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Exclusive Interview: “Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction: Volume Two” Editor Stephen Kotowych

 

When we think of the best things to come out of Canada, we all think of maple syrup, moose, health care, Rush, and all the best Ryans (sorry, Seacrest).

But those looking for the best science fiction and fantasy stories now have two options: last year’s Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction: Volume One and the new sequel, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction: Volume Two (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, Volume Two (and Volume One) editor Stephen Kotowych talks about what went into assembling this new anthology.

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Exclusive Interview: “Last Train Outta Kepler-283c” Editor David Boop

 

We all know the line: “Space…the final frontier.” But with all due respect to Kirk and crew, Star Trek wasn’t about people colonizing other worlds. Sure, they sometimes looked in on them, dropped off supplies, but it was never about how those colonizers got to their new homes.

But that is what you get in the sci-fi space Western short story anthology Last Train Outta Kepler-283c (paperback, Kindle), which, according to editor David Book, features stories “…about colonists, from miners to law keepers to gunslingers, and everything in between.”

In the following email interview, Boop explains how this book and this series — which also includes 2021’s Gunfight On Europa Station and 2023’s High Noon On Proxima B — came to be, and how he finds the stories to fill them.

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Exclusive Interview: “Honolulu Noir” Editor Chris McKinney

 

When we think of Honolulu, Hawaii, we think of warm sunny beaches, not dark smokey alleys.

But it’s decidedly more of the latter that you’ll find in the short story anthology Honolulu Noir (paperback, Kindle), which is the latest installment of Akashic Books’ ongoing, geographically-based Noir series.

In the following email interview, Honolulu Noir editor Chris McKinney [Midnight, Water City] talks about what makes this series unique, how this collection was assembled, and what makes this collection different from, say, Havana Noir and Haiti Noir.

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Exclusive Interview: “One Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years” Author Mark Leslie

 

Twenty years ago, horror author Mark Leslie assembled a collection of his stories and poems he called One Hand Screaming because, as he explains in the following email interview, he wanted, “…an actual book with my name on it.”

Well, now Leslie apparently wants an updated and expanded book with his name on it because he’s releasing One Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), which not only adds new stories and poems, but some behind-the-scenes info as well.

In the following email interview, Leslie discusses both the original version of Screaming and this new edition, as well as the alcoholic beverage that pairs well with this book.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Pharaoh’s Cat” Author Lisanne Norman

 

Author Lisanne Norman is best known for the science fiction novels in her Sholan Alliance series.

But in her first short story collection, The Pharaoh’s Cat (paperback, Kindle), Norman is exploring her fantasy side.

In the following email interview, Norman talks about what influences these stories, as well as how she, “…wanted to show I could do more and with another genre.”

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Exclusive Interview: “An Astonishment Of Stars” Author Kirti Bhadresa

 

When putting together collections of their short stories, some authors do so around a theme. And some of them pick a theme that’s big: love, life, family.

But in the following email interview about her short story collection, An Astonishment Of Stars (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), author Kirti Bhadresa says she assembled hers around something small: kitchens.

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Exclusive Interview: “Fall Into Fantasy 2024” Editor Andrew M. Ferrell

 

There’s such a thing as being too clever. Which is what I might’ve said to Cloaked Press editor Andrew M. Ferrell when I realized their series of fantasy short story anthologies, Fall Into Fantasy, usually come out in September, while the companion series, Spring Into SciFi, are typically released…well, you know. Took me a moment, too.

That is, until I read through the following email interview he and I did about Fall Into Fantasy 2024 (paperback, Kindle), in which Ferrell made a point of saying, “…this is a passion for me. I don’t choose my authors based on their marketability or only look for bigger names. … This is an anthology for fantasy lovers curated by a lover of fantasy.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Thyme Travellers” Editor Sonia Sulaiman

 

Given what’s going on with the Israel-Hamas War, and how some people have reacted to it, it would be understandable if the editor of a short story anthology by Palestinian writers said something about how their collection shows that Palestinians are people, too.

But in the following email interview about Thyme Travellers: An Anthology Of Palestinian Speculative Fiction (paperback, Kindle), editor Sonia Sulaiman says that while it features “…writers who identify as Palestinian in the diaspora,” she notes that, “…none of these stories are meant to ‘humanize’ us. We’re already human.”

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Exclusive Interview: “A Place Between Waking And Forgetting” Author Eugen Bacon

 

For her sixth and latest collection of short stories, A Place Between Waking And Forgetting (paperback), author Eugen Bacon has assembled a collection that — as she explains in the following email interview — “largely comprises black people stories exploring affection, dread, anguish, or hope.”

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