num_pages: 391
description: Tesseracts Nine, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, features twenty-three stories and poems that expand and showcase the dimensions of speculative fiction with startling visions of the future by new and established Canadian authors. (including English translations of works by French-Canadian authors).  Presenting a wide variety of material from absurdist humour, poetry, and vampires, to time travel to illustrate a just a few of the topics.    The later stories and poems explore the themes of loss and death without becoming pessimistic or depressing. Included in this anthology are:    •  
  A Canadian identity? No, thanks
 by Geoff Ryman (Introduction)    •  
  Lemmings in the Third Year
 by Jerome Stueart    •  
  Principles of Animal Eugenetics
 by Yves Meynard    •  
  Mom and Mother Teresa
 by Jane Dorsey    •  
  Fin-de-siecle
 by E.L. Chen    •  
  Thought and Memory
 by Alette J. Willis    •  
  Jimmy Away to Me
 by Sarah Totton    •  
  Before the Altar on the Feast of Souls
 by Marg Gilks    •  
  Newbie Wrangler
 by Timothy J. Anderson    •  
  Light Remembered
 by Daniel Sernine    •  
  The Singing
 by Dan Rubin      •  
  See Kathryn Run
 by Elisabeth Vonarburg    •  
  Mirrors
 by Rene Beaulieu    •  
  Omphalos
 by Pat Forde    •  
  Writing on the Wall
 by Steve Stanton    •  
  Mayfly
 by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy    •  
  Our Lady of the Snows
 by Nancy Kilpatrick     •  
  Final Thoughts
 by Nalo Hopkinson (postscript) Other showcased authors are: Casey Wolf, Claude Lalumiere, Allan Weiss, Sylvie Berard, Anthony McDonald, and Jason MehmelPoets: Sandra Kasturi and Rhea Rose-FlemingContributor biographies are at the back of the book.
language: English
title: Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
titlecomplete: Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
genres: Fantasy, Anthologies, Short Stories, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 37
series: Tesseracts Anthology
publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing