Aurora Awards: An Anthology of Prize Winning-Science Fiction and Fantasy

Jo-Anne McBride is a renewable resource specialist in Vancouver, B.C.

Like the better-known Hugo Award, the Aurora Award is given for
excellence in the science fiction and fantasy genres. The Aurora has a
much shorter history than the Hugo, is given exclusively to Canadian
works, and has matching categories in both English and French.

The stories that make up this collection are the winners in the Best
Short-Form Work in English category for the last 10 years. Familiar
favorites include “Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large,”
by James Alan Gardner, and “The Perseids,” by Robert Charles Wilson.
The disconcerting “Sleeping in a Box,” by Candas Jane Dorsey is
among the standouts in a collection that mixes new and established
authors. Adding to the book’s value are Edo van Belkom’s
introduction and Robert J. Sawyer’s compilation of award-Winning
Canadian science fiction and fantasy. Recommended for both fans of and
newcomers to these genres.