Spider Robinson Books In Order

Callahan’s Books In Publication Order

  1. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon (1977)
  2. Time Travellers Strictly Cash (1981)
  3. Callahan’s Secret (1986)
  4. Callahan’s Crazy Crosstime Bar (1989)
  5. Callahan’s Lady (1989)
  6. Lady Slings the Booze (1992)
  7. The Callahan Touch (1993)
  8. Off the Wall at Callahan’s (1994)
  9. Callahan’s Legacy (1996)
  10. Callahan’s Key (2000)
  11. Callahan’s Con (2003)

Lady Sally’s Books In Publication Order

  1. Callahan’s Lady (1989)
  2. Lady Slings the Booze (1992)

Lifehouse Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. Mindkiller (1982)
  2. Time Pressure (1987)
  3. Lifehouse (1997)

Russell Walker/Zandor Zudenigo/Nika Mandiç Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. Very Bad Deaths (2002)
  2. Very Hard Choices (2008)

Stardance Books In Publication Order

  1. Stardance (1977)
  2. Starseed (1991)
  3. Starmind (1995)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Telempath (1976)
  2. Night of Power (1985)
  3. The Free Lunch (2001)
  4. Variable Star (With: Robert A. Heinlein) (2006)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Crazy Years (2004)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Antinomy (1980)
  2. Melancholy Elephants (1984)
  3. User Friendly (1998)
  4. By Any Other Name (2001)
  5. God is an Iron and Other Stories (2002)
  6. My Favorite Shorts (2016)

Author’s Choice Monthly Books In Publication Order

  1. Swatting at the Cosmos (By:James K. Morrow) (1990)
  2. Neon Twilight (By:Edward Bryant) (1990)
  3. True Minds (1990)
  4. Hedgework & Guessery (By:Charles de Lint) (1991)
  5. Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (1991)
  6. Unthreatened by the Morning Light (By:Karl Edward Wagner) (1991)
  7. Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe (By:Lewis Shiner) (1991)
  8. It’s Been Fun (By:Esther M. Friesner) (1991)

Tesseracts Books In Publication Order

  1. Tesseracts (By:Judith Merril) (1985)
  2. Tesseracts² (By:Phyllis Gotlieb) (1987)
  3. Tesseracts 3 (By:Margaret Atwood,William Gibson,Charles de Lint,Phyllis Gotlieb,Michael Skeet,Peter Watts,Judith Merril,,,,,,Élisabeth Vonarburg,,,,,,,,Dave Duncan) (1990)
  4. Tesseracts 4 (By:Michael Skeet,Lorna Toolis) (1992)
  5. Tesseracts 5 (By:Yves Meynard,Robert Runté) (1996)
  6. Tesseracts 6 (By:Robert J. Sawyer,Carolyn Clink) (1997)
  7. Tesseracts 7 (By:David Annandale,Michael Skeet,,Cory Doctorow,,,Yves Meynard,,,Shirley Meier,Carolyn Clink,,Élisabeth Vonarburg) (1998)
  8. Tesseracts 8 (By:Cory Doctorow,,A.M. Dellamonica,,,Yves Meynard,,,,Sandra Kasturi) (2002)
  9. TesseractsQ (By:Élisabeth Vonarburg,Jane Brierley) (2002)
  10. Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction (By:,Nalo Hopkinson) (2005)
  11. Tesseracts Ten (By:Edo Van Belkom) (2006)
  12. Tesseracts Eleven (By:,Cory Doctorow) (2007)
  13. Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction (By:Michael Skeet) (2008)
  14. Tesseracts Thirteen (By:Nancy Kilpatrick) (2009)
  15. Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories (By:) (2010)
  16. Tesseracts Fifteen (By:Julie E. Czerneda) (2011)
  17. Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (By:Kevin J. Anderson,Robert J. Sawyer,,,,Neil Peart,,Carolyn Clink,Sandra Kasturi) (2012)
  18. Superhero Universe (By:) (2016)
  19. Compostela (2017)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Best From Galaxy, Volume IV (1976)
  2. Nebula Awards 13 (1980)
  3. The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980)
  4. The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983)
  5. The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985)
  6. Tales from the Planet Earth (1986)
  7. Northern Stars (1994)
  8. New Skies: An Anthology of Today’s Science Fiction (2003)
  9. Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian (2003)

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Spider Robinson Books Overview

Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon

Callahan’s Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths…
and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer at a time.

