Karin Lowachee
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Karin Lowachee is a Canadian author of science fiction. She was born in Guyana, South America in 1973 and moved to Toronto, Canada when she was two years old.
Lowachee is the author of three novels, Warchild (2002), Burndive (2003), and Cagebird (2005). Warchild is noteworthy for its use of second-person point of view for the first several chapters of the novel. This book won the Warner Aspect First Novel Award[1]. Cagebird won the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards[2] and the Prix Aurora Award[3], and was a finalist for the 2002 Philip K. Dick Award. She is currently working on her next novel, The Gaslight Dogs, which is tentatively scheduled for release in Summer 2009.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
[edit] Short stories
- "The Forgotten Ones", So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (2004), edited by Uppinder Mehan & Nalo Hopkinson
- "This Ink Feels Like Sorrow", Mythspring: From the Lyrics & Legends of Canada (2006), edited by Genevieve Kierans & Julie E. Czerneda
[edit] Awards
- Warner Aspect First Novel Award, 2002
- Aurora Award, Best Novel in English, 2006
- Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, Best Novel, 2006
[edit] References
- ^ Speer, Cindy Lynn (2002-08-15). Review: Warchild. SF Site.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
- ^ Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Spectrumawards.org (2006-10). Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
- ^ Silver, Steven H (2006-07-16). Prix Aurora. The SF Site News. SF Site.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
