Set in 1969, Tom Wayman's first novel Woodstock Rising (Dundurn $21.99) is a black comedy in which counter-culture students in Laguna Beach, California-including a Canadian graduate student-break into a mothballed missile silo to commandeer a nuclear warhead, hoping to put their own satellite into orbit in homage to the recent Woodstock music festival. 9781550028607

[BCBW 2010]