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No longer dismissed as "escapist" reading, critics have finally discovered a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book is a long-overdue tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-6
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  1. "Another Dimension of Space": Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Atwood's Blind Assassin
  2. pp. 7-34
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  1. The Canadian Apocalypse
  2. pp. 35-46
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  1. Notes on the Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma
  2. pp. 47-56
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  1. Welwyn Wilton Katz and Charles de Lint: New Fantasy as a Canadian Post-colonial Genre
  2. pp. 57-72
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  1. More Than Just Survival: The Successful Quest for Voice in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and Randy Bradshaw's The Song Spinner
  2. pp. 73-80
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  1. Sublime Objects and Mystic Subjects: Some Lacanian Speculations About Canadian Fantasy Literature Via Barbara Goowdy's The White Bone
  2. pp. 81-94
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  1. "Half In and Half Out of Things": Boundaries in Sean Stewart's The Night Watch
  2. pp. 95-104
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  1. Mind Matters: Intellect and Identity in the Works of Phyllis Gotlieb
  2. pp. 105-118
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  1. Coding of Race in Science Fiction: What's Wrong with the Obvious?
  2. pp. 119-130
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  1. A Scientist's Relationship with Science Fiction
  2. pp. 131-138
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  1. Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Asimov's The Caves of Steel and Sawyer's Golden Fleece
  2. pp. 139-146
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  1. Northern Gothic: The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
  2. pp. 147-154
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  1. Le Nord
  2. pp. 155-166
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  1. A Distant Mirror: Ideology and Identity in Qu
  2. pp. 167-180
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  1. "The World Is Its Own Place": Denys Chabot's Infernal Utopia
  2. pp. 181-188
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  1. The Ordinary and the Fabulous: Canadian Fantasy Literature for Children
  2. pp. 189-200
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