Speculative Fiction Posts
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."