Tesseracts Nine

Tesseracts Nine also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006. It was included in the Locus Poll for best anthology! Many of the stories have now appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. While other stories received nominations for the Brandon, Fountain, Sturgeon and Aurora Awards. "Apparently being in T9 was a Good Thing." - Derryl Murphy Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from amongst the best of Canada's writers, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction. Tesseracts Nine expands the dimensions of speculative fiction experientially, with startling visions of the future by new and established Canadian authors. Featuring twenty-three stories and poems by: Timothy J. Anderson, Sylvie Bérard, René Beaulieu, E. L. Chen, Candas Jane Dorsey, Pat Forde, Marg Gilks, Sandra Kasturi, Nancy Kilpatrick, Claude Lalumière, Anthony MacDonald, Jason Mehmel, Yves Meynard, Derryl Murphy, Rhea Rose, Dan Rubin, Daniel Sernine, Steve Stanton, Jerome Stueart, Sarah Totton, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Peter Watts, Allan Weiss, Alette J. Willis and Casey June Wolf. Edited by Sunburst and World Fantasy Award winning authors Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, Tesseracts Nine showcases the very best in Canadian speculative fiction literature (including English translations of works by French-Canadian authors).

Nalo Hopkinson Nalo Hopkinson is the author of three novels and a short story collection, any of which you may or may not agree is science fiction. She has edited two fiction anthologies and co-edited two more. She is the recipient of the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the World Fantasy Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and at this writing is currently short listed for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Black Writing. She thinks plurality rocks.Geoff Ryman Geoff Ryman is an award winning author who has won a number of awards including the World Fantasy Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award for his novella "Unconquered Country", the Arthur C Clarke Award and the John W Campbell Memorial Award for "The Child Garden", the Eastercon Award for "Was" (which was also professionally produced as a play) and the Philip K Dick Award for "253 the Print Remix". His other novels include "The Warrior who Carried Life" (1985), "Lust" (2000) and "Air" (2004). The musical version of "Was" opened in Dayton Ohio in 2004.