Unlike those broader anthologies, however, the fairy tale collections don’t ever feel like the two separate genres are sitting side-by-side, but are united in one vision, despite the deliberate split in the title (a convention that carries through the rest of the series).

Richard Parks on his eponymous site apologizes for Peter S. Beagle’s IN CALABRIA.

All right, I’ll cut right to it–I had planned to have a review of Peter S. Beagle’s IN CALABRIA (Tachyon, February 2017) before now. That the book is over a year old is as good an example as any of how useless I am to anyone as a review blogger, which makes me no never mind since that was never my intention here in the first place. Once I reviewed for magazines with deadlines and everything and I never missed one, but then I was usually getting paid for it. Now I pay for my own books, I review what I want to when I want to, thanks very much, and that’s all there is to it.

Ahem. Slight digression there. Regardless, I’m not ready to review the book because I’m not through reading it. That’s taking a while, and not because it’s a doorstop. It is definitely not. It’s a slim volume beautifully produced by Tachyon Publications, lovely to look at, and at first glance the sort of thing any halfway decent reader could tear through in an afternoon. So could I, if it was a book by almost anyone other than Peter Beagle. So some of you might understand that I am going slowly, savoring, and am in no bloody hurry to finish.

Another reason is that I always–always–approach Beagle’s work with a bit of caution, if not trepidation. Peter Beagle is never a light read, and I never come to it lightly. I understand that I might have my heart ripped out; it’s a risk that comes with anything of emotional depth and utter truth. I’m embarrassed to say how long it took me to get to his THE INNKEEPER’S SONG, but in my defense I did so, but long after any such review would have served either the author or the publisher’s interest nearly as much as something less reverent but more relevant and–most important–timely might have. I’ll have to give my regrets in advance here, too.

LOCUS reports that Charlie Jane Anders will be joining LeVar Burton Reads LIVE! at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on April 29.

For info on WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about IN CALABRIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

April 4, 2018

Nalo Hopkinson and FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS continue to impress

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized chuma hill, columbia college, elizabeth story, english 230: rethinking science fiction in canada, falling in love with hominids, graham lyons, izzy bynum, letters about literature, levar burton, levar burton reads, library of congress, nalo hopkinson, twitter

Photo: Sanna Pudas

Izzy Bynum‘s winning letter for the Library of Congress’ Letters About Literature is to Nalo Hopkinson.

Dear Ms. Hopkinson,

If you saw me, the first thing you’d notice is that I’m fat. At least, that’s what I assume you’d notice because that’s always been the sort of thing that I get caught up on. Being a fat kid has always been the biggest thing about me, to the point where I wouldn’t know how to describe myself without it. I’ve been on the receiving end of countless looks—the ones that say, “Yikes, I hope I don’t look like that,” and “I hope she doesn’t sit down next to me,” and “At least I’m better than her”—subtle (or not so subtle) jabs about my weight, and comments about the state of my health. Certainly not from most people, but it happens enough to where I end up finding insults in everyone’s words. My entire personality is based on the fact that I always feel like I’m taking up too much space, drawing too much attention to myself, or being a burden. I have a tendency to look down at all my efforts, thinking that nothing I do can ever be decent because it was made by my own two hands, which are short and stubby and fat.

I’ve always loved writing. When I was younger and less self-conscious, I would write stories for everyone in my family. I entered state writing contests. But as time went on and I got older and thicker, I started dropping out of all of those things because I thought I wasn’t good enough. When I was elementary school, I won some contest with the Young Pegasus Poet’s Society and had to go downtown to receive my award. I look back on it now and regret even entering the contest because the dress I wore to the presentation ceremony showed how fat my arms were. Until reading The Smile on the Face, I never realized how sad that is. I’d won a poetry contest! I should be proud; I shouldn’t keep that memory pushed far away like something painful or cringe every time my mom brings out pictures to show people.

Your Gilla, like me, is amazingly, delightfully, undoubtedly a fat kid. I didn’t realize how few books had a character who was fat until she resonated with me so completely. It was like putting on a jacket that fit for the first time; I hadn’t realized how tight the others had been until this one was just right. I saw so much of myself in Gilla. All the tiny discomforts, the passing fears, and intruding thoughts that I thought had been particular to me were spelled out right there on the page in the way she refuses to eat at the party because then people would see her eating, or how she couldn’t help but notice the one fat girl in the teen movie playing and wonder why she was there, or as she recoils from all the subtle jabs Roger and his cronies send her way.

But just as much as you show her struggling, you show her overcoming. When everything looks dark and Gilla is locked in the closet with Roger as he degrades her, you give her the power to fight back. Gilla’s transformation into a powerful, fire-spitting dragon is only possible because she tells herself that she’s powerful, that she should fight back against Roger and anyone else who tries to put her down for who she is. That image of her finally believing in herself so much that it terrifies those who would go against her has stuck with me ever since. It’s had me swallowing cherry pits in the hope that somehow I’d stumble upon some magic that tells me why everything I hate about myself isn’t bad. But I know that I’ve already got something to tell me that: your story.

Every time I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw my fat as a flaw, as something to pretend didn’t exist, something to be ashamed of. But you said that Gilla—that I—was strong and hearty and valuable. You said that I deserved respect. You said I should fight. That was the first time anyone had ever told me that.

After reading The Smile on the Face, I’m not suddenly a confident person. Obviously and unfortunately, that’s not how things work. But seeing Gilla’s literal transformation into someone more self-confident and content with herself showed me for the first time that it’s okay to be happy with who I am right now. It’s okay to be satisfied with being fat; my main goal of life doesn’t have to be getting thinner. Because of your story, I now realize that I deserve respect no matter what my size, and I’ve started the process by demanding it from myself. Thank you.

Levar Burton shared this via Twitter.

Two big announcements for our LA live taping of #LeVarBurtonReads: we’re moving it to May 2nd @RegentTheaterLA, and the immensely talented sci-fi writer @Nalo_Hopkinson be my featured author and guest! (Ace tix from April 26 will be honored): http://ow.ly/yTOg30jjF3G

Columbia College is using FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS as text for English 230: Rethinking Science Fiction in Canada.

How do we imagine worlds other than our own? What happens when two very different worlds collide? When we tell stories about robots and aliens and environmental disasters and virtual reality video games, are we actually telling stories about ourselves, about our own place and time? English 230, “Rethinking Science Fiction in Canada”, presents an opportunity to explore these questions in an approachable way: through directed study, meeting once a week to discuss ideas and stories, and gaining credits towards your degree in the process!

Instructor: Graham Lyons
Course: English 230, Sec 99
Register today!
Email glyons@columbiacollege.ca for more information.

For more information on FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Chuma Hill

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