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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Education Edition. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy. CONTENTS: Preface; Voyage to New France-Cyrano de Bergerac; Mount Hatteras-Jules Verne; The Finding of the Copper Cylinder-James De Mille; The Child of the Phalanstery-Grant Allen; The Fear of It-Robert Barr; The Wendigo-Algernon Blackwood; Consider Her Ways-Frederick Philip Grove; A Fragment from Utopia-Stephen Leacock; Black Destroyer-A. E. Van Vogt; Good-bye, Ilha! -Laurence Manning; Of the People-Gordon R. Dickson; After the Sirens-Hugh Hood; A Queen in Thebes-Margaret Laurence; Akua Nuten-Yves Theriault; Mr. Blink-Michel Tremblay; The Archangel of the Suburb-Jacques Ferron; The Military Hospital-Phyllis Gotlieb; Sparklebugs, Holly and Love-Michael G. Coney; Infinite Variation-H. A. Hargreaves; New Renewal-Spider Robinson; The Philosopher's Stone-Stephen Scobie; The Walker of the Snow-Charles Dawson Shanly; The City of the End of Things-Archibald Lampman; The Were-Wolves-Wilfred Campbell; Shamballah-Bliss Carman; Three Poems-James Reaney; Windigo-George Bowering; Three Poems-Gwendolyn MacEwen; Three Poems-Jeni Couzyn; Four Poems-Alden Nowlan; Mostly Monsters-John Robert Colombo; In the Land of the Unblind-Judith Merril; Three Poems-Phyllis Gotlieb; Moonwalks-Douglas Barbour; The Dominion in 1983-Ralph Centennius; Universe-Stanley Jackson and Roman Kroitor; Canadian Science Fiction-David Ketterer; Canadian Monsters-Margaret Atwood; Brief Annotated Bibliography; Acknowledgements. SYNOPSIS: Other Canadas is the first anthology of Canadian science fiction and fantasy. It was edited by John Robert Colombo, who combined his encyclopedic knowledge of things Canadian with his long-time love of the literature of the fantastic to produce a book that is at once entertaining to read and an intriguing, speculative look at Canada-its alternate pasts, parallel presents, and possible futures. Included in Other Canadas are: a preface by the editor (who discusses the four characteristics of Canadian SF&F); excerpts from four novels; 17 short stories; 27 poems by 13 poets; two critical articles; one prophetic essay (written in 1883, about the Dominion in 1983); a film script (the National Film Board's Universe); and a brief annotated bibliography. Such native-born writers as Phyllis Gotlieb and Margaret Atwood are represented, as well as Canadian-born writers living in the United States, like A.E. van Vogt and Gordon R. Dickson. New Canadians, like Judith Merril and Spider Robinson, are included; and even non-Canadians, Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne, with excerpts from imaginative works set in New France and the Arctic. Other Canadas is a pioneering anthology and an important one, for it reveals a new and unexpected dimension of the Canadian imagination. Yes, there is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and here is your guide to it.
