Fresh off winning a 2024 Aurora Award and receiving a World Fantasy Award nomination for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, I’m thrilled to announce the full Table of Contents for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two. The book will be published on October 1, 2024.
Featuring award winners, award finalists, and hidden gems, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Two showcases the powerful, award-winning fantastical fiction and speculative poetry being written by Canadians today.
Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction: 2023 Year in Review – Stephen Kotowych
“The Canadian Miracle” — Cory Doctorow
“John Hollowback and the Witch” — Amal El-Mohtar
“Third Life” — Julie E. Czerneda
“The Girl Who Cried Diamonds” — Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
“The Nothings” — Beth Cato and Rhonda Parrish (Poem)
“Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel” — Derek Künsken
“Manic Pixie Girl” — A.C. Wise
“The Distance Between Us” — Rati Mehrotra (Poem)
“At Every Door a Ghost” — Premee Mohamed
“Negative Theology of the Child from ‘The King of Tars’” — Sonia Sulaiman
“The Bestiary” — Diana Dima (Poem)
“If I Should Fall Behind” — Douglas Smith
“A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking” — Kim Harbridge
“Your Great Mother Across the Salt Sea” — Kelsey Hutton
“Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil” — Elis Montgomery (Poem)
“Solar Gravitational Lens” — Pauline Barmby
“The Toll of the Snake” — Grace P. Fong
“How Noah Saved the Dinosaurs—a Litany” — David Clink (Poem)
“The Long Way Home from Gaia BH1” — Manuela Amiouny
“Solitaire for Three” — James Alan Gardner
“Sleeper Ship” — Carolyn Clink (Poem)
“Secondhand Music” — Aleksandra Hill
“Sink Your Sorrows to the Sea” — Chandra Fisher
“The Lover” — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“For the Robots” — J.D. Dresner (Poem)
“What’s Left Behind” — Isabelle Piette
“Exit Greeting” — Chadwick Ginther
“Svitla” — A.D. Sui
“predictive text” — Dominik Parisien (Poem)
“LOL, Said the Scorpion” — Rich Larson
“Horsewoman” — A.M. Dellamonica
“The Dust Bowl Café” — Justin Dill
“Letter to a Brother on a Generation Ship” — M.W. Irving (Poem)
“Revelstoke” — Gemma Files
“Tongue Mining” — Jack Morton
“A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream” — Ai Jiang (Poem)
“Wapnintu’tijig They Sang Until Dawn” — Tiffany Morris
“Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont” — PA Cornell
“Scarecrow” — David Shultz (Poem)
“Hemlock on Mars” — Eric Choi
“Lying Flat” — Lynne Sargent (Poem)
“Lady Koi Koi: A book Report” — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
“In a Cabin, In a Wood” — Kelly Robson
“Eclipsed” — Lisa Timpf (Poem)
“The Spoil Heap” — Fiona Moore
“As a, I want to, so I can” — Kelley Tai (Poem)
“And Prison on My Back” — Phoebe Barton
“Seeds for Titanium” — Brandon Crilly
“The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World” — Nalo Hopkinson
Can’t wait for you to have this in your hands. I know you’re going to love it.
– S.