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The Program

By Hal Niedzviecki

Hal Niedzviecki: founding editor of Broken Pencil magazine, zine culture elder statesman, literary novelist, pop-culture analyst. Is it possible that the 34-year-old Niedzviecki (who in the past has collaborated with Steve Mann, the eccentric U ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seduction

By Catherine Gildiner

Admirers of Catherine Gildiner’s first book, the memoir Too Close to the Falls, will probably smile as they read the opening sentence of her first novel, Seduction. “It’s real embarrassing to admit, but I forget ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mindscan

By Robert Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer’s newest novel begins with a fight between a conservative father and his rebellious son, and ends with a marriage and a birth (of a kind). In between there are androids with downloaded ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Strange Affair

By Peter Robinson

Strange Affair, the 15th novel from Toronto crime writer Peter Robinson to feature Inspector Alan Banks, begins four months after the climactic events of Playing with Fire. With his cottage, and his life, in ashes, ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sushi Daze

By Rob Payne

In Rob Payne’s latest novel, protagonist Jamie Schmidt is a 30-year-old hipster Torontonian with a McJob in radio who fears his life has jumped the shark. After George Harrison appears to him in a dream ... Read More »

February 28, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels