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2003 Novels and Collections

This is a list of books of literature of the fantastic by Canadians. Only those which are novels or novel-length collections are eligible for the Sunburst Award.

Novels (alphabetical by author)

  • Anthony, Ian, Hunter's Moon (Toronto, APT, 2003) TD
  • Atwood, Margaret, Oryx and Crake (Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 2003) HC
  • Bakker, R. Scott, The Darkness that Comes Before (Toronto, Penguin Canada, 2003) TD
  • Bantock, Nick, The Morning Star (Vancouver, Raincoast, 2003) HC
  • Bar-el, Dan, Things are Looking Up, Jack (Victoria, Orca, 2003) PB
  • Basiliere, Michel, Black Bird (Toronto, Knopf Canada, 2003) HC
  • Bedwell-Grime, Stephanie, The Deadwalk (Lake Park, GA, New Concepts Publishing, 2003) PB
  • ——, Guardian Angel (Cheshire, UK, Telos, 2003) TD
  • Beveridge, Cathy, Shadows of Disaster (Vancouver, Ronsdale, 2003) PB
  • Bishop, Mary Harelkin, Tunnels of Treachery (Regina, SK, Coteau, 2003) PB
  • Blum, Vicki, A Gathering of Unicorns (Toronto, Scholastic, 2003) PB
  • Bromhead, Geoffrey, Struck (Vancouver, Anvil, 2003) TD
  • Butler, Paul, Stoker's Shadow (St. John's, Flanker Press, 2003) TD
  • Cameron, Bill, Cat's Crossing (Toronto, Random House Canada, 2003) HC
  • Czerneda, Julie, Hidden in Sight (New York, Daw, 2003) PB
  • de Lint, Charles, Circle of Cats (New York, Viking, 2003) HC
  • ——, Spirits in the Wires (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • Doctorow, Cory, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • Duncan, Dave, Impossible Odds (New York, HarperCollins, 2003) HC
  • Eaton, Chris, The Inactivist (Toronto, Insomniac Press, 2003) TD
  • Fagan, Cary, The Mermaid of Paris (Toronto, Key Porter, 2003) TD
  • Foon, Dennis, The Dirt Eaters (Toronto, Annick, 2003) HC
  • Gibson, William, Pattern Recognition (New York, Penguin/Putnam, 2003) HC
  • Greenwood, Ed, The Dragon's Doom (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • Harrison, Troon, Eye of the Wolf Toronto, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2003) TD
  • Harvey, Kenneth J., The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (Vancouver, Raincoast, 2003) TD
  • Hopkinson, Nalo, The Salt Roads (New York, Warner, 2003) HC
  • Huff, Tanya, Long Hot Summoning (New York, Daw, 2003) PB
  • Hunter, Catherine, In the First Early Days of my Death (Winnipeg, Signature Editions, 2003) TD
  • Huston, Nancy, An Adoration (Toronto, McArthur & Company, 2003) HC
  • Hutchins, Hazel, TJ and the Haunted House (Vancouver, Orca, 2003) PB
  • Italiano, Marcy, Pain Machine (Holicvong, PA, Cosmos, 2003) TD
  • Kaufmann, Andrew, All My Friends are Superheroes (Toronto, Coach House, 2003) TD
  • Kiernan, Liam, Blizzard Kin (Toronto, Indelible Publishing, 2003) PB
  • Kilpatrick, Nancy and Michael, Eternal City (Waterville, ME, Five Star, 2003) HC
  • King, James, Transformations (Toronto, Cormorant, 2003) HC
  • Kushner, Donn, Peter's Pixie (Toronto, Tundra, 2003) HC
  • Lancaster, Susan, The Caves and the Skull (Nanaimo BC, Snosrap Publishing, 2003) TD
  • ——, The Diamond Talisman (Nanaimo BC, Snosrap Publishing, 2003) TD
  • Lancaster, Susan, Hells Gate (Nanaimo BC, Snosrap Publishing, 2003) TD
  • Leavitt, Martine, Tom Finder (Calgary, Red Deer, 2002) TD
  • Lowachee, Karin, Burndive (New York, Warner, 2003) PB
  • Margoshes, Dave, Drowning Man (Edmonton, NeWest, 2003) TD
  • Matchett, Robin, With an Ocean Blue Sky (Toronto, Piercemore, 2003) TD
  • McBay, Bruce and James Heneghan, Waiting For Sarah (Victoria, BC, Orca, 2003) TD
  • McCormack, Derek, The Haunted Hillbilly (Toronto, ECW, 2003) TD
  • McCurdy, J. Fitzgerald, The Twisted Blade (Ottawa, Saratime, 2003) HC
  • McGowan, Michael, Newton and the Giant (Toronto, HarperTrophy, 2003) TD
  • McDonnell, Kathleen, The Shining World (Toronto, Second Story, 2003) TD
  • McIntyre, Wendy, The Applecross Spell(Montreal, XYZ, 2002) TD
  • McNaughton, Janet, An Earthly Knight (Toronto, HarperTrophy, 2003) TD
