North by 2000+ reviewed on LibraryThing

We seem to be receiving a good many positive reviews for our books of late. This one appeared on LibraryThing for H.A. Hargreaves’ impressive collection of short speculative fiction, North by 2000+. Available at Amazon This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. When North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction was first published way back in 1975, it was the very first collection of short stories clearly marketed as Canadian Science Fiction….

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Aug 2012

By Lorina StephensHargreaves, North by 2000+, ReviewsComments Off

Small World

About 18 months ago, I (Robert Runté) signed H. A. Hargreaves to reprint his classic 70’s SF collection, North by 2000 (the first SF collection ever marketed as “Canadian SF”.) I wanted the collection because I often give lectures on Canadian SF to English teachers, etc., and often use Hargreaves (especially his, “Dead to the World” story) as the exemplar of Canadian / US differences. In one of my more recent talks, someone had pointed…

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Aug 2012

By Lorina StephensHargreaves, J.W. Schnarr, Runte, Susan BohnetComments Off

Interview with H.A. Hargreaves

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing H.A. Hargreaves, author of North by 2000+ and Growing Up Bronx. Despite his love of real paper and the sound of a pen scratching, of sending and receiving mail through the postal system, he was kind enough to venture into the perilous waters of rapid communication and answer the questions I put to him. I think you will find a fascinating mind revealed here, one worth attending and…

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Jul 2012

By Lorina StephensGrowing Up Bronx, Hargreaves, Interviews, North by 2000+1 Comment

Growing Up Bronx receives 5-star review

Five Rivers’ autobiographical collection of short stories by H.A. Hargreaves, Growing Up Bronx, has received the following 5-star review on Goodreads. ‘Deceptively simple writing weaves the reader in to stories of the author’s early years in the Bronx. Characters are drawn with clean, deft stokes that bring a remarkable cast to life as richly full, complex, almost heart-breakingly real people, just as their influences mapped out the makings of the author. Hargreaves’ encompassing settings and…

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May 2012

By Lorina StephensGrowing Up Bronx, Hargreaves, ReviewsComments Off

J.W. Schnarr 5-Star review to North by 2000+

As posted on Goodreads, by J.W. Schnarr If you are like every other Canadian spec fic writer out there and has ever read a science fiction story about places like New York, London, or Hong Kong, and ever wondered what it might be like, just once, to read a story set in a place you actually felt an affinity with…North by 2000+ by H.A. Hargreaves is the book you need to read. In this reprint…

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Feb 2012

By Lorina StephensHargreaves, J.W. Schnarr, North by 2000+, ReviewsComments Off