Authors: Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman (ed.)

ISBN: 1894063265

The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews

Here is the latest in a yearly collection of speculative fiction stories and
poems from north of the border, in Canada.

At an isolated research station in the north, one story concerns talking
lemmings who are looking forward to being eaten by other predators. There is a
modern-day vampire story. Mother Teresa moves into an elderly woman's home, and
turns it into an orphanage. A group of aliens about to terraform Earth are
totally enthralled by the singing of an elderly eskimo woman who knows that she
has reached the end of her life. There is a near-future computer-controlled war
story. A man wakes up one morning to find himself conscious, but physically
unable to get out of bed. Then he finds that he has turned invisible. His wife,
who thinks that he left her in the middle of the night, goes into a deep
depression. Then civil order collapses as thousands, then millions, of people
similarly disappear.

There is a wide variety of stories here; something for everyone. Read this an
example of the state of speculative fiction in Canada, or read this as simply a
group of really good stories. Either way, read it.