Time Travellers Strictly Cash

Human or otherwise, regardless of race, creed or dimension of origin, if you’re looking for a good time in a place where the beer is always flowing, and the stories always out of this world, step up to the bar at Callahan’s. There’ll be tales Oh, are there tales! Like the one about a loud mouthed time traveler who capitalized on a rip in the space time continuum; or the one about Ralph the talking, gin drinking German Shepherd created by a demented genius shrink. But don’t believe us. Ask Ralph. He’ll tell you himself. Also don’t forget to watch out for the deadly toasts especially the Melba toast! And above all, remember…
Time Travelers Strictly Cash.

Callahan’s Secret

Callahan’s Place is open for business, and all of the ‘regulars’ are here a talking dog, an alcoholic vampire, and two telepaths enhancing their joys by drowning their sorrows. Everyone, that is, but Mickey Finn, a seven foot tall alien in danger of enslavement at the hands of a traveller from across the galaxy…
Come inside, pull up a chair, order a drink, make a toast, and let Spider Robinson introduce you to the most unique patrons to frequent any establishment, at a bar where the most important law is ‘shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased.’ And if there’s time left at the end of the night, just maybe they’ll save the world…

Callahan’s Lady

A HOUSE OF ‘HEALTHY’ REPUTE…
Welcome to Lady Sally’s, the House that ‘is’ a home the internationally hell, interplanetarily notorious bordello. At Lady Sally’s House, the customer doesn’t necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves. Wife of time traveling bartender Mike Callahan, and employer of some of the most unusual and talented performing artists ever to work in the field of hedonic interface, Her Ladyship has designed her House to be an ‘equal opportunity enjoyer,’ discreetly, tastefully and joyfully catering to all erotic tastes and fantasies, however unusual. Like her famous husband, Lady Sally doesn’t even insist that her customers be ‘human.’.. as long as they have good manners. Small wonder, then, that she and her staff encounter beings as unique and memorable as the superhuman Colt, whose banner never, ever flags…
Diana, the deadly dominatrix who ‘cannot’ be disobeyed…
Tony Donuts, the moronic man monster even the Mafia doesn’t want to mess with…
or Charles, the werewolf with a distinct difference…

Lady Slings the Booze

Despite his employer’s doubts that he is an authentic detective, Quigley is called in to investigate Lady Sally’s establishment, a reputable place that caters to adults of all species and tastes. Lady Sally was the wife of the proprietor of Callahan’s Place, the bar where human and other beings from all space and time come to cajole, drink, and occasionally save the world. The clientele and staff at Lady Sally’s may have the same mission at hand, but now Quigley plays a significant part as the fate of the world hangs in the balance…
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The Callahan Touch

All the regulars from Callahan’s are at Mary’s Place Jake, Doc, and Fast Eddie along with new faces like ”Lucky Duck,” who has an astounding gift for defying the law, and a mysterious stranger with a deadly secret.

Callahan’s Legacy

It’s more than twenty years since Spider Robinson revealed the existence of Callahan s Crosstime Saloon, and the original bar is gone. Mike Callahan is gone, too, but his spirit lives on in the new bar, named Mary s Place for his daughter. On this particular day, nothing seems to be going right for Jake Stonebender, proprietor of Mary s Place. First a huge storm rips the roof off the bar and moments later, drops another, better roof on it. Then, Mary Callahan and her husband show up, unconscious, literally out of nowhere, and they bring bad news to the barfolk: a nasty three eyed, three toed, three everythinged purple monster is going to descend upon them within mere hours. Through laughter and tears, with puns powerful enough to melt Formica, the most famous bar in all spacetime is going to rock this night. But will the Earth survive?

Callahan’s Key

Nobody blends good science with bad puns as brilliantly as Spider Robinson, as his legion of devoted fans will attest. Now he’s back with the latest chapter of the Callahan saga an improbable tale of impending doom, a road trip, space, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. The universe is in desperate peril. Due to a cluster of freakish phenomena, the United States’ own defense system has become a perfect doomsday machine, threatening the entire universe. And only one man can save everything as we know it from annihilation. Unfortunately, he’s not available. So the job falls instead to bar owner Jake Stonebender, his wife, Zoey, and superintelligent toddler, Erin. Not to mention two dozen busloads of ex hippies and freaks, Robert Heinlein’s wandering cat, a who*rehouse parrot, and misunderstood genius inventor Nikola Tesla, who is in fact alive and well…
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Callahan’s Con

The discreet little bar that Jake Stonebender established a few blocks below Duval Street was named simply The Place. There, Fast Eddie Costigan learned to curse back at parrots as he played the house piano; the Reverend Tom Hauptman learned to tend bar bare chested without blushing, Long Drink McGonnigle discovered the margarita and several se oritas, and all the other regulars settled into comfortable subtropical niches of their own. Nobody even noticed them save the universe.

Over time, the twice transplanted patrons of Callahan’s Place attracted a collection of local zanies so quintessentially Key West pixilated that they made the New York originals seem, well, almost normal. The elfin little Key deer, for instance with a stevedore s mouth; or the merman with eczema; or Robert Heinlein s teleporting cat.

For ten slow, merry years, life was good. The sun shone, the coffee dripped, the breeze blew just strongly enough to dissipate the smell of the puns, and little supergenius Erin grew to the verge of adolescence. Then disaster struck.

Through the gate one sunny day came a malevolent, moronic, mastodon of a Mafioso named Tony Donuts Jr., or Little Nuts don t ask. He d decided to resurrect the classic protection racket in Key West and guess which tavern he picked to hit first? Then, thanks to very poor accessorizing she chose the wrong belt and no, we re not going to explain that one, Jake s wife, Zoey, suddenly found herself in a place with no light, no heat, and no air. And no way home. The urgent question was where precisely where but that turned out to be a problem so complex that even the entire gang, equipped with teleportation, time travel, and telepathic syntony you can look it up might not be able to crack it in time.

And while all this was going on, Death himself walked into The Place. But this time he would not leave alone…
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Very Bad Deaths

Aging baby boomer Russell Walker wants only to retreat from the world and the shattering death of his beloved wife, into the woods of British Columbia. But the real world won’t let him become a hermit. Instead, he finds himself thrust into the mystery of a series of mass murders by a monstrous sad*ist and serial killer who makes Hannibal Lector look like a boy scout. And he is caught in a frightening predicament: He is the only possible intermediary between a telepath called Smelly, so sensitive he can’t stand to be near most people, and a skeptical police officer who needs to hear and believe what Smelly knows about the fiend. This involuntary trio may be the only ones who can catch the inhuman butcher before he kills again if he doesn’t catch them first.

Very Hard Choices

After the shattering death of his beloved wife, aging baby boomer Russell Walker had wanted only to hide from the world in the woods of British Columbia. Instead, an old college acquaintance called Smelly, who was a telepath, had knocked on his door and demanded his help in stopping a serial killer who made Hannibal Lector look like a boy scout. They had managed to convince Nika, a hard headed and skeptical police officer, and the trio had stopped the killer, though nearly at the cost of their own lives, and things could go back to normal…
they thought. But then Russell was visited by his estranged son, Jesse, a PR exec from New York, still angry over his father’s role in his mother s death. And, to their dismay, Nika and Russell learn that agreeing to help Zudie conceal the fact that he can read minds involves committing to help him hide from the CIA, who have been hunting him desperately ever since he escaped from the MK Ultra Project back in the 60s. Constable Nika must decide what being a peace officer means. Russell must decide on the fly whether or not Smelly is the kind of friend you’d die for. And Jesse, who lives in America, must decide just where his own national and personal loyalties lie. Best selling and award winning author of The Martian Child David Gerrold says of Very Hard Choices, Spider Robinson is at his best when he is most passionate and this is Spider Robinson at his very best. If you’re expecting a nice polite distraction that you can put down and forget, you’re going to be very annoyed. This isn’t a story, it’s a wake up call. And it isn’t over until you decide it’s over.

Stardance

Three novels complete in one volume. Stardance: Shara Drummond was a gifted dancer and a brilliant choreographer, but could not pursue her dream of dancing on Earth, so she went to space, creating a new art form in three dimensions. And when the aliens arrived, there was only one way to prove that the human race deserved not just to survive, but to reach the stars. The only hope was Shara, with her Stardance. Starseed: Years later, another dancer of genius faced the end of her career when her body failed her, and Rain McLeod followed Shara into space. If she joined with a symbiotic lifeform that would let her live without artificial protection in the vacuum of space, she would take a quantum leap in human evolution. Starmind: Rand Porter has been offered the job of a lifetime, as a shaper of visual effects and music for the world’s most famous zero gravity dance company in High Orbit. But his beloved novelist wife Rhea Paixao has her roots sunk deep in the Earth, in her beloved Cape Cod. And as they wrestle with their private dilemma, bizarre things small miracles are beginning to occur everywhere on Earth and throughout the entire Solar System. The human race and its evolutionary successors, the space dwelling Stardancers find themselves approaching the terrifying cusp of their shared destiny, an appointment made for them a million years ago, a make or break point beyond which nothing, anywhere, can ever be the same again.

Starseed

On the rarefied asteroid world of Top Step, humans are able to live indefinitely in a vaccum by joining with a symbiotic lifeform that provides all needed nourishment. But to some, this alien symbiosis represents a threat to all humanity.

Starmind

In 2064, as Earth enjoys an unprecedented era of peace due to the benevolent influence of the alien engineered Starmind, the human race and its evolutionary successors, the space dwelling Stardancers, are approaching the terrifying cusp of their shared destiny.

Telempath

Isham Stone, the world’s second best assassin, goes into the ruins of a city after the greatest killer of all time, Wendall Morgan Carlson. But Carlson is guarded by ghosts beings from an ancient civilization that shared the Earth with humans for millions of years, and who have now declared war on the human race, all thanks to the man Isham has come to kill.

Night of Power

The place: a future New York City torn by racial tension and ripe for rebellion. The revolutionaries have high technology and careful planning on their side, their soldiers are well trained and sworn to secrecy, and their plans are unsuspected…
until the Night of Power. Caught in the middle of the insurrection are Russell and Dena Grant and their daughter Jennifer, a 13 year old whose genius level intelligence saves her lifer more than once after insurrection breaks out. As an interracial couple, the Grants face the problems every couple does but the Night of Power becomes the ultimate test, of their loyalty to each other and to their separate races.

The Free Lunch

What if the world was so terrible that your only hope for a happy life would be to hide away in the world’s greatest amuseme*nt park…
Dreamworld? In The Free Lunch, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Spider Robinson transports us to Dreamworld, a place where everybody has fun, dreams can come true, and the only sadness is when they close for the night. With his perceptive grasp of human emotions and his deft hand at humor, Robinson masterfully tells the take of Mike, a young teen who escapes our own dark, tormented near future into a dream into Dreamworld. There he meets Annie, another refugee who has built a life in the underworld of this fantastic amuseme*nt park, perhaps the last vestige of innocence left in the world. But it is tainted by a dark secret a ruthless competitor, who can’t possibly create an attraction that’s as much fun as Dreamworld, has decided that if he can’t beat Dreamworld, he might as well destroy it. There’s another threat to Dreamworld. Suddenly there are more trolls at the end of the day than were there in the morning…
and nobody, not even Mike or Annie, knows where they’re from. But it’s up to them and their passion for preserving this last haven of joy in a world of horrors to save Dreamworld…
and Earth’s future.

Variable Star (With: Robert A. Heinlein)

A never before published masterpiece from science fiction’s greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century. When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe. There was just one small problem. He was broke. His only goal in life was to become a composer, and he knew it would take years before he was earning enough to support a family. But Jinny wasn’t willing to wait. And when Joel asked her what they were going to do for money, she gave him a most unexpected answer. She told him that her name wasn’t really Jinny Hamilton it was Jinny Conrad, and she was the granddaughter of Richard Conrad, the wealthiest man in the solar system. And now that she was sure that Joel loved her for herself, not for her wealth, she revealed her family’s plans for him he would be groomed for a place in the vast Conrad empire and sire a dynasty to carry on the family business. Most men would have jumped at the opportunity. But Joel Johnston wasn’t most men. To Jinny’s surprise, and even his own, he turned down her generous offer and then set off on the mother of all benders. And woke up on a colony ship heading out into space, torn between regret over his rash decision and his determination to forget Jinny and make a life for himself among the stars. He was on his way to succeeding when his plans and the plans of billions of others were shattered by a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity’s strength and ingenuity just to survive.

