1. Introduction: Bridging the Solitudes as a Critical Metaphor
Amy J. Ransom, Central Michigan University
Dominick Grace, Brescia University
Prologue
2. Colonial Visions: The British Empire in Early Anglophone and
Francophone Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Allan Weiss, York University
Part I Bridging Borders:
Transnationalism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Speculative Fiction
3. Nevermind the Gap: Judith Merril Challenges the Status Quo
Ritch Calvin, SUNY - Stony Brook
4. Two Solitudes, Two Cultures: Building and Burning Bridges in Peter Watts's
Novels
Michele Braun, Mount Royal University
5. The Affinity for Utopia: Erecting Walls and Building Bridges in Robert
Charles Wilson's The Affinities
Graham J. Murphy, Seneca College
6. The Art of Not Dying: Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Catherine
Mavrikakis's Oscar De Profundis
Patrick Bergeron, University of New Brunswick
(Translated by Amy J. Ransom)
Part II Building Bridges:
Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of the Canadian Nation
7. When Are We Ever at Home?: Exile and Nostalgia in the Work of Guy
Gavriel Kay
Susan Johnston, University of Regina
8. Reconciliation, Resistance and Biskaabiiyang: Re-Imagining Canadian
Residential Schools in Indigenous Speculative Fictions
Judith Leggatt, Lakehead University
9. Indigenous Futurist Film: Speculation and Resistance in Jeff Barnaby's
Rhymes for Young Ghouls and File Under Miscellaneous
Kristina Baudemann, Europa-Universitat, Flensberg
Part III Bridging the Gender Gap:
Transnational and Transsexual Identities in Canadian SF
10. Building Hope through Community in Elisabeth Vonarburg's Maerlande
Chronicles
Caroline Mosser, Utah State University
11. Cruising Canadian SF's Queer Futurity: Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child and
Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl
Wendy Gay Pearson, University of Western Ontario
12. Crossing the (Trans)Gender Bridge: Exploring Intersex and Trans Bodies in
Canadian Speculative Fiction
Evelyn Deshane, University of Waterloo
Part IV Bridging the Species Divide:
Technological, Animal, Extraterrestrial and Posthuman Sentience
13. A Maelstrom of Replication: Peter Watts's Glitching Textual Source Codes
Ben Eldridge, University of Sydney
14. The Missing Link: Bridging the Species Divide in Margaret Atwood's
MaddAddam Trilogy
Dunja Mohr, University of Erfurt
15. 'I can't believe this is happening!': Bear Horror, the Species Divide, and the
Canadian Fight for Survival in a Time of Climate Change
Michael Fuchs, University of Graz
16. Interacting and Cohabiting with Humans, Earthlings, and Others in SFQ
Isabelle Fournier, Trent University
Part V Bridging the Slipstream: Generic Fluidity in Canadian Speculative Fiction
17. Holes Within and Bridges Beyond: The Transfictions of Elisabeth Vonarburg
and Michel Tremblay
Sylvie Berard, Trent University
18. Tropes Crossing: On Some Quebec Sf Writers from the Mainstream
Sophie Beaule, St. Mary's University
(Translated by Amy J. Ransom)
19. Transculture, Transgenre: Stanley Pean's Fantastic Detective Fiction
Kathleen Kellett, Ryerson University
Epilogue
20. [Excerpts from A Glossary of Non-Essential Forms and Genres in English-
Canadian Literature]
Jordan Bolay, University of Calgary
