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Worlds of Wonder: Readings in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature

Camille R. La Bossière & Jean-François Leroux

First published 2004
Publisher University of Ottawa Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art NASA
Pages 202
Price C$27.95
ISBN 0776605704

Editors:Jean-Francois Leroux & Camille R. LA Bossiere.
Anthology of sixteen literary criticisms and essays by a wide variety of learned individuals, especially focusing upon the genre of science fiction and fantasy.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Worlds of Wonder) Jean-François Leroux Essay
7 "Another Dimension of Space": Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Atwood's Blind Assassin David Ketterer Essay
35 The Canadian Apocalypse Allan Weiss Essay
47 Notes on the Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma Veronica Hollinger Essay
57 Welwyn Wilton Katz and Charles de Lint: New Fantasy as a Canadian Post-Colonial Genre Laurence Steven Essay
73 More Than Just Survival: The Successful Quest for Voice in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and Randy Bradshaw's The Song Spinner Helen Siourbas Essay
81 Sublime Objects and Mystic Subjects: Some Lacanian Speculations About Canadian Fantasy Literature Via Barbara Goowdy's The White Bone David R. Jarraway Essay
95 "Half In and Half Out of Things": Boundaries in Sean Stewart's The Night Watch Ann F. Howey Essay
105 Mind Matters: Intellect and Identity in the Works of Phyllis Gotlieb Dominick M. Grace Essay
119 Coding of Race in Science Fiction: What's Wrong with the Obvious? Sherry Vint Essay
131 A Scientist's Relationship with Science Fiction Raywat Deonandan Essay
139 Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Asimov's The Caves of Steel and Sawyer's Golden Fleece Ruby S. Ramraj Essay
147 Northern Gothic: The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James Colleen Franklin Essay
155 Le Nord Électrique, Travel Book Ceri Morgan Essay
167 A Distant Mirror: Ideology and Identity in Québec's Science Fiction by Women Amy J. Ransom Essay
181 "The World Is Its Own Place": Denys Chabot's Infernal Utopia Jean-François Leroux Essay
189 The Ordinary and the Fabulous: Canadian Fantasy Literature for Children Judith Saltman Essay