These are stories I remember the impact of if not always the content of. I seem to forget the details of my favourite stories shortly after I finish reading them, and each reread was almost like déjà vu, like I was remembering the stories as I read them. Except the last one, for reasons that’ll be clear when you get there.
My Canadian-ness is on display here: a quarter of these (or a third, depending how you categorize William Gibson) are by Canadians. They seem to skew to science fiction and horror, two genres which are best suited to the form.
As with many Personal Anthology contributors, these are the pieces that resonate today. If I were to compile this list a couple weeks from now, it might be entirely different. In fact there’s an alternate version on my website.
A Personal Anthology 