In Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves, the cautioned consequences of climate change have arrived. The Northern Ice has melted shifting coastlines inward, storms have become more powerful than ever causing numerous fossil fuel disasters and populations have begun to cluster in larger areas leaving small towns and communities behind. Many people have lost the ability…
Over the years I’ve struggled with short story collections as I’m very much a long-form kind of guy. I especially dislike the start/stop of short story collections – you get invested in a character or a story and in fifteen or twenty pages it’s done. Kind of like driving down a highway and smashing into…
In Forgiveness, Mark Sakamoto tells the story of his maternal grandfather, Ralph MacLean, who had spent a number of years clinging to life as a POW in a Japanese prison camp during the second World War and his paternal grandmother, Mitsue Sakamoto, who had been forced from her home and province following the bombing of…
When a cargo ship carrying several hundred Sri Lankan refugees arrives off the coast of Vancouver, those aboard hope for a new beginning in Canada. The problem? You just can’t walk into the country (or sail in for that matter). There’s a long, drawn out process in claiming refugee status and it doesn’t always work…
The United States of fifty years from now is a vastly different place – physically, not just politically. Climate change has ravaged the country with coastal cities becoming lost to the sea. They even packed up and moved the capital inland from Washington, D.C. to Columbus, Ohio. A train derailment and subsequent oil spill have…
“The raw, ugly, mottled things you fear about yourself in your most private moments – what happens when someone says them aloud to you? The feeling like your skin slipped from your body, showing everything, red and veined.” As teens, Kit and Diane were bonded by ambition; working hard to attain a scholarship offered by…
Marcos Inaros and The Free Navy are wreaking havoc in an aggressive power play for control of the solar system. Having dealt Earth a devastating blow at the conclusion of Nemesis Games, they now turn their attention to the Gates and the many colony ships venturing to new and undiscovered worlds. As time is running…
When I’m not reading crime fiction, I like to kick back with a good hockey or wrestling memoir. While I no longer watch nearly as much hockey as I used to, I find something about the game endlessly readable. Like wrestling, hockey has been gifted with a tremendous history that can be equal parts dramatic…
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