Book Review: Tesseracts Eleven

A collection of short stories, "speculative fiction" by Canadian writers, most of whom I'd never heard of, several of whom I'll be seeking out in the future. I particularly liked the story "The Recorded Testimony of Eric and Julie Francis" by D. W. Archambault - hard to figure out at first but spooky-future at the end; the fantasy "If Giants Are Thunder" by Steven Mills - sort of a Horton Hears A Who if the people on the dandelion puff could kill you; the poems "On Company Time" by Nancy Bennett and "little red" by Alyxandra Harvey-Fitzhenry, who wins the anthology award for most posh name; and "Citius, Altius, Fortius" which for all I know describes things that are currently going on in the professional sports world and raises a very good question about what, exactly, is too much in trying to get that competitive edge. Remember when Tiger Woods got Lasix surgery, and the sort-of-controversy around that? Taken to genetic modification extremes.

Like much of Canadian culture, I wasn't aware of this series, but will probably be checking out earlier anthologies. Powell's has this one, plus the previous two (out of eleven) so maybe the MultCoLib will come through again.

Conclusion: Recommended. Thought-provoking.