The last of my posts for Independent Booksellers Week takes us to Canada. The short lists for this year’s Sunburst Awards were announced recently. Our friends at ChiZine Publications have three novels in the running for the adult category. Sadly two of them are part of the exclusive distribution deal that I blogged about last month. Enter, Night by Michael Rowe and The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet should be back on sale soon, but in the meantime you can buy Eutopia by David Nickle. The Sunburst jury said:

“A harrowing story of eugenics, religious fanaticism, and the cruelties underlying dreams of utopia, Eutopia interweaves narrative threads to create a nightmare-inducing chronicle of humanity’s fearsome quest for perfection at any cost. The novel is set in 1911, in the small utopian community of Eliada, Idaho, where different kinds of monsters walk in the day as well as prowl the night, and where two complicated strangers come to discover just how terrible the marriage of prejudiced science and religion can be. The prose is spare but evocative, and the methodical and tightly crafted narrative creeps forward with cruel, inevitable certainty, offering up human and inhuman horrors alike that respect the readers’ intelligence while inducing visceral disgust and dread.”