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Soft cover. Condition: Good. First. pp.360 clean tight copy blue covers shows rubbing to all extremites and some creases, crease down spine, creases to corners Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Separate 1st Printing. Education Edition. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy. CONTENTS: Preface; Voyage to New France - Cyrano de Bergerac; Mount Hatteras - Jules Verne; The Finding of the Copper Cylinder - James De Mille; The Child of the Phalanstery - Grant Allen; The Fear of It - Robert Barr; The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood; Consider Her Ways - Frederick Philip Grove; A Fragment from Utopia - Stephen Leacock; Black Destroyer - A. E. Van Vogt; Good-bye, Ilha! - Laurence Manning; Of the People - Gordon R. Dickson; After the Sirens - Hugh Hood; A Queen in Thebes - Margaret Laurence; Akua Nuten - Yves Theriault; Mr. Blink - Michel Tremblay; The Archangel of the Suburb - Jacques Ferron; The Military Hospital - Phyllis Gotlieb; Sparklebugs, Holly and Love - Michael G. Coney; Infinite Variation - H. A. Hargreaves; New Renewal - Spider Robinson; The Philosopher's Stone - Stephen Scobie; The Walker of the Snow - Charles Dawson Shanly; The City of the End of Things - Archibald Lampman; The Were-Wolves - Wilfred Campbell; Shamballah - Bliss Carman; Three Poems - James Reaney; Windigo - George Bowering; Three Poems - Gwendolyn MacEwen; Three Poems - Jeni Couzyn; Four Poems - Alden Nowlan; Mostly Monsters - John Robert Colombo; In the Land of the Unblind - Judith Merril; Three Poems - Phyllis Gotlieb; Moonwalks - Douglas Barbour; The Dominion in 1983 - Ralph Centennius; Universe - Stanley Jackson and Roman Kroitor; Canadian Science Fiction - David Ketterer; Canadian Monsters - Margaret Atwood; Brief Annotated Bibliography; Acknowledgements. SYNOPSIS: Other Canadas is the first anthology of Canadian science fiction and fantasy. It was edited by John Robert Colombo, who combined his encyclopedic knowledge of things Canadian with his long-time love of the literature of the fantastic to produce a book that is at once entertaining to read and an intriguing, speculative look at Canada - its alternate pasts, parallel presents, and possible futures. Included in Other Canadas are: a preface by the editor (who discusses the four characteristics of Canadian SF&F); excerpts from four novels; 17 short stories; 27 poems by 13 poets; two critical articles; one prophetic essay (written in 1883, about the Dominion in 1983); a film script (the National Film Board's Universe); and a brief annotated bibliography. Such native-born writers as Phyllis Gotlieb and Margaret Atwood are represented, as well as Canadian-born writers living in the United States, like A.E. van Vogt and Gordon R. Dickson. New Canadians, like Judith Merril and Spider Robinson, are included; and even non-Canadians, Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne, with excerpts from imaginative works set in New France and the Arctic. Other Canadas is a pioneering anthology and an important one, for it reveals a new and unexpected dimension of the Canadian imagination. Yes, there is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and here is your guide to it. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.