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Weiss, Allan

(1956-    ) Canadian author, academic at York University, Toronto, and sf scholar who began to publish work of genre interest with "Satanesque" in The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror #6 (1974), a more professional Semiprozine appearance being "Tuparosh" (January 1977 Space and Time). A number of further stories followed: Making the Rounds (coll 2016) assembles eight, all published in the new century with four original to this collection.

Weiss has also edited two symposium volumes of Canada-focused Fantastika scholarship: Further Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic: Proceedings of the 2003 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (anth 2005) and The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives (anth 2014). More recently he published the useful overview The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Fantastic Literature (2021). [DRL]

Allan Weiss

born Montreal, Quebec: 23 October 1956

works

collections

• Making the Rounds (Calgary, Alberta: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2016) [coll: pb/]

nonfiction

• The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Fantastic Literature (New York: Routledge, 2021) [nonfiction: coll: in the publisher's Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature series: hb/nonpictorial]

works as editor

• Further Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic: Proceedings of the 2003 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Toronto, Ontario: York University, 2005) [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
• The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2014) [nonfiction: anth: pb/Igor Kisselev, Natalia Lukiyanova, SHSPhotography]

links

• Allan Weiss
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 10:53 am on 7 October 2026.
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