This weekend, I believe the Santa Claus Parade will be kicking up heel in downtown Toronto. Well too bad for Santa. This weekend is also a big celebration for Tesseracts and Edge, at once here in Toronto and Alberta. Tesseracts is, of course, the long-running sf/f anthology series that began when Judith Merrill edited what […]
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For those of you who missed CZP’s Speculative Fiction Colloquium last month – here is some video, of my entire talk: The Care and Feeding of Horror: How a Very Unpleasant Emotion Became a Very Unstable Genre. This video has been made available by CZP and the Chiaroscuro Reading Series. For more information on next
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A moment of silence, for Miles – the four-year-old black tabby who carved a groove on my shoulder and a deep, infected gouge in my heart. As you can see by the picture above, he was an agile, merciless little familiar of a cat – named for Miles Davis, so as to make a matched
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Here it is, in its hideous glory: Erik Mohr’s cover art for my novel Eutopia, which blends the early American eugenics movement, industrial utopianism and terrible monsters, and of which you have read so much in past postings. Erik is the evil genius responsible for my story collection Monstrous Affections‘ cover, and it’s clear that