Land/Space: an Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction

by Candas Jane Dorsey (Editor), Judy McCrosky (Editor), Renée Bennett (Contributor)

See the prairies in a whole new light, in this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction and poetry, exploring the prairie and the space above it, expressing prairie themes, visions, reality - and unreality! Land/Space includes short fiction by Alexandra Merry Arrvin, John Baillie, Martha Bayless, Ven Begamudre, Renee Bennett, Steven Michael Berzensky (a.k.a Mick Burrs) Donna Bowman, Tobias Buckell, Ron Collins, Alyx Dellamonica, Candas Jane Dorsey, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Geoff Hart, James A. Hartley, Mark Anthony Jarman, Darren K. Latta, David Levine, Sophie Masson, Judy McCrosky, Derryl Murphy, Carole Nomrahas, Holly Phillips, Ursula Pflug, with concluding essays by the editors.

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 24, 2002

About the author

Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952) is a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist.
Born and still living in Edmonton, Alberta, Dorsey became a writer from an early age, and a freelance writer since 1980. She writes across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mainstream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy. Dorsey has also written television and stage scripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and reviews.

Dorsey currently teaches, does workshops and readings. She has served on the executive board of the Writers' Guild of Alberta and is a founder of SF Canada. In 1988, Dorsey received the Aurora, Canadian science fiction and fantasy award.

Dorsey was editor-in-chief of The Books Collective (River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books) from 1992 through 2005.

- Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[Jon · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a very Canadian collection (or at least feels that way). I liked it mostly. Favorites were "A Good Day" and "Black Dog." Opinions may differ.

[Ursula Pflug · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read a great many introductory and closing essays in Canadian spec fic anthos to prep for an Anticipation panel on the nature of Canadian SF that I was on with Karl Schroeder, Nalo Hopkinson and Bob Boyczuk. For instance, there's still a post-it note afixed to C.J. Dorsey's thought provoking Afterword on which I've written: isolation is not survival. I am no longer quite sure what I meant by that. Something literary, no doubt.

What I really liked about the fiction in this book is how well nature was represented. Lots of landscapes, and yes, sometimes the landscape is character.

My story herein is entitled "A River Garden." It is not about a place but about a person named River Garden.