The Droughtlanders by Joan Marshall - Friday, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:58pm

Eli and Seth are twin 16-year-olds whose personalities couldn't be more different. The bully, Seth, glories in his chosen military path that will eventually lead him to power in the conservative society of the Keys. Unsure of his future, kind and reserved Eli finds himself repulsed by his father and his brother and drawn to his caring mother.

After his father's complicity in a terrible accident is revealed to Eli, he strikes out into the dreaded Droughtland to find his mother's people and to escape Seth's wrath. Not quite everything he finds there is horrifying - but close to it. In this fast paced, electrifying battle for control over water, gripping characters try to come to terms with the best way to organize societies in order to ensure survival.

Categories: Reviews, SciFi & Fantasy

Sunburst Award Winners Announced by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:23pm

Nalo Hopkinson's novel The New Moon's Arms has won the author her second Sunburst Award. She previously won for Skin Folk. 2008 also saw an award presented for the first time for Young Adult literature. This year's winner in that category was Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx.

The Sunburst Awards are a juried prize celebrating excellence in Canadian speculative fiction.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

Colfer to Pen Sixth Hitchhiker Novel by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:16am

There will be a sixth novel in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, entitled And Another Thing... and arriving October 2009.

"It's a gift from the gods," says Eoin Colfer, popular author of the comic children's fantasy series Artemis Fowl, "So, thank you Thor and Odin." Colfer's involvement was requested personally by Douglas Adams' widow Jane Belson. No details have yet emerged regarding the novel's plot.

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The Umbrella Academy Volume 1 Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:06pm

In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world."

Categories: Reviews, SciFi & Fantasy, Graphic Novels

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