Campbell, Rebecca
Entry updated 17 March 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). 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]
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