I’m honoured and delighted to learn that my novel Homeland has been shortlisted for Canada’s Sunburst Award, a juried prize for excellence in speculative fiction. I’ve won the Sunburst twice before, and this is one of my proudest accomplishments; I’m indebted to the jury for their kindness this year. The other nominees are a very good slate indeed — including Nalo Hopkinson’s Sister Mine and Charles de Lint’s The Cats of Tanglewood Forest.