Thank you Stephen Kotowych for including me again in the second volume of Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction. I am honoured that Volume Two will include my story “Hemlock on Mars” which was the opening story in the anthology Life Beyond Us edited by Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law, and Susan Forest. Life Beyond Us is well represented in Volume Two as it also includes “Third Life” by Julie Czerneda. The book will be available in October. You can read the opening scene of “Hemlock on Mars” here.

Volume One of Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction received a much-deserved Aurora Award and has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award. My Aurora nominated story “A New Brave World” appeared in the inaugural volume.