Parnassus Unbound (Tesseracts Sixteen)
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Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound features works by 26 modern day Muses gifted with the ability to take the reader on fantastical journeys
They are: Neil Peart & Kevin J. Anderson, Robert J. Sawyer, Ryan Oakley, Steve Vernon, Hugh A. D. Spencer, Sandra Kasturi, Michael Kelly, Rebecca Senese, Randy McCharles, Chadwick Ginther, Stephen Kotowych, Carolyn Clink, J. J. Steinfeld, David Clink, Robert H. Beer, L. T. Getty, Scott Overton, Sean Costello, Virginia O'Dine, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Derwin Mak, Kimberly Foottit, Matthew Jordan Schmidt, Adria Laycraft, and Jeff Hughes.
The theme for "Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound" is speculative fiction inspired by literature, music, art and culture.
According to Greek Mythology, Mount Parnassus was sacred to Apollo (god of prophecy, music, intellectual pursuits and the arts) and home of the Muses. At the base of the mountain was a fountain named Castalia (a transformed nymph) that could inspire the genius of poetry for anyone who drank her waters or listened to her quiet soothing sounds.
In selecting stories, editor Mark Leslie's goal was to capture not only the spirit of what might be found on Mount Parnassus, but to allow it to be released, freed from the mythological Greek mountain and expanded upon in a way that only speculative literature can "unbind" such a theme.
Come sip from the mythical fountain, gaze into the infinite reaches of the universe and explore the endless depths of the mind in Tesseracts Sixteen's "unbound" tales of wonder and imagination!
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Mark Leslie has been writing since he was thirteen years old and discovered his mother's Underwood typewriter collecting dust in a closet. He started submitting his work for publication at the age of fifteen and had his first story published in 1992, the same year he graduated from university and started working in the book industry.
Under the name Mark Leslie, he has published more than twenty full length books. Apart from editing Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound for EDGE he has also edited numerous anthologies in the Fiction River series from WMG Publishing, including Feel the Fear, Feel the Love, Editor's Choice, and Superstitious as well as Campus Chills and Obsessions. He pens a series of non-fiction paranormal explorations for Dundurn, Canadaâs largest independent publisher, including Haunted Hospitals, Spooky Sudbury and Haunted Hamilton. Mark's short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Tesseracts, Bound for Evil, Fear of the Dark, 2113, and Northern Haunts, and his novels include I, Death, Evasion, A Canadian Werewolf in New York, Stowe Away, and Fear and Longing in Los Angeles.
When he is not writing or editing fiction, he works as a book industry consultant, and has penned a series of books for writers that include The 7 P's of Publishing Success, Killing it on Kobo, An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries and Bookstores, Taking the Short Tack and Wide for the Win
