2015 Sunburst Award Longlist

The jury’s selections for the 2015 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced:

Adult:

• Pastoral, Andre Alexis (Coach House)
• The Broken Hours, Jaqueline Baker (Harper Canada)
• The Troop, Nick Cutter (Pocket)
• Consumed, David Cronenberg (Scribner)
• Suffer the Children, Craig DiLouie (Simon & Schuster)
• The First Principles of Dreaming, Beth Goobie (Second Story)
• Head Full of Mountains, Brent Hayward (ChiZine)
• Irregular Verbs, Matthew Johnson (ChiZine)
• The Back of the Turtle, Thomas King (HarperCollins)
• Gifts For the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• Cloud, Eric McCormack (Penguin Canada)
• Knife Fight and Other Struggles, David Nickle (ChiZine)
• Emberton, Peter Norman (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Lockstep, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
• Cycling to Asylum, Su J. Sokol (Deux Volliers)
• Silence For the Dead, Simone St. James (NAL)
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Picador)
• My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)
• Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• Will Starling, Ian Weir (Goose Lane)

Young Adult:

• Sea of Shadows, Kelley Armstrong (Harper)
• The Night Gardener, Jonathan Auxier (Abrams)
• Gottika, Helaine Becker (Dancing Cat)
• Tin Star, Cecil Castellucci (Roaring Brook)
• The Voices in Between, Charlene Challenger (Tightrope)
• Guardian, Natasha Deen (Great Plains)
• Child of a Hidden Sea, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor)
• A Breath of Frost, Alyxandra Harvey (Bloomsbury)
• Sophie, In Shadow, Eileen Kernaghan (Thistledown)
• Seven Wild Sisters, Charles de Lint (Little, Brown)
• The Boundless, Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster)
• The Paper Sword, Robert Priest (Dundum)
• Zomboy, Richard Scrimger (HarperCollins)
• Radiant, Karina Sumner-Smith (Talos)
• The Door in the Mountain, Caitlin Sweet (ChiTeen)
• Song of the Sword, Ed Willett (Cocteau)

Finalists will be announced in mid-June, and winners in the fall.  Each winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted sunburst medallion. The jurors for the 2015 award are S.M. Beiko, Gerard Collins, Paula Johanson, Corey Redekop and Sherryl Vint.

For more information, see the Sunburst Award Society.