Geoff Ryman wins Sunburst Award for AIR

The Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Science Fiction Book has been awarded to my fellow UK-residing expat Geoff Ryman for his novel Air. Geoff's written many fantastic novels, such as The Child Garden (about a world where curing cancer restricts cellular division and reduces the average lifespan to 30) and WAS, the World Fantasy Award winning mean and dreamlike retelling of the Wizard of Oz from the point of view of the abused and downtrodden little girl in Kansas whom L Frank Baum used as his model for Dorothy.

'Mae lived in the last village in the world to go online. After that, everyone else went on Air.' So begins Geoff Ryman's AIR, a moving novel about change, tradition, information, power and transformation. Ryman brings us to a remote Asian village one heartbeat in the future, introduces characters who live on the page and linger in the mind, and, in graceful, powerful prose, explores the challenges of negotiating both technological change and everyday life in the human community."

I was honoured to win the Sunburst last year for my short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More -- many congrats to Geoff for his well-deserved victory! Link