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A carregar... Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada From Coast to Coast to Coastpor Colleen Anderson (Editor), Steve Vernon (Editor)
Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  katebrarian | Jul 28, 2020 |   A new mother can't leave her baby alone for a second, out of fear that The Wall will devour the child. It's a creature that creeps along walls, looking like a shadow, and with very sharp teeth. On the other side of The Wall is a land of torment straight from Hell. Another story looks at the difference between people who are spiritual without believing in a specific religion, and those who are absolutely sure of the infallibility of religious doctrine, for instance, without being spiritual. What if all newborns are genetically tested, and the "non-believers" are killed? A doll tells a little girl a story about vultures who go down chimneys, and kidnap little children as they sleep. They are taken to the deep, dark Underground, where the goblins live. The "lucky" ones are cooked and eaten, and the "unlucky" ones are sent to the mines as slaves. A young man visits his grandfather's grave, which now has an interactive video of Grandpa (the software needs some diagnostic help). He also burns his worthless Ph.D. in Education, because there no longer are any live school teachers. All over the world, strange spheres appear and tell people "touch me and you will get twenty thousand dollars" (or win a cow, or save one hundred acres of rainforest, etc.). Their prizes come due in sixty days. Do they actually get their prizes? As usual with this series, this is a first-rate group of stories. They are not specifically science fiction, or fantasy, or horror, but somewhere in the middle. They are the sort of tales that could easily be on a TV show like The Twilight Zone. It is very much worth reading. (  ) plappen | Oct 23, 2015 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Pertence a SérieTesseracts (17)
What is a tesseract? You can google it and go a little nutso perusing Wikipedia or try to find a simple definition: a four-dimensional equivalent of a cube, or a hypercube, having sixteen corners. But why, back when the Tesseracts anthologies began some twenty-plus years ago with Judith Merril editing the first one, did they name it Tesseracts? I think it was a funky new shape discovered in mathematics and the advent of the computer age. A tesseract was more than what it seemed, had more surfaces than you first thought, and had a depth that changed depending on how you looked at it. Now here we are at Tesseracts 17, where Steve Vernon and I have spent buckets of time in the hypercube trying to pull out all those facets and surfaces, all those edges and corners, for you to look at and perceive. Tesseracts is somewhat like the Tardis -- bigger on the inside than on the outside.... We could not gather all the types of stories and poems that fill the voids in our minds, but we tried to give a good representation of what it means to be in Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast. In reading the many submissions we found that there were tales of Wendigo, werewolves, vampires and a host of reanimated dead, though not all of them zombies. There were gentle tales of transformation and other terrors of madness and encountering the demons we know and fear. Character faced the trials of space and the spaces within. And indeed, from Canada's inland border with the US, to the warmer Pacific waters, to the chilly depths of the Maritime Atlantic, and the mysterious tundra of the North, these are the reaches of Canada's geography. But the mindset of Canada's writers stretches farther. Tesseracts 17 is rich with tales about people: there are housewives and men who find themselves in unusual and terrifying circumstances, children who deal with the transformations of their lives and their worlds, potters, keepers of light, wine reviewers, out-of-work graduates, pilots, apprentice chefs, writers, yak herders, dead actors, game leaders, and those who just have a job to do. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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First, I love reading stuff by Canadians. And this anthology includes stories by writers from every province and territory, which is extra Canadian! This is not classic sci-fi...sure, there's space travel and aliens and AI and monsters, but every story is different or weird in some new way. Like any short-story collection, there are some pieces I didn't love, but none of them were due to lack of skill from the author. The first two stories both had a China Mieville-y feel to them, Vermilion Wine about a mystery city in/around/on top of/inside of Italy, with no clues to its existence except for an old book about the ritual uses of wine, and The Wall about a strange membrane separating this world from another that likes to steal babies. The third story, 2020 Vision, is about a man who created a church of Spock. The fourth, Why Pete? a wonderfully written and poignant story of a woman waking up from a deep-sleep space pod to disaster on her spaceship; the fifth, one of my favourites in this collection, Bird Bones, about a boy living with his mad scientist father and genetically modified companion - this story has such a strange amount of heart for being 10 pages long. Look, I could go on, I'm just saying, pretty much every story is great. And if you don't like it, hey, it's short, I promise there's another good one waiting for you!
But actually I have to mention a couple more that I really liked: Sin A Squay, about two Native sisters found, decades later, by their old teacher from a Residential School, a literal monster. Hereinafter Referred To as the Ghost, about the invisible world of the undead and their bureaucracy of haunting. Graffiti Borealis about living graffiti on the streets of Montreal. Team Leader 2040 about a shitty future where the only jobs that old people and refugees can get are playing zombies in a popular and dangerous game in which the rich can pay to shoot people. And everyone is racist. Everybody Wins, about a mysterious lotto game that suddenly pops up across the world and which I'm sure you can all guess is NOT WHAT IT SEEMS.
And all the stories I didn't mention are also beautiful and eerie and gross and wonderful, even the ones I didn't love. So I guess I should start reading some of the past issues of this anthology! Go Canada! Go Canadian sci-fi! (