From Booklist
The tenth annual volume of an acclaimed Canadian anthology series presents a mixture of innovative and more traditional short stories and verse. Unlike the earliest editions, which used Canada only as a unifying theme, all of the authors included this time are native or naturalized Canadians. Such relative newcomers as Victoria Fisher and Mark Dachuk share equal billing with veterans including Scott McKay and Matthew Hughes. Tales of macabre horror, such as "The Undoing," Sarah Totton's peek into a future in which criminal punishment involves amputation, mingle with technological speculations, as exemplified by Allen Moore's "Donovan's Brain," about artificial intelligence infiltrating the Internet. An alternate history piece, a futuristic ghost story, an amusing poem about Frankenstein, and French Canadian tales by Michele Laframboise and Rene Beaulieu, ably translated by Sheryl Curtis, all find niches here. Far from feeling like a limitation, the Canadian focus results in a volume of superior writing that transcends territory to appeal to speculative-fiction fans everywhere. Carl Hays
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
20 Stunning Canadian SF short stories and poems
to shock, twist and kindle your imagination...What makes Tesseracts Ten special...
| Every story/poem is diverse and distinctive, ranging from futuristic hard core science fiction to alternative history... | |||
| Stories hand picked by award winning editors Robert Charles Wilson and Edo van Belkom. | |||
| Powerful new works by both well known and new Canadian speculative fiction writers. | |||
| Many of the authors have won awards for previous works. | |||
| Part of a long lineage of Tesseracts speculative fiction collections. | |||
| Following Tesseracts Nine, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Taylor which won the Aurora award for best works other. |
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