In a future Europe, where technology has been driven underground and the Earth's population has been tribalized by nuclear war and political conflict, a young woman named Elisa is born into the Silent City, a final stronghold of science and knowledge, in which self-perpetuating technology maintains the handful of human survivors with rejuvenation treatments and cybernetics. Unwittingly, Elisa holds the key to the genetic changes which have the potential to preserve the human species. But first she must overcome the resistance of the city's elite, and discover her unique gift for changing herself and the world around her. But time is running out. The human race is threatened by a virus that prevents the conception of male babies - and women bear the blame. Elisa must determine her future ... and the future of humanity.

The Silent City

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Élisabeth Vonarburg

Science Fiction

Tesseract Books

This intriguing collection of short stories stretches reality in a highly original manner, from comical accounts of alien encounters and disturbing speculations on the future of the earth, to the threatening possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in an omnipresent technological world.

Distant Signals: and other stories (Tesseract Books)

Literature & Fiction

Weiner, Andrew

United States

A young man coming of age on a planet with a binary star deals with his own family issues, and in the process, confronts his race's fear of the cold and discovers the myth about the mysterious Lorin-creatures who share their world. Unbeknownst to all, their planet is about to be drawn into the orbit of Rax - where the long-dreaded freeze will begin. But when the planets two warring governments discover this impending threat and employ it to their own sinister advantage, young Drove retreats with his mother and father to the coastal city of Pallahaxi - where he learns the truth about his relationship with his father, the secret of the intuitive Lorin-creatures, and begins to understand his planet's peculiar destiny.

Pallahaxi Tide

Children's Books

Coney, Michael G.

A future society, where women far outnumber men, has abandoned the models of patriarchy and matriarchy and established new gender roles. But Lisbei, a young thinker whose gift is exploring the past, confronts the new establishment in order to force changes of her own. The Maerlande Chronicles is a sequel to the critically-acclaimed novel The Silent City.

The Maerlande Chronicles

Vonarburg, Élisabeth

Contemporary

The great cities are dying, like the country, from the heart out. The Redemption Presidency tolerates vigilantes who kill according to Biblical example. The police subcontract freelancers. Diane Fletcher is one of them. She is also cursed with the gift of seeing and feeling the emotions of others. Set in a future where right-wing theology has merged with government, the novel explores current religious and philosophical trends, creating an action filled journey of adventure and intrigue.

Passion Play (Tesseract Books)

Stewart, Sean

In the second book of the Moonfall Trilogy, the story continues in a post-holocaust world inhabited by bicephalic humans - two-headed twins sharing the same body. With the birth of a new religion, which makes its saviors into victims, the children of Atwar must complete the prophecy of Moonfall.

The Children of Atwar

Spears, Heather

Steampunk meets the supernatural in a Canada that might have been.... The year is 1884, and Corporal Marmaduke Grayburn of the North West Mounted Police always gets his man. But when he is assigned to the secretive Qdivision - an elite unit of paranormal investigators founded by legendary Mountie Sam Steele - Grayburn discovers that his own psychic powers might lead to more than he bargained for. With the aid of the eccentric paranormal researcher Arthur Chambers, Grayburn sets out in search of a missing minister and a magical Native artifact known only as the Manitou Stone. But in a land where perpetual motion machines and locomotives meet ancient sorcery, can Grayburn discover the secret of the stone and maintain the uneasy peace between the scattered Indian tribes and settlers? Or will his own buried secrets lead him towards the dark fate that waits at the end of the Apparition Trail?

The Apparition Trail

Smedman, Lisa

Fantasy

ON SPEC: The First Five Years, features the best short stories and poetry from the first half-decade of the award-winning Canadian science fiction and fantasy magazine, ON SPEC. Look for incredible stories by authors such as: Robert J. Sawyer, James Alan Gardner, Alice Major, Robert Boyczuk and Karl Schroeder.

On Spec: The First Five Years

ON SPEC Magazine

Reluctant Voyagers

Witnessing strange and unexplainable changes in her once-familiar Montreal home, Catherine Rhymer fears for her sanity until the arrest of two students puts her on the trail of a secret revolutionary movement. Now Catherine must embark on a voyage of discovery, travelling north in search of the truth about her world. She will journey through hail and snow and herds of grazing beasts to a confrontation with the originators of her reality. Enter a new world on the edge of sanity from Elisabeth Vonarburg, the Grand Dame of Canadian SF.

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The Silent City

Distant Signals: and other stories (Tesseract Books)

Pallahaxi Tide

The Maerlande Chronicles

Passion Play (Tesseract Books)

The Children of Atwar

The Apparition Trail

On Spec: The First Five Years

Reluctant Voyagers

On Spec: The First Five Years