Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas

by Mark Shainblum (Editor), John Dupuis (Editor), Shane Simmons (Contributor)

"Arrowdreams is the first ever collection of Canadian fiction in the alternate history genre, exploring the historical paths not taken. Join some of Canada's best and brightest speculative writers--including Dave Duncan, Michael Skeet, Nancy Kilpatrick, Edo van Belkom, Glenn Grant, Allan Weiss, Laurent McAllister, Eric Choi, Paula Johanson and Derry! Murphy--as they explore the infinite possibilities of alternate Canadian history in "Arrowdreams.

Genres: Alternate History, Short Stories

191 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

About the author

Mark Shainblum is a science fiction, fantasy and graphic novel writer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His prose fiction has appeared in magazines like On Spec, Would That It Were, Thousand Faces and the anthologies Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic(Vehicle Press, 2003)and Playing Solitaire and Other Stories (Cyber Age 2001). With John Dupuis, he was co-editor of the Aurora Award-winning anthology Arrowdeams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, published in 1998. In comics he’s best known as the writer and co-creator of Angloman, a parody series published in two bestselling books, and later as a weekly comic strip in the Montreal Gazette. Mark also wrote and co-created the independent comic book series Northguard, and the mystery series The Haunting of MacGrath.

Mark is a past-president of SF Canada, Canada’s national association of science fiction authors. He lives in Montreal with his wife Andrea and daughter Maya.

Reviews

[Brian Gaston · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent collection of Canadian Authors.

[Dominick · Rating 3 out of 5]

This first anthology of alternate Canadian history ranges widely from minor and unfamiliar (to me, anyway) to major events in Canadian history (Plains of Abraham, War of 1812), and ranges occasionally into fantasy as well as SF. The quality of the stories is variable, with the best well worth reading but several rather uninteresting; most are by relative unknowns, with most major Canadian SF and fantasy writers—Gotlieb, Sawyer, Kay, Atwood, Gibson, etc.--not represented, unfortunately. The quality of the editing is poor, as well; numerous slips and infelicities appear.