The Sunburst Award Society has a new literary award.
The Copper Cylinder Award is an annual member’s choice award selected by members of the Sunburst Award Society for books published during the previous year. The Copper Cylinder Award derives its name from the first Canadian scientific romance, “A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder,” by James De Mille (1833-1880). The winners receive a copper cylinder trophy.
The first winner of the 2012 Copper Cylinder Adult Award is Among Others by Jo Walton, (TOR, ISBN – 978-0765321534).
The first winner of the 2012 Copper Cylinder Young Adult Award is Once Every Never by Lesley Livingston (Penguin Canada, ISBN – 978-0143177951).
Jo Walton lives in Montreal. Lesley Livingston lives in Toronto.
The Sunburst Award Society also confers annually the juried Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Both awards celebrate the best in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year.
For additional information about the Copper Cylinder Awards, Sunburst Award Society membership and the voting process, head on over to the website at http://coppercylinderaward.ca
