| Tesseracts Twelve, Claude Lalumiere (ed.), 2008, | | | | his brother, the mayor of the town says that it is |
| ISBN 9781894063159 | | | | not their fault; the land is somehow cursed. Solving |
| This newest collection of Canadian fantastic fiction | | | | the mystery, the warrior is shocked to find that his |
| looks at the novella (17,500 to 40,000 words), the | | | | concubine and his brother are not exactly what they |
| hardest-to-sell length of fiction. | | | | seem. They are mythological beings in human form. |
| In a small town in Alberta, an intact baby woolly | | | | Superheroes in present-day Korea deal with maniacal |
| mammoth is found buried in the snow. When Samuel, | | | | villains, inter-Korean politics, corporate downsizing (and |
| the town's "smart person," touches the carcass, the | | | | overbearing mothers). As the world faces |
| mammoth's life force is transferred to him, and he | | | | environmental catastrophe, reality-TV adventurers |
| begins to have weird visions about being chased by | | | | battle giant squids in the very deep ocean. Another |
| beings on two legs. During a town-wide party, with | | | | small town in Alberta conducts pagan rituals during |
| mammoth stew as the main course (over Samuel's | | | | the year as if it was totally normal (though not |
| strong objections), strange things start happening, | | | | everyone agrees). A pair of average women with |
| and several of the townspeople turn into cavemen, | | | | the power of life and death travel the streets of |
| and chase Samuel as if he is the baby mammoth. | | | | present-day Montreal. |
| A young warrior, in feudal Japan, is sent to a small | | | | Here is another strong bunch of stories from north |
| town to find out why they haven't sent in their | | | | of the border. They are very easy to read, and very |
| annual amount of rice. Taking along his concubine and | | | | weird. It's recommended. |