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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

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

Slow Lightning

By Mark Frutkin

Set in Spain during Franco’s rise to power during the Spanish civil War, Mark Frutkin’s latest novel, Slow Lightning, has all the elements of a historical or “period piece:” there’s a war, and so there ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels