Claude Lalumière Books In Order

Objects of Worship

INTRODUCTION BY JAMES MORROWWorld Fantasy Award winning author of Towing Jehovah

Twelve strange, eerie, sensual stories by a bold new voice in weird fiction.

Capricious gods rule a world of women. Zombies breed human cattle. The son of a superhero must decide between his heritage and his religion. Young lovers worship a primordial spider god. The apocalyptic rebirth of the god of the elephants. Monstrous chimeras roam through a devastated future Earth. A retired fisherman caught in the middle of a conflict between gods and superheroes. Teenagers struggle to survive a surreal ice age…

with illustrations by Rupert Bottenberg

Table of Contents
Introduction by James Morrow
The Object of Worship
The Ethical Treatment of Meat
Hochelaga and Sons
The Sea, at Bari
The Darkness at the Heart of the World
Spiderkid
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The Door to Lost Pages

Step through The Door to Lost Pages and escape a life you never wanted. On her tenth birthday, Aydee runs away from home and from her neglectful parents. At first, surviving alone on the streets is harsh, but a series of frightening, bewildering encounters with strange primordial creatures leads her to a bookshop called Lost Pages, where she steps into a fantastic, sometimes dangerous, but exciting life. Aydee grows up at the reality-hopping Lost Pages, which seems to attract a clientele that is either eccentric – or desperate. She is repeatedly drawn into an eternal war between enigmatic gods and monsters, until the day she is confronted by her worst nightmare: herself.

Island Dreams

Twelve all new stories of the fantastic, the imaginative, and the weird are collected in this book of daring and imaginative tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and surrealism. Montreal’s established authors and new voices alike serve up gruesomely disturbing tales, bizarre love stories, gender bending police investigations, and alien cities literally dropped in the middle of an American desert. The authors include Yves Meynard, author of The Book of Knights; Glenn Grant, coeditor of Northern Stars and Northern Suns; Mark Shainblum, cocreator of Angloman and Northguard; Melissa Yuan Innes, a Writers of the Future contest winner; Mark Paterson, a leading voice in the Montreal spoken word scene; Maxianne Berger, author of How We Negotiate; Martin Last, cofounder of New York s legendary Science Fiction Shop; Shane Simmons, creator of Longshot Comics; and Dora Knez, author of Five Forbidden Things. Other contributors include Linda Dydyk, Elise Moser, and Christos Tsirbas.

Telling Stories

Three years ago Montreal’s CBC Radio 88.5 FM and the Quebec Writers’ Federation established the CBC QWF Short Story Competition. The winning stories were broadcast on CBC’s ‘Art Talks’ hosted by Katherine Gombay. This book brings together the winners and finalists of the first three years. These are stories that explore a wide range of human experience from a diversity of viewpoints infants barely beginning to grasp spoken language, elders awaiting death, strangers in strange lands, and the bored and lonely. This is a collection of short literary tales that deftly juxtapose humour and pain, the quirky and the mundane, the urban and the rural. These new voices also showcase the multicultural reality of Quebec life the diversity of people who chose to live in this province.

Witpunk

This anthology of sardonic fiction emphasizes SF/fantasy tales sparkling with wit and edgy attitude. The stories, both originals and reprints, cover a wide range of satire. Writers include James Morrow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Allen Steele, Paul Di Filippo, Robert Silverberg, and Pat Cadigan. Halpern, a 2001 World Fantasy Award Finalist, is the editor of the legendary Golden Gryphon Press.

Open Space

This anthology of daring ideas and distinctive voices showcases the multicultural spirit of Canada as it spans the spectrum of speculative fiction from science fiction through fantasy and horror. Join Mark Anthony Brennan, Matthew Costaris, Richard Gavin, Ahmed A. Kahn, Drew Karpyshyn, Murray Leeder, Catherine MacLeod, Derryl Murphy, Vincent W. Sakowski, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Steve Vernon, Melissa Yuan Innes, and many other new and established writers of fantastic fiction for a journey into the farthest reaches of the Canadian imagination. Includes an introduction by Cory Doctorow, winner of the 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

Short Stuff

Forty stories from the finalists and winners of the CBC Radio One and Quebec Writers’ Foundation Short Story Competition from 2002 through 2005 are gathered in this anthology. Writers represented here are the cream of contemporary fiction coming out of Quebec today.

Lust for Life

Smart, witty, and fascinating, this anthology celebrates the diversity of the human sexual experience, from timeless romance to one night stand and everything in between. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds are featured, including Canadians Holly Phillips and Neil Smith, fantasy writer Nalo Hopkinson, and the internationally acclaimed Indian author Ashok Banker. Their stories are by turns sensual or subversive, mysterious or gregarious, playful or lyrical. Each breaks down sex, gender, or desire in its own way until only the uninhibited, vicarious celebration of love that great humanizing emotion remains.