Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction

by Claude Lalumière (Editor), Cory Doctorow (Introduction), Shane Arbuthnott

This anthology of daring ideas and distinctive voices showcases the multicultural spirit of Canada as it spans the spectrum of speculative fiction from science fiction through fantasy and horror.

Join Mark Anthony Brennan, Matthew Costaris, Richard Gavin, Ahmed A. Kahn, Drew Karpyshyn, Murray Leeder, Catherine MacLeod, Derryl Murphy, Vincent W. Sakowski, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Steve Vernon, Melissa Yuan-Innes, and many other new and established writers of fantastic fiction for a journey into the farthest reaches of the Canadian imagination.

Includes an introduction by Cory Doctorow, winner of the 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and author of "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,"

Genres: Science Fiction

264 pages, Paperback

First published August 14, 2003

About the author

Montreal writer Claude Lalumière is the author of the story collections Objects of Worship , Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes , and Altre persone / Other Persons and of the mosaic works The Door to Lost Pages and Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment . He has edited fourteen anthologies, including two Aurora Award—nominated volumes in the Tesseracts series. His first fiction – “Bestial Acts” – appeared in Interzone in 2002, and he has since published more than 100 stories; his work has been translated into French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, and Russian and adapted for stage, screen, audio, and comics.