Wake me when it’s over
by Rob - January 8th, 2009.Filed under: Uncategorized.
The Canadian publishing trade journal Quill & Quire‘s January/February 2009 issue reports in its article “2009 Spring Preview: An advance look at the season’s hottest books:”
This could get awkward: two of the season’s high-profile novels share a title. Sci-fi giant Robert J. Sawyer has moved to Penguin Canada for Wake ($30 cl., April), an exploration of grief that hinges on the sinking of an offshore oil rig in Newfoundland. Meanwhile, Lisa Moore, Newfoundland native and two-time Giller nominee, offers Wake (House of Anansi Press, $29.95 cl., June), the story of a teenage girl who discovers she can see into another dimension via the Internet.
Hold on — reverse those last two plot descriptions.
Hee hee hee.
The issue also has a great article about my friend, Prince George science-fiction author Lynda Williams (of Okal Rel Universe fame), and her publisher, Brian Hades’s Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy of Calgary.
The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site