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Introduction ISBN-10: 1-894063-03-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-894063-03-6 5.5" X 8.5" Trade Paperback $19.95 US (Free shipping in North America) 320 Pages Cory Doctorow editor Holly Phillips editor AMAZON.COM AMAZON.CA

Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction Author Biographies: D. W. Archambault has made competitive sport an important part of his life for many years. When he's not studying computer science at the University of British Columbia or writing, he can be found skating, playing ultimate, or running. Dan would also like to apologize for the language and actions of his characters in this one. They were kids who didn't know any better. The "Recorded Testimony of Eric and Julie Francis" is his third fiction sale. If you'd like to know what the author is up to, visit him at www.sff.net/people/danw-arch. Madeline Ashby has lived on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, and Toronto. She immigrated to Canada in 2006. She joined the Cecil Street Irregulars soon after, and in 2007 was a runner-up for the SF Idol competition at Ad Astra. (Her pal David Nickle won.) Madeline is a contributor to Frames Per Second Magazine and Kokoro Media, where she blogs about Japanese animation when not volunteering for the Sprockets division of the Toronto International Film Festival. This story is her first published in Canada. Greg Bechtel is PhD student in English literature at the University of Alberta. His fiction has appeared in the Tesseracts Ten and Qwerty Decade anthologies, as well as various literary journals, including Prairie Fire, Qwerty, and On Spec. Nancy Bennett is an essayist, poet and fiction writer. Her work has appeared in such places as Tales of the Unanticipated, Tesseracts, and Flesh and Blood and Not One of Us. She has made the recommended reading list for the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror three times. Her latest achievement, a cinquain poem, appeared in In Fine Formî alongside the works of P. K. Page, Robert Service and Margaret Atwood. Lisa Carreiro is a writer and editor whose fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and On Spec. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their small menagerie. Peter Darbyshire is the author of the award-winning novel Please and numerous short stories. He is also the books editor of The Province newspaper. His fiction and columns have appeared in publications across North America and online. For more details, visit www.peterdarbyshire.com. Khria Deefholts was born in India to bi-racial parents. She grew up in Canada, and later lived in Japan, where she studied such arcane subjects as the tea ceremony and Japanese calligraphy. She has worked on a film in Germany, had close encounters with snakes and crocodiles in Australia and taught ballroom dancing. She speaks six languages with varied degrees of fluency and has published numerous shorter pieces of fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Ontario, with her husband and two cats. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. Presently, he serves as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Candas Jane Dorsey’s novel Black Wine won the Tiptree, Crawford and Aurora Awards. Her fiction includes Vanilla and other stories, A Paradigm of Earth, Machine Sex and other stories and Dark Earth Dreams. Her poetry includes: Leaving Marks, This is for you, Orion rising, and Results of the Ring Toss. She edited or co-edited four SF collections, served on boards/committees for several Canadian writers organisations, co-founded/edited The Edmonton Bullet arts newspaper 1983-1993, and in 1992 co-founded literary publisher The Books Collective and its imprint River Books. From 1994-2003 she was editor-in-chief and co-publisher, with Timothy J. Anderson, of Tesseract Books from 1994 to 2003. Susan Forest's first novel for young adults, “The Dragon Prince”, (Gage Educational Publishers) was awarded the Children's Circle Book Choice Award, and was chosen by Gage as one of two young adult novels to represent the company at a book fair in Berlin. Her short stories, "Playing Games" (ONSPEC Magazine), "Angel of Death" (Tesseracts Ten) and "Immunity," (Asimov's Science Fiction) were published in 2006. This year, look to see "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Tesseracts Eleven and "Paid in Full" in Asimov's Science Fiction. You can check out her website at http://www.speculative-fiction.ca Kim Goldberg was a political journalist for twenty years. She is the author of four nonfiction books. Her articles have appeared in Macleans, Canadian Geographic, Columbia Journalism Review, The Progressive, and many other magazines in North America and England. Her output has been poetry and short fiction, much of it speculative, appearing in PRISM International, Dalhousie Review, On Spec, filling Station, Chimera and elsewhere. Her first full-length collection of poems, Ride Backwards On Dragon, tracing her journey through an alien landscape of inner alchemy, will be released September 2007 by Leaf Press. She lives in Nanaimo where she periodically co-hosts an Urban Poetry Café on Radio CHLY. In 2006, she curated the Urban Eyes Art Exhibition featuring the work of 52 artists and architects on the theme of urban development after a vacant lot on her block was bulldozed for condos, exposing a homeless encampment. Little known fact: Under severe pressure, she will fake-out fellow birders on Big Day (when competition is cut-throat) with a white plastic bag tied to cattails in the middle of a marsh. Andrew Gray's stories and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, including On Spec, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Event, Grain, Fiddlehead and Chatelaine. He was awarded On Spec's Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize in 1996, was nominated for the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2000 and has been shortlisted several times for the CBC/Saturday Night Literary Award. He was a finalist for the 2000 Journey Prize for his short story "Heart of the Land". His first collection of short fiction, Small Accidents, was published