Speculation and Imagination

Two bits of news for now: first, Derek Newman-Stille has posted an episode of his Speculating Canada podcast in which he discusses my collection Irregular Verbs and Other Stories. Derek's got lots of interesting things to say as he examines "cultural interactions, language, aging, and other ideas of change" in the stories.










Second, one of those stories -- "What You Couldn't Leave Behind" -- will be included in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. We were actually discussing which of this year's stories would go in right up to the announcement, eventually picking that one in part because it's the shortest -- it's going to be a massive book:

Introduction
Margaret Atwood 

Bamboozled
Kelley Armstrong 

Witch I
Courtney Bates-Hardy 

Witch II
Courney Bates-Hardy 

The Smut Story
Greg Bechtel 

Kafka’s Notebooks
Jocko Benoit 

The Full Lazenby
Jeremy Butler 

Wendigo Nights
Siobhan Carroll 

A Spell for Rebuilding Your Lover Out of Snow
Peter Chiykowski 

Túshūguăn
Eric Choi 

Jelly and the D-Machine
Suzanne Church 

The Perfect Library
David Clink 

The Colour of Paradox
A.M. Dellamonica 

The Man Who Sold the Moon
Cory Doctorow 

Brains, Brains, Brains
Puneet Dutt 

The Lonely Sea in the Sky
Amal El-Mohtar 

A Wish from a Bone
Gemma Files 

We Be Naked
Zsuzsi Gartner 

The God of Lost Things
Neile Graham 

The Lark, The Peat The Star, and Our Time
Neile Graham 

Chant for Summer Darkness in Northwest Climes
Neile Graham 

The Beat that Billie Bore
Lisa L. Hannett 

The Trial of the Beekeeper
Shivaun Hoad 

Self-Portrait as Bilbo Baggins
Ada Hoffmann 

The Parable of the Supervillain
Ada Hoffmann 

The Mermaid at Seaworld
Ada Hoffmann 

Left Foot, Right
Nalo Hopkinson 

Return to Bear Creek
Louisa Howerow 

The Inn of the Seven Blessings
Matthew Hughes 

What You Couldn’t Leave Behind
Matthew Johnson 

Hollywood North
Michael Libling 

Sideshow
Catherine MacLeod 

Aversions
Helen Marshall 

Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta
Helen Marshall 

You’re a Winner
Matt Moore 

Man in Blue Overcoat
Silvia Moreno-Garcia 

The Exorcist: A Love Story
David Nickle 

Hereditary Delusions
Rhonda Parrish 

Marotte
Tony Pi 

Charlemagne and Florent
Ranylt Richildis 

Standard Deviant
Holly Schofield 

The Tun
Trevor Shikaze 

Demoted
Kate Story 

The Snows of Yesteryear
Jean-Louis Trudel 

Giants
Peter Watts 

From Stone and Bone, From Earth and Sky
A.C. Wise 

Outside Heavenly
Rio Youers

I haven't done a "Spoiler Space" in a while, but here -- from almost exactly a year ago -- is the piece I did on "What You Couldn't Leave Behind."




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