Reviewed by Robert RuntéYou know how in those cooking contest shows there’s often a ‘reinvention’ challenge, where the cooks are asked to take an everyday comfort food and ‘elevate’ it? The Curve of t...

The Black Beacon Book of Horror 2 will be released on the 1st of October, but in the meantime, the Kindle version is available for pre-orde...

Listen to "The Traitor's Son" by Dave Duncan available from Rakuten Kobo. Narrated by David Bendena. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. "They know the world is dying, b...

Reviewed by Robert RuntéThis is a novel about the fear of death, of loss and longing, of aimless searching.Wait, wait! Don’t leave! This is not the sort of tedious, depressing literary novel about dea...

Reviewed by Robert RuntéEditor Terese Mason Pierre has collected ten fabulous (in both senses of the word) stories by Black Canadians into what has instantly become one of my all-time favourite anthol...

Shadows & Reflections: Diving in the Sea of Time eBook : Gerrold, David, Nayman, Ira : Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Reviewed by Robert RuntéA four-time winner of the Aurora Award (for Canadian speculative fiction and fantasy) and shortlisted for the Sunburst Award (a more literary, juried Canadian Speculative Ficti...

Reviewed by Robert RuntéFinnian Burnett is one of those writers who explodes on the scene apparently overnight. A prominent figure in the Canada Writes online community, Burnett is suddenly a keynote ...

Thank you to all of our inaugural contributors for helping us to launch!

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

Reviewed by Robert RuntéOccasionally, one should judge a book by its cover. The cover of Hemo Sapiens is a sophisticated, modern take on art nouveau that tells us this is from a sophisticated literary...

How can you tell if you’re being ridiculous, paranoid, or if there really is someone after you?

Reviewed by Robert RuntéWhen I first selected this collection for review, I had assumed it would be an example of cozy SF. I imagined quiet little stories about the library of the future: massive coll...

These editors aren't up for something really fresh.

Cherry Whip by Michael Antman

The longlist for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic was announced June 17, 2025: Mood Swings, Frankie Barnet (McClelland & Stewart) William, Mason Co…

AntipodeanSF podcast/radio show is devoted to the presentation of flash speculative fiction stories (science fiction, fantasy, and horror). AntiSF is where speculative fiction belongs -- downside-up!

Put on your wellies! The 2025 Flood starts at 00:01 and lasts until 23:59 BST on National Flash Fiction Day, 14 June 2025.  We’ll publish a new flash at FlashFlood, NFFD’s online journa…

A blow by blow account of Donovan Street Press's progress so far...

Jerry is used to brushing off teen hackers, but this one is in a whole different league.

Reviewed by Robert RuntéMatthew Hughes is one of Canada’s best fantasy and science fiction writers, but as he confesses in the foreword to this collection, that has all been a mistake. What he really ...

A top Canadian pollster explains how Trump completely upended the election.

Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.