Winner, 25th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest

"Recommended Reading," Sunburst Award Jury

Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2003, Locus Magazine

Meet Finnigan Heller, drifter: reclusive, abrasive, and clairvoyant. He's also been struck by lightning more times than you've had hot dinners. It happens in every town he passes through. But is he following the weather or is the weather following him?

Heller's bizarre "gift" has him on the run from a scientist, a Canadian Intelligence agent, and an Englishman with a taste for violence. "Struck" is a story about thunderstorms, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, the nature of luck, and the fate of one very attractive nose.

Praise for Struck:

"Struck, a brisk and brain-tweaking debut from Calgary writer Geoffrey Bromhead, graduates lightning from flash-and-boom backdrop to driving force of theme and plot." (The Globe & Mail)

"The protagonist in Geoffrey Bromhead's 3-day novel Struck (winner of the 25th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest) is a drifter with a penchant for being struck by lightning, and with some practical experience of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and he reminds us of Slothrop, the hero of Gravity's Rainbow (by Thomas Pynchon) ... The procedure of story-finding in Struck appears on page 20 in a chance encounter between a little girl who is playing with a toy that we are told she will lose, and the protagonist, who gives her a ten-dollar bill in a sentence that goes on fearlessly to a moment in the future when her mother will find the money and use it to replace the lost toy. This sounds easy; it even looks easy; but it ain't easy and it gets better and better. A satisfying read." (Stephen Osborne, Geist)

"a fun ride ... The inventive story has lots of attitude, and its characters are simply marvelous." (Locus Magazine)

Geoffrey Bromhead was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1979. He currently studies English literature and creative writing at the University of Calgary. Struck is his first published novel.

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