Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from among the best of Canada's writers, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction. This is the anthology that started it all! Featuring fiction by Elisabeth Vonarburg and Hugo and Nebula award winning authors Spider Robinson, and William Gibson.

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

EDGE Science Fiction & Fantasy

This new anthology focuses on the what-ifs of the "end-dates" that surround us, and how they impact our lives and our world, and ourselves. 
 "Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates" says anthology editor Nancy Kilpatrick. "Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when giant icebergs break apart and glaciers melt forever, threatening the ecosystem of this planet." 
 Kilpatrick reminds us "From the micro to the macro in terms of expirations, we are faced with the one termination with which we are all too familiar -- the up-close-and-personal end of life for each of us and for the ones we love. It's the personal that terrifies us most because it feels the most real." 
 Expiration Date features 25 original pieces of short fiction by some of the world's top Dark Fiction writers. 
 The stories span a range of emotions. Some will make you laugh, other will make you cry. They are grim and hopeful, sad and joyous, horrifying and comforting. Each has its own personality and will touch you in its own way.

Expiration Date

Literature & Fiction

United States

Masha Gessen discovered through genetic testing that she had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation -- the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jolie, which predisposes women to ovarian and breast cancer. As Gessen wrestled with a wrenching personal decision - -what to do with such knowledge -- she explored the landscape of a brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. 
 Blood Matters is a much-needed field guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic information is shaping the decisions we make, not only about our physical and emotional health but about whom we marry, the children we bear, even the personality traits we long to have. And it helps us come to terms with the radical transformation that genetic information is engineering in our most basic sense of who we are and what we might become.

Blood Matters

Bel'Harold, Aviva

It's 1134. In a bleak monastery somewhere in Germany, Paul of Ardiun begins the chronicle he has been ordered by his religious superiors to write: the story of the knight Karelian Brandeis, for whom Paul once served as squire, who fell prey to the evil wiles of a seductive sorceress, thereby precipitating civil war and the downfall of a king. 
 But before Paul can set down more than a sentence or two of this cautionary tale, the sorceress herself magically appears to him. He is a liar, she tells him, and always has been. She lays a spell on him: from this moment, he will only be able to write the truth. 
 But what is the truth? All his life he has rearranged his memories to suit his faith. He has judged Karelian, judged the women, judged the world. 
 Now, against his will, an entirely different story begins to emerge.

The Black Chalice

Jakober, Marie

Genre Fiction

The Radiance is a mystical object of prayer and devotion. It's shattering can only incur punishment most dire. So this unlikely clan of conspirators embark on a desperate mission of piecing together fragmented friendships as well as the fragmented Radiance, overcoming the ongoing Rebellion as they negotiate the Lakes of Acid.

Clan of the Dung-Sniffers

Hubbard, Lee Danielle

Thrust into perilous action by his father's spirit and his village's shaman, Fool Wolf, the laziest of heroes, must face his battles or face the wrath of his ancestors. In this collection of seven short stories, Fool Wolf is thrown on the mercy of those gods whom he both worships and loathes. He is forced to defend himself against the very destiny that he is to fulfill. The mysteries of his ancestors are brought to light as he traverses the vast empire of his people's land in search of answers.

The Hounds of Ash: And Other Tales of Fool Wolf

Keyes, J. Gregory

In Orbital Burn, a seriously down on her luck unlicensed Stalktown PI named Louise "Lou" Meagher ekes out a sparse living solving petty crimes. She is chronically broke, clinically dead, and nervous about being evacuated from her home planet, Kestrel, which in nine days time will be hit by an unstoppable doomsday rock, known as the Bloody Bastard. But Lou takes on one last case: helping a cybernetically enhanced canine named Dog locate his former master, a defective biological android boy known only as Kid...

Orbital Burn

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bedford, K.

