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Speculative Fiction & Poetry
"There are so many stories to tell, both speculative and true, I will never be able to write them all. And given the vile autocracies in control, I shall certainly never be able to publish all that I write."
Emily's journal, September 26, 1892.
Emily was as accurate in this prediction of her publishing future, as she was of predicting so much that would happen in the 20th century. (Indeed, we have already found at least 12 unpublished manuscripts in the Tundra Collection.) This section was started to right history's mistake. In addition to Emily's own unpublished science fiction short stories, this part of the site will include original fiction from our Tundra Prize winners, and the occasional 'Chesleyan' piece from members of the Circle.
Featured
Poetry
Moved as much by a growing hatred of the English as
by a deep knowledge of angling, Emily penned the poem "Idiots
and The English Catch Carp In Canada" sometime in 1910, and stirred
quite a controversy.
The true story (in verse) of how yet another invention was stolen from the prolific inventor Michael Flannigan, in The Breast-Milk Pasteurizer.
In which the Circle experiments with a new form of poetry, the "anagramtic", in septimeter, nonimeter and an almost completely unrelated Ode.
Featured Fiction
The Transcript of Eldred
Thunk
Set in Freakinswadian London, Scott Hill's
"transcript"was the first story to win the coveted Tundra Prize.
Original Chesleyan Fiction
The
Afrikaners of East Nissouri
Prior to writing her break-through novel,
The Afrikaans of East Nissouri, Chesley penned the classic short story,
"The Afrikaners of East Nissouri". We are pleased to announce
that this is Chesley's first posthumously published work, and we are tickled
pink that it is being hosted at Would That It Were, an online magazine
dedicated to historical SF.
The Windigo of Frigheim IX
Originally written in 1906, it took Emily
quite a few years to find a publisher for "The Windigo of Frigheim IX."
Eventually, her old friend and mentor -- Reggie String - agreed to print
it at his latest press, Fixated Editions, in 1917. String intended to
use the shocking piece as the centre point of a series of science fiction
short stories based on Native American myths. However, Fixated was shut
down by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police before the first magazine in
String's newest line could be printed, so Windigo never found its way
onto a press.
You can read more original fiction from Emily Chesley in the Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle
Tundra Prize Winners
In Generation, the only story to receive a "laudable
mention" in the innaugural Tundra Prize contest, we learn about the
meaning of "pluck" -- by Paul Suttie.
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