The Crazy Years

A collection of witty, irreverent essays on subjects running the gamut from the space program to airport bans on smoking are included in this anthology. Written by Spider Robinson, The Crazy Years takes its name from Robert A. Heinlein’s designation of the last years of the 20th century and contains essays from Robinson’s tenure as op ed columnist for The Globe and Mail and from Galaxy Online. Environmentalists that place the survival of earth before the survival of humanity, the idiocy of computer designs, and the downsides of the Internet are among the subjects Robinson uses to take the world to task.

User Friendly

Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories. ‘User Friendly‘ is a new solid chunk of Spider’s universe that is inimitably reader friendly. Welcome to a world where your wife may be inhabited by alien symbiote; where the fabulously rich hire hit men to be their own assassins in a bizarre conspiracy; where a brave woman must change the course of Halley’s Comet on its next return to save the life of her lover; and where you can’t tell the real time travelers from the frauds without a program…
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Tesseracts (By:Judith Merril)

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 lisabeth Vonarburg and Hugo and Nebula award winning authors Spider Robinson, and William Gibson.

Tesseracts 3 (By:Margaret Atwood,William Gibson,Charles de Lint,Phyllis Gotlieb,Michael Skeet,Peter Watts,Judith Merril,,,,,,Élisabeth Vonarburg,,,,,,,,Dave Duncan)

In this third anthology of modern Canadian speculative fiction, we present more alternate realities in time and space by new and established Canadian authors. Travel to a planet where the five senses are no good enough…
Watch a baseball game on Mars…
Fly with Garuda, the king of birds, to see what kind of human folly he can find to amuse the gods…
Visit a laundromat that can take you anywhere in space and time…
Stroll through a holograph of the last forest on earth…
See how time will end, with a jolt or a gradual slide…
Includes authors such as: Margaret Atwood, Charles DeLint, Elizabeth Vonarburg, Phyllis Gotlieb, Dave Duncan, William Gibson and others.

Tesseracts 4 (By:Michael Skeet,Lorna Toolis)

Tesseracts 4 expands futures in specualtive and science fiction as we present our latest anthology of new and established Canadian writers.

Enter worlds where reproductive laws yield a biotechnical marriage of the flesh…
take the stage with a rock ‘n’ roll band, it’s fame, fortune and phantom…
prepare for the gift of flight on eagles’ wings…
experience the angst of a mother as she searches for her abducted dream child on video…
hand raise a mystical beast in the comfort of your own home…
go behind a freakshow cage to meet a philosophical man faced dog…
charge a truly animalistic sexuality to your credit card…

Includes authors such as: Candas Jane Dorsey, Dave Duncan, Ursula Pflug, Tom Henighan Phyllis Gotlieb, Charles DeLint, Elisabeth Vonarburg and others.

Tesseracts 5 (By:Yves Meynard,Robert Runté)

Every year two new editors choose the best new writing from Canada’s new and established SF writers, from all over the country and from both the anglophone and francophone traditions. This 1996 anthology of Canadian speculative writing contains writing by Candas Jane Dorsey, Jan Lars Jensen, Michael Coney, James Alan Gardner, John Park, Natasha Beaulieu and others.

Tesseracts 7 (By:David Annandale,Michael Skeet,,Cory Doctorow,,,Yves Meynard,,,Shirley Meier,Carolyn Clink,,Élisabeth Vonarburg)

Readers will find both familiar and new authors in this seventh volume of speculative fiction and poetry showcasing the very best in Canadian literature including French Canadian authors whose works are translated into English, as well as a special international Spanish translation. Tesseracts7 includes top talents such as: Candas Jane Dorsey, Bob Boyczuk, Cory Doctorow, Jan Lars Jensen, Teresa Plowright, Yves Meynard, Michael Skeet, Mildred Trembley, lisabeth Vonarburg, and Gerry Truscott.

Tesseracts 8 (By:Cory Doctorow,,A.M. Dellamonica,,,Yves Meynard,,,,Sandra Kasturi)

Tesseracts8 brings together twenty of the best pieces of Canadian speculative fiction, selected from both established and new, English and French writers by award winning editors John Clute and Candas Jane Dorsey.

Readers of all types of speculative fiction science fiction, fantasy, magic realism and horror will find their flavor in the eighth anthology in the renowned Tesseracts series.

TesseractsQ (By:Élisabeth Vonarburg,Jane Brierley)

Six years in the making, this massive volume brings together the best speculative writing by Quebec authors over the last twenty years, superbly translated into English to reach new readers.

Includes writing by authors such as: Yves Meynard, Jean Pierre April, Bertrand Bergeron, Jean Dion, Jane Brierley, Elisabeth Vonarburg and others.

Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction (By:,Nalo Hopkinson)

Tesseracts Nine also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006.

It was included in the Locus Poll for best anthology!

Many of the stories have now appeared in Year’s Best Fantasy and Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies.

While other stories received nominations for the Brandon, Fountain, Sturgeon and Aurora Awards.

‘Apparently being in T9 was a Good Thing.’

Derryl Murphy
Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from amongst 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.

Tesseracts Nine expands the dimensions of speculative fiction experientially, with startling visions of the future by new and established Canadian authors.

Featuring twenty three stories and poems by: Timothy J. Anderson, Sylvie B rard, Ren Beaulieu, E. L. Chen, Candas Jane Dorsey, Pat Forde, Marg Gilks, Sandra Kasturi, Nancy Kilpatrick, Claude Lalumi re, Anthony MacDonald, Jason Mehmel, Yves Meynard, Derryl Murphy, Rhea Rose, Dan Rubin, Daniel Sernine, Steve Stanton, Jerome Stueart, Sarah Totton, lisabeth Vonarburg, Peter Watts, Allan Weiss, Alette J. Willis and Casey June Wolf.

Edited by Sunburst and World Fantasy Award winning authors Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, Tesseracts Nine showcases the very best in Canadian speculative fiction literature including English translations of works by French Canadian authors.

Tesseracts Ten (By:Edo Van Belkom)

20 Stunning Canadian SF short stories and poems to shock, twist and kindle your imagination…
What makes Tesseracts Ten special…
Every story/poem is diverse and distinctive, ranging from futuristic hard core science fiction to alternative history…
Stories hand picked by award winning editors Robert Charles Wilson and Edo van Belkom. Powerful new works by both well known and new Canadian speculative fiction writers. Many of the authors have won awards for previous works. Part of a long lineage of Tesseracts speculative fiction collections. Following Tesseracts Nine, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Taylor which won the Aurora award for best works other. What do Parisian buttons, nesting spiders, and men from Venus have in common? They are all part of Tesseracts Ten the sparkling new addition to the 21 year old Tesseracts Collection. Tesseracts Ten joins volumes One through Nine, and Tesseracts Q forming an eleven volume anthology of Canada’s best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Literature. Following the Tesseracts tradition of having different editors for each collection, Tesseracts Ten was compiled by two of the world’s finest speculative fiction writers.

Tesseracts Eleven (By:,Cory Doctorow)

Twenty four of the best new stories and poems by neophyte and established Canadian science fiction authors are presented in this seminal anthology which has entered its third decade of existence. Edited by award winning authors Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips, Tesseracts Eleven showcases the very best in Canadian speculative fiction literature including English translations of works by French Canadian authors that has been written in the new millennium.

Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction (By:Michael Skeet)

Tesseracts Twelve is unlike any other volume in this critically acclaimed series showcasing the best in Canadian speculative fiction. For the first time in its distinguished history, Tesseracts focuses on novellas, the form believed by many to be the best expression of fantastic and speculative storytelling.

In Tesseracts Twelve, the series’ most ambitious volume to date, celebrated writer, anthologist, and critic Claude Lalumi re has gathered seven brand new novellas from some of Canada’s finest writers of fantastic fiction.

Follow these daring, imaginative, and entertaining writers into new worlds of wonder, with an outlook that is both Canadian and global.

Cavemen and woolly mammoths invade Yukon! Mythological creatures cause havoc in ancient feudal Japan! Women with power over love and death stalk the streets of Montreal! A modern Scheherazade seeks to understand love in a Toronto suffused with magic and fable! A small town in Alberta is rife with pagan rituals! Superheroes tackle Korean politics, maniacal supervillains, and corporate downsizing! As the world faces environmental collapse, reality TV adventurers battle giant beasts from the ocean depths!

Tesseracts Twelve features all new exciting and imaginative work by:

  • E.L. Chen,
  • Randy McCharles,
  • Derryl Murphy,
  • David Nickle,
  • Gord Sellar,
  • Grace Seybold, and
  • Michael Skeet & Jill Snider Lum;
  • and introduction by Brett Alexander Savory.

Tesseracts Thirteen (By:Nancy Kilpatrick)

Tesseracts Thirteen invites you to delve into literature’s shadowy side!

This, the newest and most unusual of the popular and award winning Tesseracts anthologies, utilizes the mysterious and bewitching number ‘thirteen’ to explore a new realm of innovative, thought provoking and disturbing fiction. Award winning authors and editors Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell have unearthed twenty three stories of horror and dark fantasy that reflect a m lange of Canada’s most exciting known and about to be known writers. These eerie genre tales range from the unsettling to the sinister. Inside you will find stories featuring:

The young, but not always innocent ghosts; multiple births; comic book characters come to life

Romance gone terribly wrong curses; mournful spirits; bringing back the dead

Creepy and twisted realities mummies; windigos; post apocalyptic Canada

The authors in Tesseracts 13 span the country, from east to west coast, applying a particularly Canadian stamp to a classic and revered genre. Contributors include: Kelley Armstrong; Alison Baird; Rebecca Bradley; Mary E. Choo; Suzanne Church; Kevin Co*ckle; Ivan Dorin; Katie Harse; Kevin Kvas; Michael Kelly; Jill Snider Lum; Catherine MacLeod; Matthew Moore; Silvia Moreno Garcia; David Nickle; Jason Ridler; Gord Rollo; Andrea Schlecht; Daniel Sernine; Stephanie Short; Jean Louis Trudel; Edo van Belkom; Bev Vincent

Expert in the field Robert Knowlton provides a fascinating and detailed overview of the history of horror and dark fantasy writing and publishing in Canada.

Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories (By:)

This unique collection of short stories features the work of some of Canada’s finest speculative fiction writers. Included in this collection are short stories and poems by: Michelle Barker, Tony Burgess, Suzanne Church, David Clink, Michael Colangelo, Margaret Curelas, Susan Forest, L.L. Hannett, Brent Hayward, Patrick Johanneson, Sandra Kasturi, Claude Lalumiere, Michael Lorenson, Catherine MacLeod, Matthew Moore, David Nickle, John Park, Jonathan Saville, Robert J. Sawyer, Daniel Sernine, Leah Silverman, Jerome Stueart and Jon Martin Watts.

Tales from the Planet Earth

A collection of science fiction stories revolves around the theme of human and alien co existing in one body. 1986 New York: St. Martin’s Press, hardcover Collaborative novel with nineteen contributors, including Pohl, Hull, Spider Robinson, Somtow Sucharitkul, Harry Harrison, Brian W. Aldiss, A. Bertram Chandler, Joseph Nesvadba, and others.

Northern Stars

A collection of stories, compiled by a World Fantasy Award winning anthologist and a Canadian scholar, displays the talents of William Gibson, Charles de Lint, Spider Robinson, and many other Canadian fantasy writers, and includes introductory essays and notes.

New Skies: An Anthology of Today’s Science Fiction

New Skies…
imaginative stories for a new generation of science fiction fans. Here are writers such as Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, Spider Robinson, and many more. Here is a careening adventure along the outside of a tower looming miles above the ground, and a tale of desperate survival on the deadly surface of the Moon. Here is a world in which children divorce their parents, and the story of a four dimensional boy in a three dimensional world. Here are future young people rebuilding after terrible disasters, and here is a story of the future development of baseball on Mars.

Nightmarish or whimsical, irreverent or swashbuckling, each of these stories is an adventure in imagination. Journey from the here and now into New Skies.

Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian

Janis Ian has inspired fans for years with her lyrical and evocative music. Now, this popular music legend has invited her favorite science fiction and fantasy writers to interpret her songs using their own unique voices. The result is the most unusual and exciting collaboration in the worlds of both science fiction fantasy and music.

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