2009 Sunburst Award Winners – Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle

The winners of the 2009 Sunburst Award have been named in both their adult and young adult categories, and have gone to Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother & Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle . Doctorow gets more hardware for!

Little Brother previously took home a piece of the Sturgeon Award and can be read online for free. It was also made into a play.

Per there site the Sunburst Award is:

…is a juried award based on excellence of writing in two categories: adult and young adult. The awards are presented annually to Canadian writers with a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous calendar year. Named after the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction, the awards consist of a cash award of Cdn$1,000 and a medallion which incorporates a specially designed “Sunburst” logo. The winners receive their awards in the fall of every year.

The other nominees for this year’s honor were:

Adult Award

Night Child by Jes Battis;
The Alchemist’s Code by Dave Duncan;
Things Go Flying by Shari Lapeña; and
Half a Crown by Jo Walton.

Young Adult Award

The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
Dingo by Charles de Lint
Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural by Eileen Kernaghan
Night Runner by Max Turner.