Fourth Edition
Edited by Robert Runté

Lorna Toolis

Head librian of Merril Collection, Toronto Public Library, she co-edited (with Micheal Skeet) Tesseract⁴.

Hayden Trenholm

Alberta author of A Circle of Birds. [Anvil Press, 1993].

Michel Tremblay

Internationally respected as Quebec's greatest playwright, Tremblay's Stories for Late Night Drinkers (Contes Pour Buveurs Attard&eacutes) is Night Gallery-style sf, written when he was 17.

Jean-Louis Trudel

The author/editor more then of 18 books and 40 short stories in French, he is best known among English readers as Co-editor (with Paula Johanson) of Tesseracts⁷, and for his superb translation of Joël Champetier's The Dragon's Eye. A number of his English short stories are readily avaiable in the Tesseract anthologies, On Spec, Arrow Dreams, and elsewhere. He has also served several terms as President of sf Canada, the national writers' assocation. Most Recent story available in English, "Holes in the Night", in Tesseracts⁸

Gerry Truscott

Truscott was managing editor of Press Porc&eacutepic when it originated the Tesseract anthologies and later the Tesseract Books imprint and was a major behind-the-scenes influence in Canadian sf before he quit to persue his own writing career.

Edo van Belkom

Primarily a horror writer, a number of his stories have been collected in Death Drives a Semi from Quarry Press. Of especial interest to NCF Guide readers, however,is his book of interviews with 22 Canadian sf writers, Northern Dreamers, also from Quarry Press. Edo is also the series editor for Quarry Press' Out of This World imprint, which currently has a half dozen sf titles (including the two just mentioned).

A. E. van Vogt

Born in Winnipeg, van Vogt wrote Slan, The Weapons Makers, The Book of Ptath, The World of Null-A, Out of the Unknown, and "The Black Destroyer" while still in Canada. These works established van Vogt's reputation as one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and many still consider these stories to have been among his best work. Van Vogt moved to the United States in 1944 at the age of 32 and became an American citizen in 1952. His Canadian origins and his early masterpieces, however, were still sufficient to earn him the first Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award (later renamed the Aurora Award) in 1979 for "lifetime contributions to the field".

Elisabeth Vonarburg

Born in Paris, she now lives in Chicoutimi where she taught at university until turning to full-time writing. Arguably Canada's most influential Francophone sf author, the English translation of her award-winning novel Le Silence de la Cité (The Silent City) was chosen to launch Press Porcépic's Tesseract Books imprint. Her short story, "La Carte du Tendre" won the 1987 Aurora. She is also one of the editors of Solaris, Quebec's leading sf magazine.

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