  • Melling, O.R., The Book of Dreams (Toronto, Penguin, 2003) TD
  • Mills, J.C., The Messengers (Toronto, Key Porter, 2003) TD
  • Moloney, Susie, The Dwelling (Toronto, Random House Canada, 2003) HC
  • Morrow, Gordon, Dead Magicians Club: Maps (Montreal, theindependentpress.com, 2003) PB
  • Ollivier, Emile, Passages (Victoria, BC, Ekstasis, 2002) TD Transl: Leonard Sugen
  • Palmer, Judd, The Wolf King (Calgary, Bayeux Arts, 2003) HC
  • ——, The Sorcerer's Last Words (Calgary, Bayeux Arts, 2003) HC
  • Pierson, Chris, Sacred Fire (Renton, WA, WOTC, 2003) PB
  • Quinn, Philip, The Double (Toronto, Gutter Press, 2003) TD
  • Robinson, Spider, Callahan's Con (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • Rose, Simon, The Alchemist's Portrait (Granville Island, BC, Tradewind Books, 2003) TD
  • Rosenberg, Joel, Not Really The Prisoner of Zenda (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • Sander, Heather, Robbie Packford–Alien Monster (Victoria, BC, Orca, 2003) TD
  • Sands, Lynsay, The Loving Daylights (New York, Dorchester, 2003) PB
  • ——, Single White Vampire (New York, Dorchester, 2003) PB
  • Sawyer, Robert J., Humans (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • ——, Hybrids (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • Schwartz, Virginia Frances, Initiation (Toronto, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2003) HC
  • Slade, Michael, Bed of Nails (Toronto, Penguin, 2003) HC
  • Soucy, Gaetan, Vaudeville! (Toronto, Anansi, 2003) HC
  • Spalding, Andrea, Dance of the Stones:The Summer of the Magic Quartet (Vancouver, Orca, 2003) TD
  • Stewart, Sharon, Raven Quest (Toronto, Scholastic, 2003) PB
  • Stirling, S.M., Conquistador (New York, Penguin/Roc, 2003) HC
  • ——, Terminator 3: The Future War (London, Orion/Gollancz, 2003) HC
  • ——, Jimmy The Hand (London, HarperCollins UK, 2003) HC. Co-author: Raymond E. Feist
  • Sweet, Caitlin, A Telling of Stars (Toronto, Penguin Canada, 2003) TD
  • Taylor, Cora, The Deadly Dance (Regina, Coteau, 2003) PB
  • Theriault, Denis, The Iguana (Simon & Pierre/The Dundern Group, 2003) TD
  • Thornton, Duncan, The Starglass (Regina, Coteau, 2003) PB
  • Tower, S.D., The Assassins of Tamurin (Toronto, HarperCollins, 2003) HC
  • van Belkom, Edo, Scream Queen (New York, Kensington, 2003) PB
  • ——, Army of the Dead (Canton OH, Prime Books, 2003) TD
  • Vonarburg, Élisabeth, Dreams of the Sea (Edmonton, Tesseract, 2003) HC
  • Walton, Jo, Tooth and Claw (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • Ward, David, Beneath The Mask (Toronto, Scholastic, 2003) PB
  • West, Michelle, The Riven Shield (New York, Daw, 2003) PB
  • Wilson, John, Adrift In Time (Vancouver, Ronsdale, 2003) PB
  • Wilson, Robert Charles, Blind Lake (New York, Tor, 2003) HC
  • Wood, Maggie, The Princess Pawn (Toronto, Sumach Press, 2003) PB
  • Woodbury, Mary, Ghost in the Machine (Regina, SK, Coteau, 2003) TD
  • Woods, Shirley, Amber: The Story of a Red Fox (Toronto, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2003) HC
  • Yee, Paul, The Bone Collector's Son (Vancouver, Tradewind Books, 2003) HC

Collections

  • Burns, Cliff, Righteous Blood (Harrogate, England, PS Publishing, 2002) HC N.B.: released March 2003
  • de Lint, Charles, Handful of Coppers (Burton, MI, Subterranean Press, 2003) HC
  • Doctorow, Cory, A Place So Foreign and Eight More (New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003) TD
  • Files, Gemma, Kissing Carrion (Canton, OH, Prime Books, 2003) TD
  • Huff, Tanya, Relative Magic (Atlanta, GA, Meisha Merlin, 2003)
  • Kobayashi, Tamai, Quixotic Erotic (Vancouver, BC, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003) TD
  • van Vogt, A.E., Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt (Framingham, MA, NESFA, 2003) HC
  • West, Michelle, Speaking With Angels (Waterville, ME, Five Star, 2003) HC

Note: HC=Hardcover; TD=Trade Cover; PB=Paperback Copyright 2004 - All Rights Reserved SHORTLIST FOR THE 2004 SUNBURST AWARD