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Sunburst Award shortlist for best Canadian SF announced
The shortlist for the 2006 Sunburst Award for the best Canadian “literature of the fantastic” includes:
- Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (Tor)
- Holly Phillips, In the Palace of Repose (Prime Books)
- Robert Charles Wilson, Spin (Tor)
- James Alan Gardner, Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories (HarperCollins Canada)
- Alison McLeod, The Wave Theory of Angels (Penguin Canada)
The winner of the award, named after a novel by Canadian SF writer Phyllis Gotlieb, will be announced this fall.
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