Although Judith Merril was born in Manhattan and wrote the vast majority of her science fiction in the United States during the 1950s, her contribution to the sphere of Canadian science fiction between 1969 (when she moved permanently to Toronto) and her death in 1997 was both profound and manifold. On 10 August 1970 she established--via the donation of her book collection to the Toronto Public Library--what became the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy, the biggest publicly housed science-fiction collection in the world. She was actively involved with the Writers Union of Canada, as well as with forming the Toronto-based science-fiction writers' group Hydra North. Moreover, she edited Tesseracts (1985), the first in a series of groundbreaking Canadian science-fiction anthologies. She was also responsible, albeit indirectly, for the initiation of the annual Canadian science-fiction conference Cancon. Given these details it is not difficult to see why, in his speech given...