Campbell, Rebecca
Entry updated 27 October 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1975- ) Canadian-born spiritual healer, poet and author, in UK for many years; her work tends Equipoisally to meld various modes of Fantastika in an explicit quest for (presumably holistic) understanding, as in her first novel, The Paradise Engine (2013), whose two protagonists, a century apart, share (as though by Timeslip or paranormal perspicuity), some shaping revelations. The High Lonesome Frontier (2017 ebook), a novella, traces the complex impact of a song written in 1902 over the following century (see Music). Arboreality (August 2020 Clarkesworld as "An Important Failure"; exp 2022) is set on Near-Future Vancouver Island after the devastations of Climate Change have forced survivors abandoned on the Island to come to terms with the world (see Gaia); this novel won the Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In The Talosite (2022), which is an Alternate History version of World War One, a Mad Scientist creates from corpses giant Frankenstein Monster-like Androids to continue the War; they engage in profound experiences. [JC]
Rebecca Campbell
born Duncan, British Columbia: 1975
works
- The Paradise Engine (Edmonton, Alberta: NeWest Press, 2013) [pb/Justine Ma]
- The High Lonesome Frontier (New York: Tor.com, 2017) [novella: ebook: na/Linda Yan]
- Arboreality (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Stelliform Press, 2022) [short version appeared August 2020 Clarkesworld as "An Important Failure": pb/Rachel Lobbenberg]
- The Talosite (Pickering, Ontario: Undertow Publications, 2022) [pb/Yaroslav Gerzhedovich]
collections
- The Other Shore (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Stelliform Press, 2025) [coll: pb/Kerry Pagdin]
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