No Cherubs for Melanie

Some families are haunted by tragedy. For the Gordonstones, it all began with the supposed accidental drowning of six-year-old daughter Melanie, followed by her mother’s suicide a decade later. Now the girl’s restaurateur father has ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sailing to Sarantium: Volume One of the Sarantine Mosaic

By Guy Gavriel Kay

In Ontario fantasist Guy Gavriel Kay’s seventh novel, Sailing to Sarantium, the title refers to reaching the civilized heart of an extensive empire in an age of hippodromes and bathhouses. Metaphorically, these sails power the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Calculating God

By Robert J. Sawyer

A new novel from Toronto science-fiction author Robert J. Sawyer is always a major event; Maclean’s once called him “the genre’s northern star – in fact, one of the hottest SF writers anywhere.” Calculating God ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Gift for the Little Master

By John MacLachlan Gray

Tense and spiky, featuring a feral, science-fictionish group of characters dodging murder and mayhem in a West Coast technopolis, A Gift for the Little Master takes off like gangbusters. Delores is a tough, gorgeous cable ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Existenz

By David Cronenberg, Sean Scoffield, illus.

Flesh, guns, conspiracy, twisted romance, and strange bodily insertions. No, it’s not Monica’s Story but eXistenZ, the latest film by Canada’s own master of the grotesque, David Cronenberg. A low-tech, high-concept sci-fi thriller, eXistenZ marks ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shooting Straight in the Dark

By Rick Blechta

This Toronto-based mystery thriller is steeped in music, murder, and municipal corruption. Kit Mason is a 30-year-old guitarist and songwriter who went blind from natural causes six years earlier. Aside from music, her closest ties ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Darkness That Comes Before

By R. Scott Baker

The Darkness That Comes Before, the debut novel from scholar and writer R. Scott Bakker, is an impressive addition to the high-fantasy genre. The first novel in the Prince of Nothing trilogy deftly skirts the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Uther

By Jack Whyte

The reading public’s appetite for retellings of the King Arthur legend is apparently limitless, and writers continue to be happy to oblige. With his latest offering, Uther, Scots expatriate Jack Whyte takes a break from ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shacklands

By Judi Coburn

The Shacklands refers to an area of Toronto that early in this century extended roughly between Oakwood Avenue west to Keele, and from St. Clair north to Eglinton. The name vividly evokes the ramshackle, fledgling ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hangman

By Michael Slade

Michael Slade is the pseudonym of Vancouver trial lawyer Jay Clarke. In Hangman, Clarke teams up with daughter Rebecca Clarke to produce the eighth installmant in his highly successful “Special X Psycho Thriller” series.In keeping ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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