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Gargoyle and Little Brother Victorious at Sunburst Awards

Monday, Oct 05, 2009 at 3:32pm

Congratulations to Winnipeg's Andrew Davidson, whose debut novel The Gargoyle has won the 2009 Sunburst Award in the adult category. The Sunburst has also recently begun to honour books for young adults. This year the award went to Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.

The Sunburst Award is named after a novel by Phyllis Gotlieb. Gotlieb, who passed away earlier this year, was among the first Canadian authors to publish in the speculative fiction field.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Winnipeg, Literature

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The Gargoyle

- Andrew Davidson

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An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.

On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him.

And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.

Little Brother

- Cory Doctorow

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Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they're mercilessly interrogated for days.

When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.