Lalumière, Claude
Entry updated 19 August 2024. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1966- ) Canadian editor and author, who writes in English, beginning with "Bestial Acts" for Interzone in April 2002, and much of whose best work has been assembled in Objects of Worship (coll 2009); the most evocative of his stories evoke – often simultaneously, with the ruthless opportunism fortunately prevalent among younger writers of the twenty-first century – sf, fantasy and horror modes in powerfully Equipoisal running portraits of the contemporary and/or Near Future world, the distinction between the two being, properly, hard to identify in the more explicitly performative modern fiction of the fantastic. He has edited several Anthologies, those of particular interest including Witpunk: Stories with Attitude (anth 2003) with Marty Halpern, Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction (anth 2003), Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic (anth 2003) and two instalments in the long-running Tesseracts sequence of original Canadian work, Tesseracts Twelve (anth 2008) and Tesseracts Nineteen (anth 2016). [JC]
Claude Lalumière
born Montreal, Quebec: 19 February 1966
works
- The Door to Lost Pages (Toronto, Ontario: ChiZine Publications, 2011) [pb/Erik Mohr]
- Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment (Montreal, Quebec: MiroLand, 2017) [pb/]
collections
- Objects of Worship (Toronto, Ontario: ChiZine Publications, 2009) [coll: hb/Erik Mohr]
- Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes (no place given: Infinity plus, 2013) [coll: pb/Marc Tessier]
works as editor (selected)
- Witpunk: Stories with Attitude (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003) with Marty Halpern [anth: pb/Joel Tipple]
- Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction (Calgary, Alberta: Red Deer Press, 2003) [anth: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
- Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic (Montreal, Quebec: Véhicule Press, 2003) [anth: pb/J W Stewart]
- Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction (Alberta, Canada: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2008) [anth: Tesseracts: Tesseracts: pb/Michael Oswald]
- Super Stories of Heroes & Villains (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2013) [anth: Superheroes: illus/pb/Elizabeth Story]
- Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories (Calgary, Alberta: Tyche Books, 2013) with Camille Alexa [anth: pb/Steve Thomas]
- The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (Holstein, Ontario: Exile Editions, 2015) with David Nickle [anth: in the publisher's Exile Book of Anthology Series: pb/MC Fisher]
- Tesseracts Nineteen: Superhero Universe (Alberta, Canada: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2016) with Mark Shainblum [anth: Tesseracts: Tesseracts: pb/Jason Loo]
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