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Synopsis

From the earliest days of modern science fiction, Canada has given readers some of the most important authors in the field -- and many of the finest stories. World Fantasy Award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has teamed up with Canadian writer and critic Glenn Grant to compile Northern Stars, an anthology of stories by the writers who have built Canada's rich science fiction tradition, providing a definitive overview of science fiction's northern frontier.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (1994) essay by Glenn Grant
• "We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us)" (1985) essay by Judith Merril
• "A Niche" (1990) novelette by Peter Watts
• "Mother Lode" (1973) novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb
• "Home by the Sea" (1985) short story by Élisabeth Vonarburg (translation of "La maison au bord de la mer")
• "Under Another Moon" (1990) novelette by Dave Duncan
• "Remember, the Dead Say" (1992) short story by Jean-Louis Trudel
• "One" (1987) novelette by Heather Spears
• "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer" (1982) short story by Lesley Choyce
• "User Friendly" (1986) short story by Spider Robinson
• "Distant Signals" (1984) short story by Andrew Weiner
• "The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind" (1985) short story by Terence M. Green
• "The Winter Market" (1985) novelette by William Gibson
• "The Byrds" (1983) short story by Michael G. Coney
• "Soluble-Fish" (1987) shortfiction by Joël Champetier
• "Memetic Drift" (1990) short story by Glenn Grant
• "The Reckoning of Gifts" (1992) novelette by James Alan Gardner
• "The Cauldron (Excerpt) [Courtship Rite Universe]" (1994) shortfiction by Donald Kingsbury
• "Happy Days in Old Chernobyl" (1987) short story by Claude-Michel Prévost (translation of "La marquise de Tchernobyl")
• "Pity the Monsters" (1991) short story by Charles de Lint
• "Carpe Diem" (1989) short story by Eileen Kernaghan
• "Xils" (1987) short story by Esther Rochon
• "Stolen Fires" (1991) short story by Yves Meynard
• "Retrieval" (1987) short story by John Park
• "Outport" (1992) short story by Garfield Reeves-Stevens
• "Just Like Old Times" (1993) short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• "Stardust Boulevard" (1981) short story by Daniel Sernine
• "Ballads in 3/4 Time" (1987) short story by Robert Charles Wilson
• "(Learning About) Machine Sex" (1988) short story by Candas Jane Dorsey
• "Towards a Real Speculative Literature: Writer as Asymptote" (1990) essay by Candas Jane Dorsey
• "Canadian SF Awards" (1994) essay by the editors

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