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AMY J. RANSOM

DIVISION OF HUMANITIES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

ANNA MARIA COLLEGE

PAXTON, MASSACHUSETTS

NOTES

(1) Sec the present author's "(Un)common Ground: National Sovereignty and Individual Identity in Contemporary SF from Quebec."

(2) Translations of two volumes of Vonarburg's pentalogy have been published as Dreams of the Sea and A Game of Perfection (Edmonton: Tesseracts/Edge SF & F, 2003 and 2006); translation of Berard's novel is underway with the same publisher. More on these texts and others tan be round in the present author's "A Distant Mirror: Ideology and Identity in Quebec's Science Fiction by Women" and "Oppositional Colonialism and Science Fiction from Quebec."