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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Science fiction. Show all posts
02 June 2025

Towards a Canada of Light

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Looking Forward:  The Strange Experience of the Rev.    Fergus McCheyne Rev. Hugh Pedley, B.A., D.D. Toronto: Briggs, 1913 294 pages The cov...
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03 February 2025

Pardonable Levels of Violence

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Tolerable Levels of Violence Robert G. Collins Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983 241 pages Four years ago, while driving home from a ...
25 November 2024

Thomas P. Kelley's Elusive Gorilla's Daughter

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The Gorilla's Daughter Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 160 pages   Note:  The Gorilla's Daughter is the most soug...
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12 May 2023

That Only a Mother: The Best of the Best

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'That Only a Mother' The Best of Judith Merril Judith Merril New York: Warner, 1976 254 pages The Best of Judith Merril  sees an an...
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16 January 2023

James De Mille's Antarctic Death Cult

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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [James De Mille] New York: Harper & Bros, 1888 306 pages Forty years ago this month, I s...
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12 December 2022

Ten Kicks at the Can for A.E. van Vogt

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Destination: Universe A.E. van Vogt New York: Signet, 1958 160 pages I began this book wondering if I hadn't been too hard on A.E. van V...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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