Bush, Catherine
Entry updated 29 April 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1961- ) Canadian author, most of whose work is nonfantastic, including her best-known novel, The Rules of Engagement (2000). She is of sf interest for Blaze Island (2020), set in an Alternate History whose Near Future is not easily distinguishable from consensus reality. An unprecedentedly severe hurricane (at least Category Five) devastates eastern Canada, though the eponymous Island, which houses a research Scientist tampering with the weather (see Climate Change; Weather Control), is left intact. The arrival of a Mysterious Stranger, and overt references to William Shakespeare's The Tempest (performed circa 1611; 1623), impart a chthonic feel to the slow Disaster of the world without. [JC]
Catherine Bush
born Toronto, Ontario: 1961
works (highly selected)
- Blaze Island (Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2020) [pb/]
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