TOC: ‘Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing’ Edited by Sandra Kasturi & Samantha Beiko

Posted on June 22, 2013 by John DeNardo in Books // 0 Comments

Dark Wolf has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing:

Here’s the book description:

Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work produced by Canadian writers. Canadian speculative fiction has been increasingly recognized internationally for the calibre of its authors and their insight into the nature of social and religious identities, the implications of new technologies, and the relationship between humankind and its environments. We use the term “speculative fiction” in order to free ourselves from the associations of terms like “science fiction,” “horror,” and “fantasy.” At their best, these stories disrupt habits, overcome barriers of cultural perception to make the familiar strange through the use of speculative elements such as magic and technology. They provide glimpses of alternate realities and possible futures and pasts that provoke an ethical, social, political, environmental, and biological inquiry into what it means to be human.

Here’s the table of contents…

“Blink” by Michael Kelly
“Nightfall in the Scent Garden” by Claire Humphrey
“The Ghosts of Birds” by Helen Marshall
“The Last Love of the Infinity Age” by Peter Darbyshire
“Too Much is Never Enough” by Don Bassingthwaite
“Bigfoot Cured My Arthritis” by Robert Colman
“Wing” by Amal El-Mohtar
“Arrow” by Barry King
“Penny” by Dominik Parisien
“Thought and Memory” by Catherine Knutsson
“Gaudifingers” by Tony Burgess
“A sea monster tells his story” by David Livingstone Clink
“Son of Abish” by Dave Duncan
“Opt-In” by J.W. Schnarr
“Last Amphibian Flees” by M.A.C. Farrant
“White Teeth” by David Livingstone Clink
“The Sweet Spot” by A.M. Dellamonica
“Verse Found Scratched Inside the Lid of a Sarcophagus (Dynasty Unknown)” by Gemma Files
“Collect Call” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“Bella Beaufort Goes to War” by Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter
“A Spell for Scrying Mirror Gremlins” by Peter Chiykowski
“The Book of Judgement” by Helen Marshall
“The Audit” by Susie Moloney
“Sixteen Colours” by David Livingstone Clink
“The Old Boys Club” by Geoff Gander
“Fin de Siècle” by Gemma Files
“Since Breaking Through the Ice” by Dominik Parisien
“The Pack” by Matt Moore
“Invocabulary” by Gemma Files
“I Was a Teenage Minotaur” by A.G. Pasquella
“Weep For Day” by Indrapramit Das
“What I Learned at Genie School” by Jocko Benoit
“Aces” by Ian Rogers
“No Poisoned Comb” by Amal El-Mohtar
“What a Picture Doesn’t Say” by Christopher Willard
“The Last Islander” by Matthew Johnson