by Raincoast in the fall of 2001 and was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson award in BC and an IPPY independent publisher's award in the US. He is now the coordinator of UBC's Optional Residency MFA program in Creative Writing and lives on Vancouver Island with his family. Alyxandra Harvey-Fitzhenry's first novel "Waking" (Orca Books)is a Young Adult modern-day retelling of Sleeping Beauty, currently in bookstores. She has had poetry published in such magazines as OnSpec, Room of One's Own and The Antigonish Review. When not writing, she is a bellydancer and bellydance instructor. She lives in an old farmhouse with her husband, two dogs and hawk. Stephen Kotowych won a first-place in the Writers of the Future competition in 2006. His stories have appeared in Under Cover of Darkness (DAW Books), and the forthcoming anthologies Writers of the Future XXIII (Galaxy Press, 2007), and North of Infinity III (Mosaic Press, 2008). He is a member of the Fledglings, a Toronto-area writer's group brought together by Robert J. Sawyer in 2003. Stephen lives in Toronto and enjoys guitar, tropical fish, and writing about himself in the third person. Check out his blog at http://kotowych.blogspot.com/. Claude Lalumière's fiction has appeared in Year's Best SF 12, Year's Best Fantasy 6, SciFiction, Interzone, On Spec, Tesseracts Nine, Electric Velocipede, and others. He has edited six anthologies, including Witpunk (with Marty Halpern), Island Dreams, Open Space, and Lust for Life (with Elise Moser). His website is lostpages.net, and he blogs at lostpagesfoundpages.blogspot.com. Claude lives in Montreal and is currently editing Tesseracts Twelve. John Mavin lives in Vancouver with his wife and two children, where he's enrolled in the University of British Columbia's MFA program. His fiction has appeared in Spinning Whirl and Apex Online. His website is www.johnmavin.com. Randy McCharles is an avid reader of epic fantasy and science fiction. He regularly writes short stories for public readings and has several novels in various stages of development. He also helps organize literary events and SF & F conventions in his home town, Calgary, Alberta. In 2005 he co-chaired the first Calgary Westercon, and is currently chairing the upcoming 2008 World Fantasy Convention. Randy is a long-time member of IFWA, the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association. Steve Mills lives in Kelowna, BC, and would like you to read his novel, Burning Stones, published by a small US press with terrible distribution and no publicity. Look for it online at your favourite bookseller. Currently he is getting over the death of one of his four cats and a non-fatal occlusion of the mid left anterior descending artery (his, not the cat's). Messages of sympathy (for him or the cat) can be sent through his website at www.stevenmills.com. David Nickle is the author of numerous short stories and co-author of one novel ("The Claus Effect," with Karl Schroeder). His stories have appeared in several of the Tesseracts anthologies, and also in places like Cemetery Dance, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, the Northern Frights anthologies and the Queer Fear anthologies. He's a past winner of the Bram Stoker Award (for the 1997 short story "Rat Food," with Edo Van Belkom). Holly Phillips was born on Christmas Day, 1969. She lived most of her early life in the West Kootenay region of southern British Columbia, Canada, and after a couple of stints at university, interrupted by jaunts to Ontario, England, and West Africa, she returned to the West Kootenay and enrolled in the creative writing program at the Kootenay School of the Arts. Holly currently resides in a crooked old house on a hillside above Trail, BC. Kate Riedel was born and raised in Minnesota, but is now a card-carrying Canadian and lives in Etobicoke, Ontario. Publication credits include Not One of Us (including the recent anthology, Bestof Not One of Us), On Spec, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales(story later included in Hartwell's anthology Year's Best Fantasy 2). Hugh Spencer was born in Saskatoon, lives in Toronto and has worked as a cultural consultant in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Mainland China, Korea, Australia, Germany, the United States and Singapore. Hugh has published stories in magazines such as On Spec, Interzone and Descant and has twice been nominated for the Aurora award — the first time for his story “Why I Hunt Flying Saucers” the second for his work as co-curator for the National Library of Canada’s exhibition on Canadian fantasy and science fiction. Hugh has also adapted many of his stories for the Satellite Network of National Public Radio as well as the original plays “21st Century Scientific Romance” and “Amazing Struggles, Astonishing Failures and Disappointing Success.” Jerome Stueart is a new landed immigrant, living in the Yukon Territory. His fiction has been published in "Strange Horizons", "Redivider", "On Spec", and "Tesseracts Nine". He earned honourable mentions for his story in Tesseracts 9 for both the Fountain Award and in the Year's Best Science Fiction (2006). This summer he was a student at Clarion. Élisabeth Vonarburg was born in 1947 (France), and to science fiction in 1964. She teaches French literature and creative writing on and off at various Universities in Québec (since immigration, in 1973). A “Fulltime writer” since 1990, (despite Ph.D. in Creative Writing, 1987), i.e. translator, SF convention organiser, literary editor (Solaris magazine), and essayist.         This year, Elisabeth was awarded the Prix d'excellence pour la création en région, (5000 $), given by the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec ; this rewards creation of any kind (all the arts, literature included) for quality, involvement in all things cultural and being well-known outside Canada. She was also awarded the French Prix Cyrano. Reine de Mémoire 3 & 4 received the Boréal Award for best novel(s). Tesseracts Eleven: Basic Information Page. Tesseracts Eleven: Introduction. Tesseracts Eleven: Author Biographies. Tesseracts Series: About the Series.

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