1 Introduction: Bridging the Solitudes as a Critical Metaphor, Amy J. Ransom and Dominick Grace -- 2. Colonial Visions: The British Empire in Early Anglophone and Francophone Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Allan Weiss -- 3. Nevermind the Gap: Judith Merril Challenges the Status Quo, Ritch Calvin -- 4. Two Solitudes, Two Cultures: Building and Burning Bridges in Peter Watts' Novels, Michele Braun -- 5. The Affinity for Utopia: Erecting Walls and Building Bridges in Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities Graham Murphy -- 6. The Art of Not Dying. Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Catherine Mavrikakis' Oscar De Profundis Patrick Bergeron -- 7. When Are We Ever at Home?: Exile and Nostalgia in the Work of Guy Gavriel Kay, Susan Johnston -- 8. Reconciliation, Resistance and Biskaabiiyang: Re-Imagining Canadian Residential Schools in Indigenous Speculative Fictions, Judith Leggatt -- 9. Indigenous Futurist Film: Speculation and Resistance in Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes for Young Ghouls and File Under Miscellaneous, Kristina Baudemann -- 10. Building Hope through Community in Élisabeth Vonarburg's Maerlande Chronicles, Caroline Mosser -- 11.Cruising Canadian SF's Queer Futurity: Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child and Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl, Wendy Gay Pearson -- 12.Crossing the (Trans)Gender Bridge: Exploring Intersex and Trans Bodies in Canadian Speculative Fiction, Evelyn Deshane -- 13. A Maelstrom of Replication: Peter Watts' Glitching Textual Source Codes, Ben Eldridge -- 14. The Missing Link: Bridging the Species Divide in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy, Dunja Mohr -- 15. 'I can't believe this is happening!': Bear Horror, the Species Divide, and the Canadian Fight for Survival in a Time of Climate Change, Michael Fuchs -- 16. Interacting and Cohabiting with Humans, Earthlings, and Others in SFQ, Isabelle Fournier -- 17. Holes Within and Bridges Beyond: The Transfictions of Élisabeth Vonarburg and Michel Tremblay, Sylvie Bérard -- 18. Tropes Crossing: On Some Québec Sf Writers from the Mainstream, Sophie Beaulé -- 19. Transculture, Transgenre: Stanley Péan's Fantastic Detective Fiction, Kathleen Kellett -- 20. [Excerpts from A Glossary of Non-Essential Forms and Genres in English-Canadian Literature], Jordan Bolay.