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Chew on This!

By Susan Devins

Susan Devins, the author of Makin’ Muffins, has created a make-your-own bubble gum book and kit.The book is slim, colourful, and glossy. It contains history (Santa Anna, the Mexican general who conquered the Alamo was ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

Waifs and Strays

By Charles de Lint

Readers of Ottawa fantasy writer Charles de Lint are facing an embarrassment of riches this fall. Tor Books continues its ongoing trade paperback reissue campaign, which has brought back to print books that have been ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes

By Peter Watts

It’s an oft-quoted maxim that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite numbers of typewriters, given an infinite time span, would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare in English. Toronto sci-fi writer Peter ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

One Man’s Trash

By Ivan E. Coyote

It seems strange to refer to the writing of Vancouver-based performer and author Ivan E. Coyote as old-fashioned storytelling, but there’s really no other way to put it. Her latest story collection, One Man’s Trash, ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short