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Fiction: Novels

By Dave Duncan

Victoria, B.C.’s Dave Duncan has long been one of the great unsung figures of Canadian fantasy and science fiction, graced with a fertile imagination, a prolific output, and keen writerly skills. With this new novel, ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Jon Evans

Jon Evans’ previous two novels featured travellers who had an amazing ability to get themselves into all sorts of trouble while we watched them run for their lives and outsmart their attackers. Evans has a ... Read More »

June 26, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Chris Ewart

There is no enduring tradition of experimental fiction in Canada. Despite the perennial appearance of Leonard Cohen’s second novel, Beautiful Losers, on university English literature syllabuses, and despite the heroic efforts of a small handful ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Rawi Hage

There’s an adjective that has too long languished in the negative camp of book reviews. I’d like to reclaim it. Calling prose “flat” is usually one of the less hurtful ways of saying that a ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels