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2004 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)

  • Armstrong, Kelley, Dimestore Magic (Toronto, Random House, 2004) TD
  • ——, Industrial Magic (Toronto, Random House, 2004) PB
  • Bailey, Linda, Adventures in the Ice Age (Toronto, Kidscan, 2004) HC
  • Baird, Alison, The Stone of The Stars (New York, Warner, 2004) TD
  • ——, Empire of the Stars (New York, Warner, 2004) TD
  • ——, The Wardings of Willowmere (Toronto, Penguin, 2004) TD
  • Bakker, R. Scott, The Warrior Prophet (Toronto, Penguin, 2004) TD
  • Bassingthwaite, Don, The Yellow Silk (Renton WA, WoTC, 2004) PB
  • Bassingthwaite, Don & Dave Gross, Mistress of the Night (Renton WA, WoTC, 2004) PB
  • Beazley, Laura, The Fifth Sun (Shelburne ON, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2004)TD
  • Bennett, Nigel, Siege Perilous (New York, Baen, 2004)HC co-author: P.N. Elrod
  • Benvie, Rob, Safety of War (Toronto, Coach House, 2004) TD
  • Beveridge, Cathy, Chaos in Halifax (Vancouver, Ronsdale, 2004) PB
  • Blum, Vicki, The Mermaid Secret (Markham, Scholastic, 2004) PB
  • Bow, Patricia, The Bone Flute (Vancouver, Orca, 2004) PB
  • Bowering, Marilyn, Cat's Pilgrimmage (Toronto, HarperFlamingo Canada, 2004) HC
  • Buffie, Margaret, The Finder (Toronto, Kidscan, 2004) HC
  • Citra, Becky, Jeremy and the Enchanted Theater (Vancouver, Orca, 2004) PB
  • Cupchik, Will, The Avro Arrow Manipulation (Toronto, Tagami Communication, 2004) TD
  • Czerneda, Julie, Survival (New York, Daw, 2004) HC
  • de Lint, Charles, Medicine Road (Burton, MI, Subterranean Press, 2004) HC
  • ——, The Blue Girl (New York, Penguin Viking, 2004) HC
  • Demchuk, David, Alice in Cyberspace (Shelburne ON, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2004) TD
  • Dinsdale, Christopher, Broken Circle (Toronto, Napoleon, 2004) PB
  • Doctorow, Cory, Eastern Standard Tribe (New York, Tor, 2004) HC
  • Doherty-Wayne, Caeli Hampton, The Book of Broken Hours (Stratford, Wingate, 2004) TD
  • Dorsey, Angela, A Horse Called Freedom (Markham, Scholastic, 2004) PB
  • Duncan, Dave, The Jaguar Knights (New York, HarperCollins/Eos, 2004) HC
  • Erikson, Steven, Midnight Tides (London, Transworld, 2004) HC
  • ——, The Healthy Dead (London, PS Publishing, 2004) HC
  • Fagan, Cary, The Fortress of Kaspar Snit (Toronto, Tundra, 2004) TD
  • Fast, A.D., The Mystery of the Medieval Coin (St. Catherines, ON, Vanwell, 2004) PB
  • ——, To Save a King (St. Catherines, ON, Vanwell, 2004) PB
  • Faust, Minister, The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad (New York, Del Rey, 2004) TD
  • Feutl, Rita, Rescue at Fort Edmonton (Regina SK, Coteau, 2004) PB
  • Foon, Dennis, Freewalker (Toronto, Annick, 2004) HC
  • Friedman, Elyse, Waking Beauty (New York, Three Rivers Press, Random House, 2004) TD
  • Gardner, James Alan, Radiant (New York, HarperCollins, 2004) HC
  • Giron, Sephera, Borrowed Flesh (New York, Leisure, 2004) PB
  • Goobie, Beth, Flux (Vancouver, Orca, 2004) HC
  • Grant, Vicki, The Puppet Wrangler (Victoria, Orca, 2004) TD
  • Greenwood, Ed, Elminster's Daughter (Renton WA, WOTC, 2004) HC
  • ——, The Silent House (New York, Tor, 2004) HC
  • Griggs, Terry, The Silver Door (Vancouver, Raincoast, 2004) TD
  • Hale, Deborah, Wizard's Ward (New York, Luna Books, 2004) TD
  • Henighan, Tom, Mercury Man (Toronto, Dundurn, 2004)
  • Hodgson, Barbara, Lives of Shadows (Vancouver, Raincoast, 2004) HC
  • Horvath, Polly, The Pepins and Their Problems (Toronto, Groundwood, 2004) TD
  • Huff, Tanya, Smoke and Shadows (New York, Daw, 2004) HC
  • Hughes, Matt, Black Brillion (New York, Tor, 2004) HC
  • Hutchins, Hazel, The Sidewalk Rescue (Toronto, Annick, 2004) HC
  • Hutsell-Manning, Linda, Jason and The Deadly Diamonds (Regina SK, Coteau, 2004) PB
  • Irani, Anosh, The Cripple and His Talismans (Vancouver, Raincoast, 2004) HC
  • Jackson, Deborah, Ice Tomb (Woodbridge VA, Invisible College Press, 2004) TD
  • Jakober, Marie, Even the Stones (Calgary, Edge, 2004) TD
  • Kay, Guy Gavriel, The Last Light of the Sun (Toronto, Penguin, 2004) HC
  • Katzenbroot, Nellie, Down the Chimney With Googol and Googolplex (Vancouver, Orca, 2004) PB
  • Kennedy, Des, The Flame of Separation (Toronto, Insomniac, 2004) TD
  • Kernaghan, Eileen, The Alchemist's Daughter (Saskatoon, Thistledown, 2004) TD
  • ——, Winter on the Plain of Ghosts (New Westminster BC, Flying Monkey Press, 2004) TD
  • King, Thomas, Coyote's New Suit (Toronto, Key Porter, 2004) HC
  • Lee, Ingrid, The True Story of George (Vancouver, Orca, 2004) PB
  • Lloyd, Dee, Unquiet Spirits (Oakville ON, LTDBooks.com, 2004) TD
  • Lloyd, Peter, Avatars: The Fugue (Stoney Creek, ON, instabook, [nd] 2004) TD
  • Loughead, Deb, Time and Again (Toronto, Sumach, 2004) TD
  • Lunn, John, The Mariner's Curse (Toronto, Tundra, 2004) PB
  • Mackay, Scott, Omnifix (New York, ROC, 2004) PB
  • Martini, Clem, The Mob (Toronto, Kidscan, 2004) HC
  • Matchett, Robin, The Trip (Toronto, Hushion House, 2004) TD
  • Mayr, Suzette, Venous Hum (Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004) TD
  • McCurdy, J. Fitzgerald, The Fire Demons (Toronto, HarperCollins, 2004) HC
  • McPhee, Norma, Walls of Ice (Oakville, ON, LTD Books, 2004) TD
  • Miller, Jeffrey, Murder at Osgoode Hall: An Amicus Curae Mystery (Toronto, ECW, 2004) TD
  • Mills, J.C. The Book of the Sage (Toronto, Key Porter, 2004) TD
  • Moonwalker, Luke, The Acts of the Compassionates (Calgary, Bayeux Arts, 2004) HC
  • Moore, Jeffrey, The Memory Artists (Toronto, Viking, 2004) HC
  • Munroe, Jim, An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil (Toronto, nomediakings, 2004) TD
  • Murphy, Cathy Brown, Skydancer (St. John's, Tuckamore, 2004) PB
  • Nattel, Lilian, The Singing Fire (Toronto, Knopf, 2004) HC
  • Nugent, Cynthia, Francesca and the Magic Bike (Vancouver, Raincoast, 2004) TD
  • O'Donnell, Darren, Your Secrets Sleep With Me (Toronto, Coach House, 2004) TD
  • Oppel, Kenneth, Airborn (Toronto, HarperCollins, 2004) HC
  • ——, Peg and the Yeti (Toronto, HarperCollins, 2004) HC
  • Pohl-Weary, Emily, A Girl Like Sugar (Toronto, McGilligan Books, 2004) TD
  • Rees, Sean, Bjahnqi (Brownhill ON, ReesCorp Inc., 2004) PB
  • Riva, Paul, The Scylla Hexagram (Lincoln NE, iUniverse, 2004) TD
  • Robins, Selena, Sabrina's Destiny (Sierra Vista AZ, Treble Heart Books, 2004) TD
  • Robinson, Spider, Very Bad Deaths (New York, Baen, 2004) HC
  • Rose, Simon, The Sorcerer's Letterbox (Granville, B.C., Tradewinds, 2004) TD
  • Rosenberg, Joel, Paladins (New York, Baen, 2004) HC
  • Russell, Sean, The Shadow Roads (New York, HarperCollins, 2004) HC
  • Ryman, Geoff, Air (New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 2004) TD
  • Sander, Heather, Make Mine With Everything (Victoria, Orca, 2004) TD
  • ——, Whatever Happened to My Dog Cuddles? (Victoria, Orca, 2004) TD
  • Sands, Lynsay, Love Bites (New York, Dorchester, 2004) PB
  • ——, Tall, Dark and Hungry (New York, Dorchester, 2004) PB
  • Sands, Lynsay & Hannah Howell, The Eternal Highlander (New York, Kensington, 2004) TD
  • Scrimger, Richard, The Boy From Earth (Toronto, Tundra, 2004) TD
  • Silverthorne, Judith, Dinosaur Breakout (Regina, Coteau, 2004) TD
  • Slade, Arthur, Ghost Hotel (Regina, Coteau, 2004) PB
  • Slater, Ian, Choke Point (New York, Ballantine, 2004) PB
  • Smedman, Lisa, Extinction (Renton, WA, WOTC, 2004)HC. Co-author: R.A. Salvatore
  • ——, Venom's Taste (Renton, WA, WOTC, 2004) PB
  • ——, The Apparition Trail (Calgary, Edge, 2004) TD
  • Smith, Linda, The Minstrel's Daughter (Regina SK, Coteau, 2004) PB
  • Sobat, Gail Sidonie, A Winter's Tale (Winnipeg, Great Plains, 2004) TD
  • Stewart, Sean, Perfect Circle (Northampton MA, Small Beer Press, 2004) HC
  • ——, Star Wars: Yoda: Dark Rendezvous (New York, Ballantine, 2004) PB
  • Stirling, S.M., Dies The Fire (New York, Penguin/ROC, 2004) HC
  • Tam, Kenneth, The Alien Nation (Waterloo, ON, Iceberg, 2004) TD
  • Tardif, Cheryl, Divine Intervention (Victoria, Trafford, 2004) TD
  • Taylor, Cora, Ghost Voyages III: Endeavour & Resolution (Regina SK, Coteau, 2004) PB
  • ——, The Deadly Dance (Regina SK, Coteau, 2004) PB
  • van Belkom, Edo, Blood Road (New York, Pinnacle, 2004) PB
  • ——, Wolf Pack (Toronto, Tundra, 2004) PB
  • Vaughan, R.M., Spells (Toronto, ECW, 2004) TD
  • Walker, Harvey, Bananarchy (St. Albert AB, Wallbanger Ink, 2004) TD
  • Wasserman, Bryna, The Naked Island (Toronto, Key Porter, 2004) TD
  • Watson, Patrick, Wittgenstein and the Goshawk (Toronto, McArthur & Co., 2004) HC
  • Watts, Malcolm, Reflections From Shadow (Victoria, Trafford, 2004) TD
  • Watts, Peter, Behemoth: B-Max (New York, Tor, 2004) HC
  • Weiner, Andrew, Getting Near The End (Calgary, Red Deer, 2004) HC
  • West, Michelle, The Sun Sword (New York, Daw, 2004) PB
  • Wharton, Thomas, The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books (Kentville, NS, Gaspereau Press, 2004) PB
  • Wilson, Robert Charles, Magic Time: Ghostlands (New York, Eos, 2004) HC. Co-author: Mark Scott Zicree
  • Woods, Shirley, Tooga: The Story of a Polar Bear (Toronto, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004) TD
  • Zbitnew, Gregory, Eternal Golden Light (Vancouver, Dream Logic, 2004) TD
  • Zinger, Steve, Ray McMickle and the Kentucky Vampire Clan (??, 1st Books, 2004) TD
  • ——, The Sab (Bloomington, ID, AuthorHouse, 2004) TD

Collections

  • Atwood, Margaret, Bottle (Hay-on-Wye, UK, Hay Festival Press, 2004) HC
  • Barwin, Gary, Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth (Toronto, Mercury Press, 2004) TD
  • Files, Gemma, The Worm in Every Heart ( ? , Prime Books, 2004)
  • Gauger, Soren A., Hymns To Millionaires (Prague, Twisted Spoon, 2004) TD
  • Goto, Hiromi, Hopeful Monsters (Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004) TD
  • Leslie, Mark, One Hand Screaming ( ? , Stark, 2004) TD
  • Morrell, David, NightScape (Burton MI, Subterranean Press, 2004) HC
  • Priest, Robert, How To Swallow a Pig (Toronto, ECW, 2004) TD
  • Sawyer, Robert J., Relativity (Chicago, ISFIC, 2004) HC

Note: HC=Hardcover; TD=Trade Cover; PB=Paperback

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