Tesseracts Twelve is unlike any other volume in this critically acclaimed series showcasing the best in Canadian speculative fiction. For the first time in its distinguished history, Tesseracts focuses on novellas, the form believed by many to be the best expression of fantastic and speculative storytelling.

In Tesseracts Twelve, the series' most ambitious volume to date, celebrated writer, anthologist, and critic Claude Lalumière has gathered seven brand-new novellas from some of Canada's finest writers of fantastic fiction.

Follow these daring, imaginative, and entertaining writers into new worlds of wonder, with an outlook that is both Canadian and global.

Cavemen and woolly mammoths invade Yukon! Mythological creatures cause havoc in ancient feudal Japan! Women with power over love and death stalk the streets of Montreal! A modern Scheherazade seeks to understand love in a Toronto suffused with magic and fable! A small town in Alberta is rife with pagan rituals! Superheroes tackle Korean politics, maniacal supervillains, and corporate downsizing! As the world faces environmental collapse, reality-TV adventurers battle giant beasts from the ocean depths!

Tesseracts Twelve features all-new exciting and imaginative work by:

• E.L. Chen,
• Randy McCharles,
• Derryl Murphy,
• David Nickle,
• Gord Sellar,
• Grace Seybold, and
• Michael Skeet & Jill Snider Lum;
• and introduction by Brett Alexander Savory.

Claude Lalumière (claudepages.info) is the author of three previous books: Objects of Worship (CZP 2009), The Door to Lost Pages (CZP 2011), and Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes (Infinity Plus 2013). He has edited or co-edited fourteen anthologies in various genres, including Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic (Vehicule Press 2003), Lust for Life: Tales of Sex & Love (Vehicule Press 2006), Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories (Tyche 2013), and The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (Exile Editions 2015). Originally from Montreal, where he was a bookseller in the 1990s, he’s also lived in Québec City, Portland, Austin, and Vancouver. He’s currently headquartered in Ottawa.

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