Sunburst Award for Literature of the Fantastic: the shortlist
Discover the Sunburst Award for Literature of the Fantastic shortlist! Explore the best in fantasy and speculative fiction books nominated for this prestigious award.
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Dingo
by Charles De Lint
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from Australia - twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the girls' cooperation.
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Wild Talent
by Eileen Kernaghan
The year is 1888. Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen year old Scottish farmworker, is possessed of a mysteriouswild talent. Convinced that she has unintentionally killed her neer-do-well cousin George, Jeannie flees to the anonymity of London. There she is befriended by the free-spirited Alexandra David, and introduced to Madame Helena Blavatsky's famous salon. Drawn reluctantly into the world of the occult, and seemingly haunted by her cousin's vengeful ghost, Jeannie must learn to control her dangerous talent in order to survive.
