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• Shadow Show

  All-new Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

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  I love the concept of this anthology – brand new stories inspired by the stories of Ray Bradbury. Not retellings of Bradbury’s work, but stories which celebrate his work. Essentially, ‘What kind of story do you think of when you hear the name Ray…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Dragons

  An Anthology

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  Do you like dragons? You do? In that case, you’re welcome.

• Imaginarium 2012

  the Best Canadian Speculative Writing

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  This massive anthology is nearly 400 pages long and contains what the editors believed to be the best speculative fiction written by Canadians and published in 2012. You will find an enormous range of theme, style, voice and genre here. You won’t…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bradbury Stories

  100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

  Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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  This is going to sound like an odd thing to say about a book I am recommending but the biggest thing I learned from reading this collection is that every author can have a bad story. As a writer that can be fantastic because it’s good to remember…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• World War Z

  An Oral History of the Zombie War

  Brooks, Max

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  Did you watch the movie? This is nothing like the movie. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I’m going to say some words that probably aren’t put together very often – intelligent zombie fiction. This is intelligent zombie fiction. It contains…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Like It Darker

  Stories

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Originally I had three Stephen King titles on this list but I decided to narrow it down to just this one (The Bachman Books and Different Seasons got cut). And, if we’re being perfectly honest, I chose this one because it was the newest of them all.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Line Between

  Beagle, Peter S.

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  The Last Unicorn is one of my favourite novels of all time and this collection contains the sequel to it. That sequel, the novella entitled “Two Hearts” is enough, in my mind, to earn this title a spot on this list, but the other stories are not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Burning Chrome

  Gibson, William, 1948-

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  William Gibson is a giant in speculative fiction and is often referred to as having invented, pioneered or fathered the entire cyberpunk genre. In fact, the titular story from this collection is the first place that the word ‘cyberspace’ ever…Read moreRead more of this annotation