Sunburst Finalists Announced

The Sunburst Award, named for author Phyllis Gotlieb's first novel, is a juried prize celebrating Canadian literature of the fantastic. It has both an adult and young adult category.

The nominees for the 2010 award are:

Adult:

• The Mystery of Grace-Charles de Lint
• Indigo Springs-A.M. Dellamonica
• Makers-Cory Doctorow
• The Sunless Countries-Karl Schroeder
• Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America-Robert Charles Wilson

Young Adult:

• Give Up the Ghost-Megan Crewe
• Amy By Any Other Name-Maureen Garvie
• Half World-Hiromi Goto
• Wondrous Strange-Lesley Livingston
• The Hunchback Assignments-Arthur Slade

The winners of the Sunburst Award will be announced Fall 2010. Jurors for 2010 are Don Bassingthwaite, Gemma Files, Susie Moloney, Ursula Pflug, and Edward Willett.

2010 Locus Award Winners

 

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Boneshaker

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Locus Magazine, the trade journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy field, has released the winners of their annual awards.

• Best Science Fiction Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest
• Best Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Miéville
• Best First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
• Best Young Adult Book: Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld
• Best Anthology: The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan - editors
• Best Collection: The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe

A complete list of nominees and winners in all categories can be found here.

A Criminal to Remember by Michael Van Rooy

 

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A Criminal to Remember

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Michael Van Rooy has just released A Criminal to Remember, his third book starring reformed (sort of) criminal, Montgomery Haaviko. Monty's been in and out of pretty near every federal prison in Canada. He's been a thief, burglar and armed robber; an addict and a drug dealer. He was as bad as bad could be, but he gave that up for the love of a good woman. Now, Monty babysits the neighbourhood children. But old habits are hard to break...

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2010 Prix Aurora Award Winners

 

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Wake 01

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The Prix Aurora Awards were handed out Sunday, May 23rd in Winnipeg. Robert J. Sawyer's Wake won the big prize amongst the English language awards, scoring him his first Aurora in the Long Form Category since his novel Flashforward won in 2000.

Women of the Apocalypse featuring stories by Eileen Bell, Roxanne Felix, Ryan McFadden and Billie Milholland won two awards, Best Work in English (Other) and Best Short Form Work in English for Eileen Bell's story "Pawns Dreaming of Roses".

Edward Willett, a nominee for his novel Terra Insegura, has the winners in all categories posted on his blog.