Tesseracts Nine [Paperback]

Although many tales in the ninth edition of this Canadian anthology series take place in that nation's provinces and cities, editor Ryman's introduction emphasizes that Canadian literature is becoming ever less idiosyncratic and more universal. A broad assortment of relatively unknown and established voices accounts for the 23 tales and poems in this showcase of Canada's speculative-fiction imagination. Jerome Stueart opens the volume with a whimsical tale about Yukon researchers who discover the polar bears and lemmings around them can not only talk but are researching them. Rising sf stars Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy collaborate on an intriguing tale about a mentally handicapped child made intelligent by sophisticated genetic programming. Steve Stanton contributes the obligatory time-travel story about a child who becomes a mathematical genius after meeting his future self. Other stories explore animal eugenics experiments gone awry and examine the fate of a man whose marital indifference causes him to literally disappear. An entertaining and diverse collection that deserves to bring its contributors many new readers. Carl Hays
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Tesseracts Nine also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006.

It was included in the Locus Poll for best anthology!

Many of the stories have now appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies.

While other stories received nominations for the Brandon, Fountain, Sturgeon and Aurora Awards.

"Apparently being in T9 was a Good Thing."

- Derryl Murphy
Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from amongst 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.

Tesseracts Nine expands the dimensions of speculative fiction experientially, with startling visions of the future by new and established Canadian authors.

Featuring twenty-three stories and poems by: Timothy J. Anderson, Sylvie Bérard, René Beaulieu, E. L. Chen, Candas Jane Dorsey, Pat Forde, Marg Gilks, Sandra Kasturi, Nancy Kilpatrick, Claude Lalumière, Anthony MacDonald, Jason Mehmel, Yves Meynard, Derryl Murphy, Rhea Rose, Dan Rubin, Daniel Sernine, Steve Stanton, Jerome Stueart, Sarah Totton, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Peter Watts, Allan Weiss, Alette J. Willis and Casey June Wolf.

Edited by Sunburst and World Fantasy Award winning authors Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, Tesseracts Nine showcases the very best in Canadian speculative fiction literature (including English translations of works by French-Canadian authors).

Nalo Hopkinson is a Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing author.