Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories

Tesseracts Anthology #14

by Matt Moore (Editor), Brett Alexander Savory (Editor), Jon Martin Watts (Contributor)

  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. 

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Fantasy, Canada, Anthologies

304 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2010

About the author

I'm an author, columnist and poet whose works have appeared in On Spec, Leading Edge, The Ottawa Citizen, Jamais Vu, The Drabblecast, and more. I won the Prix Aurora Award for poetry in 2018, been nominated seven other times in various categories, and twice been shortlisted for the Sunburst Award in short fiction.

Beyond writing, I'm a contributing editor for AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review.

Raised in small-town New England, a place rich with legends and ghost stories, I now live in Ottawa, Ontario.

Find more at mattmoorewrites.com.

Reviews

[Alejandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very strange book. "Harvest Moon", "Vermilion Dreams" and "The Short Medical Career of Fine Sam Fine" were the best in the collection.

[Jason Donev · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very wide range of stories and quality.

M. L. D. Curelas's Harvest Moon is superb. Her story is chilling and moving. I got very attached to her characters and I'm hoping that she does more in this world, I'd like to see what happens! Her story is a must read.

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very enjoyable. My favorite (and I admit that I'm biased) was Harvest Moon by M.L.D. Curelas. However I also liked: Random Access Memory and Flight of Passage.

[Tomasz · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's astounding stuff here (Nickle!), there's plenty of fun (Claude Lalumière taking on Ballard is hilarious), but there's also the occasional... uh... "misstep" is too mild a word, by far, for what I wish to convey. Let's just say these four stars are rounded up, OK?

[Brian Gaston · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good addition to the long running series. The "Strange" category of stories were my least favourite.

[Natalie aka Tannat · Rating 2 out of 5]

As usual with short stories, only a few were interesting. Quite a few here were dull, frankly. I only read it for John Park's Nightward, really (it landed squarely in the interesting bucket btw). Heat Death (Patrick Johanneson), Flight of Passage (Jon Martin Watts), and One Nation Under Gods (Jerome Stueart) were also kind of interesting.

[Andy W Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mixed bag of weird tales and outright horror stories. A third of the stories left me scratching my head, a third were okay, and about 1/3 had me thinking about the stories long after I put down the book. Definitely by it for the 1/3 that were memorable. It's worth it.