Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer of weird stories and climate change fiction. Her work hasappeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volumes 5 & 6, in addition to many contemporary magazines, including The Magazine of Fantasy andScience Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Interzone. She won the Sunburst award for short fiction in 2020 for The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2021 for An Important Failure. NeWest Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013. You can find her online atwhereishere.ca.
Praise for The Talosite Campbell captures the perfect voice in this deftly-crafted alternate history that explores both wonders and horrors and the blurred space where the two bleed into one. A tale of science and war that is at once fantastical and frightening for how plausible it feels. A meticulously-built alternate history set against the backdrop of WWI, weaving in dark and fantastic elements that bring to mind the classic science fictional horror of Mary Shelley. Classic and timeless. - A.C. Wise, Author of Wendy, Darling, and The Ghost Sequences. Praise for The Paradise Engine [a] mystifying story that melds the Vaudeville era of Vancouver history with contemporary Vancouver. BC Bookworld Rebecca Campbell brings intelligence and mystery to this strange indie tale. Thomas Hodd, Telegraph-Journal What The Paradise Engine invites us to consider is the form, the meaning, and the price of going on. Immortality, the story warns us, always demands a sacrifice. Jennifer Quist, The Rusty Toque