Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1926851676 ISBN 13: 9781926851679

Publisher: Chizine Publications, 2012

Synopsis

ChiZine Publications and Tightrope Books unite in a joint venture to produce a yearly anthology of speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magic realism). Canadian speculative fiction has been increasingly recognized internationally for the calibre of its authors and their insight into the nature of social and cultural identities, the implications of new technologies, and the relationship between humankind and its environments. At their best, these pieces disrupt habits and 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.

About this title

About the Author:

SANDRA KASTURI is a writer, editor, book reviewer and the copublisher of ChiZine Publications. She has written three poetry chapbooks and has edited the poetry anthology, The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. She is the author of two poetry collections, The Animal Bridegroom (2007), and Come Late to the Love of Birds (2013), both from Tightrope Books. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies.

Halli Villegas is the author of three collections of poetry, Red Promises, In the Silence Absence Makes and The Human Cannonball, and several anthology pieces. She has published online erotica under a pen name. Her poetry and prose have appeared in places such as the LRC, Exile, Kiss Machine, Pagitica, Variety Crossings and The Windsor Review, and her book, The Hair Wreath and Other Stories, was published by ChiZine in 2010. Halli has received funding for her writing from the OAC Works in Progress in 2006, the TAC mid-level writers in 2007 and 2009, and the OAC Works in Progress in 2009.

Review:

Praise for the Imaginarium anthologies

“Kasturi and Villegas should be commended for casting such a wide net. With a whopping 37 pieces jammed into this anthology, there is surely something for everyone within these pages.”
―Broken Pencil

“[Imaginarium 4] is often clever, with stories that showcase a singular concept, never losing focus, and following it through to the end . . . . Imaginarium 4 really shines when its stories get a little weird and question their own nature. These are the stories that are offered up shaken, not stirred, from some bottom-of-the-ocean sleep: they are having out-of-body experiences and living not just as stories but as answers to the question ‘What if?’”
―Strange Horizons

About this edition

• Publisher: Chizine Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1926851676
• ISBN 13: 9781926851679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Sandra Kasturi, Halli Villegas