Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction

Edited by Claude Lalumière
Introduction by Cory Doctorow

Fiction / Science Fiction / Anthologies
264 pages • 6 x 8 1/2"
ISBN 0–88995–281–7 paper • CDN 5.95 • USA 5.95

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.

Claude Lalumière is a Montreal writer whose first collection is Object of Worship (ChiZine Publications 2009). He has edited eight anthologies, including Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction, Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic, and Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction. He writes the Fantastic Fiction column for The Montreal Gazette.

Reviews
"A successful anthology . . . wonderfully eccentric."
–sfsite.com

"A classy effort . . . the future of fantastical literature in North America is in good hands."
–SciFi.com

"Great fiction to be proud of."
–SFRevu.com