Tesseracts Canadian Science Fiction Author:Judith Merril (Editor) Each year Tesseract Books will choose a team of editors from among the best of Canada’s writers, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction. With original works by writers both new and established, this is the anthology that started it a... more »ll, edited by Judith Merril! Featuring fiction by Élisabeth Vonarburg and Hugo and Nebula award winning authors Spider Robinson, and William Gibson, and many others.
Contents:
Foreword (Tesseracts: Canadian Science Fiction) (1985) • essay by Judith Merril
Home By the Sea (1985) / shortstory by Élisabeth Vonarburg
Chronos' Christmas (1985) / shortstory by Rhea Rose
A Strange Visitor (1985) • poem by Robert Zend
The Byrds (1983) / shortstory by Michael G. Coney
Report on the Earth-Air Addicts (1984) • poem by Robert Priest
Johnny Appleseed on the New World (1985) / shortstory by Candas Jane Dorsey
Letter from Mars-Dome #1 (1978) • poem by Eileen Kernaghan
Hinterlands (1981) / shortstory by William Gibson
Points in Time (1985) • poem by Christopher Dewdney
Stardust Boulevard (1981) / shortstory by Daniel Sernine
The Last Will and Testament of the Unknown Earthman Lost in the Second Vegan Campaign (1985) • poem by D. M. Price
The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind (1985) / shortstory by Terence M. Green
Instinct (1980) • poem by Dorothy Corbett Gentleman
Cee (1985) / shortstory by Gerry Truscott
On the Planet Grafool (1985) / shortstory by Benjamin Freedman
Tauf Aleph (1981) / novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb
Anthropology 101 (1983) / shortstory by Gary Eikenberry
The Train (1985) / shortstory by Marc Sevigny
Questionnaire (1985) • poem by John Robert Colombo
Countdown (1985) • poem by John Robert Colombo
Sophie, 1990 (1980) / shortstory by Marian Engel
Future City (1985) • poem by D. M. Price
Totem (1985) /shortstory by Margaret McBride
An Adventure in Miracle-Land (1985) • poem by Robert Zend
2DWORLD (excerpt from The Planiverse) (1984) / shortfiction by A. K. Dewdney
Variation (1973) • poem by Robert Zend
The Man Doll (1982) / shortstory by Susan Swan
The Early Education of the Num-nums (1980) • poem by Robert Priest
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer (1982) / shortstory by Lesley Choyce
Report from the Front (1983) • poem by Robert Sward
God Is an Iron [Mindkiller] (1979) / novelette by Spider Robinson
The Effect of Terminal Cancer on Potential Astronauts (1985) / novelette by David Kirkpatrick
Afterword: We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us) (Tesseracts: Canadian Science Fiction) (1985) • essay by Judith Merril
The Contributors (Tesseracts: Canadian Science Fiction) (1985) • essay by editor.