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North of Infinity: Futurity Visions
A new breed of science fiction/fantasy writer has emerged to fill this collection with intriguing and suspenseful stories of people in extreme conditions and situations, facing something that we all face: An uncertain future. This collection wasborn in the land of the Midnight Sun. A place where there are 24 hours of sunlight every day... After traversing the blinding snowy vistas deprived of dreamsleep, a blue haze envelopes the mind, the subconscience emerges and the soul cannot distinguish between delirium and demons... From out of this madness, this flaming of the soul, some have recorded their visions. The visions of those brave enough to journey under the Midnight Sun to somewhere North of Infinity.
- GenresScience FictionFantasy
215 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2003
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February 27, 2025
“I have suffered the madness of the burning brain; I have seen fantastic visions”
NORTH OF INFINITY: FUTURITY VISIONS is a collection of twelve imaginative shorts by a group of very talented Canadian authors – mostly what readers would characterize as science fiction but there is the slightest hint of fantasy, horror and both dystopia and utopia. Perhaps a reader could think of it as a twelve-line poem with each line dwelling on a vision of the evolution of the human condition in another place, another time and even in forms other than how we typically picture ourselves today.
ROOTS OF THE SOUL, for example, aside from dwelling on the common theme of the perils and evils of organized religion, contemplates the difficulty of living side by side with sentience in another species when one can’t even recognize its existence and communication is all but impossible. WHERE THE HEART IS, a riff on relativistic time dilation issues, will appeal to hard core lovers of old time space opera. Readers like me who take issue with evangelical Christian right-wing Bible thumpers will enjoy THE MALTHUSIAN CODE’s comments on government family planning and its twist on institutionalized homophobia. As Homo Sapiens evolves and reaches the point that anthropologists might call speciation, readers might be reminded of the conflict first posited in John Wyndham’s THE CHRYSALIDS. ROAD KILL, a gruesome zombie story that will definitely make your flesh crawl, is perhaps a little out of the more cerebral character of the remainder of the collection but you won’t be sorry for the chance to read it. A very kitchy ending guaranteed to raise a chuckle and put a smile on your face!
Such an embarrassment of riches! Robert J Sawyer is well known around the world, to be sure, but the remainder of the authors in this collection could definitely use a higher well-deserved profile. Definitely recommended.
Paul Weiss
NORTH OF INFINITY: FUTURITY VISIONS is a collection of twelve imaginative shorts by a group of very talented Canadian authors – mostly what readers would characterize as science fiction but there is the slightest hint of fantasy, horror and both dystopia and utopia. Perhaps a reader could think of it as a twelve-line poem with each line dwelling on a vision of the evolution of the human condition in another place, another time and even in forms other than how we typically picture ourselves today.
ROOTS OF THE SOUL, for example, aside from dwelling on the common theme of the perils and evils of organized religion, contemplates the difficulty of living side by side with sentience in another species when one can’t even recognize its existence and communication is all but impossible. WHERE THE HEART IS, a riff on relativistic time dilation issues, will appeal to hard core lovers of old time space opera. Readers like me who take issue with evangelical Christian right-wing Bible thumpers will enjoy THE MALTHUSIAN CODE’s comments on government family planning and its twist on institutionalized homophobia. As Homo Sapiens evolves and reaches the point that anthropologists might call speciation, readers might be reminded of the conflict first posited in John Wyndham’s THE CHRYSALIDS. ROAD KILL, a gruesome zombie story that will definitely make your flesh crawl, is perhaps a little out of the more cerebral character of the remainder of the collection but you won’t be sorry for the chance to read it. A very kitchy ending guaranteed to raise a chuckle and put a smile on your face!
Such an embarrassment of riches! Robert J Sawyer is well known around the world, to be sure, but the remainder of the authors in this collection could definitely use a higher well-deserved profile. Definitely recommended.
Paul Weiss
August 18, 2019
This is a better than average short story collection containing works by some strong Canadian SF writers.
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