Mystery

Eliminating the impossible just got a whole lot harder!The fabled tin dispatch box of Dr. John H. Watson opens to reveal eleven all-new tales of mystery and dark fantasy. Sherlock Holmes, master of deductive reasoning, confronts the irrational, the unexpected and the fantastic in the weird worlds of the Gaslight Grimoire.
Gaslight Grimoire includes works by:
David Stuart Davies, Barbara Hambly, Kim Newman, Chris Roberson, Christopher Sequeira, Peter Calamai, J. R. Campbell, M. J. Elliott, Rick Kennett, Chico Kidd, Bob Madison, Martin Powell, Barbara Roden,
BONUS: 12 Full Page B&amp;W illustrations by Phil Cornell.
About the Editors:
Charles Prepolec has contributed articles and reviews to All Hallows, Sherlock Magazine, Scarlet Street, and Canadian Holmes. An active Sherlockian for more than 20 years with Calgary’s The Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen, he was designated a Master Bootmaker in 2006 by the Canada’s national Sherlock Holmes Society.
Jeff Campbell’s fiction has appeared in a wide variety of publications including Spinetingler Magazine, Wax Romantic and Challenging Destiny. From time to time his writing can also be heard on radio’s Imagination Theater and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In addition to writing, he has co-edited the Sherlock Holmes anthologies Curious Incidents 1 and 2 with his good friend Charles Prepolec.
About the Cover Artist:
Timothy Lantz is a full-time illustrator and graphic artist with degrees in art education and communications. During his career, Lantz’s work has included such far-flung projects as weather maps, television commercials, book covers and tarot cards. He is the author and artist of The Archeon Tarot, available from U. S. Games Systems Inc.
About the Interior Artist:
Phil Cornell was born in Sydney, Australia in 1954. He first came into contact with Sherlock Holmes at the age of ten when given an anthology containing 'The Speckled Band.' The infection was instant and incurable. He lives in Sydney with his twelve year old son, two cats and more Sherlockian books and videos than can comfortably fit in a fairly small home. He holds the position of "Expedition Artist" in The Sydney Passengers Sherlock Holmes Society. He is also a member of The Unscrupulous Rascals of South Australia and The Sherlock Holmes Society of London. He works as a commercial artist.
About the Series:
<ul>
<li>Book 1: Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes 
</li>
<li>Book 2: Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes</li>
<li>Book 3: Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes</li>
<li>Book 4: Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes 
</li>
</ul>
These anthologies have received critical acclaim from prominent reviewers such as National Post, Library Journal, Booklist, Globe &amp; Mail, etc.

Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes

Barbara. Hambly

Chris Roberson

Barbara Roden

Bob Madison

Christopher Sequeira

Peter Calamai

kim-newman

A young queen must confront her destiny, and overcome the powerful forces arrayed against her. When she is kidnapped by enemy invaders, Marwen of Kamilan must escape her oppressive foe and reclaim her throne. But it will be a fight that will test the very limits of her will, both in an ill-matched war against her former captors, and in the political intrigues that await her in her own land. It is only with the help of a battle hardened soldier, that Marwen finds the strength to face her greatest fears, and discovers that love may be the most dangerous weapon of all.

Even The Stones

Tamar is a world inhabited by nine humanoid races, plagued by racial and religious hatreds, and steadily moving towards an epic war.  But war is not new to Cibata, the largest continent in the Southern Hemisphere, where only one human nation, Cassinga, survives when once there were three, and the Senangan Empire, ruled by the tiger folk, has vowed to see its destruction.  Saranith Kamrasi, a member of Senanga's royal family and an officer in its navy, is summoned by Cinkarion, one of eight living crystals. It brings her great power, but destroys her lifelong companion.  Yet the Wizard Nathan, also born a Kamrasi but abandoned by his parents for lack of weresight, defends Cassinga despite his tiger blood.  When the Wizard Elgan's apprentice is taken by the Senangans, Nathan and Elgan must turn to Jerevan Rayne, the man who hadn't wanted to be a wizard, and enter the heart of Senanga to rescue her, with the ultimate fate of Cassinga at stake.  Cinkarion is the second book of the Chronicles of the Karionin trilogy.

Cinkarion: The Heart of Fire (Book Two in the Karionin Chronicles trilogy)

Cullum, J A

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