The Sunburst Award Society released shortlists for the C$3,000 (about US$2,170) Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, which will be presented this fall again after a four-year hiatus. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet
Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele
Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin
A Seal of Salvage by Clayton B. Smith
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The shortlist has been selected for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, which celebrates the best popular science writing from around the world. The winner will be revealed October 1 and receives £25,000 (about $33,830). The other shortlisted titles receive £2,500 ($3,383) each.
The shortlist:
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future by Neil Shubin
Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power by Daniel Levitin
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain by Masud Husain
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction by Sadiah Qureshi
Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better by Tim Minshall