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Nova Scotia : new Scottish speculative fiction / edited by Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson.

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Crescent, 2005.

Scotland -- Fiction.

9781841830865 (trade pbk.)

1841830860 (trade pbk.)

xiii, 287 p. ; 22 cm.

Preface / Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson -- Introduction / David Pringle -- The cost of pearls / Edwin Morgan -- A case of consilience / Ken MacLeod -- Deus ex homine / Hannu Rajaniemi -- The last shift / Hal Duncan -- Not wisely but too well / A.J. McIntosh -- Third-degree burns / Andrew J. Wilson -- Lest we forget / Marion Arnott -- The intrigue of the battered box / Michael Cobley -- Five fantastic fictions / Ron Butlin -- Running on at adventures / Angus McAllister -- A knot of toads / Jane Yolen -- Sophie and the sacred fluids / Andrew C. Ferguson -- Vanilla for the lady / Deborah J. Miller - Pisces Ya Bas / Gavin Inglis -- The Vulture, 4–17 March / Harvey Welles & Philip Raines -- The bogle's bargain / Stefan Pearson -- Criggie / Matthew Fitt -- Snowball's chance / Charles Stross -- Total mental quality, by the way / William Meikle -- The Bennie and the Bonobo / Neil Williamson -- The hard stuff / John Grant Dusk by Jack Deighton.

"A brave new world of Scottish fiction is explored in an anthology published by Crescent Books. "Nova Scotia" collects the best of Scottish speculative fiction -- in other words, writing from such diverse genres as science fiction, fantasy, horror, the supernatural, magic realism, alternate history or any other imaginative treatment of the short story form. "Nova Scotia", edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is a showcase of work by both established and up-and-coming writers. As an overture to the twenty-one original stories, eminent makar Edwin Morgan has provided a new poem entitled "The Cost of Pearls". Other contributors include Ken MacLeod, Charles Stross, Ron Butlin, Jane Yolen and Matthew Fitt. The stories have been chosen to reflect the innovative writing of Scottish authors as well as their provocative and challenging ideas. "Nova Scotia" presents a portrait of the contemporary Scottish imagination, carrying on a thread that has run through the work of writers such as James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, Arthur Conan Doyle and Neil Gunn. Here you will encounter a Presbyterian minister experiencing a crisis of faith in outer space; a transhuman deity who travels north beyond Hadrian's Firewall (to Pittenweem); Paisley reimagined as the town of Fergusley, famous the world over for its manufacture of magic carpets; and Boswell and Johnson tangling with the spirit world in a previously undocumented episode from their Highland journey."--Publisher.

Fantasy fiction.

Science fiction.

Wilson, Andrew J., 1963-

Williamson, Neil.

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