Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from among the best of Canada’s writers, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction. This is the anthology that started it all! Featuring fiction by Élisabeth Vonarburg and Hugo and Nebula award winning authors Spider Robinson, and William Gibson.

Contents:

• Home by the Sea by Elisabeth Vonarburg
• Chronos' Christmas by Rhea Rose
• A Strange Visitor by Robert Zend
• The Byrds by Michael G. Coney
• Report on the Earth-Air Addicts by Robert Priest
• Johnny Appleseed and the New World by Candas Jane Dorsey
• Letter from Mars-Dome #1 by Eileen Kernaghan
• Hinterlands by William Gibson
• Points in Time by Christopher Dewdney
• Stardust Boulevard by Daniel Sernine
• The Last Will and Testament of the Unknown Earthman Lost in the Second Vegan Campaign by D. M. Price
• The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind by Terence M. Green
• Instinct by Dorothy Corbett Gentleman
• Cee by Gerry Truscott
• On the Planet Grafool by Benjamin Freedman
• Tauf Aleph by Phyllis Gotlieb
• Anthropology 101 by Gary Eikenberry
• The Train by Marc Sevigny
• Countdown by John Robert Colombo
• Questionnaire by John Robert Colombo
• Sophie, 1990 by Marian Engel
• Future City by D. M. Price
• Totem by Margaret McBride
• An Adventure in Miracle-Land by Robert Zend
• 2DWORLD [from The Planiverse] by A. K. Dewdney
• Variation by Robert Zend
• The Man Doll by Susan Swan
• The Early Education of the Num-Nums by Robert Priest
• The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer by Lesley Choyce
• Report from the Front by Robert Sward
• God Is an Iron by Spider Robinson
• The Effect of Terminal Cancer on Potential Astronauts by David Kirkpatrick