Tesseracts5

Tesseracts Anthology #5

by Robert Runte (Editor), Yves Meynard (Editor), John Park (Contributor)

The Anthology of New Canadian Speculative Fiction

Explore strange new realities on the edge of the imagination, in Tesseracts5 the fifth volume of the award-winning anthology of Canadian speculative fiction.

Genres: Anthologies, Science Fiction, Canada

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Norman Weatherly]

There were some good stories in this book. Unfortunately, I found them to be few and far apart.

[Robert Runte · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, I liked all the stories in it, but then I was coeditor, so, you know, pretty much by definition....

Karl Schroeder's story "Halo" was subsequently reprinted in David Hartwell's The Hard SF Renaissance anthology and in Schroeder's collection, The Engines of Recall, so I called that one right. I think Tesseracts 5 was one of the first big markets to publish Sandra Kasturi, who has gone on to not only be one of the country's best poets, but one of the co-publishers of CZP, so got that one right.

Still stand by rest of the stories too. Good representative sample of what was being written in Canadian SF at the time.

[Edwin Downward · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another round up exceptional highs and skip past them lows of an Anthology.

Among the highs were:
Domestic Slash and Thrust by Jan Lars Jensen
The Paradigm Machine by Jean-Louis Trudel
I love a Parade by Keith Scott
and
Halo by Karl Shroeder