Tesseracts
Entry updated 19 August 2024. Tagged: Publication.

Canadian Anthology series (1985-current) showcasing both original and reprinted fiction and Poetry by authors from Canada. The first volume was Tesseracts (anth 1985) edited by Judith Merril; this and the next three appeared from Press Porcépic under the dedicated imprint Porcépic Books/Tesseract, becoming Beach Holme/Tesseract for #4 only. #5-#8 were published by Candas Jane Dorsey's The Books Collective/Tesseract Books, and those from #9 onwards have appeared from Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. The volume numbers in #2 to #8 are superscripted, as is the Q in TesseractsQ (anth 1996) edited by Jane Brierley and Élisabeth Vonarburg, a special selection of French-Canadian sf in translation. See Checklist below for all editors. [DRL]
see also: Small Presses and Limited Editions.
Tesseracts
- Judith Merril, editor. Tesseracts (Vancouver, British Columbia: Porcépic Books/Tesseract, 1985) [anth: initiating the Tesseracts series: pb/Ron Lightburn]
- Douglas Barbour and Phyllis Gotlieb, editors. Tesseracts2 (Victoria, British Columbia: Porcépic Books/Tesseract, 1987) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Jeff Kuipers]
- Candas Jane Dorsey and Gerry Truscott, editors. Tesseracts3 (Victoria, British Columbia: Porcépic Books/Tesseract, 1990) [anth: Tesseracts: hb/Ron Lightburn]
- Michael Skeet and Lorna Toolis, editors. Tesseracts4 (Victoria, British Columbia: Beach Holme/Tesseract, 1992) [anth: Tesseracts: hb/Jeff Kuipers]
- Jane Brierley and Élisabeth Vonarburg, editors. TesseractsQ (Edmonton, Alberta: The Books Collective/Tesseract Books, 1996) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
- Yves Meynard and Robert Runté, editors. Tesseracts5 (Edmonton, Alberta: The Books Collective/Tesseract Books, 1996) [anth: Tesseracts: hb/Jeff Kuipers]
- Carolyn Clink and Robert J Sawyer, editors. Tesseracts6 (Edmonton, Alberta: The Books Collective/Tesseract Books, 1997) [anth: Tesseracts: hb/Joyce Kline]
- Paula Johanson and Jean-Louis Trudel, editors. Tesseracts7: New Canadian Speculative Fiction (Edmonton, Alberta: The Books Collective/Tesseract Books, 1998) [anth: Tesseracts: hb/Gerry Dotto]
- John Clute and Candas Jane Dorsey, editors. Tesseracts8: New Canadian Speculative Writing (Edmonton, Alberta: The Books Collective/Tesseract Books, 1999) [anth: Tesseracts: hb/Mitchell Stuart]
- Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, editors. Tesseracts Nine (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2005) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Colleen McDonald]
- Edo van Belkom and Robert Charles Wilson, editors. Tesseracts Ten (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2006) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Colleen McDonald]
- Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips, editors. Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2007) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Jeff Johnson]
- Claude Lalumière, editor. Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction (Alberta, Canada: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2008) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Michael Oswald]
- Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell, editors. Tesseracts Thirteen (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2009) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Chad Michael Ward]
- John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, editors. Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2010) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Erik Mohr]
- Julie E Czerneda and Susan MacGregor, editors. Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2011) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Michael O]
- Mark Leslie, editor. Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2012) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Jeff Johnson]
- Colleen Anderson and Steve Vernon, editors. Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2013) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Tomislav Tikulin]
- Liana Kerzner and Jerome Stueart, editors. Tesseracts Eighteen: Wrestling with Gods (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2015) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Dracorubio]
- Claude Lalumière and Mark Shainblum, editors. Tesseracts Nineteen: Superhero Universe (Alberta, Canada: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2016) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/Jason Loo]
- James Alan Gardner and Spider Robinson, editors. Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty (Calgary, Alberta: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2017) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/nirut123rf]
- Greg Bechtel and Rhonda Parrish, editors. Nevertheless: Tesseracts Twenty-One (Calgary, Alberta: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing/EDGE-Lite, 2018) [anth: ebook: Tesseracts: na/]
- Susan MacGregor and Lorina Stephens, editors. Alchemy and Artifacts: Tesseracts Twenty-Two: (Calgary, Alberta: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2019) [anth: Tesseracts: pb/]
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