My contributor copies of Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty arrived a few days ago. Edited by Spider Robinson and James Alan Gardner, Compostela is an anthology of speculative fiction that represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance on technology. The collection includes my story “Plot Device” and work by David Clink, Miki Dare, Steve Fahnestalk, Matthew Hughes, Rati Mehrotra, Derryl Murphy, Susan Pieters, Alexandra Renwick, Rhea Rose, Robert J. Sawyer, and 23 other visionary Canadian writers.

“So come on, science fiction! Despair may be the trend du jour among the mundane masses, but we’re supposed to see farther. The stars are waiting for patiently for us to get over ourselves and come visit.”

- From the Foreword by James Alan Gardner

“We may be feeling a bit gloomy just now, but we have every excuse to hope if we want to. Depends on what we choose to sing as we walk our separate Compostelas together.”

- From the Afterword by Spider Robinson