On Spec 2026: New Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the anthology I edited for Shadowpaw Press, now has a book trailer. Here it is:
The road takes you under a bridge with no ramps. The fog thickens. You will not go back the way you came…
On Spec magazine published Canadian speculative fiction from 1989 to 2025. When its team asked Shadowpaw Press to take over the brand, a successful Kickstarter last spring got this anthology underway. It has 28 original science fiction, fantasy and horror stories by Candas Jane Dorsey, Fiona Moore, Noah Chinn, J. Y. Zhang, Hayden Trenholm, Michèle Laframboise, Rebecca Bennett, R.H. Wesley, Sharon Plumb, Dave Margoshes, Darry Dinnell, Mark Morton, Marcelle Dubé, Sarah Totton, Dave Cherniak, Douglas Smith, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Rhea Rose, D.S. Burton, O. L. Drake, Catherine MacLeod, Colleen Anderson, Mike Rimar, Peter Darbyshire, U.M. Agoawike, Claire Scherzinger, Cliff Burns and Brandon Alexander Rossi. Two of them, R.H. Wesley and J. Y. Zhang, won Aurora Awards this year.
The trade paperback and ebook came out on October 13. You can get it from Shadowpaw Press, from Amazon.ca (print, ebook) and Amazon.com (print, ebook), and from Indigo, Kobo and other booksellers.
