Just found out that the table of contents for Superhero Universe, the nineteenth iteration of the Tesseracts anthology series, is live. EDGE has made a nifty little promotional video too, so now I’ll know what all of my co-contributors look like when I’m trying to get them to sign my copy of the book.

EDGE also has a Superhero Universe Reading Sampler (PDF) for you to check out.

From the publisher website:

Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! 

Twenty-four short stories and one poem featuring:

Superheroes! Supervillains! Superpowered antiheroes. Mad scientists. Adventurers into the unknown. Detectives of the dark night. Costumed crimefighters. Steampunk armoured avengers. Brave and bold supergroups. Crusading aliens in a strange land. Secret histories. Pulp action.

Superhero Universe (Tesseracts Nineteen) features all of these permutations of the superhero genre and many others besides!

Edited by Claude Lalumière and Mark Shainblum, Superhero Universe features some of Canada’s best fantasy and science fiction writers:

• Introduction: A New Universe of Canadian Superheroes by Claude Lalumière
• Diary of a Teenage Grizzly by Patrick T. Goddard
• Jessica and the True North by Kevin Cockle
• Pssst! Have You Heard… The Rumor? by D. K. Latta
• The Island Way by Mary Pletsch & Dylan Blacquiere
• Blunt Instruments by Geoff Hart
• Bloodhound by Marcelle Dubé
• The Jam: A Secret Bowman by Bernard E. Mireault
• In the Name of Free Will by A. C. Wise
• Nuclear Nikki versus the Magic Evil by Jennifer Rahn
• Spirit in the Clay by Bevan Thomas
• Black Falcon Saves City, World by Sacha A. Howells
• Bluefields Reharmony Nest by Kim Goldberg
• Lost and Found by Luke Murphy
• Crusher and Typhoon by Brent Nichols
• Black Sheep by Jason Sharp
• Midnight Man versus Doctor Death by Chadwick Ginther
• SÜPER by Corey Redekop
• Bedtime for Superheroes by Leigh Wallace
• A Hole Lotta Trouble: A Tale in Five Voices by David Perlmutter
• The Rise and Fall of Captain Stupendous by P.E. Bolivar
• Friday Nights at the Hemingway by Arun Jiwa
• Apollo and Greta by Evelyn Deshane
• In the Kirby Krackle by John Bell
• A Week in the Superlife by Alex C. Renwick
• Change as Seen through an Orrery of Celestial Fire by Michael Matheson
• Afterword: The Death of the Death of the Superheroes! by Mark Shainblum

I loved writing “Midnight Man versus Doctor Death” and it’s a blast to read live, so I can’t wait for folks to be able to tuck into this book.

Write on!