I’m thrilled this morning to announce the full Table of Contents for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One!
- Give Me English – Ai Jiang
- The Voice of a Thousand Years – Fawaz Al-Matrouk
- Bottom’s Dream – Glenn Clifton
- And in the Arcade, Ego – Kate Heartfield
- The Secret Lives of Shellwomen – Geneviève Blouin. Translated from the French by Margaret Sankey
- Poem: In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White – Terese Mason Pierre
- Michif Man – Chelsea Vowel
- Sunday in the Park With Hank – Leah Bobet
- A New Brave World – Eric Choi
- Poltergeist – Rhonda Parrish
- One Day in the Afterlife of Detective Roshni Chaddha – Rati Mehrotra
- Big Trouble in Droidtown – Hayden Trenholm
- Poem: First Contact – Lisa Timpf
- Distant Skies – Charlotte Ashley
- Shattered – Marie Bilodeau
- Poem: Necklace – Carolyn Clink
- All That Burns Unseen – Premee Mohamed
- Poem: Rapunzel in the Desert – Melissa Yuan-Innes
- Redfin Spine – Jonathan Olfert
- Maximum Efficiency – Holly Schofield
- Choose Your Own – C. J. Lavigne
- Poem: After the Apocalypse – Colleen Anderson
- Rare Earths Pineapple – Michèle Laframboise
- Choke – Suyi Davies Okungbowa
- Poem: Three Herons – Geoffrey W. Cole
- Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead – KT Bryski
- Vi’Hun Heal – Michelle Tang
- Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things – Ariel Marken Jack
- Poem: a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future – Dominik Parisien
- Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer – Peter G. Reynolds
- Green Witch – Elizabeth Whitton
- Poem: The Mall at Night – Millie Ho
- Homeplus – Liz Westbrook-Trenholm
- Into the Frozen Wilds – P.A. Cornell
- Poem: The Wolf of Your Passions – Lynne Sargent
- Critical Mass – Peter Watts
- Douen – Suzan Palumbo
The volume will also include an Introduction from yours truly.
Backers of the Kickstarter will be receiving their e-books and print copies in November, and the book will be available to book lovers everywhere December 5, 2023 at your favourite independent, brick-and-mortar, or online book retailer.
This thing is all killer, no filler, y’all. Can’t wait to get it into your hands!
– S.