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  Table of Contents:  

• Introduction by Robert J. Sawyer

• "The Map" copyright © 1992 by Andrew Weiner. First published in Northern Frights, Don Hutchison, ed., Mosaic, Toronto, 1992. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

• "Dead Man's Shoes" copyright © 1993 by Charles de Lint. First published in Touch Wood: Narrow Houses, Vol. 2, Peter Crowther, ed., Little Brown & Co., London, 1993. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

• "The Hand You're Dealt" copyright © 1997 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published in Free Space, Brad Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer, ed., Tor, New York, 1997. Reprinted with the permission of the author. (Hugo, Arthur Ellis, and Aurora Award finalist! Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award winner!)

• "The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees" copyright © 1982 by Robertson Davies. First published in High Spirits, Penguin, Toronto, 1982. Reprinted with the permission of Pendragon Ink.

• "Burning Chrome" copyright © 1985 by William Gibson. First published in Omni, July 1982. Reprinted with the permission of the author. (Nebula Award finalist!)

• "The Rug" copyright © 1997 by Edo van Belkom. First published in Robert Bloch's Psychos, Robert Bloch, ed., Pocket Books, New York, 1998. Reprinted with the permission of the author. (Arthur Ellis and Bram Stoker Award finalist!)

• "God is an Iron" copyright © 1979 by Spider Robinson. First published in Omni, May 1979. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

• "This Town Ain't Big Enough" copyright © 1995 by Tanya Huff. First published in Vampire Detectives, Martin H. Greenberg, ed., DAW Books, New York, April 1995. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

• "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" copyright © 1997 by James Alan Gardner. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997. Reprinted with the permission of the author. (Aurora Award winner! Hugo and Nebula Award finalist!)

• "Dark Possessions" copyright © 1982 by James Powell. First published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1982. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

• "Barking Dogs" copyright © 1984 by Terence M. Green. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1984. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

  More Good Reading  

More about Canadian SF
Introduction to Crossing the Line
About the Contributors to Crossing the Line

Other Canadian SF Anthologies:

• Ark of Ice
• North of Infinity
• Northern Stars
• Tesseracts 6

Rob's Short-Fiction Bibliography